Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I met him at one of the numerous receptions . |
| 2 | ‘ I met them on one of my early trips out here . ’ |
| 3 | I got it on one of their dos Sunday morning from June 's . |
| 4 | I think it 'll be a good one because I got it from one of our clients . |
| 5 | But then I got the ES295 and I used it through most of the Sun sessions . |
| 6 | I regarded it as one of the safest areas of Zululand . ’ |
| 7 | Rich er Russ played that yesterday , I played it through that on his C D , put it through his Leek speakers , brilliant |
| 8 | ‘ I showed it to some of my friends and they have had a good laugh about it . |
| 9 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 10 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 11 | I lost it in 1963 on the A30 west of Salisbury when I skidded on some diesel oil and rolled over and over . |
| 12 | ‘ I knew her as one of my employees . |
| 13 | I saw it in one of the papers , but did nt see it on the day . |
| 14 | On my way back downstairs I saw you in one of the bedrooms with Melanie . ’ |
| 15 | So , before I left London , I took it to one of the maids at Richmond Palace , and do you know what she said ? ’ |
| 16 | So I sent it to another in New York , and he took it . ’ |
| 17 | According to Bede , Wulfhere reigned seventeen years ( HE 111 , 24 ) , which led him to 675 for Wulfhere 's death , reckoning forward from 658 , but if Wulfhere did not become king until 659 a seventeen-year reign would suggest 676 for his death . |
| 18 | That hard work has paid dividends for Washington , who has already scored notable career wins over Connors , Chang , Cherkasov , Wheaton and Lendl , and who claimed his first ever senior title in Memphis in February , a win which moved him from 38 to 23 on the IBM/ATP Computer , his highest ever showing . |
| 19 | Such then was the equipment and the ethos with which the Brewery faced the 50 years of violent growth which lifted it by 1914 to first place in the world league . |
| 20 | ‘ Bardolet 's co-driver made a timing error on the last rally which dropped them from first to fourth and that cost them the lead in the championship , ’ explains Meeke . |
| 21 | The Victorian was an integral part of a Northants revival which took them from 13th in the Championship table in 1951 to second place , behind the all-conquering Surrey combination , in 1957 . |
| 22 | To his professional duties he had added the role of Departmental Safety Officer , and it was this experience which took him in 1977 to Imperial College in the new post of College Safety Director . |
| 23 | They belong to the British Museum , which bought them in 1816 from Lord Elgin , as every schoolboy knows . |
| 24 | There was a quiet wistfulness about her , a reticence , a grace which reminded him of one of Leonardo 's Madonnas . |
| 25 | It was the first time in my life I had acted like a complete sod to other people , and I felt that my behaviour was worse because I had loads of advantages the lesser recruits did n't : I could speak French ; I was basically healthier and therefore found fitness much easier ; I was a north European Caucasian which endeared me to some of the more racist instructors . |
| 26 | I think it 's important to understand that all my work is about demystification — both of the self and of the medical and family discourses which defined me for much of my life . |
| 27 | On the third floor , she led him to one of four doors , which opened on to a firelit bedroom , with a great canopied bed , steaming water-jugs and wash-basin , and a garderobe in the thickness of the walling with candle-shelf , stone seat and chute . |
| 28 | ‘ I know lads who got theirs at eighteen in Cyprus . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You mentioned it during one of our first meetings so I 've always had a hankering to see how they 've done it . |
| 30 | She recognised them as some of the soldiers immediately . |