Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the tenth day eight of the men on my course went to spend three days studying photography , four did locks and keys and seven went to study Roman Catholicism . |
| 2 | The only drawback to the course was the way my calves refused to move first thing in the morning ; the pluses ? — meeting and making new friends and returning home refreshed and energised in mind and body . |
| 3 | I dared not move until my eyes had made more sense of the place . |
| 4 | My feet had ceased diplomatic relations with the rest of me . |
| 5 | My parents had attended such feasts when thousands , entering in relays , gorged on raw meat , hacked in turn from the bleeding carcases of oxen carried on poles past rows of squatting men . |
| 6 | Neither of my parents seemed to have any friends , and tended to talk disparagingly of neighbours or colleagues . |
| 7 | Three years after I was born my parents decided to add another member to our family , my brother , . |
| 8 | My grandma kept saying horrible things about my mother and my father kept rambling on about how much he missed her . |
| 9 | My husband had to get special permission to marry me . |
| 10 | At the start of every summer term for goodness knows how long , my name had appeared five times on the new lecture list . |
| 11 | When an apprentice , after leaving school at thirteen , my father had spent several years as a striker — using a sledgehammer . |
| 12 | As the years passed , my cousin came to encounter this phenomenon again and again . |
| 13 | Yet all my friends wanted to find another way of being . |
| 14 | I could see in the wing mirror that my arrival had provoked some interest . |
| 15 | My form did dip last season and the criticism did begin to affect me , but I thought ‘ Sod it . |
| 16 | My babies had become thorny bully boys , and I found that my garden was not so large after all . |
| 17 | I could make out the spot where my dad had stood that night . |
| 18 | I was seventeen , and most of the other students in my year had done military service and were a lot older . |
| 19 | Until we discovered your football club , Saturday afternoons for me and my mates meant spraying rude words on the side of the Co-op or hijacking shopping trolleys . |
| 20 | I wrote up the notes , made myself some scrambled eggs , then decided to walk over to the post office to see if my brother had telephoned last night with any message . |
| 21 | We did not stop , and when I got home to Banbury it was to hear that my mother had died that day in Cardiff . |
| 22 | A marriage only needs , can only support , one strong partner , and my mother had claimed that role for herself . |
| 23 | Although their views appeared to carry little weight , they had raised a fundamental question about the relationship between tax allowances and cash allowances which remains a controversial issue . |
| 24 | In our main 1979 survey , 11 per cent of credit buyers said that their contracts had included some form of insurance against being unable to pay , while 19 per cent did not know ( Appendix I , Table 35 ) . |
| 25 | As others followed , the Gala Water was dammed and its course altered to create three mill lades . |
| 26 | Ruth paled and her heart seemed to miss several beats as she glanced past Steve again . |
| 27 | Two of them favoured refugees ; their conditions of work had to be at least as good as those offered to British workers , and their employers had to provide real training as opposed to handing out menial jobs to what was essentially cheap labour . |
| 28 | One evening in August — it was their fourth night in a row ; her blood kept flowing that month — he turned to her and saw an expression on her face that he did n't recognise . |
| 29 | Following France 's defeat by Germany in the war of 1870-1 and her loss of Alsace and Lorraine , her strategists had devised numerous plans in the event of another war . |
| 30 | TWO fishermen were rescued by the crew of another vessel yesterday as their boat began sinking five miles off Aberdeen . |