Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If that was the case I found great difficulty in seeing how he could get permission from my local authority to license me , ’ he said . |
| 2 | It was my responsibility I brought that child into the world , and there was no way I was going to thrust her off onto other people . |
| 3 | ‘ Despite my close relationship with Sonauto I had solid contacts with Honda and I remember the problems I brought on myself . ’ |
| 4 | To see if topical streptokinase , as in ‘ Varidase ’ ( streptokinase and streptodornase ) could be absorbed from a wound site and produce a similar response I measured anti-streptokinase titres in patients with wounds . |
| 5 | In my early struggling days as a writer I spent occasional days as a film extra . |
| 6 | Like the woman 's no good Of course I told some things about Wendy . |
| 7 | By a coincidence I met this man on the summit of Sergeant Man in the Lake District two months later . |
| 8 | Anyway , in that desolate chamber at Sheen I removed soft buskins from the corpse 's feet , carefully pushing back the blue robe and the white cotton shift beneath . |
| 9 | In my rather disgruntled frame of mind I rebelled that night against the long way round . |
| 10 | Oops , in my last mail I had 12 players in the lineup . |
| 11 | In the last chapter I outlined certain similarities between karate competition and boxing . |
| 12 | Earlier in this chapter I gave some idea of the linguistic complexities of the Caribbean . |
| 13 | In addition to conducting this particular case study I made some visits to another school ( which I have called ‘ Southend ’ ) in the same LEA which had gone through an identical appraisal exercise a year earlier . |
| 14 | It is proving a delight to use ; on my fist attempt I punched two cards in quick succession without making a single mistake and with no strain to my hands — despite the instructions for the punching being written in Japanese only ! |
| 15 | To be on the safe side I spent two hours in the drain , shivering for most of the second hour . |
| 16 | Well I think he 's at my other school before common entrance I had this teacher for two years got forty percent and that 's . |
| 17 | I was brought up in the world of the arts because , apart from the Rothschild side which had some influence on me , my mother was a completely Bloomsbury figure , and her mother was a great friend of Matisse and a distinguished collector — she was a Strachey , very English . |
| 18 | It was he who helped to have removed those lines in the inscription on the Monument which accused Roman Catholics of starting the Great Fire of London . |
| 19 | After this assault Mosley reputedly was forced to discipline his own followers in order to maintain order in the BUF , and to discourage further acts of violence which invited retaliatory action by the authorities . |
| 20 | The death of Earl Patrick of Salisbury was still an episode which aroused harsh feelings on both sides . |
| 21 | That trend is demonstrated in a sales bonanza which saw 142,000 people in the UK opting for a diesel car in the first half of this year . |
| 22 | Did you see the poll published in the Sunday newspapers about public attitudes to AIDS which avoided any reference to the Terence Higgins Trust or any of the other gay support groups ? |
| 23 | He became a keen supporter of the BAAS , founding a club which gathered each year at the meetings , for conviviality and science . |
| 24 | The heroic social-realist work was commissioned by the Works Progress Administration , a federal programme which hired unemployed artists in the 1930s . |
| 25 | However it was thought by its sponsors to represent a programme which had some possibility of acceptance by the bodies to which the petition would be presented . |
| 26 | At a party congress of the DBP on Jan. 27 delegates representing 117,000 members ( 7,000 fewer than in October 1989 ) approved an electoral programme which included continued support for co-operative and state ownership of farms . |
| 27 | Experts are still trying to locate the fault which caused another shutdown of the £1m Computer Aided Despatch system . |
| 28 | But although the students ' efforts compared well with other universities and schools , the Bristol team has some distance to go before it can match the efforts of the Japanese motor industry entry which achieved 6,142 miles to the gallon . |
| 29 | However mistaken he thought that she might be , and that her vision of life was based on a charming naïveté which took little account of the cruel realities of existence , it was , to him , admirable that she should care about such things , and in such a practical way when all was said and done . |
| 30 | The words in square brackets have now been repealed by the Local Government ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1982 , removing the anomaly which prevented local authorities from taking legal action under this section , in respect of odours affecting employees and others who were not inhabitants of the neighbourhood , despite being of the opinion that the odour was sufficiently obnoxious to amount to a nuisance . |