Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On my third day of freedom I managed to steal some coins and sent a note to my master in Ipswich . |
| 2 | I felt very sorry for her by now and for want of knowing how to express my sympathy I offered to make another pot of tea . |
| 3 | And of course I had to get another lens , a piece of glass about the same size , in order to grind it , because you grind the glass with another piece of glass with a grit in between . |
| 4 | At university I had done Moral Philosophy , English , French and German . |
| 5 | He said that if in future I needed to sell oriental porcelain I should go to M. Bourget , in the rue de Berri , and mention Helmut 's name . |
| 6 | As a journalist I had seen many countries overseas , all smaller and poorer than ourselves , being granted self-government ; and I had hoped that Scotland would not be denied even the limited self-government that was then being dished out to the Cook Islands and the Faeroe Islands and the Cameroons . ’ |
| 7 | The same sort of guilt by association which had tainted Keynesian economics in the wake of the Phillips curve débâcle has tainted the rational expectations hypothesis owing to its close connection , through Keynesian eyes , with the policy inefficacy proposition of the new classical macroeconomics . |
| 8 | This behaviour encouraged a more sophisticated experiment which involved placing two aluminium plates 3 metres apart in the tank . |
| 9 | In legislative elections in March 1987 the RPR won seven seats and formed a government in coalition with the UPL which had won six seats . |
| 10 | The Authority was less successful in its attempt to ensure that disciplinary proceedings were brought against a detective superintendent , whose early retirement from the Metropolitan Police in 1989 meant that he avoided questions about his links with drug smuggling and criminal gangs , queries that had arisen after a World in Action television programme which had made serious allegations about corruption in the London police . |
| 11 | The part of the programme which had received highest priority was the introductory course in information retrieval for the engineering undergraduates . |
| 12 | She wore grubby jeans , torn at the knees , and an unironed acrylic sweater which had seen better days . |
| 13 | He is picking his way through the Moscow Record of 27 November 1869 , and there he reads about a murder which had occurred six days earlier . |
| 14 | That early hour also avoided having to go to the schools to take children , an action which had caused such controversy in November 1990 . |
| 15 | Collins was the other striking contributor within Scotland 's side , tirelessly continuing at international level where he had left off for his club in Saturday 's Old Firm game and looking unaffected by the demands of a workload which had caused wholesale disruption to the national team elsewhere . |
| 16 | Phil Judd , of Ski Tech Systems , pulled off the deal which involved supplying enough matting to lay a 200m piste . |
| 17 | ‘ For example , last summer the Royal Bank did a deal which involved issuing depositary shares in the US . |
| 18 | 16 patients with sarcoidosis who had undergone diagnostic biopsy of lung , skin , or lymph node and 16 patients with squamous cell carcinoma or Hodgkin 's disease to act as controls . |
| 19 | For once , it was the losing side who seemed to have fewer reservations about the performance of the referee . |
| 20 | Mr Bailes ' little place was situated about half way along Highburn village and to get into the farmyard you had to walk twenty yards or so between five-foot walls . |
| 21 | The election of Aristide , a 37-year-old left-wing priest who had survived numerous assassination attempts , followed a series of short-lived governments , three of which were military administrations and none of which was the product of free elections . |
| 22 | A former Roman Catholic priest who had spent eight years as a missionary in Africa and then seven years in England and Scotland , he arrived in Kingsley four years ago at the start of the project to breathe new life into the empty village school . |
| 23 | The new President 's favoured candidate for prime minister , Jan Olszewski , a lawyer who had defended anti-communist dissidents for years , was unable to agree terms with him , however . |
| 24 | Among the participants were many noted specialists in English and Linguistics , including ( Puna ) , ( Varanasi ) , ( Delhi ) , ( Indian Institute of Technology , Delhi ) , ( College of Commerce , Delhi University ) , ( CIEFL Hyderabad ) , and ( Trivandrum ) , a well-known poet who had travelled three days by train to get there . |
| 25 | In her state of extreme nervous tension she had clutched those dollars so tightly that they 'd almost disintegrated . |
| 26 | When Thomas Cooper , a Chartist who had advocated extreme violence in 1842 , visited him , he told him : ‘ You were right … |
| 27 | After all , Sarah was involved in a long-term relationship with Paddy McNally while Andrew still had a soft spot for Katherine ‘ Koo ’ Stark , an American actress who had excited considerable media interest because of her appearance in soft-porn films . |
| 28 | Those members of the British Section delegation who had survived previous ICMs said nothing and waited for the strain to show . |
| 29 | In a fit of crazy violence she began to run one arm backwards and forwards on the rusty metal until it began to bleed . |
| 30 | Whilst in the circuit we called for an ambulance on the Aldis lamp for the WT/Operator who had lost three fingers on one hand whilst " tinselling " . |