Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [verb] in the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There was also a quote from Forbes ; he praised the stand I had taken in the face of management victimisation and stressed my right to real work . |
| 2 | M. Chaillot was by now unexpectedly by my side , opening a huge satin-covered box of chocolates of the cream-filled variety I had seen in the local shop . |
| 3 | So the two of us went off to Peel and er anyway they paid us , they paid for our lunch and er and so that was alright and of course I had to go in the witness box , you see and swear on the bible , you know , the whole truth , nothing but the truth , you see . |
| 4 | I used my usual metal overflow piece , which I keep hidden in the dunes near the best dam-building site , and the piece de resistance was an aqueduct bottomed with an old black plastic rubbish-bag I 'd found in the driftwood . |
| 5 | I sang an obscene ditty I had learnt in the TA , Mike an African song in Matabele , and the Germans some carols . |
| 6 | But no child , So I got up and changed into my khaki drill and was just about to throw the water off the groundsheet that by this time had collected in the hole that I had prepared for my sleeping , to find that there was a black scorpion wallowing in the slight indentation I had made in the sand . |
| 7 | The hoarse words were intended to come out as a joke , but instead they held a raw note of emotion which seemed to hang in the air between them . |
| 8 | In addition , Haynes in the UK had been controlling costs through a redundancy programme which had resulted in the loss of seven jobs ( out of 200 ) and exceptional charges of £203,000 . |
| 9 | Sheila Cunningham , of Norfolk North , said the present system was unfair and perpetuated the elective dictatorship which had developed in the 1980s . |
| 10 | The youth work practice which began to emerge in the 1870s and 1880s built upon a long tradition of mainly religious charitable activity among young people , usually in connection with Sunday schools , temperance societies and the Band of Hope . |
| 11 | Meanwhile a young infantry soldier who had fought in the trenches and had been taken prisoner of war was putting the finishing touches to a philosophical treatise that was to bring traditional philosophy crashing down about its ears . |
| 12 | For example , in 1976 , three DUP councillors in Ballymena boycotted the Remembrance Day service ( an event they would normally have been very keen to support ) because a Roman Catholic priest who had served in the Royal Naval Reserve was reading a lesson . |
| 13 | The cube contained the works of a poet who had died in the distant town where Cley was born . |
| 14 | She went to the full-length mirror beside her dressing-table , pulling off the headband she had worn in the bath and releasing the glossy brown hair that tumbled almost to her shoulders . |
| 15 | And they had eyes , bright and pricking eyes that shredded her clothes and burrowed to the soft underwear she had purchased in the Centrum store on Magdeburg 's Karl-Marx-Strasse . |
| 16 | I am told that other people have had similar experiences but are not prepared to enlarge on their stories ; perhaps they had seen a ghost of a long-gone railwayman who had worked in the area years ago and had come back to his earthly place of employment ! |
| 17 | Jesus Delporto 's dying scream had followed Ace all the way to the lower moon , down the violently oscillating length of the Bridge , past bizarre machinery which seethed with naked power , and through the gap she had torched in the base of the column ; it followed her as eager hands pulled her from the writhing Bridge , stripped away her suit and placed her with the others in the medical unit ; followed her into sleep , forced a path into her dreams , drove her screaming and unrested into wakefulness . |
| 18 | More images whirled through Loretta 's head — the figure she had seen in the bed , a body being dragged to the door , herself in handcuffs waiting to board the ferry . |
| 19 | Springfield and Fenton pulled back the flaps of the cut they had made in the chain-link fence , allowing Grant and Larsen to duck through into hostile territory . |
| 20 | As things turned out it was the Americans who made the greatest contribution , drawing heavily on the practice they had adopted in the last few years to incorporate the expertise available from industry and the unions into their CAB ( as they then were ) investigations . |
| 21 | About twenty metres down from the top , Priestley realized that the tin they had left in the cairn in fact contained their exposed photographic plates , and that what they were carrying down with them was the tin containing the record of their ascent . |
| 22 | ‘ No wonder no one knew about him ! ’ the sergeant exclaimed as he studied the identity card he had found in the man 's wallet . |
| 23 | In 1904 the Ontario Provincial Geologist , impressed by the quantities of the rare mineral cobalt he had detected in the ores of one locality , Long Lake , put up a post with a board attached bearing the legend ‘ Cobalt Station , Temiskamming and Northern Ontario Railway ’ . |
| 24 | ANGLER Arthur Davis cast his line off Dover pier in Kent — and hooked the wig he 'd lost in the sea a week earlier . |
| 25 | Some let-out he 'd got in the contract . |
| 26 | When Morse , himself looking far from serene , had come into The Randolph and demanded to see Messrs Aldrich and Brown immediately , he had resolutely avoided her eyes , appearing to have no wish to rekindle the brief moments of intimacy which had occurred in the morning 's early hours . |
| 27 | Not much enthusiasm was transferred in the migration to the UK and the enthusiasm which appeared to grow in the 1980s seems mainly due to the successes of young black players in the football league . |
| 28 | The Code was later amended to reflect the difficulty which had arisen in the case , which concerned the selection of an estranged parent as an ‘ appropriate adult ’ to be present during the interviewing of a juvenile : see now Code C Note 1C , which provides that an estranged parent should not be asked to fulfil this role if the juvenile objects to his presence . |
| 29 | President Ronald Reagan 's appointment of three conservative justices had created a five-four conservative majority which had resulted in the erosion of a number of liberal precedents , most notably the constitutional right of women to obtain abortions which had been established in the 1973 landmark decision Roe v. Wade [ for which see also below ] . |
| 30 | It had picked up quite a bit of loose weed which kept jamming in the top ring , but this was periodically removed by Mr Gardner who , by now , knew I had a good fish on and had been warned that any foul-ups at the net would seriously hinder his future fathering capabilities . |