Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I remember the cover story I did on The Clash in 1977 , the thing that became ‘ Capital Radio ’ . |
| 2 | Always ready for a dip I leapt into the water and grabbed hold of an elderly lady with neat little curls and bifocals on the end of her nose . |
| 3 | After replacing the 'phone I waited for the tingling to stop then looked at my watch . |
| 4 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 5 | Er right welcome back B B C Radio York Whaley 's on until er two this afternoon and before we do anything else er a little bit I saw in the paper , Unions about turn , that 's the shop workers ' union known as USDOR erm have done an about turn and they now say because they saw the writing on the wall , that they think Sunday trading is okay , well more or less . |
| 6 | it 's just some noise I heard on the tape . |
| 7 | At the agreed hour I reported to the Endoscopy Unit of the London Clinic , was shown into a small room , told to undress and put on a blue shift , then lie down on a mobile bed . |
| 8 | ‘ But all I needed to do was look at the support I got from the club and the fans when we were at the bottom last season . |
| 9 | But they still worked it that if you were working , of course I went to the Ministry of Supply |
| 10 | When he suggested Peter , of course I jumped at the chance — Peter was winning absolutely everything . |
| 11 | That afternoon I walked round the circuit alone and thought about it . |
| 12 | On the same afternoon I met with the rail unions and ( loyally supported by Peter Parker ) put the position to them . |
| 13 | That afternoon I went to the café at Fagurhólsmýri and bought a pair of Tuf workman boots . |
| 14 | Selvini Palazzoli quotes a dream related by one of these latter cases : ‘ On my way home from the convent I stopped outside the hospital . |
| 15 | I put aside some of the money I got for the silver , because Daddy meant to divide his things between us both . ’ |
| 16 | Outside in the cobbled farmyard I glanced at the side of the barn . |
| 17 | She was singing on stage when we arrived and by the time I had reached my seat I said to the man who was with me , this is the Salome I have been looking for . |
| 18 | In the lavatory I stared at the mirror . |
| 19 | Strange advert I saw in the week it it was erm |
| 20 | ‘ If you must have chapter and verse — you remember that piece I did for the Statesman ? |
| 21 | And it could turn out that the car I left on the Foulness road was stolen from a car park in Colchester or somewhere . |
| 22 | I 'll play the secret tape I made in the orchard |
| 23 | It said in the E , the Echo I read in the Echo it 's er , Friday 's Echo that the first band comes on at four |
| 24 | In the camp canteen I looked for the woman who had encouraged me to come to what , by the minute , I was beginning to feel was a god-forsaken hole . |
| 25 | She 's the sister of the man who owned Grye — the horse I rode in the race . |
| 26 | Hawking meanwhile , has a simple explanation for its success : ‘ Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales . |
| 27 | so it er , it were running alright then , and er I took it for a spin I went round the block , up Robin Hood Way |
| 28 | THE NUNS in Northamptonshire who are battling to save their 5,000 chickens from slaughter said yesterday that the Ministry of Agriculture had changed its story over the type of salmonella responsible for the outbreak of food poisoning which led to the flock being tested . |
| 29 | These interventions , associated with the Keynesian revolution in economic thinking which called for the state to become involved in maintaining the level of aggregate demand in the economy through the use of budgetry policies , have been seen not as a triumph of democratic struggle but as a further example of the use of the state as an instrument of the interests of the ruling class . |
| 30 | When war broke out in South Africa MacBride was one of the first and most prominent members of the Irish Brigade which fought for the Boer republics , and at Ladysmith , Colenso , and elsewhere he proved himself to be a brave and resourceful soldier . |