Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nixon claimed that as President he had special executive privileges which allowed him to refuse access to the tapes . |
| 2 | After University he became National Officer of the British Mountaineering Council based in Manchester , and later Director of the International School of Mountaineering at Leysin in Switzerland . |
| 3 | After Bromsgrove they lost three games in a row , so it was important to get back to winning , against St Albans last Saturday then Netley 3-0 . |
| 4 | After Bromsgrove they lost three games in a row , so it was important to get back to winning , against St Albans last Saturday , then Netley 3-0 . |
| 5 | Er it 's er it 's a ex W D lens , after wartime they sold these things they sold them in catalogues and I sent of for this one , and it 's about a stone and a half in weight . |
| 6 | For year after year he worked all hours serving different governments and different ministers . |
| 7 | For lunch we had damp oat-cakes we 'd bought at the village shop . |
| 8 | Of course they had some value , in an informal way , as precedents , but the precedent here might easily be not that non dubito is now admissible , but that some relaxation of wording is allowed where family property expectations are involved . |
| 9 | In the premier league it 's West Ham against Swindon at Upton Park … last season of course they faced each other in the first division … in London Town came out on top and it was this win that sparked their promotion run … so let's hope it 's lucky for them again |
| 10 | Erm but of course they did other work you know , which was of a general character . |
| 11 | Well when we came here of course we had certain furniture and we just sort of er , er and we , I do n't know what other people did , we just erm furnished a room at a time until we got |
| 12 | Er as you got older of course you got different meals , but as youngsters we ate a terrific amount of bread and jam . |
| 13 | ‘ Of course you needed more money . |
| 14 | Maire Carroll , serving in the shop and hating it , felt a firm and vicious sense of satisfaction over the fate of Eve and Benny , but of course she pretended great care and concern . |
| 15 | Of course I had this spell er er do n't forget I was five years as a prisoner of war , and a lot of interest because I was a union member pra b previous to that you see ? |
| 16 | Like the woman 's no good Of course I told some things about Wendy . |
| 17 | In a low and antagonistic frame of mind she accepted that Ace was never going to have any time for her . |
| 18 | In my rather disgruntled frame of mind I rebelled that night against the long way round . |
| 19 | By adopting this method of study he wasted less time and it also enabled him to learn more efficiently . |
| 20 | So it was that when I was asked to contribute an account of Elizabeth Taylor 's novels to a book of reference I remembered these words and wrote that her motive power was Love : ‘ Not the love that is a four-letter word , nor yet anything so theoretical as Christian charity , but most certainly a great virtue . ’ |
| 21 | In favour of marriage he noted such things as children , companionship and home comforts : ‘ picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire , and books and music perhaps ’ . |
| 22 | As a man of honour he had little alternative but to accompany his friend to America . |
| 23 | During the expedition which was undertaken in the depth of winter he passed 5 weeks in the bush without seeing a civilised being sleeping occasionally in a Tent , sometimes under a cart but more frequently on the bare ground wrapped in a Kangaroo skin rug still he had not had a cold or the slightest disorder … ’ |
| 24 | Since it involved a fresh assessment of wealth it encountered some hostility . |
| 25 | ‘ I say , ’ ’ he said , imagining tree-conversation , ‘ that was a nice drop of rain we had last night . ’ ’ |
| 26 | He retired in 1939 , but with the outbreak of war he became scientific adviser to the Iron and Steel Research Council and then entered the steel industry , becoming in 1943 director of research of Richard Thomas & Co . |
| 27 | The hull was unrecognisable as such ; half out of water it became unidentifiable debris . |
| 28 | If we recall our definition of leadership we stressed that leadership involves a relationship . |
| 29 | Out of control it caused dreadful havoc , but when it ran smoothly and sweetly it not only modified life 's aridity but added a pleasing dimension to the view , while Lydia , at present , was using it only to make mud pies . |
| 30 | Once these structures went out of use they became ready depositories for rubbish ( Jones 1979b ) , which can be difficult to distinguish from material reflecting the use of the building . |