Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [noun] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stopped wearing Tampax ( cotton wool pricks ) , and I stopped eating meat in case the chunk of sizzling corpse I was about to sit down to had come from a male animal . |
| 2 | ‘ After his death I decided to sell poppies in remembrance of all those who died . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It 's just what I needed to put things in perspective . |
| 4 | No I did visit Lawrence in prison after he was recaptured er and spoke to him about various things , including this er this incident and he did confirm that he had been at flat er for a couple of days er befo before the actual search . |
| 5 | I did see gordon in town a few weeks ago though if that counts for anything … |
| 6 | I had eschewed politics in favour of a life practising law and enjoying the amenities of a civilised society in the way of drama , music and literature and , in a more limited and selective fashion , the visual arts . |
| 7 | At seven I had to carry ID in case bus drivers attempted to charge me adult fare . |
| 8 | They explained that only the brightest , best and most talented young people were chosen for this sacrifice and that ever since , I had associated success in life with being sacrificed . |
| 9 | And then I had to pay tuppence in cafe for a cup of tea and mother would fix me a sandwich . |
| 10 | But from the age of thirteen or fourteen , I knew I wanted to do research in physics because it was the most fundamental science . |
| 11 | One of them , recently relieved of a large Norwegian and still visibly tense , said she 'd lost interest in food and would settle for not having all the cup handles knocked off . |
| 12 | Yes oh yes , she 'd got Lucy in bed , made love — had sex ? — fucked with ? — there was n't really a phrase to fit how utterly strange the whole thing had made her feel . |
| 13 | They , they did have the option that they could have had complete absolute egalitarianism and made everybody into a poor peasant , but the commun but the commun the Communist Party were progressive and they s saw that how that you needed to have industrialization in order to increase the welfare of peasants which was their ultimate aim , and I mean it appears that how that they did n't actually care er what kinds of means they 'd have to achieve that , as in capitalism was justified in this longer term perspective . |
| 14 | you did overlook death in service benefits and it is important when you 're doing life cover to take |
| 15 | She had received £70 in cash , repaid £35 , and still owed £101 15s . |
| 16 | She had represented Britain in horseriding competitions . |
| 17 | The inquest heard she had spent time in council care as a child and feared something similar might happen again . |
| 18 | When she got home she had to boil spaghetti in acqua minerale . |
| 19 | The road became narrower , the drops either side more precipitous — and we sought to engage Abu in conversation , more to dilute his fanatical sense of destination than to practise our halting Indonesian . |
| 20 | Whatever desperate or mundane disappointments might lie ahead , as we gazed down at those phantoms from another age I felt that we had become travellers in time . |
| 21 | There Ford 's management ( dominated by Henry Ford ) declared that they proposed to limit dividends in order to lower the price of cars and increase employment , so as to spread ‘ the benefits of this industrial system to help [ the employees ] build up their lives and their homes ’ . |
| 22 | The closet to Ireland we came were a few students in college , and even they seemed to have interest in politics . " |
| 23 | At what point McAllister 's fears finally disappeared beneath his loving patience , and they began to make love in earnest , neither of them could have said . |
| 24 | They had grown tomatoes in peat compost alongside plants grown in coir compost ( coconut fibre ) and the latter were very unsatisfactory . |
| 25 | In April 1948 they had inherited work in hand from five CEB annual programmes with nearly 6000MW due for completion by 1950 . |
| 26 | In a session lasting until one in the morning they had discussed Crime in Society with that lucidity which is only achieved at somewhere above the 100 mg per cent level of blood alcohol and with the comforting knowledge that one does n't have to drive home . |
| 27 | ‘ For 10 minutes they attempted to engage Anthony in conversation before explicitly asking him to work for and provide information to them . |
| 28 | They wanted to see a battleship launched , they wanted to see Royalty in action , they wanted to see anything that was happening which was an event in the world , and so cameramen like George Albert Smith , and eventually George Albert Smith 's staff , would go out around the world , much as it would happen now but in a much simpler way , erm to make actuality pictures . |
| 29 | ( FCA ) of who had been found to be in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.32 in that in High Wycombe between 31 March 1989 and 14 June 1991 it failed to notify clients in writing of the amount and terms of commission received as a result of advice given to those clients and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 5.03 in that in High Wycombe between 31 March 1989 and 14 June 1991 it failed to give notice to its Bank that all money standing to the credit of its Investment Business Client Bank Account was to be held by the firm as a trustee or agent within the terms of the regulation was reprimanded , fined £l , 000 and ordered to pay £250 by way of costs . |
| 30 | A STOWAWAY who jumped ship was caught when he tried to call relatives in North Africa from a motorway phone . |