Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , I became so proficient — I used to go over and over them first thing in the mornings — that I finished pulling up Trevino on a couple of occasions . |
| 2 | I had given up hope of a reply when , after two months and three days , a letter came which began , ‘ We find your proposals perfectly feasible … ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ So it could hardly have taken you by surprise that she 'd started up life with a different partner . ’ |
| 4 | While Greg was living up at the farm she forgot to bring down milk for the cat . |
| 5 | She began to put on weight at almost every feed . |
| 6 | Mary Alston , one of the mainstays of the women 's union in the 1920s , had to care during this time for a sick sister , who was in and out of a nursing home ; much later , in the 1940s , she had to give up work for a while to care for her mother . |
| 7 | One nurse in the study told how she had to give up training after being branded a trouble-maker for complaining about a male nurse who continually groped her . |
| 8 | And still Shiona had failed to pin down Jake , despite the fact that , out of desperation , she had taken up residence at his Edinburgh home . |
| 9 | It made her feel a little dowdy , as though she had taken up residence in the suburbs of morality . |
| 10 | Another empty day with none of the jobs she had carried out day after day for so long that filled her time with things she enjoyed . |
| 11 | Not that she was afraid ; she once said that she travelled to seek out danger to ‘ silence fear ’ so that she could reach the end of her days ‘ free from that mortal weakness ’ . |
| 12 | We began to pick up speed in our responses to unfolding human rights crises . |
| 13 | From this time , we began to build up pressure on the Department , first on a weekly then on an almost daily basis , until eventually we heard that ministers had decided to fulfil the undertakings in the guardianship deed . |
| 14 | However , this doe snot apply so much to our other son , Robert , who is a private music teacher in Glasgow , so we see quite a lot of him and his wife and their baby son , who arrived just over a year ago , when we had given up hope of any more grandchildren . |
| 15 | He had even established a system for sending money home to their families once they had set up house in this country . |
| 16 | According to the report local militias dominated by Uzbek , Tajik and Shia Ismaeli ethnic groups had formed an alliance with local mujaheddin units ( including fighters commanded by Ahmed Shah Masud ) in late March , and together they had taken over control of the city from Pashtun units . |
| 17 | Instead , they had taken up position in one of the shops opposite where they were concealed by heavy wooden boarding and from where they could see directly into Mordecai 's shop . |
| 18 | October 4 : Nick and Safaya Hemming 's well-known PA–22–160 Tri-Pacer tailwheel conversion G–JEST came to grief on a strip at Flecknoe , Warwickshire , when it failed to pick up speed during take-off for a flight to Honeydon . |
| 19 | In need of money , he agreed to take on work as an artist 's model when Ricky Stride said he knew of an artist who would employ him , for Minton had seen photographs of Bowler and had remarked what a good model he would make . |
| 20 | He tried to grope up back of my thing ! |
| 21 | He promised to step up competition against the company 's Japanese rivals . |
| 22 | He 'd picked up dysentery at a game fair in Hampshire ! ’ |
| 23 | Read out aloud , it seemed to bear out word for word what Alfred Wells had recalled on oath in court . |
| 24 | He began to suck in air through his mouth , producing a gasping sound . |
| 25 | As his eyes slowly became accustomed to the half-light , he began to make out row upon row of brown tents stretching as far as the eye could see . |
| 26 | When he began writing again , he had given up realism for allegory about the conflict between , among other things , science and religion . |
| 27 | It was said that he had turned down promotion to sergeant , in return for being allowed to play cricket for his county . |
| 28 | He had meted out vengeance to his chief enemy , Grant , so any further attack upon mere pawns would be unnecessary , therefore illogical . |
| 29 | Without declaring for or against the coup , Sukarno issued an ordinance stating he had taken over command of the armed forces . |
| 30 | The first extensive studies of Romano-British pottery were by Thomas May , who died on 28 October , 1931 at Stratford-upon-Avon , where he had taken up residence to be able to work on the nearby site at Tiddington , ( Fieldhouse , May and Wellstood , 1931 ) . |