Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nell was sitting at a table with a fortyish couple who she later told me owned one of the horses in the box-car , a dark bay called Redi-Hot . |
| 2 | One of them got lost in the corridors and another dropped some important equipment into the sea . |
| 3 | We find them mentioned first during the reign of Edward I , in the 14th century when they were assessed to pay 20/ for the knighting of the Black Prince . |
| 4 | I became involved with the inhabitants as soon as I was old enough to overturn a leaf . |
| 5 | I became involved with the Union ( ACTTS ) when an Equal Opportunities Policy Working Party was set up by them in 1984 . |
| 6 | I have always loved dogs and I became involved with the association when I met a lady who was also involved in puppy training . |
| 7 | The more I became involved in the executive work of CBC the less I liked it , but the more I worked with Ira Dilworth the more I liked him . |
| 8 | Brathay Women 's Institute decided to work on Spinning Galleries , and as I am a spinner and weaver and at that time was a member of the Institute , I became involved in the search for galleries . |
| 9 | I became friendly with the woman in charge , a vast and haughty person who answered to the sobriquet Duchesse . |
| 10 | Bear in mind I became cynical after the introduction of Unified Threads in 1948 . |
| 11 | Through this experience I became interested in the mechanisms of contemporary of Mori 's ‘ composite card ’ . |
| 12 | I spent a great deal of time with housemasters ( see Chapter 22 ) and hence I became interested in the kinds of problems they encountered and began to follow-up the children I saw regularly in their offices . |
| 13 | Because I became aware of the problems when I first came into gliding , I wrote a booklet on the subject , called Sub-Gravity Sensations and Gliding Accidents ( available from the BGA in the UK and SSA in the USA ) . |
| 14 | Well I became aware of the University of Sussex when the Gardener Centre first opened I think , because at that time I was working at the Arts Council of Great Britain and it was erm an innovative scheme which attracted a great deal of national interest , and we were naturally invited down to have a look at it , both the design and the programme that was being planned for the opening season at that time . |
| 15 | Almost as soon as I became aware of the existence of crofting , I became aware of some of the pressure that were making change inevitable . |
| 16 | At the same time I became aware of the fact that this opera was on the stocks . |
| 17 | It was night when I became aware of the dogs whining somewhere and called them . |
| 18 | Then I became suspicious of the injection . ’ |
| 19 | Then I became suspicious of the injection . ’ |
| 20 | I asked one of the Commandos lifting the dead Germans . |
| 21 | I asked one of the medics who was unloading the wounded . |
| 22 | I asked many of the girls I spoke to imagine their feelings about going to an important birthday party at the age of five , and every single one mentioned dressing up , wanting to look pretty , wear a special dress , and ‘ be noticed ’ . |
| 23 | So to avoid future confusion , I housed four of the species in the Victorian tank — Haplochromis ‘ Fire ’ , H . |
| 24 | For one thing , I doubled one of the songs using a Gibson Chet Atkins model . |
| 25 | I read that as the dependants . |
| 26 | At tea I made one of the mistakes of my life . |
| 27 | I made clear to the Committee considering the Bill , when we considered a similar amendment , that I do not consider that enlarging the size of boards would ensure that they are more effective . |
| 28 | As I made clear to the House when I answered the main question , the know-how fund has been heavily used in the Baltic republics , on which about £900,000 has been spent . |
| 29 | As I made clear to the House on 2 July , the numbers of people seeking asylum pose major problems both in Britain and throughout the world . |
| 30 | I made clear in the editorial that no randomised comparative trial is available and that there is an urgent need for such information . |