Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I argued in an earlier section of this Chapter that questions of value have always had an uncertain place in institutional literary study , and Catherine Belsey explicitly seeks to banish them . |
| 2 | Luckily I lived at the higher end of the village so my house was not affected . |
| 3 | Er I mentioned in the earlier session today about erm a situation that appertained when I was in the police at Maidstone . |
| 4 | People living alone are particularly at risk if they smoke because , as I mentioned in an earlier chapter , it is a considerable fire hazard in the home . |
| 5 | Perhaps these contradictory interpretations illustrate the dangers , to which I alluded in the earlier discussion , of assuming an automatic association between classicism and positivism and specific political ideologies . |
| 6 | As a Lower boy at the time I came before the Lower Master . |
| 7 | I decided on a further session in the gym before making my grand entry to the spa complex . |
| 8 | She said : " I felt at an earlier stage there were enough moderate Africans who could have taken their place alongside whites in government and there would have been much more evolution towards African leadership than the revolution that came about in the end . |
| 9 | I 've lived on Skomer for six years now and before that I looked after a smaller seabird reserve on St Margaret 's Island . |
| 10 | I used to use a stop watch and then I thought of a better way . |
| 11 | The next day he and I went for a shorter walk and returned about 6 . |
| 12 | I had served Churchill for ten years and for four as his Chancellor , but he told me later ‘ I went for the older man . ’ |
| 13 | About this time , I went on a Bywater Auditor Training Course . |
| 14 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
| 15 | no it 's not addressing the issue but I said in the longer term that could be one of the options |
| 16 | But I intended to follow the same course of action as I had over the earlier incident : to say nothing until he gave me an opening . |
| 17 | When south of the Mandovi , I stayed in the simpler Prainha Cottages , just a few miles south of Panjim ( Prainha , Dona Paula , tel : 8325917 ) . |
| 18 | It was a lame apology , but as she plunged into the cooler shadow of the house she knew she 'd used the first excuse which sprang to mind . |
| 19 | Like did er er people begin to be asked to do different jobs whereas you described in the older days , you were very much sort of , pinned to one machine if you like ? |
| 20 | She peered at the smaller typewriter 's message : |
| 21 | She tried for a brighter smile . |
| 22 | She came to a wealthier part of the town where the streets were quieter , and before long she had reached her destination . |
| 23 | She turned to the younger stranger . |
| 24 | She danced round the bigger girl , getting a few scratches down the back of her suit , even drawing some blood . |
| 25 | You leapt for the cleaner banks and I allowed myself to be carried on by the filth of deceit , of shame , and of a guilt that even now I can not put into public or private words . |
| 26 | ‘ I get a bit fed up sometimes , ’ she confessed to the older woman . |
| 27 | Reaching into her skirt pocket , she brought out a silver shilling which she placed into the older man 's hand . |
| 28 | I suppose it depended on whether you went for the older man , which , speaking for herself , Rosie did n't and never had done and was , anyway , leaving to stay with the Spratlings at Porto Ercole and then , perhaps , driving down to Rome to see poor old Jack Gerontius , who had n't long to go , and after that , who knew ? |
| 29 | Jessamy allowed her voice to become deliberately sympathetic as she looked at the older woman . |
| 30 | Dr Greene would only permit Faye to be at home if she kept to a stricter schedule of bed-rest . |