Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The look she gave me changed from fear to disgust . |
| 2 | My arm was beginning to hurt pretty badly , so I decided to pull my chute straight away in case I fainted from loss of blood . |
| 3 | If it 's like the one we lived in , cos when I , I lived at home with mum and dad we lived in Craigan Road and they 're two rooms . |
| 4 | I fought for breath between heaves , snatching down flecks of vomit and coughing and spewing at the same time . |
| 5 | I probed for information about flights to other Alpine gateways . |
| 6 | One man I met on holiday in Greece even suggested that sending aid to Africa was ‘ compounding the problem ’ because it allowed so many potential breeders to survive . |
| 7 | Still not worried , still sliding smoothly through the crowds , feeling as elusive as a shadow , I passed from night-spot to night-spot . |
| 8 | I got to bottom of washing basket . |
| 9 | When Waits was discovered singing in a Los Angeles club in 1971 , he was working part-time as a fireman : ‘ See , I got into music by chance . |
| 10 | Dr Haidar went off to talk to Mr Postman and I got into conversation with Mr Bhajan Lal , the Pradhan ( headman ) of the village . |
| 11 | I got into conversation with Tony Fessal , who had been third in the previous year 's 10K . |
| 12 | Ever eager to please , I got in touch with Colin Webb of Pavilion which publishes ST TRINIAN 'S : THE BEST OF THE DRAWINGS , on 18th March ( £5.99 ) , to reply to Mike Bradstock 's challenge . |
| 13 | I got in touch with Bloom and said that I thought the guy had talent and Bloom told me that he was having a wedding anniversary party in Soho , which is in the centre of London , and to give the group £20 and see what he was like . |
| 14 | Most of the things I expected to value in life have come to me through death . ’ |
| 15 | He says : ‘ The main problem I found with Paradox for Windows was that it kept hanging my computer . |
| 16 | I forgot all about donating and the transfusion service lost track of me as I moved from house to house over the years , until the other day when the subject came up in the office . |
| 17 | As I changed from listening to walking mode , I tried to work out whether it had feet or flippers or ran on rollers . |
| 18 | This led to another form of coaching , I just can not remember how my interest in tennis arose , save that I used to practice for hours against an airman 's table top fixed to the netting of an old tennis court . |
| 19 | I referred to neutrality between ideals or conceptions of the good . |
| 20 | I have similar reservations about Lakatos 's emphasis on the explicit decisions of individual scientists to those I mentioned in connection with Popper . |
| 21 | The other thing that was interesting I learnt at dinner on Thursday night is , under the government 's legislation within so many years , nineteen ninety four I think , they 've got to ha have reduced their market share from the original hundred percent to sixty percent as new firms come in to sell gas |
| 22 | I feel it is necessary to state my own interest : I am a retired mechanical engineer , at one time employed by a major international oil company where I specialised in research on fuel and lubricants for internal combustion engines . |
| 23 | I came to film through advertising . |
| 24 | P. H. One time I came on duty at Rose Hill and left my cape at the bottom of the stairs — on the banister . |
| 25 | When I wrote to my new employer conveying my regrets at the situation , I received by reply from America instructions to recruit a new staff ‘ worthy of a grand old English house ’ . |
| 26 | Even then I jinked from side to side as I pulled the hood back . |
| 27 | It is the same picture of Shakespeare that I remember from schooldays , when I frowned over Timon of Athens and The Merchant of Venice . |
| 28 | But all seemed to go well for me as I climbed from boat to boat successfully , and then all I had to do was get to the wall from the last boat . |
| 29 | I turned in surprise to Neil , to see him pointing away from the bay towards where , in a cloud of spray , a powerful-looking launch was heading fast towards us . |
| 30 | My reporting for the Times-Herald under the avuncular guidance of Fred Workman ran the whole spectrum of events , incidents and activities : I spent days at the annual Wild West Rodeo and Stampede absorbing as much of the cowboy lingo as possible ; I acted as Master of Ceremonies for a fox trot competition sponsored by Cal Temple and Trudie , his business-like wife ; I interviewed all visiting celebrities including MacKenzie King , the Prime Minister , and R.B. Bennett , the Leader of the Opposition in Ottawa ; I interviewed Jimmy Gardiner as Minister of Agriculture , after he gave up his post as Premier of Saskatchewan ; I covered celebrity concerts and the annual Chatauqua programmes , among many other things . |