Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [noun sg] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years later when I became chairman of the medical missions of SPG , I realised how in mission hospitals all over the world , the same devoted healing mission was being carried on , which spoke much more eloquently of divine and human love than the preaching of less qualified friends like myself . |
| 2 | But , you see , with all this , and , indeed , before all this , the two happiest relationships of my life were with a schoolfriend called Melanie Smith with whom I used to listen to records of Carousel and Oklahoma ! on an old , wind-up gramophone , and with the hockey-ball when I became goalie of the first eleven . |
| 3 | I asked thinking of the noxious fumes . |
| 4 | I made use of the royal authorization to publish the contents … and I reduced the telegram by striking out words , but without adding or altering … |
| 5 | I shared command of the big " V " with two other skippers , Doug Thompson and Denis Mawe , as H.Q. frowned on any policy that kept an officer away from his home port and normal customs duties for too long a period . |
| 6 | So I got hold of the right side . |
| 7 | Once in my hotel room , I got hold of the Yellow Pages and dialled for a woman . |
| 8 | ‘ I never met Barney but I caught sight of the other one once , scuttling across the yard like a nervous rabbit . |
| 9 | Then , turning back , I caught sight of the red bitch : she was making her way slowly towards the woodpile . |
| 10 | As I ran upstairs , I caught sight of the old lady 's shocked face . |
| 11 | I heard evidence of the one domi domiciliary visit per week of the physiotherapist had been stopped in September because of lack of resources . |
| 12 | I grabbed hold of the gravimetric to turn it round to look for the the switch which is on other side . |
| 13 | Twenty and thirty-pound nets are not uncommon and long ago I lost count of the double-figure nets I 've had from the rivers named above and others such as the Vyrnwy and Banwy , two small rivers which feed the upper Severn . |
| 14 | My wife was inside for possession and I had custody of the two kids . |
| 15 | In 1902 she became editor of the Scottish Geographical Magazine , the position she held till her death . |
| 16 | This strange rare and peculiar led to Nitric Acid which covered everything , I gave the 6c potency since again I did n't have the LM and after 4 weeks she reported improvement of the anal discomfort and a return of the old stomach symptoms . |
| 17 | She scrambled to her feet , feeling her heart bump painfully as she caught sight of the two men standing by the car . |
| 18 | Loretta finished dressing and was about to leave the room when she caught sight of the unmade bed . |
| 19 | She took advantage of the last half-hour before the grimy little park closed to wander round it . |
| 20 | If she thought Matthew would stop once she had hold of the other end , Beth was badly mistaken . |
| 21 | She picked hold of the loose material round the waist and yanked it with disapproval . |
| 22 | In order to address this , we expressed part of the Oct-11 cDNA containing the POU domain in E.coli as a protein A ( PA ) fusion protein . |
| 23 | And so we took advantage of the tender and the contractor being in th in the area , to extend the water pipeline from its current location at the football stadi erm er pavilion , through to the cemetery . |
| 24 | Conditions had been met and there was so much speculation about when we were going to go into the Exchange Rate Mechanism , we took advantage of the excellent opportunity which , which |
| 25 | We took advantage of the excellent opportunity of monetary conditions coming within their limits to end all the speculation about when we should go in , and go in . |
| 26 | They became part of the symbolic political language through which the riots were understood by policy makers and by popular opinion . |
| 27 | This highlights another paradox of Soviet experience — the fact that the main elements of the growing economic crisis were known to Soviet officials and Western specialists long before they became part of the public political agenda on either side of the iron curtain . |
| 28 | Around the mid sixth century the Greek cities of Asia Minor had come under the control of Croesus of Lydia , and when he fell to Cyrus of Persia in 546 they became part of the huge Persian empire . |
| 29 | Then suddenly they became part of the social background like film stars or professional football players . |
| 30 | They even attacked art — especially ‘ modern art ’ — but while they made fun of the pre-War Cubists , Expressionists and futurists , they borrowed and transformed many of the principles and techniques of these earlier movements . ’ |