Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known . |
| 2 | I found none of the double entendres in Whiplash Whispers funny , and the illustrations were a bit tasteless . |
| 3 | ‘ I think I caught everyone on the wrong foot at Ayresome Park when I increased my shareholding to 48 per cent earlier in the season . ’ |
| 4 | I 've already completed mine : my son and I disturbed one on the main path leading up to The Merrick , in Galloway , and ranger Fred Gordon and I saw a very angry one on the path in Glen Cairn in the Cairngorms . |
| 5 | I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time . |
| 6 | I felt something of the same awe and excitement I had experienced four years before when tramping round and round Warwick Gardens with Chesterton , debating the execution of Charles I. Here was someone who ought to have been a member of the Society that G. K. C. had dominated at St. Paul 's from 1891 to 1893 . |
| 7 | Much to my shame I knew nothing of the Cambrian Railways as most of my interest up to then had been in the Southern Railways and to a greater extent industrial railways , and so decided that much research was necessary , which along with the commencement of renovations will form part of our next episode : - ‘ A NEW STATION IN LIFE ’ . |
| 8 | In my A stream class at " the convent " I knew none of the other girls and rarely saw my former classmates . |
| 9 | from my vantage point I saw nothing in the few seconds between the County Inspector 's announcement to have incited what appeared to be a concerted start by the police . |
| 10 | Erm then er I introduced somebody on the seventeenth for this teaching post , for the sewing club which Noel unofficially told me and Donald also rang up and said that we were going to get the money so I I 've already employed somebody , I have n't got the letter yet . |
| 11 | I said something about the political climate in the Argentine having changed since the Falklands War . |
| 12 | I had none of the schizoid suicide 's delusions about being able to survive my own death . |
| 13 | If you saw someone you knew and you shouted out to them , you were in dead trouble , even if you shouted hello , or if you asked someone at the next table for a cigarette . |
| 14 | She heard nothing but the endless whine over the wire . |
| 15 | And Clara , who could see no elegant way of enlarging this tantalizing scrap of information , had to make do with it — she dared not ask any further , for she knew nothing about the Labour Party , nor about the elder Ash 's political views , nor about A. J. Warbley himself , beyond the fact that his name was written up in black Gothic letters over his son 's shop door . |
| 16 | She knew nothing about the particular thing . |
| 17 | She knew nothing of the real woman behind it . |
| 18 | She saw nothing of the pale green clusters of new leaves adorning the elm trees , nor did she see the arum lilies glowing with white purity beneath them . |
| 19 | He seemed to have come to the deep , still centre of the sea : a place where you felt nothing , where you saw nothing except the coal-black atoms that danced before your face and knitted up the dark . |
| 20 | With him , she felt none of the seething intoxication of love or lust or whatever it was which called her to Cameron . |
| 21 | Lucy herself said she remembered nothing of the dreadful cockchafer affair . |
| 22 | In fact , she liked everything about the dismal house with its strange air of disuse . |
| 23 | In Venice she had nothing beyond the one case except for learning Italian , teaching English , sightseeing and trying to be patient with , and understand , her increasingly morose husband . |
| 24 | Not seeing Jane , however , was no cause for regret ; she had none of the kindly qualities of her husband . |
| 25 | She and Susan had rooms adjoining , so she had none of the creepy feelings one often gets in a strange house . |
| 26 | Tension had given her a dull , thumping headache so that she absorbed nothing except the first entry on the list . |
| 27 | ‘ When you said something about the real tragedy for anyone facing a handicap is when expected support is withdrawn , then yesterday at your flat I realised that you thought I 'd walked out on Jennifer when I discovered she had MS . |
| 28 | Our tiny underground Church was too small , so we invited everyone to the main hall of Munster Road School . |
| 29 | We remembered everything except the all-important commodity to get the lot home . ’ |
| 30 | If only we had something of the social sense they had in Germany , we might manage to give our young people the experiences they ought to have … [ in Germany ] the rambling movement … [ has ] reached enormous proportions — 2,500 hostels provide shelter for 6d per night … . |