Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 2 | Without turning round he said in a harsh voice : ‘ If you want to know about Inez , Mr Wycliffe , you must ask Sara , the two of them lived in the same house for nearly twelve years . |
| 3 | In my own section , towards the middle of the cloakroom , I saw to my horror two lines of girls staring at me and giggling , and as I came near , one of them asked in a sarcastic voice where I came from . |
| 4 | There are at least ten or a dozen different principal textures , but it would be unusual to find a large number of them used in the same piece . |
| 5 | When I became in a conscious way feminist I pondered long what it meant that a woman could not in such a way depict Christ as being in her image . |
| 6 | There is a perception amongst informed people in the community that there may well be a shortage of long stay beds in Leicestershire and you do need to bear in mind that the National Health Service is increasingly going down the road of not keeping people in hospitals longer than they have to because hospitals are perceived as being very , a very expensive way of providing beds and you have to take that into account because that 's a fairly clear national policy and you are likely to see an acceleration in that process from what I read in the national press . |
| 7 | Well this highlights my point I made in a previous message … how many of the above transfers out can you say we should have got more ? |
| 8 | The comparison that I made in The Independent newspaper was based on what the Secretary of State 's own review had recommended as the number required to run the system . |
| 9 | In Chapter 2 I argued in a similar vein that the concept of an ontological existent involves the idea of non-arbitrariness , in the sense that by positing something as an ontological existent , i.e. as existing in its own right and not merely as an object of someone 's thought , we are by implication positing this something as a potential subject of a nun-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates . |
| 10 | As I argued in the previous chapter , boxing was the first sport in which institutional arrangements permitted a black presence : almost every weight division produced black boxers of such brilliance that they were virtually without equals ( see Henderson , 1949 , 1970 ; Maher , 1968 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I lived in a small village in Essex with my sister , who was over twenty years older than me , and married to Joe Gargery , the village blacksmith . |
| 13 | Finances were riding along the crest of a slump and I lived in a one-room penthouse in Bakers Arms , Leyton ( on top of the opticians ) . |
| 14 | ‘ I lived in a large house converted into flats . |
| 15 | I lived in a different house , read different books , played different games and so on , and , despite various efforts , could not become popular . |
| 16 | ‘ I lived in the same house as him once . |
| 17 | ‘ I fought in the Holy Land for the Cross , and in England for Edward against the rebels ; I have founded monasteries , supported Holy Mother Church so God would exalt my family . |
| 18 | The importers were n't reliable , and neither were the craftsmen , especially those who persuaded me to pay them in advance Then I got in a financial muddle because I did n't keep my bookkeeping up to date . ’ |
| 19 | I got in a bad way . |
| 20 | so it 's all hot on the plate and served straight away you know , luckily erm I managed it but I got in a little bit of a flap I will admit it whereas Shirl 's now got used to that I mean I when we first came we both used to do our own help each other out I used to help out but erm |
| 21 | ‘ Let's just say I got in a tight spot . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Before I got in the first team , ’ he says , ‘ I was asking myself over and over again : ‘ can I really do it ? ’ . |
| 23 | I never expected it to be easy , but I do sometimes wish for those moments that I experienced in the distant past , when the umpire used to say , ‘ game , set and match ’ , and you shook hands before entering the comparative safety of the changing room . |
| 24 | It certainly made an unusual change from cranberry sauce and was one of the most memorable tastes I experienced in the New World . |
| 25 | At 4 o'clock I posed in a flower-decked kiosk wearing Amy 's brand-new Marks and Spencer 's floral cotton and an awful lot of Elizabeth Arden 's Flawless Finish . |
| 26 | But then I found in the same week in the relatively liberal UK magazine Time Out several references to women as ‘ chicks ’ and ‘ broads ’ . |
| 27 | I demonstrated in the previous chapter that the use of discursive metaphor causes simultaneity and association to replace causality and linear chronology as the compositional principles of the novel , allowing changes of scene in mid-sentence and the coexistence of a number of often incompatible signifieds in a given signifier . |
| 28 | She was there again when I helped in a feeding centre in Seoul in Korea , when the people came from broken down shacks once a day to get soup and rice . |
| 29 | I wandered in a desultory fashion into the family room which looked dead without the fire blazing and began to wonder what I could make for dinner . |
| 30 | It may be argued that this is essentially the approach that I used in the first chapter . |