Example sentences of "[pers pn] [Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can blame the schools for not providing the right conditions , we can blame the government and local education authorities for not giving sufficient attention to in-service training , but I think the buck must rest with people like me who had by that date been employed in teacher-training for just over ten years . |
| 2 | It was he who pronounced in open court that a husband was entitled to beat his wife so long as the rod he used was no thicker than his thumb . |
| 3 | The death threats had been provoked by Motoshima 's suggestion in December 1988 that Emperor Hirohito ( who was at the time dying of cancer ) bore some responsibility , " as do all of us who lived in that period " , for Japan 's role in the Pacific War of 1941-45 . |
| 4 | A great number of us who dabbled in new routery imposed a similar limit upon our own claims . |
| 5 | It had central heating , a rarity in the experience of people like us who depended on open coal fires . |