Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He made some of them with solid necks for playing slack-key instead of slide — there were a number of different models . |
| 2 | It is thus quite clear that whatever he said about Shakespeare 's plays , Tolkien read some of them with keen attention : most of all , Macbeth . |
| 3 | Barely over the age of 30 , I used some of them in 1961 against the Establishment . |
| 4 | I found two of them in some old dear 's garden at Cherton ! |
| 5 | The second wicket , like the first , produced 109 runs and he made 85 of them off 77 balls . |
| 6 | They seemed expensive to her at nineteen shillings and elevenpence but the small boy loved them . |
| 7 | This witticism reduced both of them to helpless laughter . |
| 8 | I was sorry I got involved in it at one point ! |
| 9 | Lynch , who fell at the first fence on his only other Grand National ride in 1981 , had looked likely to miss the race after Auntie Dot , one of his regular mounts , had been promised to Mark Dwyer , who finished third on her in last year 's race . |
| 10 | When the Labour Government asked those of us in local government to exercise restraint on spending , we did it because they were the Government , and we were the local authority . |
| 11 | ‘ Your appeal against the above offer of permanent accommodation made available to you on 12-9-91 has been considered carefully but I regret to inform you that the appeal has not been allowed and you should sign for the tenancy at the local housing office by 2-12-91 . |
| 12 | The bill 's first clause simply states : ‘ The Secretary of State may make arrangements for enabling eligible students to receive loans towards their maintenance out of money made available by him for that purpose . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But we saw little of him in 1948 . |
| 14 | Well to make that sort of revenue they will actually need to fly rather more than two million passengers a year , and in the present state of the world aviation market I reckon that 's quite a tall order , in fact if they fell short of it by five percent in a particular year that would be capable of using up the kind of capital and reserves which we 've been talking about . |
| 15 | Ethel Hallow was the form sneak and goody-goody , and it was hardly surprising that Mildred felt unfriendly towards her after all the mean tricks Ethel had played during their first two terms , including almost getting Mildred expelled on two occasions . |
| 16 | Ronni felt proud of him at that moment . |
| 17 | When the children were older , Green took them out on longer walks , when he was painting or drawing in the hills , and occasionally took one of them on one of his excursions , when he would stay away from Ambleside for a week or more . |
| 18 | Not even when Pam Wright went 4-up on me after four holes in the final of the Scottish at Troon did I feel in any danger . " |
| 19 | I wondered if you remembered any of them at all . |
| 20 | As you are aware , my father left half of it to each of us . ’ |
| 21 | A friend fashioned this for him at negligible cost . |
| 22 | Similarly , through Lata 's sister 's marriage to Pran you 're led into the world of politics and the subject of land reform , which sounded dull to me at first but became much more interesting as I got into it . ’ |
| 23 | The forward ceptors had been showing a bright little disc that was the planet Fraxilly , steadily enlarging as we crept near to it on planetary drive . |
| 24 | He also instructed those around him in these arts , and was far from being just a powerful military ruler . |
| 25 | Of his early paintings little is known , as he destroyed most of them between 1941 and 1944 , although as early as 1934 a crucifixion exhibited in a Curzon Street basement was singled out for praise by the critic Herbert Read . |