Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was there a secret reason that made them hanker for a new life in a new world ? |
| 2 | What is beyond dispute is that the portfolio valuations benefited on two counts : firstly through translation of foreign share holdings into sterling at more advantageous rates , and secondly through the appreciation of the shares of those companies whose large overseas involvement made them beneficiaries of a lower pound . |
| 3 | Liese made me dinner in the Chinese style : miso soup , stir-fried vegetables , sweetsap for dessert . |
| 4 | A group of sports fans are claiming they were overcharged and let down by a tour operator who sold them tickets to the Olympic Games . |
| 5 | I have a couple of mates who are Forest fans , and I got them tickets for the first game of the season . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh God , ’ I moaned , and lowered my head to the cool steel pipe of the bridge rail . |
| 7 | ‘ I got my chance in the national side when injuries put me into the match against Romania in Bucharest three years ago . |
| 8 | When I got my hands under the protruding portion I realized there was no point in heaving . |
| 9 | That morning I met my father on the middle landing of the stairs , and we were alone together for the first time in the holidays . |
| 10 | That was how she met my father in the early years of the war . |
| 11 | It 'd be easier if we met my troops for the first time at the concert , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Another recently asked my advice about the finer points of his own computer program so that he might catalogue more accurately his card collection , so vast had it become ( if any one has a mint Drummahoe No 1 , he would be most indebted ) . |
| 13 | To the right was the outline of the dovecot where , as a child , standing in the doorway with my back to the sunlight , I fought my shadow with a wooden sword . |
| 14 | After a few days my condition improved , the weather changed dramatically , and I made my way across the cultivated , fertile fields of Normandy . |
| 15 | Ignoring them , I made my way to the Norman castle . |
| 16 | I left the broch and walked uphill as far as I could without disturbing the bird colony , then made my way towards the southern end of the island , where the land sloped gradually down to the sea in long , flat terraces of rock . |
| 17 | I felt a strange sensation in my stomach as I made my way down the sloping gangway and on to the tarmac , If I had felt like this on the morning of the 6th June , Lord Lovat would probably been going ashore without his bagpipe music . |
| 18 | I left them to it and made my way along the inner side of the curving wall towards the doorway . |
| 19 | I made my mark against the Conservative candidate . |
| 20 | So I made my entrance into a gay world which emphasized the politics of personal and sexual liberation to the exclusion of every other commitment and loyalty — familial or social . |
| 21 | I threaded my way between the various broken churches , towers and columns to the entrance-exhibition where posters announced that fibreglass imitations of the stone carvings were soon to be set up outside . |
| 22 | That 's how I got interested in the sport : I read about the first black champion , Jack Johnson and it created my interest for the first time . |
| 23 | ‘ He swopped my mother for a younger woman when he was in his late sixties . |
| 24 | Recently I moved my tank onto a new stand . |
| 25 | It was n't until lunchtime that my boss drew my attention to the strange ‘ hairband ’ I was wearing . |
| 26 | Unfortunately I had not realised that a stern rope had already been passed to the ship and an indignant shout from my crew on the after deck drew my attention to the long nylon rope which was now snaking dangerously round the bollards as we drew away . |
| 27 | I gulped , and fixed my eyes on the blood-red pen on the desk . |
| 28 | You deliberately fixed my mother with a glassy stare and frightened her out of her wits . |
| 29 | In Los Angeles , where I lectured for a living , I pursued my fascination for the harmonic patterns and golden-mean ratios which run so consistently through the sacred art , music and architecture of both Western and oriental mystical traditions . |
| 30 | ‘ I changed my mind at the last minute . ’ |