Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found my father talking to some of them ; he had been called on to act as an interpreter . |
| 2 | The SED underlined its willingness to leave behind old structures and traditions by abolishing both the politburo and the central committee . |
| 3 | The SED underlined its willingness to leave behind old structures and traditions by abolishing the politburo and the central committee . |
| 4 | They reported their task complete on 21 June 1768 and sailed for England on 11 September . |
| 5 | Sean Walsh would never know how often she and Benny bemoaned their fate living in such a small town which had the worst characteristic any town could have : it was actually within striking distance of Dublin . |
| 6 | And recently a store in Germany found its shelves stocked with fake Nivea . |
| 7 | The challenge to the accepted claims of the major national liberation movements came not only from the unpropertied , but also from lesser movements ; the Germans , the Poles , the Hungarians , the Italians found their claims undermined by those who felt themselves oppressed by these dominant peoples . |
| 8 | Isabel found her gaze fixed in unwilling fascination on one white-knuckled fist . |
| 9 | For a few seconds she found her eyes trapped in that unnervingly steady gaze . |
| 10 | Her silent philosophising ended with a yelp of indignation as she found her forefinger nipped between strong white teeth . |
| 11 | I heard of one 35-year-old secretary who bought a special offer at a solarium , soaked up 50 half-hour sessions of artificial sun in ten weeks , and found her shins covered with large , dark , irregular freckles that remained and spread . |
| 12 | A past President of the National Consumer Credit Federation reported the way in which he had once been collecting himself , and in one building found his way blocked by three tearaways playing threateningly with knives . |
| 13 | He found his colleague struggling with two youths , and managed to arrest one after a brief chase . |
| 14 | Going to his cabin one night the guilty engineer found his bulkheads papered with blue toilet paper and Bluecol stickers everywhere . |
| 15 | He let his mind play with that again , the idea of making it on the box . |
| 16 | Those who argued its virtues saw in this new kind of school an opportunity to blend the best in primary and secondary habits and , in particular , to extend for two extra years some of the freedom associated with good primary-school practice . |
| 17 | Perhaps it was shock that made her senses drag in this lethargic way . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , surely not , ’ he mocked , and the softly spoken words , combined with the look in his eyes , made her heart leapt with sudden violence . |
| 19 | Since Japan and Britain scrapped their exchange controls in 1979 and remaining European controls disappeared during the late 1980s , investors have been far freer to seek out the best returns and to diversify their risks . |
| 20 | The very fact that some of the critics got their letters published at all is a demonstration of ZZAP ! 's commitment to its readership . |
| 21 | Many admitted their departments discriminated against over 65s as a matter of policy . |
| 22 | As Mrs Knelle descended from the mountains , she told me stories attached to various landmarks . |
| 23 | ‘ I imagined my father sitting in this enormous building doing nothing but taking off his socks and putting them on again . |
| 24 | On 7 June 1991 Auld J. granted her leave to apply for judicial review and directed that the suspension be stayed pending the determination of the judicial review proceedings . |
| 25 | Near misses with the car , odd noises in the night always caused her fingers to feel like this . |
| 26 | He also reiterated his proposal made in early February that an international referendum on German unity be held . |
| 27 | When I opened my mouth to speak on this topic it was as though my lips were sewn together with great stitches in the flesh , and my tongue would not move in my mouth . |
| 28 | I could n't possibly compete in those stakes , so I racked my brain to think of small things which they might like . |
| 29 | Its brick engine house is now the centrepiece of an industrial museum , containing four large beam engines built by the local firm Gimsons , who opened their Vulcan Works in 1842 to build light machinery for Leicester 's important footwear industry . |
| 30 | And when she opened her mouth to protest at this treatment she saw that her objections would have to wait . |