Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Betty 's letter said , ‘ Last year , as he was going to take part in the World Championship in Canada , he asked me to make some gold socks to match his waistcoat . |
| 2 | These ‘ pull ’ factors operated with particular force in the post-Second World War period as many of the European countries began to reconstruct and expand their economies at a rapid rate and found themselves suffering acute labour shortages which could only be relieved by the employment of foreign workers . |
| 3 | It was not entirely by chance that soon afterwards I found myself discussing historic family houses in central London with my 90-year-old friend Monsignor Gilbey . |
| 4 | At the teacher 's suggestion I then found myself colouring some swing tickets at happened to be in my knitting bag and attaching these to a very poor piece of knitting . |
| 5 | The land belongs to the Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ) , which could have hundreds of thousands of sites , the National Park Service , which identified 2,400 hazardous mines , and the Forest Service , which estimated it has 25,000 mine sites . |
| 6 | Then , influenced by his aunt Naomi Treen ( née Cubitt ) , a teacher at an elementary school practising Pestalozzian methods , he obtained in 1851 the post of master at Holy Trinity National School , Lambeth , where the progressive vicar , the Revd James Gillman , allowed him to pioneer revolutionary teaching methods in natural history and to set up a school museum . |
| 7 | The arrest of King had been videotaped by an amateur cameraman , and the resulting footage showed him receiving 56 baton blows and being brutally kicked by police . |
| 8 | This showed it to have formal negotiating agreements at ten of the principal ports of England , Scotland and Wales and at three in Ireland , and to have ad hoc local wage agreements at substantially all the rest . |
| 9 | David was so upset about the prospect of going to a day centre that when the ambulance arrived he had uncharacteristic temper tantrums on the doorstep . |
| 10 | He taught her to make easy corn dollies . |
| 11 | But the court heard he passed SIX slip roads where he could have turned off . |
| 12 | Eva also insisted on Dad improving the service : she got him to consult esoteric library books early in the morning before work and asked him at breakfast , in a voice which must once have enquired of Charlie if he 'd done his technical-drawing homework , ‘ And what did you learn this morning ? ’ |
| 13 | The levy due on hundred-per-cent woollen goods made him remember other customs regulations , and then instantly of his contraband Sam . |
| 14 | A number of studies have brought out the bargaining strength of trade unions during the period of near full employment [ Brown , 1981 ] , which enabled them to reinforce long-established work practices which were an incubus on British industry in the form of overmanning . |
| 15 | Hanfmann describes ‘ a rather arrogant colleague ’ who ‘ told me that he knew I wrote good case histories , but had not expected me to be so good at theory ’ ( 1983 : 147 ) . |
| 16 | I knew I had bad eating habits when I started secretly to buy sweets from several different shops and ensure the wrappers were well hidden from my boyfriend . |
| 17 | Mr Hook pointed out many of the Division One sides were concentrated round the south-east , which meant they had less travelling expenses . |
| 18 | Talk of a pre-emptive Israeli strike against the missiles meant the Saudis felt they needed stronger air defences to guard the missiles … and so the British arms sellers moved in . |
| 19 | Talk of a pre-emptive Israeli strike against the missiles meant the Saudis felt they needed stronger air defences to guard the missiles … and so the British arms sellers moved in . |
| 20 | Greenside experts saw him miss three birdie opportunities , from six , 10 and 15 feet . |
| 21 | Oh where did I see hot cross buns ? |
| 22 | And how how did you make these weer ones ? |
| 23 | When you worked er before the war did you experience any wage cuts ? |
| 24 | Did you do extended essay notes ? |
| 25 | F When did you mark these examination scripts ? |
| 26 | Now , what about your your life outside of work , and outside of political activity , did you have much leisure activities ? |
| 27 | Did you have many form rows when you were at school ? |
| 28 | Ann , did you have any draw tickets ? |
| 29 | Hopefully , er what did you say five working days ? |
| 30 | As the mourners left , Fred said quietly to Pat , ‘ Did you notice those plainclothes coppers ? ’ |