Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The combination of the sophisticated impresario with his driving ambition and the outspoken Newcastle woman with her earthy language and manner to match , made them appear a strange couple . |
| 2 | Until the Annan Committee knocked BBC and ITV heads together and made them run a joint system of audience measurement , ITV relied mainly on counting the number of sets switched on and the BBC used sample surveys and audience ‘ diaries ’ . |
| 3 | These attitudes led them to adopt an interventionist style in the management of local authorities that differred in many ways from the more orthodox approaches discussed in Chapter 5 . |
| 4 | It was this that led them to postulate an original state of affairs in which a hypothetical , pre-human , pre-cultural Natural Man was a cow-like creature , without society and without language , living in the wild in a Garden of Eden forest . |
| 5 | It was this that later led them to build an electrochemical cell . |
| 6 | It was then that I knew I could have a fight on my hands : If the manager sided with him and asked me to move a few feet away then I 'd have no choice but to join in the squabble . |
| 7 | However , I thought it right to debate the report of the Select Committee chaired by my right hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale ( Mr. Jopling ) because many hon. Members of all parties , which was not the case with the other Select Committee report , asked me to find an early opportunity to enable the House to give its initial response to that splendid and important report . |
| 8 | When she started flying her parents asked me to keep a watchful eye on her . |
| 9 | I went into the kitchen as she asked me to have a few words with the ‘ factotum ’ ( 'She seems to be rather taken with your looks ' ) . |
| 10 | ‘ When Terry was coaching Barcelona and I went over to visit him , he asked me to bring a few pounds of good old English pork sausages because he was missing his bangers and mash for tea , ’ he explained . |
| 11 | ‘ She made me walk straight and tall again , made me feel a complete man with her excellently designed footwear , ’ he had boomed . |
| 12 | Physically and erm emotionally writing can be very isolating and so , for example a few years ago , I was writing a huge piece on Africa about Africa and I found emotions growing that I actually did n't have names for , erm and it made it impossible to finish the piece I was working on , and then I , I went to see an Afro Asian exhibition of art and I saw portraying some of these paintings the same emotions and it , it did n't give me a name for the emotions but it , it made me feel an awful lot less isolated seeing that erm other people have also , have also felt this . |
| 13 | It made me take a good look at what I really wanted out of men and dating . |
| 14 | ‘ They made me look a risky proposition until Terry Butcher gave me a chance at Coventry . |
| 15 | Apparently the cleaner overheard them having a tremendous row . |
| 16 | On 18 August it met with the Health Authority 's officials and asked them to conduct a public health survey which it would pay for , mainly to reassure the public that , although the EC limits for aluminium had been exceeded over 500 times , and those for sulphate , copper , zinc and lead had also been broken , there was no long-term harm . |
| 17 | One hundred ladies kindly volunteered and eight weeks later I asked them to complete a lengthy questionnaire . |
| 18 | They realised I told a better story when I was composed . |
| 19 | However an X-ray at 38 weeks revealed I had an enormous pelvis so a relatively normal birth was on the cards . |
| 20 | Most will have started yoga after watching it on television or because a friend invited them to join a local group . |
| 21 | And underneath the story started : Gallant young Dr Kit Masters , Oxford Boxing Blue , beat off a gang of three Blackshirts when he found them attacking an old man who ran a tailor 's shop . |
| 22 | But it helped me to gain a deeper appreciation of what is involved . |
| 23 | ‘ It stopped me having a normal childhood . |
| 24 | So we followed the sign , and with some amusement found ourselves confronting a huge mirror ! |
| 25 | When the Cabinet met at noon , Baldwin found himself sharing a defensive corner with Birkenhead . |
| 26 | He had Letty and now found himself dreading a new face to love . |
| 27 | An isolated curate who wanted knowledge found himself living a few yards from a man who at first sight was an explosive popular preacher , but who happened also to be one of the coming academic theologians of England , and an inciter of younger minds . |
| 28 | A disgruntled postman rang up a radio chat show to complain , and found himself spearheading an anti-Florio movement that culminated in 50,000 people marching on the state capitol . |
| 29 | When Culley did the same , he found himself holding a cold roach . |
| 30 | At the age of 17 he found himself manning an anti-aircraft gun aboard the light cruiser , HMS Scylla . |