Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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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 | 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 . |
7 | When she started flying her parents asked me to keep a watchful eye on her . |
8 | ‘ She made me walk straight and tall again , made me feel a complete man with her excellently designed footwear , ’ he had boomed . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | It made me take a good look at what I really wanted out of men and dating . |
11 | ‘ They made me look a risky proposition until Terry Butcher gave me a chance at Coventry . |
12 | Apparently the cleaner overheard them having a tremendous row . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | One hundred ladies kindly volunteered and eight weeks later I asked them to complete a lengthy questionnaire . |
15 | However an X-ray at 38 weeks revealed I had an enormous pelvis so a relatively normal birth was on the cards . |
16 | Most will have started yoga after watching it on television or because a friend invited them to join a local group . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | ‘ It stopped me having a normal childhood . |
19 | So we followed the sign , and with some amusement found ourselves confronting a huge mirror ! |
20 | When the Cabinet met at noon , Baldwin found himself sharing a defensive corner with Birkenhead . |
21 | He had Letty and now found himself dreading a new face to love . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | When Culley did the same , he found himself holding a cold roach . |
24 | At the age of 17 he found himself manning an anti-aircraft gun aboard the light cruiser , HMS Scylla . |
25 | Somewhat to his own surprise , Harry found himself booking a single room , despite the exorbitant tariff , and following the prim receptionist as she led him to the door . |
26 | By a desperately ironic twist of fate he found himself confronting an away match at Swindon at the height of the press exposure about his betting . |
27 | Yet he found himself treading a familiar road when he played a junkie in Drugstore Cowboy ( 1989 ) . |
28 | So it was that Riven found himself attacking a wooden post with a wooden sword that was slippery with mud , and being lectured by the unsmiling Myrcans . |
29 | Never having been aboard a ship before , she found she had a natural liking for the sea life : she suffered no seasickness at all , and as João had sent an excellent chef to cook her meals , she dined well and developed a taste for the green wine of Portugal . |
30 | Dr Nick Walters , exercise physiologist at the University of Westminster , tested Margaret on his Futrex 5000 computer , which analyses body muscle , fat and water , and found she had a fat proportion of 28 per cent — well above her recommended level of 22 per cent . |