Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adj] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd prefer a proper fire , of course , but we made them illegal in this part of London some years ago . ’ |
| 2 | I met them both at that Paris conference on sexuality and textuality I went to . |
| 3 | eighty pound if it 's not one thing you know it 's fortnight ago from Co-Op it 's forty one P a packet , went last week it was forty six P a packet , so Richard and Angela went the other day for nan and they got me some at same time , she leant me the money , yeah , cos I was absolutely broke , gone back down again to forty one |
| 4 | The newcomer , moreover , does not enter the village as a lone individual who has to win social recognition among the locals in order to make life tolerable-Instead , particularly during the 1950s and 1960s , the newcomers arrived in such large numbers — perhaps due to the building of a new housing estate by a local speculative builder — that the individual ‘ immigrant ’ found himself one of many others whose values , behaviour and life-styles were similarly based upon urban , middle-class patterns of sociability . |
| 5 | Rejected by the priesthood , he found himself unfitted in some way for normal life . |
| 6 | I found it unbelievable at that time that boys would genuinely want to ask me out and found me attractive . |
| 7 | Because the development officer in Ipswich was not able to see these institutionalised clients in their own homes she understandably found it hard in many cases to say whether or not she agreed with the decision that they should not return home . |
| 8 | The words were insignificant , but there was something in his tone that made her happy for some reason . |
| 9 | He also told me that for some years , two unknown people , evidently strategically placed in big City offices , have been collecting for us all the first-day covers received there . |
| 10 | It really did still hurt that he believed her capable of such evil . |
| 11 | Prison had been too good for him and although he declared himself innocent of any crime , he was most certainly guilty of fecklessness , leaving important matters of finance in the hands of his greedy younger brother . |
| 12 | I pressed them all without any results from the electric light bulbs along the ceiling . |
| 13 | Then , on the eve of the second Test in Madras , Gooch had his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn that laid him low for several days and was out of the match with diarrhoea and sickness that laid him low for several days . |
| 14 | Then , on the eve of the second Test in Madras , Gooch had his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn that laid him low for several days and was out of the match with diarrhoea and sickness that laid him low for several days . |
| 15 | Burton travelled to observe and communicate , which made him different from most explorers of the day , but he too could be touched by the inexplicable fever of travel : ‘ … some thousand miles up a river with an infinitesimal prospect of returning ! |
| 16 | But erm , it was suggested about a year or so before I left , that I might take what was called The Gardeners Scholarship to erm The Royal College for the Blind , which in those days was at erm Upper Norwood S E nineteen and erm so erm I had no objections , I did n't , I did n't see any future at all in it anyway , but erm I took this erm scholarship examination , went up to the R N C to work erm some papers and to be interviewed and erm , much to my surprise they erm offered me one of these scholarships which was worth forty pounds a year for three years in the Commercial Department of the College which was an innovation really as erm primarily a College of Music for erm blind students and erm so off I went to the R N C of sixteen and erm did my three year course and got erm some R S A certificates and erm was reasonably successful I suppose I , perhaps I was n't as diligent as I should have been . |
| 17 | I would say the thing that kept me sane during that period was the fact that I had a part time job , and erm we were able to pay for some home help . |
| 18 | ‘ The beauty and interesting nature of this little bird ’ , Gould wrote , ‘ naturally made me anxious to bring home living examples ; I accordingly captured about twenty fully fledged birds , and kept them alive for some time ; but the difficulties necessarily attendant upon travelling in a new country rendering it impracticable to afford them the attention they required , I regret to say the whole were lost . ’ |
| 19 | It kept them apart , kept them foreign to each other , him unhaveable , her unhad . |
| 20 | He saw nothing unusual at that time . ’ |
| 21 | Sub Lieutenant Saunders had instructions to bring HMS Reading into Chatham , so round the north most of the Atlantic passages he had taken her , and round the north of Scotland , down the North Sea passage , and brought her safe with all hands , into Chatham main dockyard for paying off . |
| 22 | The question kept her awake for several hours while she repeatedly reminded herself that it could only bring her heartache . |
| 23 | He was the assistant doctor for the hotel — although a lot of guests brought their own in those days . |
| 24 | He felt it necessary in any case to establish himself on campus before leaving for Cyprus , in order to avoid arousing suspicion among his university colleagues , and to connect with the Fulbright Commission , which administered its scholarship programme through offices in American embassies overseas . |
| 25 | So yesterday 's record-beating export figure only covered trade with the world outside the EC and few analysts thought it worthy of much analysis . |
| 26 | Admittedly there was only a single bed but that was fine by us ; we kept it warm for each other as we were doing shifts of two hours each . |
| 27 | It was n't that I thought myself deserving of more delight than was offered the mass of mankind ( I told myself ) but that the common lot seemed so dire . |
| 28 | No mourners followed but an unmarked car appeared in the road and made it impossible for any vehicle to tail the hearse . |
| 29 | The military crisis of the early 1740s ( see pp. 290ff ) made it impossible for this situation to continue . |
| 30 | City went ahead with a Paul McGoay try , converted by Steve Kirkup , before Mike Robson 's penalty made it 6–3 at half time . |