Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [conj] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As things turned out , it was probably just as well that I was brought gently back to earth by Beryl , who from one of the Trust 's head offices masterminds the working holidays with military precision , advised me that the only available option was a 21-plus Acorn Project at Clumber park in Nottinghamshire . |
| 2 | I had arranged to meet them at Salima 's house , but when I got there she told me that the other two were at Ruksana 's place . |
| 3 | The other women in the cast were students , and Poole told me that the other four soldiers were part-time dancers ‘ who came in the evenings from their offices ’ . |
| 4 | Directory Enquiries told me that the British Humanist Association lived in Prince of Wales Terrace , in Kensington . |
| 5 | ‘ They also informed me that the new Social Fund computer system , to be introduced in 1993 , would automatically perform these transfers . ’ |
| 6 | I recently asked her whether the French civil service differed from their British counterparts . |
| 7 | Britain and the Soviet Union would want bases in Japan if the United States possessed them and the only wise policy was to ensure that no power had bases on Japanese soil |
| 8 | In 1927 he made a triumphant visit there , and convinced himself that the large-scale dramatic compositions he favoured would suit the Soviet vision . |
| 9 | The only of the government is that they waived it and the only other way is the A A who just see the pound notes coming in . |
| 10 | Although it struck him as being perfectly right and natural to tear a seven-year-old boy away from his parents and send him ‘ home ’ to be educated , it also struck him that the English public school system was iniquitous , a hotbed of beatings and buggery . |
| 11 | She nudged him as the sleek dark head of a seal bobbed up scant yards from where they were . |