Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She and her accupuncturist partner , Richard Spindler , are now in serious debt , they say , because Lloyds lent them money without proper advice and called in the loan after overcharging them . |
| 2 | Mme Deloche became my mentor during this period , and for years after I left France , I used to send her Oxford Marmalade , Bath Olivers and Christmas puddings in exchange for the things she had taught me to make . |
| 3 | And he he got he got my hand for five seconds and then I I got I got his hand for ten something like that . |
| 4 | I expanded my exploration to still lifes with lamps or lanterns in them . |
| 5 | I expanded my exploration to still lifes with lamps or lanterns in them . |
| 6 | I was bought a large trunk and Uncle Charlie came round one Saturday morning and sign-wrote my name on both ends , with my house number . |
| 7 | And as I made my way past those bedrooms , I had seen through a doorway Miss Kenton 's figure , silhouetted against a window , turn and call softly : ‘ Mr Stevens , if you have a moment . ’ |
| 8 | I made my displeasure on that score quite clear to the ecclesiarch 's agent . |
| 9 | He came back with some coarse paper towels from the forecourt dispenser and wiped my mouth with one bit and the rest of my face with another bit . |
| 10 | I also tried my hand at professional decorating . |
| 11 | In fact , in the middle of one night they came and moved my bed to another part of the hospital without saying a word to me . |
| 12 | Her marriage had continued to slide downhill until eventually , after being evicted from the house , she divorced my stepfather for persistent cruelty , and took a job as the live-in caretaker of a seedy block of flats . |
| 13 | Because I just fixed my mortgage for four years with the Halifax , and it 's a total gamble fixing mortgages , by the way , if we , you know , because I do n't know where interest rates are going to go , but I , I fixed at seven point seven five percent for four years . |
| 14 | I reached out an arm in the darkness and found my pile of loose coins , placed , as usual , to the left of the groundsheet . |
| 15 | I then found my application for financial assistance for part-time study had been rejected ‘ because anthropology is not on the approved list of subjects ( in the Circular ) ’ ( Memo from HQ 1977 ) . |
| 16 | The authorities regarded my collection as some kind of joke ; no-one paid any serious attention to it . |
| 17 | It changed my approach to global issues , to politics , to feminism , to psychology , to psychotherapy , to personal relationships — everything was turned upside down . |
| 18 | ‘ Margaret , ’ called my mother , and ‘ Margaret ’ again , her voice taking on the faint exasperation that had flavoured her tone as she used my name for many years now . |
| 19 | Laura , who had a horror of pubs , dedicated her life to improving home comforts . |
| 20 | The Court dismissed their appeal at first instance but they appealed ( see MS Fashions Ltd and Others v Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA [ 1992 ] , The Times , 23 June ) . |
| 21 | The nationalist government of Edward Fenech Adami maintained its policy of encouraging West European investment [ see p. 37014 ] , liberalizing trade and foreign investment , removing import licences , and promoting export industries and private-sector employment . |
| 22 | The Chatichai government maintained its policy of increased support for the State of Cambodia ( SOC ) and the Vietnam governments alongside a sterner approach towards the Thai-based Cambodian resistance . |
| 23 | As late as the end of the nineteenth century in some Western European states local politics retained their dominance over central concerns , until markets , jobs , and communications like the railways became part of a national whole . |
| 24 | But as they made their way towards the camp he had spoken only to point out signs of bird and animal life that he thought might interest her ; in the mud at the riverside , he showed her the pug mark of a tiger that had drunk there the previous evening and at another point on the trail he drew her attention to torn-up grasses and leafless trees that marked the passing of a herd of elephant . |
| 25 | Rain narrowed her choice to three pieces . |
| 26 | Helen was a determined little girl who bore her illness with great courage . |
| 27 | Laughing , she fought him off till he 'd got the dress off her by brute force , and wooed her consent with practised skill . |
| 28 | In one discussion staff described their use of three word processors , two spreadsheets , one database and no less than four graphics packages . |
| 29 | The marchioness loosened her mantle of grey cloth and threw it over a chair . |
| 30 | He stroked her hair with one hand . |