Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Moghul tombs , the Red Fort , the towering minarets of the Jami Masjid , made me aware for the first time of the significance of civilization , and the meaning of history . |
| 2 | I tried to become one with nature on the games-field , which made me unpopular with the enthusiastic cricketers . |
| 3 | I usually keep him in when I wash his clothes and I got them special for the cold weather so he should be all right . |
| 4 | Benn was so impressed with Ceauşescu 's Romania that he found nothing odd in the following suggestion from Bruno Pittermann , the former chairman of Kreisky 's Austrian Socialist Party : ‘ Pittermann said he would like to see parliamentary links with Romania , Poland and Yugoslavia , and to study their election process and procedure . |
| 5 | But magistrates found them guilty on a lesser charge of causing the animal to be terrified . |
| 6 | The Times , which had hitherto kept a dignified silence on such a distasteful subject , pronounced itself well-pleased with the modified outcome . |
| 7 | She 's so grown up that she shouted herself hoarse through a bloody pantomime not two hours ago . |
| 8 | Kenneth Andrew Sanderson , of Wallace Avenue , Huyton , was sentenced in January 1991 after a Southampton Crown Court jury found him guilty of the two robberies for each of which he received seven years , concurrent ; he got six months concurrent for an admitted burglary . |
| 9 | The jury found him guilty on a reduced charge of assaulting the youth by knocking him to the ground . |
| 10 | Some of us worried and went looking for him , then one of Alf Wood 's sons found him dead in the old pw hut , we think he died of a heart attack or so the doctor said . |
| 11 | Later , when I returned to the old man , I found him alone with a few boys and the American film . |
| 12 | I had no connections with the bigwigs of the movie capital so I found it impossible as a stranger to make the right contacts among publicity agents at the various studio lots , and to meet the stars . |
| 13 | The 44 has a 1/4in shank , and I found it perfect for the aggressive work I was attempting . |
| 14 | On board , though , a party of bridge players in first class found themselves short of a fourth , and Annesley filled the gap . |
| 15 | It was just by chance that I turned up at one of the early meetings of the first lesbian liberation groups in London and found myself involved in the early debates around socialist feminism , radical lesbianism , the Women 's Movement and the sixth demand which named women 's right to a self-defined sexuality . |
| 16 | In that way , so Eliot has suggested , Pound made himself responsible for a whole ‘ period ’ , the period of his lifetime , anxiously impatient that it too lift itself to a higher level . |
| 17 | Duncan unlocked the door and supervised the fuelling from a small bowser as Myeloski made himself comfortable in the rear seat . |
| 18 | The row began after father and baby were evicted from a council bed and breakfast — on the grounds Steve made himself homeless in the first place . |
| 19 | He immersed himself in parish work and made himself indispensable to the overworked parish priest . |
| 20 | Her own self-confidence made her impervious to the intended snubs . |
| 21 | On the other hand , the social development of Rome separated her from Etruria and made her similar to a Greek city ; and this is what Heraclides Ponticus recognized . |
| 22 | Perhaps it was that which made her attractive to a certain type of man . |
| 23 | They ignored me safe in the open field where the old ridge and furrow strips and the flatter headlands where the plough was turned were clearly silhouetted by the sun . |
| 24 | In November 1989 Bishop Ioan of Zhitomir proclaimed himself head of a revived Ukrainian Autocephalous Church ( abolished in 1929 ) and was summarily excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church ; the Constantinople Patriarchate also dissociated itself from the revival . |
| 25 | One young man , unable to tolerate the thought , burned himself alive in a public square . |
| 26 | Lawrence played it cagey after the goalless draw against Blackburn Rovers . |
| 27 | But that was n't the end of it ; they had made up their minds to sample every diversion that Wickhams had to offer , and went on to explore the entire store , from Haberdashery , where Mabel bought some knicker-elastic , to Hardware , where Florrie could not resist a patent vegetable slicer which was being demonstrated by a lady in a snowy white apron , who showed them how the little gadget peeled apples , chipped potatoes , sliced onions and generally made itself invaluable to the busy housewife . |
| 28 | He had picked up a group of experienced hunter-killers from the Phoenix NoGo , and turned them loose on the remaining sandrats . |
| 29 | He stated himself pleased with the general appearance and appointments of the unit . |
| 30 | His pictures vary in style : in his later days he showed himself capable of the common sort of conventionally flattering portrait , but , particularly from his earlier years in London , there exists a body of work demonstrating his great talent for lively detail and natural rather than conventional compositions . |