Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Then they had their way and asked me the usual series of childish but charmingly eager questions about myself , about London , about England . |
| 2 | Suddenly we found ourselves the proud owners of three switchboards , two lines , thirteen phones and a miraculous fax ( ‘ Oooh , you must have to roll them up ever so small ’ ) machine . |
| 3 | The BBC again found itself the unwilling accomplice of the advertisers . |
| 4 | ‘ I promised her the best view of Florence from here , Mama , ’ he said over his shoulder as he wrestled with the catch . |
| 5 | When I found her the other side of my desk I told her in no uncertain terms I was n't having anything to do with it . |
| 6 | Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue . |
| 7 | Now ecologists found themselves the veritable gurus of our age . |
| 8 | Durkin soon made himself the principal object of attraction . |
| 9 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |
| 10 | ILL-MANNERED Tories booed , hissed and slow-handclapped Brighton 's Labour mayor as she told them the hard facts of life in Major 's Britain . |
| 11 | Later in the evening , when the sheep and cows were in , and the family was sitting round the fire , Śa kar told them the whole story of what had happened . |
| 12 | After dinner , sitting on the veranda , with his pipe well alight and with a glass of neat Old Rarity at his side , Alec Reid told me the extraordinary story of the fortune which he said belonged to Tiare . |
| 13 | Liese told me the two centres of the chi — the life force — were located an inch or two above and below the navel . |
| 14 | One day Tom came to see me and poured out a story which told me the other side of his ambitious , over-achieving self . |
| 15 | ‘ Mr Lloyd George came … and informed me that he is able to form an administration and told me the proposed names of his colleagues , ’ the King wrote in his diary . |
| 16 | I a lot , cos I remember erm when Claire was I got a really formal invitation to something and I asked Claire how you were supposed to reply and she told me the exact wording of how you should reply and I just looked at her I looked at her and I said I 'm not bloody writing that . |
| 17 | Emperor Akihito , 56 , formally proclaimed himself the 125th emperor of Japan on Nov. 12 , in a lavish 30-minute ceremony held 20 months after the death of his father , Hirohito ( in death known as Showa ) . |
| 18 | I gave McDunn the two names last night and told him the respective professions of their owners , then clammed up , just refused to say any more about them or about the body . |
| 19 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 20 | At least she would n't have far to go home if the evening turned into an unmitigated disaster , with him weeping drunken tears and slobbering all over her shoes while he told her the sad story of his life . |
| 21 | And so I told her the whole story of my lonely childhood with the Reed family , and of my terrible experience in the red room . |
| 22 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 23 | Two Serb enclaves in Croatia , the Serbian Autonomous Region of Krajina and the Autonomous Region of Slavonia , Baranja and Western Srem , proclaimed themselves the Serbian Republic of Krajina on Dec. 19 . |
| 24 | Former technical direct Dr Nigel Mykura told us the immediate cause of his February 1991 resignation was a transfer of £350,000 from AMS1s bank account to another MacDonald company , which Mykura believed would make it impossible for AMS to continue its research . |
| 25 | Because the market for meals is in competitive equilibrium we saw that the marginal cost curve for films also told us the marginal value of the meals being sacrificed to make the last film . |
| 26 | At Corbett 's bidding an old man showed them the blood-spattered piece of ground where their priest had been found . |
| 27 | He showed them the careful lay-out of the hospital planned by Miss Nightingale herself . |
| 28 | I went to Newark and got a job at , a ball bearing factory , and er they paid me the handsome wage of er two pounds sixteen for forty seven hours . |
| 29 | The lady prioress glowered at me , shrugged , and with ill grace took me back to her own chamber across the cloister garden where she poured me the smallest goblet of wine I had ever seen . |
| 30 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |