Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later still , living in Canada , travelling in the United States and working with Americans , I came to understand that not everyone lived history in the same way ; that for many Americans , history was only a bunch of dead stories . |
| 2 | It is true , however , that for US employers direct control of the workplace was crucial , and many of them fought unionism with every weapon at their command . |
| 3 | My mum gave me got loads of them as well , I 'll eat the ones my mum gave me . |
| 4 | This work was financed by the laity — both patrons of livings and parishioners , large numbers of whom made contributions during their lifetimes and left bequests in their wills for the refurbishing of their local churches . |
| 5 | Nothing made sense to her . |
| 6 | ‘ Everyone made money on the immigrant worker — from the big-time capitalist to the slum landlord — from exploiting his colour , his customs , his culture . |
| 7 | As the Saturday evening went on and everyone made use of the food and drinks on site , the Leisure Promotions team set about arranging the well-known Night Event . |
| 8 | Y'know , with only these two lads coming round the house and then both of them got bust in one of the lads ’ house and they blew me up as the one who was supplying them . |
| 9 | Most of them led lives of exemplary moral rectitude . |
| 10 | They had two sons , both of whom became directors of the firm . |
| 11 | That there is no popular opposition is testimony not only to how successful they have been , but also to the fact that there appears to be simply no desirable alternative : the British just do not like their politicians enough to want them made head of state . |
| 12 | In our feasibility study , we found that these two types were both represented in the samples of social work offered to us as examples of secondary prevention , and a distinction between them made sense to the practitioners . |
| 13 | About 300 of them found work at either Stephenson 's or the North Road Works . |
| 14 | Both of them regarded Baldwin as an acceptable and agreeable assistant , but not as a great deal more . |
| 15 | The two best fish of the week from the Drowes fell to Denis Brennan of Cookstown and Billy Ray of Belfast , both of whom caught salmon of 12 lbs on shrimp . |
| 16 | The lands to the north and east of a line joining these two houses had in the ninth century been conquered and to some degree settled by pagan Scandinavians , who had destroyed the existing monasteries and several of the bishoprics , and such evidence as there is suggests that the Christianity practised within them retained aspects upon which the stricter kind of churchman would have frowned . |
| 17 | There were various suggestive pieces of evidence , for example from the volume relations of gases — two volumes of hydrogen combine with one of oxygen , which suggests H 2 O — but all of them posed difficulties of a theoretical kind . |
| 18 | Furthermore , the notion that it is only the left hemisphere that operates in a serial manner is not supported by the results of Gross ( 1972 ) , Niederbuhl and Springer ( 1979 ) and Polich ( 1980 ) all of whom found evidence of serial processing in both visual fields . |
| 19 | Behind them rose plumes of steam lit from below by the crackling death of his amps . |
| 20 | Unfortunately living in Ireland I do n't see much of the team but I was lucky enough to be in Southampton a few weeks ago to see them beat Southampton about the head a little . |
| 21 | I only discovered that late as well when I became friends with John at college . |
| 22 | I became friends with Juliet , , because she understood me , + I could talk to her about my opinions quite openly : she is very understanding in that way . |
| 23 | I 'm not really sure how I became friends with the boy , but he also has quite a good personality , + I can have a good laugh with him . |
| 24 | I find it odd that the position has so changed compared with 15 months ago when I became Secretary of State , when some Conservative Members were alleging that standards had declined and Opposition Members were denying those allegations . |
| 25 | If I became part of his fantasy landscape a certain amount of security , great pleasure even , was possible , at the cost of feeling split and unknowable afterwards and unsure whether I as I felt I really was had experienced anything . |
| 26 | Not that the state of my underwear was of crucial importance the day I became part of Britain 's road accident statistics . |
| 27 | I worked as a researcher for him for so long I became part of the furniture , I really did . |
| 28 | Having got across the footlights I became part of the O. U. D. S. , and was invited to their club in George Street just opposite the theatre — the New Theatre as it then was — now the Apollo . |
| 29 | But when I became spokesman in opposition myself and he was the Foreign Secretary and we were sparring partners again , I made a nice remark about him and he said it was like being nuzzled by an old ram . |
| 30 | I became expert at daytime TV quiz shows — there was not much else to do . |