Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone agreed that investiture by lay rulers conferred no spiritual power : it did no more than put a prelate in possession of the rights , lands , and secular dignities of his new office . |
| 2 | Everyone agreed that tinnitus was worse when they were tired , particularly when they were mentally tired rather than physically tired . |
| 3 | She do n't pay me got another pack of peanuts so I have got a few that few , but you do n't need any old bag do you ? |
| 4 | His restlessness permeated the entire house , and she felt guilty , certain that her presence was tying him to Gullholm , that if it were n't for her he would go home , or visit one or other of his sisters or his mother , all of whom made regular telephone calls . |
| 5 | He dodged between the startled shoppers , none of whom made any attempt to stop him . |
| 6 | Nothing made any sense . ’ |
| 7 | What was there to be so glad about when nothing made any difference ? |
| 8 | Nearly everyone made some kind of a contribution . |
| 9 | Oh , they 'll be back , they 've none of them got that sort of money . |
| 10 | ‘ And how many of them made any effort to get along with me ? ’ she exploded . |
| 11 | They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation . |
| 12 | Economists were being involved in the process of economic decision making in a manner which had been unknown previously , and most of them found this admission to the counsels of the influential and powerful to be very congenial . |
| 13 | They needed each other , them complemented each other , they were bound together in a joint world order that defined the period 1948–1989 . |
| 14 | My father came from a peasant family in Berkshire , consisting of three sons and five daughters , all of whom entered some kind of domestic service , the women rising to responsible posts as head housemaids , housekeepers and parlourmaids . |
| 15 | Indeed , given the high claims monarchs made for themselves , and the excesses of adoration with which they were treated — and by the time of Mary Queen of Scots , this had reached a very high level indeed — we may wonder that so many of them retained any sense of balance at all . |
| 16 | I became chief executive in 1971 and I then became responsible for the implementation of the plan . |
| 17 | ‘ As I became chief executive there was a change of policy . |
| 18 | In the course of my newspaper work for the Times-Herald I became Provincial Editor , a title which brought no increase in salary . |
| 19 | ‘ In every year since I became Prime Minister , more money has been spent on the health service . |
| 20 | When I became Prime Minister this is what I promised . |
| 21 | IN AN interview with The Independent newspaper , John Major complained of ‘ the inheritance I had when I became Prime Minister . |
| 22 | Three weeks later , on the day I became Prime Minister , my first impulse was to sit down in the study which had been Harold 's and write him a letter of appreciation and grateful thanks . |
| 23 | ‘ When I became Prime Minister we were on the eve of war to free Kuwait . |
| 24 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
| 25 | Then we had to change the Unions to Newsize and er I er I became National President of the Newsize er district inspectors branch of Newsize Yes I was president till I retired . |
| 26 | I became head chef in a kitchen with two cordon bleu chefs at The Rose Revived in Oxford . |
| 27 | So I became Red Hat the clown and travelled among the street people ( in Europe ) , a little drunk , but not crazy drunk in those days . |
| 28 | I asked Grand Met how it justified the rent increases being imposed . |
| 29 | When I asked Grand Met how it could justify the high rent increases , I was told that tenants could easily afford them because tenants would now receive all the proceeds from the amusement machines instead of sharing them with the brewers , although they still have to pay a high licence fee and rent . |
| 30 | I knew the children were not usually encouraged to guess so I asked one boy directly . |