Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then there have been other men in her life but tonight , the plans I laid all those years ago reach fruition as I proudly introduce my partner for the evening . |
| 2 | Between these operations I did occasional voluntary work , mainly on an archaeological site . |
| 3 | And I 've got to say this , in some cases I had additional time as a shop steward and a convenor , to spend on major problems er affecting the incentive scheme . |
| 4 | In some cases I opened that menu and selected exit . |
| 5 | For several hours I accepted this absurdity . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Within two hours I had all the information I needed to know . |
| 8 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
| 9 | And in that time I became very close to the bunch of desperadoes I 'd first flown out with . |
| 10 | Proposals I announced last month to create 12 new environmentally sensitive areas will more than treble the area covered . |
| 11 | After two pitches I suffered one of those inexplicable aberrations and instead of following the blatantly curving crack into which we had been cramming our limbs for the last 60ft I launched up an unerringly straight vertical groove above the belay . |
| 12 | I say a Supertravel ad for a ridiculously cheap week and phoned to find that the price applied not to St Anton , Val d'Isere , Verbier or any of the top resorts I considered worthy of my attention , but to a place called Argentiere which had only seven lifts . |
| 13 | A good example of this is the Lambeth Lesbian and Gay Group which was set up a few years ago and whose meetings I attended three or four times . |
| 14 | And for five minutes I quizzed this wretched bird without getting a single chirp out of it . |
| 15 | Every few minutes I found some reason to stop : to take off my sweater , to put on my robe , to change from boots to training-shoes and back again , to eat some oats , to take my temperature , to redistribute the load inside the lockers and , when I had no other excuse , simply to rest . |
| 16 | For maybe 30 , 35 minutes I tried that and then I just felt it slowing . |
| 17 | Times I heard that ! |
| 18 | Times I got that in . |
| 19 | So what with Carole 's soft voice and that we did n't get a lot of and it seemed as though it was well like that , several times I went last year and I really got a bit cheesed off . |
| 20 | From the batch of over seventy birds I ringed that day , only one other came to light . |
| 21 | comparison of subjects within groups and between groups I thought that 's |
| 22 | Most recent of course , is euthanasia it does n't draw the line at killing foxes I had this terrible vision in the early hours this morning , of Ron closing all our elderly persons ' homes , pushing all the old people out onto the street and the hunt with at its head hunting them down the countryside . |
| 23 | It was passed on to me , as your commanding officer , to take whatever steps I felt necessary . |
| 24 | This reinforced my interest in the subject , but as I soon became involved in postgraduate studies in busy medical , surgical and then paediatric units I had little time to pursue it at that stage . |
| 25 | During those months I became anxious , short-tempered and critical . |
| 26 | ‘ When I had been here about six months I became aware of certain tensions both in the diocese and amongst the Cathedral clergy , the Chapter . |
| 27 | In my first few months I made some real gaffes — sitting in the wrong part of the dining room , for instance , and using a commanding manner with staff who were n't used to it . |
| 28 | Dr Stainer died when I was fourteen-and-a half and for the next eighteen months I attended one of the LCC Day schools . |
| 29 | ‘ During 17 months I watched 180 people die of starvation and disease , ’ he added . |
| 30 | At the beginning of one of his books I discovered these words , which to me in my lowly condition were more than words : ‘ I am made unlike anyone I have ever met ; I will even venture to say that I am like no one in the whole world . ’ |