Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | About 300 of them found work at either Stephenson 's or the North Road Works . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Not that the state of my underwear was of crucial importance the day I became part of Britain 's road accident statistics . |
| 9 | I worked as a researcher for him for so long I became part of the furniture , I really did . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I became expert at daytime TV quiz shows — there was not much else to do . |
| 13 | I first met him during the early 1950s and I became editor of what I believe was the second journal in the now enormous Pergamon Press stable . |
| 14 | When I became chairman of Hepworths , it had its own clothing plant and it either produced too much or not enough of the right quality at the right price at the right time . |
| 15 | Every year after I became chairman of British Steel we set aside one board meeting at which the objectives of the organisation were raised . |
| 16 | Years later when I became chairman of the medical missions of SPG , I realised how in mission hospitals all over the world , the same devoted healing mission was being carried on , which spoke much more eloquently of divine and human love than the preaching of less qualified friends like myself . |
| 17 | In my own case by the time I became chairman of ICI , I had not actively sold in the marketplace for nine years , although , of course , as a director of a large international company I was involved from time to time in negotiations of one sort or another . |
| 18 | When I became Chairman on the retiral of Lord Macfarlane in June 1992 , I welcomed the prospect of such a challenging and rewarding task . |
| 19 | Before we delivered our report , however , I had joined the Arts Council , of which I became chairman in May 1965 . |
| 20 | ‘ I joined 25 years ago and I became chairman in 1981 for five years , ’ he says . |
| 21 | But , you see , with all this , and , indeed , before all this , the two happiest relationships of my life were with a schoolfriend called Melanie Smith with whom I used to listen to records of Carousel and Oklahoma ! on an old , wind-up gramophone , and with the hockey-ball when I became goalie of the first eleven . |
| 22 | ‘ I fulfilled a childhood dream when I became champion in June , but Tyson is the ultimate dream . ’ |
| 23 | When I became rookie of the year in 1992 they got their money back and a bit extra , and it will be the same this season . ’ |
| 24 | It was a great pleasure to meet up with you again when I became Director of CPRW . |
| 25 | But Gould said : ‘ I knew the financial problems facing the club when I became manager in the summer and it was my idea that I should work without a contract . |
| 26 | Have you forgotten that I became President through People Power ? |
| 27 | I asked thinking of the noxious fumes . |
| 28 | I wiped sweat off my forehead with my fingers and stood quietly , holding on , trying to let the oxygen level in my blood climb back to a functioning state . |
| 29 | It is necessary I had come to that view for me , at that time it was necessary for me to contact one of the duty Chief Officers and on this occasion it was the Assistant Chief Constable Mr , so I made contact with him . |
| 30 | I made contact with Sheringham through an agent and met him at a hotel . |