Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was such an unusual rise to fame , a situation that , apart from Elvis and The Beatles , there really was n't anyone else to make any reference to and say this is how they got through it all , because there had been nobody else of that size who had done it , and it 's hard to say how much of the rise to fame was attributed to DeFries . |
| 2 | Well , we got through it all , I can scarcely believe that I came through all that and thoroughly enjoyed the excitement of it , and was not in the least bit sea-sick . |
| 3 | But er , we , we got through it all , did n't we ? |
| 4 | Wentworth-Day , who lived through it all , describes the experience : |
| 5 | Erm fact that you set up the scene for the introductions and you asked for it that you , you know , took and reduced those people to an image of which was good . |
| 6 | ‘ Clyst St George did n't look very inviting , when we passed through it this afternoon . ’ |
| 7 | My grandad fought for them all his life , but the things you 're talking about , they 're only scratching the surface . ’ |
| 8 | Many thanks to the Essex teachers for the fine tea they provided for us this meeting . |
| 9 | It must have been the word " social " that created for her this image , a word judiciously expunged from later versions of the verse . |
| 10 | Giggs and Sharpe were full of running , skill and ideas and McClair rejoiced in it all , tripling his season 's output with a double , laying on a goal for Hughes and figuring in half-a-dozen close calls . |
| 11 | My failure to even get interviewed soon demonstrated to me that , even though Goldsmiths had accepted me despite my disability , I would have to fight very hard to get any further . |
| 12 | ‘ He proposed to me that afternoon , ’ put in Angelina apologetically . |
| 13 | ‘ Are you seriously telling me that you thought I proposed to you this morning ? |
| 14 | He mentioned to me several cases that were outstanding and told me that he and other contractors are stopping doing work involving a Housing Executive grant because they have to wait anything up to three months to wait for payment after the work has been done . |
| 15 | I 'd just make the simple point that a sudden twelve point five percent reduction , I referred to it this morning , er in in building , is not progressively and long term , it 's a sudden change . |
| 16 | The Madonna presided over it all , high and serene above the altar , dressed in pale-blue silk embellished with golden embroidery . |
| 17 | ‘ The means of accomplishing these points did not immediately present themselves : but early in 1765 it occurred to me that , if a communication were opened between a cylinder containing steam and another vessel which was exhausted of air and other fluids , would immediately rush into the empty vessel , and continue to do so until it had established an equilibrium : and if that vessel were kept cool by an injection , or otherwise , more steam would continue to enter until the whole was condensed ’ . |
| 18 | It just occurred to me that Tuesday would be another opportunity to talk to Julian , the guy who comes in and does the S U legal aid stuff . |
| 19 | It never occurred to me that other children were n't spoiled as a matter of course , the way I was , and it would be years — and my father would be dead — before I understood that the expense of sending me to a boarding school was just an excuse , and the simple , sentimental truth was that they knew they would have missed me . |
| 20 | occurred to me that . |
| 21 | On our last night in Vorarlberg , watching nine-month-old Elisabeth crawling round the dining room and finding a welcome at every table , it occurred to me that , right from babyhood , children instinctively know whether they 're welcome . |
| 22 | It occurred to me that , only a generation before mine , automobiles had been fuelled by gasoline . |
| 23 | It occurred to me such deceptive ‘ little angels ’ would not be above nicking the odd relic if they happened to come across it . |
| 24 | The following day , while flogging up Beinn Tulaichean , it occurred to me this is a scheme capable of considerable development , and a National Munro Exchange could be set up — computerised of course . |
| 25 | It occurred to me this was not an ideal arrangement ; I had a funny , cold feeling in the middle of dinner that perhaps we had been wrong to delay matters until this last moment , where there could be no immediate follow-up , when I must leave him the next day . |
| 26 | Something that occurred to me this week . |
| 27 | Her train of thought stopped right there , and she sat up suddenly , as a number of things occurred to her all at once . |
| 28 | It occurred to him that being on foot was probably an advantage ; a car drawing up on the gravel would be heard from the house . |
| 29 | Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action . |
| 30 | Mr Fractor shouted at him each lesson and gave him two lengths of the corridor nearly every week . |