Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People like ex-British Airways captain Derek Ellis whom I met at Kerikeri airfield . |
| 2 | Well er I I said to young er what 's his name ? |
| 3 | Now I had a companion to share everything with , someone I knew of old and with whom there were no constraints , and seven years ' news to keep the conversation flowing . |
| 4 | The revival of psychoanalytic criticism , usually in its Lacanian version , has been a disconcerting surprise to someone who came to intellectual maturity in the 1950s , when Freud seemed a figure of increasing remoteness . |
| 5 | Even so , it did strike me as peculiar that someone who lived by French literature should be so calamitously inadequate at making the basic words of the language sound as they did when her subjects , her heroes ( her paymasters , too , you could say ) first pronounced them . |
| 6 | This book is about Britain 's Defence policy in her post-imperial era , and is the sequel to my Withdrawal from Empire , published in 1986 , in which I looked through military eyes at the creation , development and eventual transformation of the Empire into the loosely-knit British Commonwealth . |
| 7 | and placed his resignation in my hands , which I accepted with great regret . |
| 8 | But I soon learnt how to bake little cakes made of corn , which I ate with warm milk . |
| 9 | An American film was showing which I recognized as Double Indemnity . |
| 10 | Two members of the W.A.A.F. posted to Station X neatly encapsulated the idiosyncratic nature of Bletchley Park and its denizens in these verses , which I found with great pleasure in Beryl Escott 's recent Women in Air Force Blue : |
| 11 | Also asked him for report which I needed for Statutory Review . |
| 12 | At the time tomato purée for the restaurant was preserved in champagne bottles which were then sterilised — a method which was demonstrated to me by the cook at a pensione in Anacapri where I stayed during the summer of 1952 , and which I described in Italian Food . |
| 13 | Mrs Di Billups was head of Broughton Junior School , South Humberside , which I visited with great pleasure and profit in the summer of 1988 . |
| 14 | The stock still has a long way to go before its regains the 780p level at which its stood in early April before a warning of a slow-down in sales . |
| 15 | Ruth too had wine which she drank in greedy little sips . |
| 16 | The goddess Hathor is thus given an uncharacteristic fierce role , but one which she fulfilled with great zeal . |
| 17 | Lesley turned smartly left as the lights changed , and wound her way by back-streets to the parking-ground on the edge of the shopping centre , a multi-storey monstrosity of raw concrete , at which she gazed with resigned distaste as she crept slowly up to the barrier and drove in to the second tier . |
| 18 | He gave her chips which she ate with great deliberation . |
| 19 | A country that gave her a cold welcome , in which the To Let signs specified ‘ No Coloureds ’ , and of which she wrote in Second-Class Citizen , ‘ If I had been Jesus I would have passed England by and not dropped a single blessing . ’ |
| 20 | They are an invaluable source for women 's health problems in this period , especially the ‘ dangerous perils ’ of childbirth , and movingly discuss the traumas of the early deaths of children , which she met with resigned submission to the will of God . |
| 21 | For a week , while the ship was stored and watered and fresh livestock taken aboard , Sara lived in a strange no-man's-land of emotion in which she alternated between boiling excitement at what lay ahead and abject dolours at the thought of leaving Ireland . |
| 22 | She had a beautiful figure which she used in subtle movements of unparalleled grace . |
| 23 | Hi Jinks had an awesome range of martial skills which she practiced on small children . |
| 24 | One of the Follies , 83-year-old Mary Maugham , presented a fundraising doll to the foundation which she dressed in Edwardian costume herself . |
| 25 | Who is to say what it was like living out on the plains for months on end , at first in a tent and then in a small house , not much more than a hut , built of saplings , mud , and cow dung , which she equipped with Somali fabrics and safari furniture ? |
| 26 | Actually , she opened with Mozart 's scena Misera , dove son which tested her somewhat at the top of the stave , but there followed arias from Manon , Don Pasquale and La Forza del Destino which she gave with commanding conviction , variety and characterisation . |
| 27 | It was my unhappy duty to break the news of her son 's death , which she bore with great fortitude . |
| 28 | She went into the darkness of that experience , found within herself a healing power which she allied with alternative therapies and is now fully cured . |
| 29 | In Mrs Parvis 's parlour there were greasy patches on the chairs which she covered with little cloths . |
| 30 | Jenny came in with some flowers from the garden which she set in small posy bowls down the centre and James took the pink lustre candlesticks from the mantelpiece and set them among the flowers . |