Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aleksei Ermolov , the Russian commander in the Caucasus whom Paskevich replaced in 1827 , had been pursuing a conciliatory or " regionalist " policy for more than a decade . |
| 2 | Some of the most distinguished English binders in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were Samuel Mearne ( working c. 1660–83 ) , in whose shop much work was done for Charles II ; several unidentified craftsmen working for the two Queens — Catherine of Braganza and Mary of Modena — ( known as Queens ' Binder A , B , and C ) and William Nott ( who may have been Binder A ) , of whom Pepys wrote in 1669 : |
| 3 | She watched the great elms but saw no movement ; they were quiet , now , though around them birds rose in short flight , then settled again . |
| 4 | It was a fine effort , particularly as it was achieved in the company of Arnold Palmer , still a great favourite here , whom Wolstenholme outscored by three strokes . |
| 5 | My contract ran until two weeks before my son Adam s Barmitzvah and we planned to spend Christmas in Massachusetts then drive down to New Haven to begin re-rehearsing for our American opening at the Long Wharf Theatre . |
| 6 | As a result of the Priority Japan campaign , which my Department launched with British industry , British exports to Japan have risen by no less than 80 per cent . |
| 7 | My mind blanked on alternate minutes , my heartbangs sounded like the 4.30 at Epsom , and my mouth felt like cat-litter . |
| 8 | Irina talked , Bill dozed , my mind went on automatic pilot . |
| 9 | On the hustings in my first election campaign in February 1974 , the casualty list among officers of my association consisted of one broken nose , two black eyes and the lady chairman drenched by a bucket of water , which the candidate had ducked . |
| 10 | My informants stood in great awe of the Sultan , known as the Amoita , who ruled Aussa , and insisted that he hated all Europeans . |
| 11 | To put it simply : I can never have just one thought about the spectacles , and if it could be truly said that I was only able to entertain , say , two or ten thoughts about them — if my thinking consisted of discrete , countable thoughts — then they would not be thoughts at all . |
| 12 | Whenever I seemed to advance towards him , my steps deviated in some way . |
| 13 | All my research pointed in one direction : psoriatic arthropophy . |
| 14 | Blimey , 'is eyes bulged at that , 'e looked blue murder at me . |
| 15 | My parents lived in constant awareness of the big house and its occupants , and we children were imbued with the problem of what the squire and his household would think of any action or behaviour . |
| 16 | let me read those verses again , he says my flock wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill , and my flock was scattered over all the surface of the earth , there was no one to search or seek for them . |
| 17 | My er , circumstances are entirely different , I am the person who 's being cared for and my husband died in nineteen eighty seven , and my son in nineteen eighty eight and I was left with my young son , and he looked after me on his own , and then my daughter who li , I was living in Ireland , my daughter lived in England , and she decided it was n't good enough that it should all be left to him , so we had a long talk and we discussed it at length for two weeks at Christmas , and then they all moved Sou , over here , we got a house in Scotland , and I 'm looked after by my young son and my daughter , and since then a year ago my daughter got married , her husband moved in and he looks after me as well , so I 'm looked after by three young adults . |
| 18 | Until I re and , well until my husband retired at sixty and I thought well if he 's going to retire at sixty , I might as well retire , you see . |
| 19 | My imagination faltered at this point ; but I lingered over it , returning over and over again to the discovery of my heroine 's and my own female body , and the male contemplation of it . |
| 20 | My day began at seven with unwanted glimpses of Trish and Brian 's intimacies , followed by slurped tea and munched toast in the communal kitchen . |
| 21 | My head rang with that particular vibration of accidental pain , a tintinnabulating effect that always feels as if it should have preceded its cause — by way of a warning . |
| 22 | My cleverness consisted of verbal fluency and , more importantly , the concomitant skill of literacy . |
| 23 | The Minister will be pleased to know that unemployment in my constituency fell by 41 last month . |
| 24 | Suppose my friend turned to other people for help , gathered all the crucial data about myself , consulted everyone who knew me , all my friends and acquaintances . |
| 25 | One of the things that 's left over from school is an absolute terror of hearing my name pronounced in public . |
| 26 | Thanks to Karen 's attack I had n't been able to pee , and when my organ switched from reproductive to urinary mode I realized that my bladder was bursting . |
| 27 | Next morning my phone rang at nine forty-five . |
| 28 | ‘ One of my staff spoke to that guy McIllvanney . |
| 29 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 30 | As it happened , my father had around this time come to the end of his distinguished service at Loughborough House with the death of his employer , Mr John Silvers , and had been at something of a loss for work and accommodation . |