Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Charlie , now a light middleweight , could n't wait to get in the ring while Tommy somehow managed to keep himself out of the firing line , although both of them became aware of Captain Trentham 's menacing presence as his swagger stick continually struck the side of his leg .
2 The fire died down and the embers became grey ashes , the forest around them became full of noises as the creatures of the night resumed possession of it , but Marian , Allen and Hugh slept on until well after dawn .
3 His financial controller Roger Richardson came up with a system of false accounting , which enabled them to borrow millions of pounds over a three year period and keep the company going .
4 ‘ They 've forced me to sit cross-legged for hours leaning against a wall with my fingertips . ’
5 Let me phrase these in terms of my criteria of necessity , sufficiency and specificity .
6 But , not everyone has thousands of pounds to spend on a studio set up and Freeman has addressed this point and also detailed the necessary design and items for the temporary home studio and has also included sections on portable studios .
7 By 1917 the British and the Russians between them occupied most of Iran .
8 After planting they quickly build up into permanent perennial clumps and nothing looks finer in summer than to see them planted in association with a garden pool or other water garden feature .
9 The main reason I became involved in birds of prey was to teach them to hunt for me — and of course for themselves — so a goshawk is a must for the near future .
10 Before I became involved in business , I really had very few goals — with the result that I did n't get very far .
11 In leaving home I became involved in student union politics , particularly round the issue of overseas students .
12 Being aware of the stress and pressure that many people and their families experience when AIDS or HIV is first diagnosed , I became involved in counselling .
13 Being aware of the stress and pressures that many people and their families experience with AIDS or HIV is first diagnoses , I became involved in counselling .
14 ‘ It was discovered I 'd had an acute infection for two or three months , ’ she says , ‘ which meant I was ill when I became pregnant in November — the worst possible time for a developing foetus .
15 I became tired with Ramon and his canvases and drinking and cursing , it all seemed so trivial .
16 When I became ill , I became obsessed with exercise at the same time .
17 I became old in instants and everything today is bland and lucid .
18 It was through her that I became interested in life .
19 Some twenty-five years later , when I became interested in hypnosis and then in regression therapy , I began to wonder whether my earlier fascination was because I had actually lived in Tudor times .
20 I became homeless in London so I got on a train and ended up here ; that 's all there is to it , really . ’
21 Then I became allergic to Durex so I went back on the Pill , a different one .
22 I became aware of eddies of cold air .
23 It was during this incident that I became aware of Husseys Hatches , as the Fire Brigade used the water from one of these , nearly opposite the Brown Street Baptist Church .
24 This poses no problem for BR 's manpower cuts : BR merely offers someone made redundant in London a job in Glasgow , and waits for him to say ‘ no ’ .
25 I made that for Christopher when he was
26 My hon. Friend will also know that as part of ’ Defence for the 90s ’ we are reviewing the scope of naval support , although as I made clear in July , there will be a continuing naval presence at Portland .
27 As I made clear in July and as the Lord Chancellor made clear , the provision of green form legal aid will be withdrawn when other services are available , but not until then .
28 And clearly something is happening , I mean millions of peasants are joining
29 As an historian I know how valuable a commodity — and I mean valuable in terms of hard cash — it ought to be in these days when the whole of life , our own present as well as the past , seems to reach us pre-packaged in the form of interviews and telly-probe .
30 America , where there appear to be more grossly obese people than in Britain ( by which I mean those around double their desirable body weight , rather than just a couple of stones overweight ) , is an excellent place to observe this eating-speed phenomenon .
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