Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dared not move until my eyes had made more sense of the place . |
| 2 | My parents had attended such feasts when thousands , entering in relays , gorged on raw meat , hacked in turn from the bleeding carcases of oxen carried on poles past rows of squatting men . |
| 3 | Neither of my parents seemed to have any friends , and tended to talk disparagingly of neighbours or colleagues . |
| 4 | Three years after I was born my parents decided to add another member to our family , my brother , . |
| 5 | At last I felt that my expectations had done some good to someone . |
| 6 | Q. Two months ago I noticed one of my Rams had lost all its colour . |
| 7 | Yet all my friends wanted to find another way of being . |
| 8 | I was very lucky , though , to be given a key ; some of my colleagues had to rouse both the bodies and the ire of their landlords at this unsocial hour . |
| 9 | Although their views appeared to carry little weight , they had raised a fundamental question about the relationship between tax allowances and cash allowances which remains a controversial issue . |
| 10 | In our main 1979 survey , 11 per cent of credit buyers said that their contracts had included some form of insurance against being unable to pay , while 19 per cent did not know ( Appendix I , Table 35 ) . |
| 11 | The Bank itself commissioned a study which noted that approximately a third of its projects failed to meet these rigorous criteria . |
| 12 | A few weeks before , her brothers had deposited some things in her kitchen for safe-keeping , and while they were there Barbs had called and had asked , in her friendly and inquisitive fashion , what the cardboard boxes contained . |
| 13 | Fleischmann and Pons in their lectures liked to use this example to present electrochemistry as ‘ high energy chemistry ’ . |
| 14 | Nowhere was the stolid exceptionalism of the British more evident than in the rejection of constitutional reform and in the way in which Conservatives sought to portray this reform as the road to chaos — as if the US , Australia , Germany , Spain and other developed democracies had not prospered with more representative systems . |
| 15 | The money wage increases which workers won exceeded those required to generate enough scrapping to ease labour shortage . |
| 16 | Perhaps long exposure to tennis , bad public transport , English weather and the sight of miserable middle-aged people walking their dogs had driven this particular breakaway section of a breakaway section of the Nizari Ismailis right round the bend . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , one of their licencees had requested this and , since it was a lucrative contract , Bernard had told him to go ahead and produce it . |
| 18 | Reform , the young protesters stressed , was good but should be extended into the political sphere , as their predecessors had demanded many times before . |
| 19 | Suddenly in the 1930s the demand for their goods had become much less . |
| 20 | For a second their glances leapt to meet each other , locking for a heart-stopping moment in a recognition that seemed more than merely superficial . |
| 21 | Those communities which did not receive franchises seem to have suffered a greater degree of extortion , as their lords strove to recover some of the profits they were losing elsewhere . |
| 22 | Their runesmiths had codified all the many magical runes . |
| 23 | Ideas for that structure had crystallized into two models : ( i ) a community of independent and sovereign states , as advocated by Croatia and Slovenia ; and ( ii ) a united federal state , as advocated by Serbia and Montenegro , in which republics continued to delegate some sovereign rights to a central government . |
| 24 | Perhaps the old man with the torn shoe was not some desperate down-and-out with fists full of stolen mushrooms ; maybe he was just an ordinary person whose shoes had split that lunchtime , while shopping . |
| 25 | New Democracy , the antics of whose leaders had encouraged much of the media to treat it as a joke , was led by Count Ian Wachtmeister and had been formed in late 1990 as a populist " party of discontent " , campaigning on a platform which featured an overtly anti-immigrant stance . |
| 26 | Newcastle upon Tyne had been an important medieval borough ; other places had been small market centres whose burgesses had obtained some measure of independence from their manorial lords . |
| 27 | His solutions attempted to provide more speed for developers , more participation for the public and better quality development and conservation . |
| 28 | Father Poole and his prayers had exorcised that particular fear forever . |
| 29 | His parents had neglected this aspect of his upbringing , having largely abandoned their religion but for a few outer forms before he was born . |
| 30 | His feet began to tap more and more loudly beneath the desk and his jaw quivered more and more violently as Blanche put her side of the story and pleaded for more time to finish the investigation . |