Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone agreed that investiture by lay rulers conferred no spiritual power : it did no more than put a prelate in possession of the rights , lands , and secular dignities of his new office . |
| 2 | I do n't quite know what the idea of the visit was , but the French Canadians had a similar one — anyway , everyone sold gold bricks to one another like mad . |
| 3 | ‘ No-one made any block-bookings at all , ’ she said . |
| 4 | She do n't pay me got another pack of peanuts so I have got a few that few , but you do n't need any old bag do you ? |
| 5 | Everyone got free passes over there . |
| 6 | Nearly everyone made some kind of a contribution . |
| 7 | Oh , they 'll be back , they 've none of them got that sort of money . |
| 8 | Had any of them made any approaches to her ? |
| 9 | None of them made any concessions to the local Muslim culture . |
| 10 | Lots of them tried several times before succeeding . |
| 11 | The operation to free them involved four teams of three men from mines rescue centres at Selby and Doncaster working in 10-minute shifts to claw away debris from a bottom corner of the fall . |
| 12 | Economists were being involved in the process of economic decision making in a manner which had been unknown previously , and most of them found this admission to the counsels of the influential and powerful to be very congenial . |
| 13 | My father came from a peasant family in Berkshire , consisting of three sons and five daughters , all of whom entered some kind of domestic service , the women rising to responsible posts as head housemaids , housekeepers and parlourmaids . |
| 14 | Indeed , given the high claims monarchs made for themselves , and the excesses of adoration with which they were treated — and by the time of Mary Queen of Scots , this had reached a very high level indeed — we may wonder that so many of them retained any sense of balance at all . |
| 15 | Two of them bore long fruits like courgettes , though pink in colour and set with needles like a cactus . |
| 16 | I became chief executive in 1971 and I then became responsible for the implementation of the plan . |
| 17 | Then we had to change the Unions to Newsize and er I er I became National President of the Newsize er district inspectors branch of Newsize Yes I was president till I retired . |
| 18 | I became head chef in a kitchen with two cordon bleu chefs at The Rose Revived in Oxford . |
| 19 | I asked one member of a church planting team to look back on the experience . |
| 20 | More or less what I asked personal point of view that er one is afraid that Europe , as it is , is rather limited . |
| 21 | SO I asked some friends of mine who were in the antique business from , Indiana , pick it up . |
| 22 | To get a more general view of how the Health Service departments treat their Asian women patients , I asked social workers in different parts of London what their experiences had been in dealing with hospitals , Health Visitors and Area Health Authorities . |
| 23 | It turned out , when I asked another student about her , that she spent most of her time organizing the Drama Society and almost never came into the department . |
| 24 | Now say for instance that because of the minimum solvency er agreement the employers have got to pay whatever their loss is , and if and I asked this question of the T U C that if there was a situation of where the employees were in the majority and forget the pension regulator , because there was a regulator anyway , so you can add whatever name that y you liked to have , but the fraud still went on , but say the employees were in the majority as far as the trustees is concerned and they were in full control and the control was taken away from the employers and there was a a federation of the hundred and twenty eight thousand with a central fund paying off heavy loss of any minimum solvencies , then surely that would be the ideal situation in order to safeguard , because when I asked Goodey himself when he submitted his report , he said they could not give any categ categorical assurance that nobody could defraud in any scheme under the proposals he 's made . |
| 25 | I I know the question about rent was mentioned but , I 'm just talking generally now , I asked this question to another housing association how do you justify rents of sixty pounds and above for accommodation and social housing ? |
| 26 | I asked several people besides Demetriades , who had been at the school only a year , whether Leverrier , Mitford 's predecessor , or Mitford himself had ever spoken about meeting Conchis . |
| 27 | The best way to understand how people , from all walks of life , can be helped is to hear from them personally , so I asked several people from my classes in Devon to write a short summary about how the Alexander Technique had helped them . |
| 28 | On my first visit to the village I was unable to find any of its vines and when I asked several people from the larger Champagne houses , few had even heard of its vineyards , let alone of their elevated status . |
| 29 | In order to gain some idea of the adequacy of the diet , I asked several people from poor families outside how much rice they ate and whether they would find the prison food acceptable . |
| 30 | When I asked Special Branch for extra men for surveillance work , I was told there were no extra men available . |