Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked professional John Burns what the hazards were at Silloth . |
| 2 | I avoided M.O.D saturday evening ( WHY have the cameras for our worst home result since about 1980 ? ? ? ? ) , and only caught the last 3 goals on the Sky roundup on sunday . |
| 3 | I got fifty Valentine cards last year . |
| 4 | At last he sent for a chaprassi and sent him with me to look for something , but on the way I found nice Mr Dickensen , an American from the University in Rangoon . |
| 5 | ‘ I told this O'Hara fellow about her mother this morning . |
| 6 | The tank looked rather one-level , with most of the activity being on the substrate so I added six Silver Hatchets and six Spotted Headstanders , Chilodus punctatus . |
| 7 | A month ago I added seven Lamprologus brichardi of 1″ in size . |
| 8 | At the same time I noticed that A. aluaudi , H . |
| 9 | I JOINED top Natal referee Philip Botha to watch South Africa 's second half thrashing by England on a giant TV screen in the school where he is headmaster . |
| 10 | I felt sure Miss Havisham had chosen us for each other . |
| 11 | ‘ I felt sure Mr Bryant would have been in touch when he heard about Jonathan . ’ |
| 12 | I remember too the suppressed terror I felt one Saturday morning when there was a daylight raid over London and a swarm of black flies appeared in the blue sky and seemed to come on and on as we looked out of our house high on Hampstead Heath . |
| 13 | One wife I knew fancied Stewart Granger , |
| 14 | He wanted to know if I knew this George Paston . |
| 15 | Yet I knew big Sunday dinners and family get-togethers were behind the closed doors . |
| 16 | On my return late in the afternoon I saw two SS soldiers outside our front door . |
| 17 | It was after the first snow and I followed the clanging ploughs up the Dale , bumping along between high white mounds till I reached old Mr Stokill 's gate . |
| 18 | If I took First B. Mus. at the College I could go to Oxford and take Second B. Mus. there , and afterwards write my Exercise — as that was financially possible for them . |
| 19 | I have a soft water community of Discus , Clown Loach and Angels , to which I introduced two Red-Claw Crabs . |
| 20 | I said Another New Brighton ? |
| 21 | I had each Wednesday afternoon off from Russell 's and he enroled me , secretly , into his school for lessons with his normal classes , He and his wife held a weekly open house and these cramming sessions prepared me for the coming Halton entrance examination . |
| 22 | It is only natural that his pace has slowed and perhaps that gazelle-like mind , which was such an influence on the young George Best , may have dulled , but if I had eleven Dave Doyles in my side then we would make the Guinness Book Of Records and cause referees and opponents utter confusion . |
| 23 | You know the situations where you 're in a I do n't know a meeting in some presentation and somebody wants you to give a vote of thanks have you ever had that , I had that Birmingham University one time . |
| 24 | I had that Thursday night . |
| 25 | The morning I woke up and realised that perhaps the reason I resented young Tulloch s much was because I too was an observer of human beings and that this most likely derived from an equal failure to establish satisfactory human relationships , was not a happy one . |
| 26 | THREE weeks ago , I suggested National Westminster Bank should hurry up in naming a successor to chief executive Tom Frost , whose credibility has been damaged by allegations relating to the Blue Arrow affair . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , the Legion chose your new name for you , so I remained Christian Michael Jennings . |
| 28 | It was fear of the Soviet military threat which led many US administrations to work for the political unification of Europe — a process in many ways inimical to their own interests — and to urge the United Kingdom to play her part . |
| 29 | The UN Security Council was reported at a closed session on Nov. 25 to have accepted the conclusions of a report by Boutros-Ghali which described existing UN policy in Somalia as untenable in view of the looting of up to 80 per cent of aid and attacks on relief workers , as well as the shelling by armed groups on Nov. 24 of a UN-chartered grain ship approaching Mogadishu harbour . |
| 30 | Journalists who reported to Gaza Barracks at 7.15am as instructed were told they would not be allowed to witness the exercise , which involved 24 Airmobile Brigade , North Yorkshire Police , fire and ambulance services , the county emergency planning department and ‘ casualties ’ from Longlands College , Middlesbrough . |