Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Preparing the ‘ patchwork pieces ’ from remnants was an ideal occupation for her continuing band of outworkers ; Laura considered it an essential part of her duty to keep feeding these women , many of whom lived such isolated lives in the hills that they might go for days without talking to anyone . |
| 2 | The specimens he studied were collected mainly by J. Bennie and A. Macconochie , the official Fossil Collectors , both of whom made many significant discoveries during their careers . |
| 3 | The three new subcommittees each met in Panmunjom , but none of them produced any significant progress . |
| 4 | Most of them found additional useful material , but found it difficult to understand " their location in relation to the original search " ( Figure 5.7 ) . |
| 5 | Among the vice presidents were S Boulton , D Howard , W Knight , C Lyle , H Marten and Dr Messel , all of whom headed large local industries . |
| 6 | I became Senior English Mistress at Shrewsbury High School ( G. P. D. S. T. ) in 1959 and Headmistress of Basingstoke High School in 1965 . |
| 7 | Although I asked various qualified people if soil altered the flavour of wine from the same grape variety and district I got no clear answer … |
| 8 | Gradually , I was made to feel unpopular and I applied these new standards to him . |
| 9 | I read five walking/climbing magazines each month , but Outdoor Action was the only one to give details . |
| 10 | I made one stupid mistake in one of my books , about a car , and I got about 25 letters . |
| 11 | I made one good decision : to wear the trainers on the plane , and carry the paperwork in my hand luggage . |
| 12 | I made one bad decision : to board the plane . |
| 13 | Yes Mr , I made that very point . |
| 14 | It improved when I made this close friend , who had some of the same ideas as me on things like sex , drugs , politics , music . |
| 15 | I made this round trip between church and house three times and settled in the end for slaking my thirst from a tap in the churchyard . |
| 16 | I made this very mistake of criticising the course during one of my medical placements , when I spent eight weeks on a busy medical unit . |
| 17 | I made some new pots and put them in a very hot fire . |
| 18 | It could not be accomplished on the run though I made some schematic doodles based on observation : the way , for example , drainage run-off channels bulldozed off the sides of the track echoed the pattern of the tree branches or veins on a leaf . |
| 19 | By midnight we were all yawning hard and so I made some strong coffee to wake us up . |
| 20 | In my first few months I made some real gaffes — sitting in the wrong part of the dining room , for instance , and using a commanding manner with staff who were n't used to it . |
| 21 | ‘ When I heard you were coming I made some discreet enquiries about you at the newspaper . |
| 22 | And I think this is behind I made some adverse comment about the Prime Minister 's comment about the burden of the old — to be fair , I think one of the problems she probably had in mind was the fact not of the immediate peak of elderly people , but the peak in the twenty/twenties where the full impact of the erm pension scheme that we 've got will hit with a considerably older population — can we afford it ? |
| 23 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 24 | I made some Tommy-sized bets and ate very well in the ( literally ) below-stairs bar , and in general walked around , race-card in hand , binoculars around neck , exactly as usual . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's time I made some formal introductions , ’ he said . |
| 26 | After some discussion we decided to hold up the cheque for a day or two instead of refusing it , while I made some informal inquiries . |
| 27 | The international managerial bourgeoisie , of which I made some conceptual criticisms above , is defined as : ‘ a socially comprehensive category , encompassing the entrepreneurial elite , managers of firms , senior state functionaries , leading politicians , members of the learned professions , and persons of similar standing in all spheres of society ’ ( Becker and Sklar , 1987 , p.7 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't think I made any expensive mistakes . |
| 29 | I made these particular spinners myself out of bits of copper . ’ |
| 30 | cos I made these stuffed tomatoes with rice in |