Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , we all knew it was him with his stout legs and big arse , but everyone became involved in the pantomime . |
| 2 | There were a few first ascents , climbed mainly before everyone got bored with the weather and sloped off abroad . |
| 3 | One of them got lost in the corridors and another dropped some important equipment into the sea . |
| 4 | I became involved with the Union ( ACTTS ) when an Equal Opportunities Policy Working Party was set up by them in 1984 . |
| 5 | I became involved with the inhabitants as soon as I was old enough to overturn a leaf . |
| 6 | Living in San'a , I was initially engrossed in the visual aspects of the architecture , but as I became involved with the Yemeni families , I started to record as accurately as possible all aspects of the traditional San'a culture that was rapidly being swallowed up by Western influence . |
| 7 | I have always loved dogs and I became involved with the association when I met a lady who was also involved in puppy training . |
| 8 | Brathay Women 's Institute decided to work on Spinning Galleries , and as I am a spinner and weaver and at that time was a member of the Institute , I became involved in the search for galleries . |
| 9 | The more I became involved in the executive work of CBC the less I liked it , but the more I worked with Ira Dilworth the more I liked him . |
| 10 | I became friendly with the woman in charge , a vast and haughty person who answered to the sobriquet Duchesse . |
| 11 | Bear in mind I became cynical after the introduction of Unified Threads in 1948 . |
| 12 | I became obsessed with the whole idea and spent an enormous amount of time researching it . |
| 13 | By half-term I weighed seven stone nine pounds , and I suspect it was only then that I became weight-conscious in the literal sense . |
| 14 | Through this experience I became interested in the mechanisms of contemporary of Mori 's ‘ composite card ’ . |
| 15 | I spent a great deal of time with housemasters ( see Chapter 22 ) and hence I became interested in the kinds of problems they encountered and began to follow-up the children I saw regularly in their offices . |
| 16 | Because I became aware of the problems when I first came into gliding , I wrote a booklet on the subject , called Sub-Gravity Sensations and Gliding Accidents ( available from the BGA in the UK and SSA in the USA ) . |
| 17 | As I fiddled frantically with buttons that would n't depress and a monopod that would n't telescope downwards so I could actually see what professional fingers find in the dark , I became aware of the incredulous stare of a Japanese with an even bigger lens than mine . |
| 18 | Almost as soon as I became aware of the existence of crofting , I became aware of some of the pressure that were making change inevitable . |
| 19 | It was just around this stage that I became aware of the first footman beside me , who whispered : ‘ Miss Kenton would like a word with you , sir . |
| 20 | It was night when I became aware of the dogs whining somewhere and called them . |
| 21 | At the same time I became aware of the fact that this opera was on the stocks . |
| 22 | Well I became aware of the University of Sussex when the Gardener Centre first opened I think , because at that time I was working at the Arts Council of Great Britain and it was erm an innovative scheme which attracted a great deal of national interest , and we were naturally invited down to have a look at it , both the design and the programme that was being planned for the opening season at that time . |
| 23 | Then I became suspicious of the injection . ’ |
| 24 | Then I became suspicious of the injection . ’ |
| 25 | The Headmaster had even let Mr Crangle buy a safety net so the expedition could continue if someone became stuck in the shelves . |
| 26 | Some of the commercially available plastic sunflower-seed feeders look as if they have been designed by someone made redundant from the spaceship industry , but they do keep the seed dry and let you see when to refill . |
| 27 | ‘ All right , your claim that I was superfluous is probably valid , so why was n't I made redundant in the usual way ? |
| 28 | As I made clear to the House when I answered the main question , the know-how fund has been heavily used in the Baltic republics , on which about £900,000 has been spent . |
| 29 | As I made clear to the House on 2 July , the numbers of people seeking asylum pose major problems both in Britain and throughout the world . |
| 30 | I made clear to the Committee considering the Bill , when we considered a similar amendment , that I do not consider that enlarging the size of boards would ensure that they are more effective . |