Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] a large " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I lived in a large house converted into flats . |
| 2 | I ducked under a large rock and stepped forward . |
| 3 | I was nurturing this comforting thought when I turned into a large assembly room with numbered doors leading from it . |
| 4 | I was driving my car along an unlit street in Bristol , England : all of a sudden the two inner wheels of the car had left the road and I travelled for quite a few yards at an angle of 45 degrees , after which I landed with a large bump . |
| 5 | It 's not as if I worked for a large network news show . |
| 6 | As a spotty student , I worked in a large hotel in Fort William for four months , and grew extremely fond of it . |
| 7 | So , instead of pricey treats packaged small and elaborately , I invested in a large sack of pellets that claimed to do nothing except provide their dietary needs . |
| 8 | Some years ago when I was on the edge of Christianity , I spoke to a large gathering about the problematic nature of the Godhead for women . |
| 9 | At Athlone I waited in a large modern station for another train to take me to Ballinasloe . |
| 10 | I sat on a large stone , shivering and looked north appealingly , shouting , ‘ Mick ! |
| 11 | Courier beat Stefan Edberg in the final , which failed by a large margin to live up to it 's billing . |
| 12 | The leading element in this upheaval was the student movement , and although students became independently active in political life all over the world — in Eastern Europe and in the Third World just as much as in the West — the principal expression of a distinctive radical doctrine and mode of political action , which became to a large extent a model for the whole international movement , was to be found in the US , in the Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS ) . |
| 13 | Clasper 's small hard core of left-wing supporters , which included a phalanx of students from Liverpool University , had formed a noisy group immediately in front of the improvised platform , which consisted of a large wooden CKD crate with the Vehicle Divisions ' name stencilled in large black letters on each surface . |
| 14 | After a demoralising season of gallery retractions and closures , more severe than even the most pessimistic expectations of a year ago , it is gratifying to report a promising new gallery which opened in a large industrial space in West Hampstead in the middle of last month . |
| 15 | Thus jurisdiction was infinitely fragmented ; and the confusion was increased by the growing influence and power of the Church courts , which dealt with a large variety of cases , from disputes about marriages to cases involving the clergy 's faith and morals . |
| 16 | The call on Sanders elicited the information that the client in question had been a Herr Fedorov , who lived in a large house just north of the village . |
| 17 | But here too there is a danger of distortion : occupants who were very poor but lived in a house with masonry foundations , surrounded by heaps of discarded food debris , and who used poor quality pottery ( fragments of which would survive ) might well appear to have had better living conditions than the richer occupants of a site who lived in a large timber-built house , using high-quality wooden and leather vessels ( which would not usually survive ) , and were able to employ servants to remove debris from the immediate vicinity of the house . |
| 18 | As a general nurse who trained in a large London teaching hospital , and qualified shortly before the demise of the General Nursing Councils and the introduction of the new statutory bodies for nursing , midwifery and health visiting , I have found listening to the reminiscences of those who have experienced a considerable career gap both salutary and frightening . |
| 19 | She came from a large family of seven children , of whom she was the eldest . |
| 20 | She came from a large family , and it must be supposed that her mother or one of her sisters helped to care for the children while she was at work . |
| 21 | When they reached the first floor , he opened one of the doors and she walked into a large bedroom with a huge bed , masses of cupboard space , a comfortable armchair , and a table and chairs set by the window . |
| 22 | Its wealth depended on the scientists who worked in a large lab behind the administrative block . |
| 23 | As she spoke , she disappeared behind a large green plant . |
| 24 | Or was it simply that she looked like a large , mobile bag of laundry ? |
| 25 | Anyway , she kidded in a large ( and I mean large ) pen with her mother , grandmother and sister with her and after kidding we moved her and her mother to a separate pen . |
| 26 | She was certainly that , But she meant on a larger scale , A cosmic scale , We were all lost ; but one day we 'd be saved . |
| 27 | Theda came to herself to find that she lay in a large four-poster bed , with the curtains drawn back , and the weak autumn sun coming in at the windows . |
| 28 | When told to settle down — and Emlyn Williams , who had to a large extent taken over the parental role from Philip Burton at this stage , did instruct him to do that — it clicked with something and he thought — well , why not ? |
| 29 | She pointed to a large hole in the ceiling . |
| 30 | She pointed towards a large , two-storey building on the other side of the green . |