Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible for us to image a society of saints in which no one committed what we see as crimes , in which everyone behaved in an impeccable manner . |
| 2 | I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down . |
| 3 | I lived with an elderly lady in a little thatched cottage which looked like something out of Hansel and Gretel . |
| 4 | I qualified as an enrolled nurse in 1977 in Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | a whole bowl of clean water over his nappy so if you wonder why I got through an extra nappy cos it was n't |
| 6 | I sank into an exquisite passivity staring ahead as dazzling colours flushed and flew , metamorphosing into duck elephant cat dog house . |
| 7 | I was a late and I changed to an early and back to a late . |
| 8 | I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment , which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973 . |
| 9 | My brother and I behaved with an immune princeliness that was galling . |
| 10 | I stopped until an urgent , ‘ Go on , lass , go on , you 're doin' fine , ’ from the organist prompted the next line . |
| 11 | For a moment I thought the heat from the bung-hole might incinerate my brows , but when I squinted beneath an outstretched palm the sight stole my breath . |
| 12 | I was arrested for riding a bicycle without a rear light ; I woke as an enraged policeman took me by the throat . |
| 13 | It was as if I suffered from an optical illusion so strong that it consumed my other senses . |
| 14 | In the past , people have destroyed their documents on aeroplanes and in one case someone came with an outdated passport . |
| 15 | ‘ WHEN clearing-up a glory hole , viz the cupboard under the stairs , I came across an anonymous parcel . |
| 16 | Erm when I came on to the flats I came with an open mind and I was gon na you know take things as I as I met them . |
| 17 | The bar had a headbanging range of Fuller 's beers but I decided I 'd better be in training for the Exhilarator so I opted for an alcohol-free lager , turned my back to the bar and its temptations and scouted for Werewolf . |
| 18 | The ideal should be a circular seat but I felt it would take a considerable amount of timber with a lot of waster so I opted for an hexagonal shape . |
| 19 | At least that was what I had intended to say ; owing to a tonal error I declared to an astonished audience ‘ Excuse me . |
| 20 | I did n't begin here , with you and Dad , I began with an unknown woman called Elaine , a girl really , and a father who is n't in New Zealand after all , but who might be in the next street , the next house . |
| 21 | ( 1966 : 72 ) recognized such unobtrusive measures have found favour in field-work and I discovered at an early stage that the problem remains one of revealing the structural warts of the system while somehow indicating that this need not be seditious ; and indeed might even be of some value . |
| 22 | I thought I would go mad when you left France and I returned to an empty house . ’ |
| 23 | Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have . |
| 24 | Sixty-nine-year-old Mr Marshall , who has lived in Merrybent for 23 years , said : ‘ I want people to know how I survived as an objective lesson to other people that they can get through it . |
| 25 | ‘ I want people to know how I survived as an objective lesson to other people that they can get through it . |
| 26 | I felt like an eight-year-old showing her work in class . |
| 27 | I felt like an invited rather than a paying guest , as I shook hands with Mr and Mrs Noone . |
| 28 | Steven suggested Spenser and Shakespeare , with perhaps Scott and Hardy , and if I insisted on an up-to-date author , William Goulding . |
| 29 | I knew from an early age his music and his work as a conductor . |
| 30 | Perhaps because I knew from an early age that he was not long for this world , I tried to make his time in it as pleasant as possible , and thus ended up treating him far better than most young boys treat their younger brothers . |