Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Eight of them lived their last years in their children 's homes . |
2 | Under expert instruction , dad ( of course ) would administer the fatal blow , and mum would ensure everyone got their favourite cuts by overseeing the butchery . |
3 | The US Seniors ' Tour may outstrip the USPGA Tour in terms of waistlines and average age , but no-one expected its leading money winner to also claim higher earnings . |
4 | Most of them retained their medieval walls and intricate street patterns and they often served as ecclesiastical or secular centres of administration , but their major role was to act as retail , handicraft and distribution points for wide hinterlands . |
5 | I asked my own doctor when he came early this morning , but he would n't tell me . ’ |
6 | I asked my own surgeon how many of these prostate operations he did in a year , and he said around four hundred . |
7 | Both sports were clearly popular and well-established traditions ; but when I asked my Indian friends about their survival in modern Delhi , they all shook their heads . |
8 | I asked my old friend , Ricci Burns . |
9 | I asked my vital question : ‘ Will it run on XT ? ’ |
10 | I hugged my bursting shins , thinking , Ow , my fucking shins are bursting ! |
11 | Back at Stuart Street I cemented my new-found friendship with Doogie and Miranda by presenting them with the leg of lamb . |
12 | ‘ At Bulawayo we had 45,000 crowds for club games and I made my international debut at 14 , so I was n't that ‘ wowed ’ to arrive in England . ’ |
13 | I was 19 and still studying at RADA when I made my first TV appearance . |
14 | Somehow , even at the age of five when I made my first visits to Colchester Zoo , I felt they stood out from other birds . |
15 | The front door was locked , and that was when I made my first acquaintance with a venerable traditional figure , the sereno , an old man with a stick , a big brass badge and a large bunch of keys . |
16 | In these labs I made my first acquaintance with physics , scattering iron filings on a paper placed over a magnet to produce a pattern which I then had to reproduce in an exercise book . |
17 | I was about fifteen ; I made my first record and I started playing in nightclubs and I had my first drink . |
18 | I brought a keyboard and an eight-track machine , and Juan and I set it up in my apartment on campus , even though we were n't supposed to play music loud.Then I made my first record , Triangle Of Love . |
19 | He goes on with self-glorifying statements like , ‘ I made my first tube amplifier in 1957 ’ . |
20 | And hence Stephanie 's shock-horror performance when I made my innocent enquiries ? ’ |
21 | I made my second journey to Cosford in 1980 , an Olympic year — though I had no aspirations in that direction . |
22 | And some silly woman crashed her tray to the floor just as I made my second entrance — disgraceful ! ’ |
23 | It was then , with my other 's encouragement , that I started having lessons , and in 1975 I made my professional début . |
24 | I made my own way out of the station . |
25 | She went into the bathroom and I made my own supper by slicing some of the foul cheese and shoving it between two slices of greased plastic bread . |
26 | I made my own mind up . |
27 | A month later , I made my third trip to Rhodesia . |
28 | It was then that I made my never-to-be-forgotten answer , ‘ Mum 's lost , down the fair . ’ |
29 | And me with my second-class honours degree , standing there with corns on my hands saying yes sir , no sir , till I made my smart answer , my quick repartee . |
30 | I made my original prediction because I believed that , whatever people said , once they got into a polling booth , lots of them simply would n't vote for Kinnock . |