Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1951 , when I was nineteen , I became the first home-grown sex symbol in austerity Britain . |
| 2 | Moreover , ’ he smiled , ‘ I asked the young gallant who was sitting by Benedicta to take care of both ladies . |
| 3 | What I asked the right hon. Gentleman — and what he has still not answered — is , would the Government veto a treaty with the word ’ federal ’ in it ? |
| 4 | I asked the right hon. Gentleman to appeal to the Roman Catholic Church to excommunicate the terrorists — the evil gang of murderers , and their supporters and helpers . |
| 5 | I asked the right hon. and learned Gentleman whether he knew that his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition would go to Luigi 's restaurant and say what he said about phasing . |
| 6 | Over the first course I made the usual polite inquiries about Sally 's new job and asked her what she had been up to for the last half-dozen years or so . |
| 7 | In the daytimes I made the flat secure against all creatures . |
| 8 | I knew that if I made the slightest false step he would leap at me . |
| 9 | I presumed the countless minor mishaps to be part of any climber 's learning process . |
| 10 | ‘ Do you know , ’ I asked a market trader as I met the fine working people of Motherwell over the weekend , ‘ that this country 's public sector borrowing requirement expressed as a percentage of Gross National Product is running at a completely unacceptable level ? ’ |
| 11 | I met the Venerable Bimal Bhikku in the Friends ' Meeting House in Swindon , England , on a grey afternoon . |
| 12 | I made him take me on a bit farther at the risk of him thinking I lacked the right sexual tactics . |
| 13 | I got the same overpowering sense of mortality when I went to my old school reunion last week . |
| 14 | A few miles outside Ulm in the little town of Rammingen I got the last available room in the Landgasthof Adler ( Eagle ) . |
| 15 | We went down into the station shelter and I experienced the familiar claustrophobic sensation of waiting for something to happen . |
| 16 | I bounced the bonny bicephalous back to Rex . |
| 17 | Someone mentioned the Golden Olden days of Bradford & Co . |
| 18 | It 's certainly a narrow aréte , but I found the tiny loose stones of Am Bodach 's unstable path far more disquieting than this ridge , with its well-worn , solid path snaking comfortingly across to the last top between us and our goal of Sgurr a' Mhaim . |
| 19 | All I know is that when I went out this morning I found the poor little thing , run over . |
| 20 | I found the odd Victorian sixpence , some scrap and pieces of shrapnel but nothing substantial or of any age apart from these bits . |
| 21 | Sometimes I found the odd social worker somewhat racist or maybe so ignorant that he appeared racist . |
| 22 | Seeking escape routes I found the only other Customs Waterguard Station , seemingly more unpopular than Heathrow , available at that time was Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides and when I rang HQ one day to see if it was still open . |
| 23 | I found the same classificatory system in use with the same unconscious linguistic divisions being applied as I had learned in the mid-1950s . |
| 24 | I noticed that even the adults showed no ill effects at all when I moved the odd battered brother or post-spawning female to recoup in a low pH growing-on tank . |
| 25 | An anecdote told by a scientist well summarizes this element of randomness : " When I visited the European Medium Range Weather Forecasting Centre they told me , " We can predict the weather accurately provided it does n't do anything unexpected " " ( Stewart 1989 : 131 ) . |
| 26 | I VISITED the top secret Battle of the Atlantic command centre in Rumford Street and was very impressed , but I feel it would be even more interesting if they had dummy figures dressed in naval and wrens ' uniforms and placed in their respective positions . |
| 27 | With all my might I stamped at its head , but missed it by a couple of inches ; again I stamped with the same extraordinary result ; but with the third stamp I caught the poor little creature and crushed it to pulp , and yet it gave one more thrust with its tiny legs and then lay still . |
| 28 | Then I entered the great main workshop . |
| 29 | Mr Heathcliff and I entered the huge main room . |
| 30 | As I entered the cobbled main street , I became aware of a feeling of unease . |