Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we arrived I was introduced to the medium , Helen , a quite ordinary , sandy-haired woman in her mid-thirties , and the rest of the group , Dora and Leo and Katy and Humphrey , and everyone made a great fuss of me . |
| 2 | On our first visit I was left standing by these youngsters as one of them unearthed a good bag of finds ranging from Roman through to Georgian . |
| 3 | Only a few were dressed in European suits , but each of them cultivated a wispy goatee , the mark of the Annamite man of consequence . |
| 4 | The Minster had the gruffest basso but the others were undeterred and the whole tribe of them made a tremendous clangour . |
| 5 | Foreigners always find that a difficult process — in fact only one of them made a real success of it — and Disraeli possessed what Ezra had been denied — the elasticity and toughness of a good Jew . |
| 6 | After a few half-hearted sips , one of them made a great show of looking at his watch , and put his glass down . |
| 7 | None of them made a special selection of materials suitable for the peasantry , so the few books that were dispatched were often too dry or too expensive . |
| 8 | A Radio 5 spokesperson said : ‘ The internal report made a number of suggestions for restructuring network radio and only one of them involved a major change to Radio 5 . |
| 9 | As Fael-Inis began to play , each of them drew a deep breath and surrendered , and each of them experienced the deepest contentment at hearing the silver pipes of enchantment . |
| 10 | After the election , I became a frequent visitor to Downing Street . |
| 11 | My mother got it wrong when I was six , but her mistake did serve to galvanise me in later years and I became a successful businesswoman , outwardly independent and self-sufficient . |
| 12 | I needed to earn a bit of extra money when I went on the tour and so I became a professional wrestler in my spare time . |
| 13 | I became a professional relic-seller . |
| 14 | My work was primarily with women in the manufacturing industries and I worked in Eagle International before I became a full-time organizer . |
| 15 | Before I became a full-time politician , I was assistant director of social services in a large authority . |
| 16 | I I became a great friend of hers actually , er she looked out of place on the bench . |
| 17 | I became a good golfer , a one-handicapper , at the municipal course in Southport . |
| 18 | I became a total bird addict . |
| 19 | She was still in that office when , in January 1954 , I became a secondary-school teacher . |
| 20 | ‘ When Boon began , I felt guilty about earning a lot of money so I became a soft touch for begging letters and charity appeals , ’ he said . |
| 21 | I became a high-ranking officer under the chief archangel , Vauban . ’ |
| 22 | Erm in the nineteen fifties and right up until I became a full time official , erm there was generated an opinion that if companies were financially well off , due to the effort of the employees , then there was some formal entitlement for employees in these particular undertakings , to put forward a separate claim at domestic level , to , to enhance their pay . |
| 23 | I think that er one of the things that we had to examine at national level er and this was done erm after I became a full time officer , erm there 'd usually be a procedure in the national agreement er whereby first of all if we registered failure to agree at domestic level , erm with the management , the next stage was to draw in the district secretary . |
| 24 | They when I when I became a full time employer er a full time employee with the union it was all more or less small bakeries . |
| 25 | Then that I got that book back when I became a full time official it was still in the still in the office . |
| 26 | With these words ringing in my ear I became a little girl again — hurt , angry and rejected . |
| 27 | As I developed I became a big bloke and that stood me in good stead . |
| 28 | When I became a permanent presenter in Bristol , the main newsreader was Ken Rees , more recently to establish himself as a top foreign correspondent for ITN . |
| 29 | My offending started when I became a habitual glue sniffer at the age of 12 and I began stealing to finance it . ’ |
| 30 | This was one reason why I became a postnatal supporter for a year and why I trained as a breastfeeding counsellor . |