Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | M. I gave you that book to read because I thought you would feel identified with him . |
| 2 | So a lawyer came , and of course I had my own office , confidential stuff , so he wanted to give it to me . |
| 3 | The day I went up to university I left you all , country gentry all … country where my father was stifling . |
| 4 | I made a lot of mistakes as any young person does , but I never made the mistake of thinking I knew it all as far as the Africans were concerned . " |
| 5 | Cale became famous for violent demonstrations on stage ; there were plenty of screams , stage props , a green surgeon 's outfit , the odd tooth-spitting , the beheaded ( but long dead ) chicken episode which lost him half his band , the time he wore the Cambridge Rapist 's mask … |
| 6 | In New York Phoebus Levene ( 1869–1940 ) produced a definite theory of their structure , based on units which contained one each of the four bases adenine and guanine ( purines ) and cytidine and uridine ( pyrimidines ) . |
| 7 | The painters of the Brücke , who spiritually and intellectually were some of Gauguin 's truest heirs , saw primitive art as a healthy outcry against rationalism which paralleled their own ‘ Nietzschean affirmation of life ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ I keep telling my daughter that it was probably the cost of her wedding which brought it all on . ’ |
| 9 | But BodyShop 's appearance is more a reflection of accounting curiosities which gave it such a huge return on capital last year : likewise fire extinguisher company Nu-Swift , whose remarkable figures last year put it at the top of the ROC table . |
| 10 | In addition , my Grandfather , for twenty-odd years prior to his death , at the age of seventy two in 1907 , suffered from a chest condition which incapacitated him each winter . |
| 11 | The scheme was officially launched by Earl Spencer who said his own car had twice been broken into in Northampton . |
| 12 | Hear about the Wally who burned his own ear off ? |
| 13 | The meeting , convened at the initiative of US President Bush following his appeal in May for an end to nuclear proliferation in the Middle East [ see p. 38217 ] , was reported to have received strong backing from French President Mitterrand who launched his own arms control programme in June [ see p. 38314 ] . |
| 14 | While she changed , she could hear the others laughing and singing and when she emerged from the changing-room she found them all in the foyer waiting for her to emerge . |
| 15 | ‘ The agent who arranged it all , ’ he continued , ‘ was he perhaps a lawyer , name of Jaggers ? ’ |
| 16 | You 'll find enclosed the original photograph you brought me some time ago — the one I took the enlargement from . |
| 17 | Leslie Goldberg , a consultant spoke of civil servants in the US Defense Department who took their own personal computers into the office ‘ because it was easier to use them than the department 's system . ’ |
| 18 | We are to drink beer , eat cheese , get herded around in coaches , grab every photo-opportunity with ‘ the two lads who made it all possible ’ and officially launch the new Carter long-player ( EC-standard length ) ‘ 1992 — The Love Album ’ . |
| 19 | Gorman was singled out as the culprit who started it all and was promptly dispatched to the changing rooms . |
| 20 | Little wonder then that during the build-up to her wedding she invited her former teacher Wendy Mitchell and pianist Lily Snipp to Buckingham Palace so that she could have dancing lessons . |
| 21 | Please pass on our thanks to all the Mums , Dads and kids who gave us such a great present for our involvement with the creche over the past couple of years . |
| 22 | They seemed to be doing fine , but just to be on the safe side we gave them another four days to adapt . |
| 23 | In effect we defined our own ‘ real work ’ and those activities we felt should have credence were given priority , so the role we pursued simply evolved . |
| 24 | Over five centuries they developed their own art and architecture , which were derived from Greek and oriental sources , but adapted to their needs in Italy . |
| 25 | And yet that high broad forehead was his , the little tilted nose was his , his the pointed — although in her case , flat — ears , and in her huge eyes he saw his own little ones . |
| 26 | This courage was to later re-emerge when , as an adviser , he fought to bring about educational change and improved resources , or , when against opposition he backed his own judgement at an appointment interview , or the courage to back a teacher in difficulty from whom others had withdrawn support . |
| 27 | In later years , when he was in the position of having to counsel others he found that these doubts were quite common , and in answering their doubts he answered his own as well ! |
| 28 | In that country they first appeared in the mid-thirteenth century , groups of men who , under the leadership of enterprising leaders , contracted ( hence the name condottiere which they were given ) with individual city states which lacked their own armies but had the funds necessary to pay them , to guard their territory and maintain a measure of order . |
| 29 | The only specific suggestion of their pro-Nazi sympathies was in the presence of a large radiogram which filled their own rooms , and — more irritatingly — those of their neighbours , with the music of Wagner . |
| 30 | But in spite of her enthusiasm , she never tumbled to the silent response which greeted her each time she told the story . |