Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If that was the case I found great difficulty in seeing how he could get permission from my local authority to license me , ’ he said . |
| 2 | It was my responsibility I brought that child into the world , and there was no way I was going to thrust her off onto other people . |
| 3 | And I 've got to say this , in some cases I had additional time as a shop steward and a convenor , to spend on major problems er affecting the incentive scheme . |
| 4 | In some cases I opened that menu and selected exit . |
| 5 | They asked me to help dress the models who wandered around showing clothes to the ladies having afternoon tea in the restaurant , and after a bit I did some modelling myself . |
| 6 | For several hours I accepted this absurdity . |
| 7 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
| 8 | Of course I had this spell er er do n't forget I was five years as a prisoner of war , and a lot of interest because I was a union member pra b previous to that you see ? |
| 9 | Proposals I announced last month to create 12 new environmentally sensitive areas will more than treble the area covered . |
| 10 | By a coincidence I met this man on the summit of Sergeant Man in the Lake District two months later . |
| 11 | During the late afternoon I received another call summoning a further Cabinet meeting at 7.30 p.m . |
| 12 | Every few minutes I found some reason to stop : to take off my sweater , to put on my robe , to change from boots to training-shoes and back again , to eat some oats , to take my temperature , to redistribute the load inside the lockers and , when I had no other excuse , simply to rest . |
| 13 | Like a twat I decided that attack was the best way of preserving my job , and so I demanded that the board give me complete control over team selection , tactics , welfare etc. , with no boardroom interference whatsoever . |
| 14 | ‘ When I got back to my apartment I ate some ham and beans , and opened a bottle of rather rust-coloured claret . |
| 15 | So what with Carole 's soft voice and that we did n't get a lot of and it seemed as though it was well like that , several times I went last year and I really got a bit cheesed off . |
| 16 | From the batch of over seventy birds I ringed that day , only one other came to light . |
| 17 | ‘ Didya read the script I brought last week ? ’ |
| 18 | In my rather disgruntled frame of mind I rebelled that night against the long way round . |
| 19 | Earlier in this chapter I gave some idea of the linguistic complexities of the Caribbean . |
| 20 | This reinforced my interest in the subject , but as I soon became involved in postgraduate studies in busy medical , surgical and then paediatric units I had little time to pursue it at that stage . |
| 21 | Friday I spent some time here , half a day . |
| 22 | In one of my books I gave more information than was needed to solve a particular problem . |
| 23 | Erm I was very , very interested in an interview I heard last weekend I think it was with Pete , when he made the comment that he was n't interested in back to basics because that was looking backwards a lot of people in the past lived pretty miserable lives . |
| 24 | So after I finished Sleeping With The Enemy I walked Pennine Way to release all the pent-up aggression and that helped , ’ he says . |
| 25 | You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think . |
| 26 | By the end of the summer term I weighed six stone one pound . |
| 27 | At the beginning of the O-level summer term I weighed eight stone three pounds and , if I was pleased at having lost two pounds , I certainly did n't say so . |
| 28 | . But on a Saturday I had another paper round , from the same people , which involved travelling from to the Sanatorium on Road which is probably two and a half mile , with a cycle , advertising Smiths with the carriers on . |
| 29 | Those were the last human voices I heard all day . |
| 30 | Mummy I wanted another Kit Kat . |