Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lost any faith I had in Taylor the day he named the side for the game vs Norway . |
| 2 | One of the reasons I forgot about Ohio was that I wanted to forget that unhappy period of my life . |
| 3 | The M and M I did n't like This trick I obtained from Paul Daniels , and my sister the Amazing Avril uses it in her children 's shows . |
| 4 | My arm was beginning to hurt pretty badly , so I decided to pull my chute straight away in case I fainted from loss of blood . |
| 5 | Over the volcanic centre of North Island I gazed in wonder on the mighty peaks and craters , remembering some of the Maori tales of love and feuds and jealousy that surround these mountains . |
| 6 | A. M. I went into Lime Street one night at ten o'clock and found a crowd of lads on the corner of Skelhorne Street coming out of the pub . |
| 7 | In a few cases I realised with surprise my growing frustration was due to my inability to interject my own comments into the workshop ( which has been filmed several years previously ) . |
| 8 | In both cases I worked on oil on panel which I later fixed to the walls . |
| 9 | Indeed , both the lecturers I spoke to felt that some of their colleagues were less tolerant of dissent than they were ; we shall see later that some of the students felt this too . |
| 10 | For more than two hours I stood at bay while a nonstop torrent of crockery poured down on me ; thousands and thousands of plates , every one bearing a smear of cottage pie , a blob of cold gravy , a few adhering chips . |
| 11 | A COUPLE of weeks ago in the busy London evening rush hour I came across Britain 's hardest-working Royal travelling to another demanding job . |
| 12 | In that hour I heard about life on a London newspaper , the great novel that was one day going to be written , the shock to the Francis family when the General 's eldest son refused to go into the Army . |
| 13 | The ox heart I bought at Corrigans weighed 2lbs 13oz and cost £2.42p . |
| 14 | This absence of news made me all the more careful , and an hour after leaving camp I arrived without mishap at an open glade near the top of the hill , within a hundred yards of the forest road . |
| 15 | Commonly called yellow fumitory , it comes up like mustard and cress at the foot of every shady wall in the garden and I used to wrench it out with the ruthlessness I used on sycamore seedlings until I discovered it on sale in a nursery for well over £1 a plant . |
| 16 | Many of the most important and prominent proteins of the synaptic membrane are of the class known as glycoproteins , which , if the description I gave in Chapter 3 now seems a long way back , can best be summed up as molecules made in two parts ; an amino acid chain embedded in the membrane , to which is attached a further chain made of sugar molecules such as glucose , fucose and galactose , sticking out from the membrane into the extracellular space beyond . |
| 17 | And of course I listened to Elmore James , and all the Delta players — Tampa Red , Robert Pete Williams and Mississippi John Hurt . |
| 18 | Of course I got into difficulties , and was rescued by a kindly and condescending undergraduate . |
| 19 | At the end of the EFL training course I did in London , a British Council type gave us all a pep talk before we were packed off to Ankara or Kuala Lumpur . |
| 20 | He 'd got away with it as a result of a little snooping I did on behalf of the concerned insurance company . |
| 21 | After more than forty years , strangers now dwelt in the houses I knew at Wood Green . |
| 22 | After a reasonable second class in Part I of the mathematics Tripos I transferred to theology : my tutor , Fred Marsh , gave me a deep love and critical understanding of the Old Testament , but was realistic about my chances in the theological Tripos . |
| 23 | At the previous election I stood for election to a United Kingdom Parliament , as did the hon. Gentleman . |
| 24 | That afternoon I left for Abu Dhabi with the promise that I would indeed see them in Al Ain in a week 's time . |
| 25 | ‘ I mean that we go back a long way , and yes , there 's a very special relationship between us , but that 's because … ’ another pause , and he raked his fingers through his hair in a helpless , frustrated gesture ‘ … it was her sister I fell in love with all those years ago . ’ |
| 26 | In the summers I rode for hours on a white pedal car with a hooter and real spark plugs . |
| 27 | One of the last cruises I enjoyed on Viking took us south as far as Oban . |
| 28 | I have n't told the management about the lymphoma , and have n't had a repeat of the weakness I experienced in Birmingham , so have put it down to adrenalin overdose and imagination . |
| 29 | ‘ I wish to impress on you that the rules I made in London still stand . |
| 30 | ‘ It was n't money I had in mind . ’ |