Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to tag him on to group deals as a makeweight — you know , like the contract I did for twelve of my players with UK Airlines . |
| 2 | But that one was and I heard a year ago but I never saw it till the bus driver I went with some years ago up to John O'Groats . |
| 3 | I still remember my surprise at the changed attitudes I noticed in other people when I first put on a white coat . |
| 4 | One day , I fear that a demonstration of the kind I faced in 1982 will go wrong and someone will get hurt . |
| 5 | Mathematics was my subject , I was simply transferring what talents I had in that direction from one held to another . ’ |
| 6 | Of course I failed on all counts and so I was ignored most of the time — passed over . |
| 7 | He said of course I scampered through these bull rushes , they never saw me they never caught me and they never ever knew who it was who 'd done it , see . |
| 8 | Of course I refused with much indignation , and he grew very angry . |
| 9 | If this is so , can you please let me have one of the two data only copies I requested on 14 February ( Ref. 020 ) ? |
| 10 | Within the category of lexical items , I include the formulaic patterns I referred to earlier . |
| 11 | All the money I earned in that period my husband 's cousin took away from me . |
| 12 | As I stripped off and dipped my arms into the steaming bucket I wished with all my heart that the porcine uterus was a little short thing and not this horrible awkward shape . |
| 13 | Four times I went on long visits to the St Jerome , his finest work . |
| 14 | Many times I moved from one state to the other until I mustered the strength to cling to the twilight zone without slipping back into darkness . |
| 15 | In fact , my recent painting of Paddington Station was inspired by a sketch I made in 1953 when I was still a student . |
| 16 | The only wheel I found on this trip is still very much in business , grinding corn on two pairs of stones . |
| 17 | The ships themselves offer a more comfortable ride these days : of the 16 trips I made in blustery March , only one was anything like rough . |
| 18 | One agent I met with admitted that I was known in the business as a ‘ bit of a cheap turn ’ . |
| 19 | I remember when they went to Korea and they had to have these overcoats I sewed on hundreds of buttons , about 10 minutes each coat . |
| 20 | During the year , we have also reviewed the investment of our liquid funds , we have planned a ‘ Patrons ’ scheme , with an eye to support particularly from the smaller banks in the City ; we have introduced credit card payments , and resolved a major uncertainty I referred to last year over our Lombard Street offices . |
| 21 | I READ with interest the article about me ( Echo March 2 ) which draws on an interview I gave with two journalists from the Sunday Mail . |
| 22 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 23 | somebody 's Chronicle I borrowed for some reason |
| 24 | You 're still the slim chick I knew in nineteen seventy four . |
| 25 | And at the beginning of the following term I wrote in huge letters on the front of my rough book ( regularly inspected by the housemistress ) , ‘ Exuberance is beauty ’ . |
| 26 | I actually wanted someone to share the excruciating sad pleasure I got from some of the words … . |
| 27 | But then avowed with a great deal of feeling , ‘ I sorely needed somebody 's help when , with daylight I returned to that hotel and discovered you 'd taken a train back to Mariánské Láznë ! ’ |
| 28 | Nineteen fifty one , we moved in , er and , I 've had , you 're not the first person to come all round here , this house , they used , they used to come round in shows from the Corporation all visitors used to come , they used to say , right Jean can we bring them round we 've had people from Germany and everywhere and being in the architect 's department I fell for all this you know I had |
| 29 | Stella Webb discovered Medau in 1968 , and was subsequently cajoled into becoming a teacher by Cicely Harris , under whose guidance she qualified in 1973 . |
| 30 | Here on this sea-scoured coast she had at last found a place which she was content to call home . |