Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one summer when I was around ten or eleven I developed a nasty sore throat which the doctor thought was tonsillitis . |
| 2 | Four weeks before was due I started a new job here in Birmingham leaving and in Yorkshire . |
| 3 | I 'm only sorry I had a prior engagement , otherwise I 'd have been here much earlier . ’ |
| 4 | Sorry I got the wrong item , I , my note is not very good . |
| 5 | Now I was a man of property , the joint owner of a large house in North Oxford , with investments so extensive I had no detailed idea of their scope and access to current and deposit accounts totalling well into six figures . |
| 6 | After that I swept the pock-marked linoleum , and then washed it , working from the far corner under the bed right round the angle to the door , backing along on my knees . |
| 7 | I very nearly took you then and there , standing up , in a cold dark cave … after that I needed a little time to sort through my feelings , sabiha tieghi … ’ |
| 8 | As usual I felt a little trepidation before the climb , but this was dwarfed by the thought of skiing down from the refuge , across the Argentiere glacier , and up to the bergshrund below the face . |
| 9 | But as usual I affected a supreme unconcern , and floated past them with a sway of the hips that was a touch exaggerated . |
| 10 | ‘ That someone crossed the frozen moat and , using the steps in the wall , climbed up to Sir Ralph 's chamber . |
| 11 | Storming on up this I reached an ominous overhang . |
| 12 | So , it was , it was , I , a as soon as I knew I 'd be teaching this I thought the only way |
| 13 | As I failed to do this I spent the entire journey staring intently at the zip of my coat and at least I learned a lot about clothes fastenings that morning . |
| 14 | Soon after this I received a favourable response and I began house-hunting and discussing the details of how to meet my care needs . |
| 15 | But despite all this I had a successful Championship , winning the 100 metres and tying , in an exciting race , with John Regis in the 200 . |
| 16 | In this I had the enthusiastic support of the Prime Minister who believed that the state scheme should be replaced by individual private pension provision with a minimum compulsory requirement . |
| 17 | This I found a great help . |
| 18 | He enjoys it all with equal enthusiasm , and when I visited him in a small hut on Denham airfield where he was instructing ab initio pilots in Cessna 172s I detected the same dedication , pride and affection he has for all his aviation exploits . |
| 19 | In July 1972 I spent a whole afternoon discussing teaching and children with the headmaster of what corresponded roughly to a middle school . |
| 20 | In 1972 I suggested a fresh categorization of the processes involved to take into account an additional meaning of ‘ propagate ’ ; namely to rear to sexual maturity . |
| 21 | ‘ When I was 12 I won the one length freestyle , backstroke and breaststroke events at the local schools gala , but after that I concentrated on the backstroke most of the time . ’ |
| 22 | I 'd a proper I had a proper drill , oh you 're talking about the new ones ? |
| 23 | During the lay up of Venturous I spent a brief interlude in the Solent area evaluating the performance and suitability of a thirty two foot fast motor cruiser Gazelle which had been purchased by the Department as an experiment . |
| 24 | The more celebrated I became the worse I painted and the more false I felt . |
| 25 | It was an attitude like this which made the individual transfer to community relations in the first place , as all those in Easton 's Community Relations Unit did , one even from the Traffic Branch . |
| 26 | It was this which led the following day to Eighth Army 's request for authorization to negotiate with the Soviets for a hand-over , " on advice Macmillan " , and which led to Robertson 's order from AFHQ later that day for negotiations to begin . |
| 27 | A compact disc player was suspected of interfering with the flight management of a McDonnell Douglas MD-87 which caused an uncommanded change of modes . |
| 28 | The process was continued by the Local Government Act 1972 which transferred the remaining local authority health responsibilities to the NHS and their water and sewage responsibilities to new regional authorities . |
| 29 | Proof of hardship is not a condition precedent as emphasised by the Court of Appeal in Schott Kem Ltd v Bentley & Ors [ 1990 ] 3 WLR 397 which disapproved the then current practice of limiting awards to sums for which the plaintiff could show a need . |
| 30 | In a sense , the concerns of today echo those which preceded the enactment of the Glass-Steagall Act in the US in 1933 which established a formal separation between banking and securities activities . |