Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [noun] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I started discussions with the social services department I had an open mind about the service to be delivered . |
| 2 | In the course of researching extra material for Pursuit in the Public Records Office I made one lucky and quite unexpected find . |
| 3 | In a BBC Radio 4 programme about the civil rights movement he said : |
| 4 | Outside the incongruous police trailer she paused and knocked smartly on the door . |
| 5 | My guess is that they meant to come back , only with so much police activity they did n't like to risk it . ’ |
| 6 | The net result was a political atmosphere ‘ in which it became impossible for the police as a whole to avoid a distortion of priorities and for individual police officers it became more and more difficult to disentangle fact from prejudice in assessing those whom they were sent to police ’ ( McCabe and Wallington , 1988:134–5 ) . |
| 7 | Opposite Maples Hotel he stood to wait , patient again , the name of the hotel a colourless , polished wood , and it 's colourless quiet front stung him like a glance of polite disdain . |
| 8 | ‘ I shall ever remember the two or three hours conversation I had with him that beautiful May morning he died , before I woke the rest of the family . |
| 9 | As we looked across the water to Corinth and listened to the haunting bouzouki music I saw why so many people return year after year to Poseidon . |
| 10 | As a result of the current devolution in favour of the regions , the Arts Council will be directly funding only about half the 170 arts bodies it funded in 1991 . |
| 11 | The roughest police treatment he got , it seems , was in the West . |
| 12 | At the Slavonic Studies reunion I met several current undergraduates from Campion ; Russian is now compulsory for all first-years at the School . |
| 13 | As commander of uniform operations department he had responsibility for areas such as traffic , dogs , crime prevention and public relations . |
| 14 | As he reached the parked sports car he went into a rolling dive , still clutching his leg , and bounced himself off the bonnet and over the other side . |
| 15 | I have been told that on coming to the village to work in the cement factories and receiving his first weeks wages he asked if it was all his as it was more money than he had ever had in one week . |
| 16 | but that first weeks messages you did n't have to pay them till the end of the quarter , which meant that people went in and bought things that week , they never bought you know ? |
| 17 | After her first five years apprenticeship she became involved with transport and it was here that she was destined to make her mark and has continued to do so for 37 years . |
| 18 | Now you 're moving to Bilborough , you 're moving to Bilborough erm just say in five years time they got rid of the flats erm and they built houses on here on the site , would you move back ? |
| 19 | In the proportional hazards models we included the potentially confounding variables of age , sex , race , education , marital state , systolic blood pressure , total cholesterol concentration , body mass index , diabetes , physical activity , alcohol consumption , poverty index , and cigarette smoking . |
| 20 | we had some carbonated drinks factory I said well they they asked me if I 'd go over there and I said I ca n't work in there I 'm allergic to oranges and he said oh bloody or I 've never seen an orange , do n't worry , you know it 's all chemicals ! |
| 21 | Several schools coaches I spoke to pointed out that , by the end of the season of the new law , most of the boys had worked out ways and means of blocking the ball . |
| 22 | He might have the advantage of size and strength , but thanks to the martial arts classes she 'd taken as regularly as she could over the past few years , she had a few tricks of her own up her sleeve . |
| 23 | So he said , well he said tell him to come in in about four weeks time he said , we 'll be getting rid of everything . |
| 24 | As head of the Near East , South Asian and African Affairs Bureau he inherited ( so he later claimed ) little in the way of policy for a region where American involvement had been intermittent or localized . |
| 25 | Gail is very encouraged by a young wives group she started with a friend . |
| 26 | Despite making reasonable progress , difficulties prevented the team from making the summit and after 24 hours effort they returned to base camp . |
| 27 | At the most critical moment of the Seven Years War it amounted to 4.4 per cent of the total population of the country , the highest proportion of this kind reached in any State during the century . |
| 28 | Even during the much more disastrous Seven Years War she made strenuous efforts under the Duc de Choiseul to recover her lost seapower , and these were continued in the 1760s and 1770s . |