Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 2 | Then the mesh , she told Sally the next time she saw her , I 'm sorry I made that mistake about you having a sister she said to Sally , I 've written to tell mother you 've said you have n't one she must of been mistaken what your mother said . |
| 3 | Actually I was so anxious to have him that I would have said anything — but I did put my marriage first , I made that choice , and although it meant I had many , many years of frustration as an actress , I 'm not sorry I made that choice . |
| 4 | I well remember going as a new convert into a Baptist church for the first time : how strange I found that row of five deacons ' chairs which dominated the scene , and even stranger the little cups for communion . |
| 5 | Up till about 1980 I had little experience of float fishing for big bream , and I do n't recall ever having read anything on the subject . |
| 6 | As a child of the Thirties I heard much talk of J.P.M. and Fred Shaw ( the NCLC Organiser ) , Plebs and the Railway Service Journal — and the Manchester Guardian — were as much a part of my youthful literary life as Mickey Mouse and Film Fun . |
| 7 | He instantly took in that I brought bad news and steered me at once into the noisy outside coupling space between the dayniter and the central dining car . |
| 8 | After a week of that I decided one night to leave in the morning . |
| 9 | I weighed eleven stone when I was in the Line : before I came out with that I weighed five stone ten . |
| 10 | Intermittent tamarisk jungle grew along the banks of the Awash and in this I saw several herds of waterbuck , many warthog and an occasional bushbuck . |
| 11 | But then it was this I thought any minute it 's gon na be Somewhere over the Rainbow . |
| 12 | Thank you chairman , I , I second er 's motion , erm trying to be not political about this I got some figures from the er county council which indicate that from the first of April ninety-two to the thirty-first of December ninety-two eighty-six members attended committee meetings of which they were not members . |
| 13 | At the far end , once again my , detector gave a nice small signal , quite different from the copper halfpennies , and as I dug down to retrieve this I had some idea in mind that this might be a hammered . |
| 14 | After this I bought some contact magazines . |
| 15 | This I did three times before getting in , largely on the strength of some Moroccan paintings I had recently completed . |
| 16 | When nylon underwear first became popular I produced similar fireworks and had to earth myself to radiators when nobody was looking . |
| 17 | Underneath this she wore black cotton trousers — ideally these should have been made of silk , but she felt sure no one would notice . |
| 18 | AFTER THIS SHE HAD ODD FLASHES OF ‘ CLAIRVOYANCE ’ . |
| 19 | Between 1616 and 1629 she bore eight children , and with her husband was active in a Shrewsbury conventicle . |
| 20 | Her eyes appraised him and her thin fingers were spread towards him fan-wise , it was clear she expected some money . |
| 21 | She was able to chat to Ana for most of the meal and what with one thing and another she felt some progress had been made , though what she was doing in this situation she did not know . |
| 22 | After Thebes swallowed up Plataia in 427 she controlled four Boiotarchs and 240 councillors . |
| 23 | It was doubtful she carried much money , but even so , could he possibly ignore a lady needing assistance ? |
| 24 | Indeed not ten years old she knew such words ( and the meaning ) as larynx and spleen and rigor mortis . |
| 25 | To allow for this we provided several opportunities in the questionnaire for teachers to make additional individual observations . |
| 26 | This means that British Coal has to shut down a large amount of its production capacity , and this they attempted last autumn . |
| 27 | After this they employed Welsh builders and had everything sent over with them including paint , sandpaper and Polyfilla . |
| 28 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 29 | I am suprised they agreed personal terms . |
| 30 | From this it followed that kingship , like fatherhood , was a divine institution to which resistance was not merely impolitic but sinful . |