Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | And I 've got to say this , in some cases I had additional time as a shop steward and a convenor , to spend on major problems er affecting the incentive scheme . |
2 | In some cases I opened that menu and selected exit . |
3 | For several hours I accepted this absurdity . |
4 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
5 | Proposals I announced last month to create 12 new environmentally sensitive areas will more than treble the area covered . |
6 | Every few minutes I found some reason to stop : to take off my sweater , to put on my robe , to change from boots to training-shoes and back again , to eat some oats , to take my temperature , to redistribute the load inside the lockers and , when I had no other excuse , simply to rest . |
7 | So what with Carole 's soft voice and that we did n't get a lot of and it seemed as though it was well like that , several times I went last year and I really got a bit cheesed off . |
8 | From the batch of over seventy birds I ringed that day , only one other came to light . |
9 | This reinforced my interest in the subject , but as I soon became involved in postgraduate studies in busy medical , surgical and then paediatric units I had little time to pursue it at that stage . |
10 | In one of my books I gave more information than was needed to solve a particular problem . |
11 | Those were the last human voices I heard all day . |
12 | In some respects she resisted that influence and in others succumbed to it . |
13 | She thought of the purple crimplene trousers with the saggy bum and elasticated waist that her mother put on to keep warm in the factory and the thick support tights she wore all year round , even under her trousers , because she said her legs ached . |
14 | Is the any to compare the the entries we have this year with the entries we got last year . |
15 | couple of things we saw each other and then over a space of about two months we saw each other probably about three times |
16 | Meanwhile the indefatigable Joanna Castle is taking yet another group of children around part of her downlands on the Ridgeway , where the calves they met last year are now only a year away from being next year 's Sunday roast |
17 | The French government also announced that it would pay more than £5 million compensation to French fishermen for half the losses they reported last month as a result of falling prices . |
18 | Sun will also be offering Viking versions of the Galaxy 630MP , 670MP and 690MP multi-processors it introduced this winter , configured with one to four processors . |
19 | He used to trap animals and collect them and then one day instead of going out trapping animals he wrote this poem instead and ever afterwards he wrote poems instead of collecting animals . |
20 | With a growled exclamation against her lips he tightened one hand in the silky blonde strands , and slid the other down to trace lightly the hollow at the base of her throat , then lower to skim the striped silk of her blouse over the swell of her breasts , an expert , fleeting exploration which drew a gasp of reaction from her yet left her taut and shivering in frustrated anger … |
21 | ‘ I told Pa frankly that under the circumstances I attached more value to Michelet 's advice than to his own … . |
22 | ‘ In the mid-1950s I found public service very restrictive . |
23 | we both felt you need to highlight erm can I ask you which of the areas you felt particular interest in ? |
24 | ‘ So the wills we made last week are irrelevant . ’ |
25 | Although in some trials we noted post-randomisation exclusion of ineligible patients , early deaths , and protocol violations , we did not exclude them . |
26 | Walking past trees and hedgerows we heard more bird song , blackbird , song thrush , robin . |
27 | After the reports some political worthies spew out the same old phrases they parroted last time the natives grew restless somewhere . |
28 | The CML also argued that solicitors should make annual returns on the number of conveyancing transactions they completed each year . |
29 | He was a tall , red-haired man , according to the descriptions he had one shoulder higher than the other , but that did n't seem to prevent him being attractive to women . |
30 | The wooden crosses he said broke church regulations . |