Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a few cases I realised with surprise my growing frustration was due to my inability to interject my own comments into the workshop ( which has been filmed several years previously ) . |
| 2 | In both cases I worked on oil on panel which I later fixed to the walls . |
| 3 | Indeed , both the lecturers I spoke to felt that some of their colleagues were less tolerant of dissent than they were ; we shall see later that some of the students felt this too . |
| 4 | For more than two hours I stood at bay while a nonstop torrent of crockery poured down on me ; thousands and thousands of plates , every one bearing a smear of cottage pie , a blob of cold gravy , a few adhering chips . |
| 5 | One of the last cruises I enjoyed on Viking took us south as far as Oban . |
| 6 | But the weeks went by and the 5 months I had off work which at first seemed an eternity soon became 5 weeks and then 5 days . |
| 7 | I even remember books I disliked with affection . |
| 8 | By glimpses I learnt with awe and astonishment that he had once been of my age . |
| 9 | Encouraged by Joe 's honest words I went to bed , but I could n't stop myself thinking that Estella would consider Joe 's boots too thick and his hands too coarse , and our whole family common . |
| 10 | I reckon most of the kids I knew in care ended up in trouble . |
| 11 | She had no idea of the age of ‘ La Felicità ’ but such houses had stood on the white furrowed hillsides in the pictures she knew by heart . |
| 12 | You refer to her stately homes , which she cared for deeply , but more importantly round these homes she knew by name a huge number of tenants , workers and friends who always received a warm and cheerful word , and many enjoyed great generosity from her and her husband . |
| 13 | Penny added to her load a pile of books she had in fact marked yesterday . |
| 14 | For three months she went by Underground to the Wimbledon home of Elizabeth Russell where for almost as long as anyone can remember she has schooled the daughters of knights , dukes and earls in the delights of sauces , sponges and souffles . |
| 15 | From Blakethwaite Dams we walked on south past the shooting box belonging to Lord Peel 's estate through a landscape which was now a desert of lead-mine spoil , called on the map by the strangely incongruous name of Merry Field . |
| 16 | The main buyers and holders of bills , sometimes called the ‘ market makers ’ , are the nine discount houses , members of the London Discount Market Association ( LDMA ) , whose characteristics we described in section 3.3 . |
| 17 | Here at Practical PC , we 've had AUTOEXEC.BATs full of REMmed lines — alternative command lines that needed editing to make changes in the various programs and drivers we used from time to time . |
| 18 | They sang the songs they learned at school . |
| 19 | It was only the unnatural methods they used in order to combat the problem which were wrong . |
| 20 | ‘ Then the mist came nearer until it reached a man and an eagle and before her eyes they turned to stone and were raised up as a single standing stone , to point up into the sky . |
| 21 | Because we can not question their authors , autobiographies can be tantalizingly elusive : but in compensation , what they omit or include is in itself evidence of the attitudes of the writers and of the readers they had in mind . |
| 22 | I outlined to him a scheme for an organisation that would provide the disabled with the cars they required in return for an assignment to that organisation of their mobility allowance . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , congressmen from energy-producing states are going around town telling everybody who is willing to listen what splendid concessions they got in return for their votes . |
| 24 | Finally it was Gnaeus Manlius Vulso 's victory over the Galatians in 189 B.C. which justified the intervention of the Romans in Asia Minor and furnished them with the clients they needed in order to control the ambitions of Pergamum . |
| 25 | Prior to his arrival Sotheby 's ( still specialising heavily in books at this date ) had an unwritten agreement with Christie 's that they sent them any pictures brought to their offices and in return Christie 's sent them any books they received for sale . |
| 26 | After the First World War some Kerries were exported to France to help repopulate areas which had been decimated by war and the small black cattle were given prime grazing in orchard meadows near the River Somme ; within nine months they looked like beef animals ! |
| 27 | She might despise him for the methods he used in business , but the fact remained that she loved him , and if there was anything she could do to protect him she would do it . |
| 28 | The only words he said before morning . |
| 29 | The voice did not come from Cornelius , although those were the words he had in mind to use . |
| 30 | Enthusiastically , curbing the dislike he felt , Hugo embarked on a plan that would give Grégoire a solid foundation in all the subjects he considered of importance . |