Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old land-owning families prospered and built under Queen Elizabeth I 's reign , but many of them became badly unstuck during the Civil War . |
| 2 | They also acquired the railways and many of them became as proud of their state systems as of the other perquisites of the British connection . |
| 3 | My God , George thought , cringing , he wants me to kill off more of that fossilised brain . |
| 4 | Even people like me became more self-confident in Art when he was the teacher . |
| 5 | I hope you will allow me to remain somewhat sceptical about these vague reassurances which remind me of those that were regular given during the 1980s ( prior to publication of the Environment White Paper ) although it was evident that no rigorous assessment was ever made of the environmental effects of development . |
| 6 | PARTICK THISTLE take on Hibs at Firhill tonight in the throes of a long , destructive run which has seen them win only one of their last 12 league matches and slip towards relegation , writes Hugh Keevins . |
| 7 | It does seem to me that there are still relatively few women who become professional scientists , and today I hope that you two ladies will help me explore perhaps some of the reasons why this is the case . |
| 8 | Save them walking too far up the road if they |
| 9 | I became vividly aware of this disturbing phenomenon while I was sitting deep in thought on Hammersmith Bridge this afternoon . |
| 10 | I became heavily involved in far left politics , becoming a member of the Socialist Students ' Alliance , the student leftovers of the IMG 's ( Internation Marxist Group 's ) move into the Labour Party . |
| 11 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 12 | Soon afterwards I became openly rebellious at school and , after some final misdemeanour which I can not recall but suspect to have been trivial , I was asked to leave . |
| 13 | As I became professionally involved in trying to understand what , if anything , was happening I realised that here was a rare opportunity for the public to experience science in action , feel the excitement that drives inquisitive minds , and see how discoveries are made , tested , replicated , proven and developed into a new technology . |
| 14 | As the campaign progressed , I became increasingly angry at the attitudes of my friends at home and how different they said things were there , believing , as I did and still do , in the importance of a Labour victory for Britain as a whole . |
| 15 | I became increasingly interested in gay men 's specific ways of seeing the world — what one might call , to use a now unfashionable phrase of Raymond Williams , male homosexual structures of feeling — but to qualify for inclusion in this framework , texts had to pass an ‘ authorship test ’ ( ‘ is/was he gay ? ’ ) that harked back to the bad old days of crudely biographical criticism . |
| 16 | With this observation , I became increasingly interested in what other sorts of evidence alerts social workers to possible child abuse . |
| 17 | In the Southern Ocean , in that great reverberating blue-green world I shared with nature , I became intensely aware of the way in which men and women have trapped themselves within cities . |
| 18 | Watching several of the video films of Highlander workshops I became forcibly aware of both broad and detailed comparisons of rural problems in Appalachia and the Scottish Highlands . |
| 19 | Gaitskell never adopted me in the sense that Harold Wilson did later , but I became quite close to him and he employed me in quasi-political matters . |
| 20 | As the months went by , I became quite excited by the prospect of weighing myself every Monday . |
| 21 | He had special qualities of sensitivity , patience , rationality , intelligence , and wit ; and when those qualities were completely unobservable , I became quite concerned about what was happening to him , you know , what was the meaning of his life at this point . |
| 22 | I learned how to put up wallpaper — I became quite expert at it ! |
| 23 | Years later he found a diary he had kept as a schoolboy in 1940 , two years before I became really aware of him , and he gave it to me . |
| 24 | I became really angry at this very obvious silence . |
| 25 | It was then that I became fully aware of how your personality is really at stake . |
| 26 | When I became fully aware of this , I gave all of my fashionable new clothes to ‘ Oxfam ’ and fished out my old blue jeans and ‘ sloppy joe ’ jumper which I had nearly thrown out only a few weeks before . |
| 27 | After a while I became so deep in my cups I grew surly , said I felt unwell and trotted off to bed where I could nurse my hurt as well as conceal my bad manners . |
| 28 | Once when I was young , innocent and unaware of eating amnesia , ‘ weighers-wilt ’ ( ‘ I 'll just take a guess at this — looks like two ounces … ! ’ ) and other related disorders , I became so alarmed about all the people who could n't seem to shed weight on 1,000 calories a day that I interviewed many of them , carefully selected a group of twenty of the most baffling and genuine cases , and incarcerated them in a health farm for a week . |
| 29 | But in the end I became so frightened of her I used to start shaking when she came into the room . |
| 30 | And in that time I became very close to the bunch of desperadoes I 'd first flown out with . |