Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [noun sg] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every year after I became chairman of British Steel we set aside one board meeting at which the objectives of the organisation were raised . |
| 2 | At the time that I was contending for the ordination of women to the priesthood of the Anglican Church , I made use of another argument , drawing out the implications of patristic thought . |
| 3 | er reading and I ha , I could n't hold of enough of the material in the time I 'd got to write the essay so I would n't have studied enough , so I did this one on machines , and I got hold of two good books . |
| 4 | But I got hold of All Quiet on the Western Front from my brother 's bookshelves . |
| 5 | Fortune having smiled on them , and I mean if it had n't been for a lump of expanded foam out of one of the life boats that had blown up at , if it had n't come floating past me , I mean I would have been a goner as well , but I got hold of that . |
| 6 | Oh and I happened to be standing in the back kitchen you know and I got hold of this saucepan and I picked my little brother up and put him under my arm in case he got hurt and I oh I belted my father from his head to his feet with the saucepan . |
| 7 | Next , I tried thinking of cold drinks and old friends , but the pain hung on . |
| 8 | So after completing my National Service , I did all the things that everybody does when they 're trying to break into show business , urged on by my father 's insistence that I found employment of some sort — ‘ Get a job , any job , just get one ! |
| 9 | We were on the moors , close to Wuthering Heights , when I caught sight of two men talking to her . |
| 10 | Hurrying through a railway station , I caught sight of one of them , right up my friend 's alley . |
| 11 | When he moved his head I caught sight of minute areas along his hairline where there was apparently no colour at all , as though the bistre shade of his face were a mask . |
| 12 | And suddenly I caught sight of this … prat sailing down the Cam back towards Cambridge in a punt , with a girl doing all the work , while he reclined at the exact angle , trying to play a chord and strum a tune … |
| 13 | My colleague and I flew courtesy of British Midland first class to Heathrow . |
| 14 | ‘ I felt kind of hopeless out there — even his second serve I had trouble with , ’ Sampras said . |
| 15 | Then , when I started to get into it I felt kind of holy , y'know , ‘ I 'm eating this good food ’ , but behind that was the desire continually to revert to eating junk food ( and I do ) because I am emotionally dependent on it . |
| 16 | He was friendly enough and that , but I du n no , I felt sort of uncomfortable with him . |
| 17 | Well I did n't , I looked sort of reminiscent of Bet in Coronation Street , Jean told me wo one of my friends at work . |
| 18 | I took advantage of these facts for my purposes . |
| 19 | I took stock of full imperial size Bockingford tinted watercolour paper ( 300gsm ) because I wanted a robust paper with a slight background colour . |
| 20 | A ten For the next hour I took delivery of many additional purchases , the vast majority of which I could n't remember purchasing . |
| 21 | We had reorganisations there , you know , every time they had a reorganisation a patch got bigger , and the workload got heavier , er , and in the last ten months of my period there , I did sort of thirty five thousand miles and a job as well , so I thought , blimey I 'm into mortality tables , if somebody else 's car had got my name written on it , so I decided to take a change . |
| 22 | Again probably I had kind of personal experience of that , erm when I had the difficulty in walking myself . |
| 23 | I ha I had sort of few , few words with him this morning . |
| 24 | No we 'd just picked up Christine from her friend 's house and I had sort of half a dozen people |
| 25 | I was thinking of doing a teddy but I thought I wanted sort of one , two or three things do n't you on the bottom ? |
| 26 | She knew that a record had been kept on the child , including an educational psychologist 's report , and that the school logbook would record other incidents , so she sought disclosure of these documents to help her in her case against the authority . |
| 27 | She sought discovery of psychiatric reports held by the defendants who were the education authority . |
| 28 | Along the path by the side of the warm regenerative earth she caught sight of blue waves . |
| 29 | At every moment she caught sight of some slight figure with twinkling knees , slim golden calves , and massed , luxuriant hair . |
| 30 | She caught hold of one of the timber supports to stop herself from shooting out into the main tunnel . |