Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then we had to change the Unions to Newsize and er I er I became National President of the Newsize er district inspectors branch of Newsize Yes I was president till I retired . |
| 2 | More or less what I asked personal point of view that er one is afraid that Europe , as it is , is rather limited . |
| 3 | I had a friend who suffered from twisted testicles so I made sure part of my sponsorship arrangement is that I 'm provided with decent shorts with inner briefs that give me support . |
| 4 | I made a hand winch with a double handle and a ratchet and room for half a kilometre of twine on the drum ; I made different types of tails for the kites that needed them , and dozens of kites large and small , some stunters . |
| 5 | PAMELA : I made common talk of it , sir ! |
| 6 | Oh dear , and er I got new pair of sheets , because they were erm they were the ones I had . |
| 7 | I got good end of term report . |
| 8 | I I saw it somewhere and I got lost track of it . |
| 9 | I tried various methods of keeping the water out , but without success . |
| 10 | But on the second landing I found small groups of them with machine-guns lazily overlooking the booking hall . |
| 11 | When I opened it I found neat bundles of fivers , each one with a Bank of Berlin band around it . |
| 12 | I was on the island for ten months before I visited other parts of it . |
| 13 | In those days before the National Health Service , one did not run off to the doctor except in real emergencies ; but , at this juncture , my mother , noticing that I showed unusual signs of debility , urged me to seek medical advice . |
| 14 | And the rosebush culled from the best North-West London nursery — he 'd planted it last Saturday — was only there for me when I ripped scarlet beads of blood from thin air . |
| 15 | I walked whole length of Street first day we there . |
| 16 | In 1982 at Stanford I heard similar accounts of academic publishers requiring appropriate names and references in books . |
| 17 | I selected random volumes of eight biomedical journals covering a broad spectrum of biomedical research : Cell , Nature , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA ( PNAS ) , Journal of Clinical Investigation ( JCI ) , Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications ( BBRC ) , Journal of Clinical Oncology ( JCO ) , New England Journal of Medicine ( NEJM ) , and the Lancet . |
| 18 | My Lord it is since that erm because , as you mention that er because of all the delay , that I am quite sure that positively intended erm I lost large sums of paying my solicitors , solicitors as well as a surveyor and therefore I attempted to er , er to recoup that |
| 19 | Two things I wanted above all , and one of them was money , for I knew old systems of currency were in operation throughout the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | While I was in these fine showrooms I saw exquisite pieces of antique furniture , old silver , paintings , porcelain , figures , antique clocks , masses of objets d'art , and the most fabulous coral and white Meissen porcelain dinner service — I just stood and gazed at it with sheer enjoyment ! |
| 21 | I saw outstanding examples of team work with results impressive in their professionalism . |
| 22 | Last year , walking in a forest above Lake Geneva , I saw terrible evidence of this as acre after acre of trees seemed to be dying from the top down . |
| 23 | The next morning I was sitting in the garden in the sun when suddenly I saw young Rupert of Hentzau on horse- back coming through the trees towards me . |
| 24 | ‘ They take all sorts of fancy things to trade — brass basins , beads , looking glasses … last time I saw great bales of cotton stuffs , all red and blue and gold . |
| 25 | During the first few days of the Blitz I had to go to Kings Cross and there I saw whole streams of weary and frightened East Enders pouring through the station , intent only on getting away from the bombing with what bits and pieces of their belongings they had been able to salvage ; with their small children crying and bewildered , and family pets bundled up in rugs or protesting loudly in makeshift cardboard boxes . |
| 26 | And I thought different type of advertising does n't you know . |
| 27 | I kept good hold of her , part-dragging her after me . |
| 28 | Said that in future he 'd be obliged if I kept careful note of when Mr Meredith took out a horse . |
| 29 | I stayed at home as much as possible while I took massive doses of testosterone , the male hormone . |
| 30 | But supposing I invested equal amounts of parental investment in both and supposing that if offspring A gives two units of parental investment to offspring B , the benefit to B 's reproductive success will be three minutes , which it could be , if B was younger . |