Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year four of them agreed to set a low common external tariff instead . |
| 2 | But if appointment as a lord of session was major patronage at any period in Scotland 's history , there was in the eighteenth century considerable demand for any post which could make use of legal education , for there is some reason to believe that the country was oversupplied with lawyers in view of the desperate efforts which some of them made to obtain a salaried post , no matter how minor . |
| 3 | I disdained to consult a medical dictionary , however . |
| 4 | The President and I agreed to establish a secure telephone link between our two offices . |
| 5 | There are some marvellous graphics among these new breeds but , having never particularly liked comics , I failed to overcome a fundamental irritation with the medium of pictures and words combined . |
| 6 | I failed to get a single note out of it when I brought it back to the hotel . |
| 7 | I failed to place a cardboard cut-out of a male person lying , in a posture of total exhaustion , in one of the darker recesses of the living room . |
| 8 | I expected to see a huge hound , but not a creature like this . |
| 9 | I expected to find a tiny shrunken corpse . |
| 10 | I expected to find a privileged crew , tolerating me for some positive press . |
| 11 | Working the paint thickly with a knife I tried to create a jarring effect with colour and texture conveying the power and pain of the experience . |
| 12 | She says : ‘ I tried to have a good marriage , be a good mother and have a career . |
| 13 | Today I tried to get a whole tin every day , it 's just because it happened . |
| 14 | After one or two formal speeches ( at which reference was made to our visit as the ‘ first short-term English course since the crushing of the Gang of Four ’ , and I tried to make a suitable reply , ) we were whisked off to the Friendship Hotel to a welcoming meal consisting of Peking duck , ancient duck 's eggs , and other good things , and I wielding our chopsticks to the best of our ability . |
| 15 | I slip into the pitfall of subjectivity with trepidation , but observing my fellow patients , I seemed to discern a distinct pattern so far as stress was concerned . |
| 16 | I seemed to have a separate brain for each limb , but they 'd all broken off diplomatic relations . |
| 17 | ‘ I have a new understanding of scripture and I learnt to read a personal message from it — I do n't want to lose that . ’ |
| 18 | Erm but er I learnt to write a fair hand , erm without too many flourishes , which er because I was always told that somebody might be looking at this in a hundred years time , or more . |
| 19 | Next morning , a suitable distance away from the refuge , I woke to feel a tremendous pressure on my body . |
| 20 | So that was how I came to have a new dress and boots and a real ribbon for my hair instead of the usual string . |
| 21 | As he said himself of this time , ‘ I yearned to live a semi-bohemian lifestyle , an unstructured life ; but a consecrated one ; some kind of calling . ’ |
| 22 | I tiptoed to find a sacred vessel to keep your hair in , mouth humming with its knowing:you were here , with me , loving me , kissing me , holding me and could be no closer . |
| 23 | For the first time in my life , I accelerated to catch a red light at the intersection with Brompton Road , steering Armstrong right down the middle of the two lanes , blocking both . |
| 24 | I forgot to add a covering note in sending Jenny 's paper to you a day or two ago . |
| 25 | I happened to make a shrewd investment in ‘ seventy-eight , and a couple of years ago I sold out . |
| 26 | At one point in an art gallery , I turned to see a formidable-looking woman dragging her recalcitrant husband and children in my direction . |
| 27 | I turned to see a large black dog on top of Mark , its tongue hanging out and a coy expression on its face . |
| 28 | Now the onset of summer drew near to marking our first year together and I began to sense a distinct cooling in Joe 's attitude to me . |
| 29 | " Through a peculiar accident , I began to take a passionate interest in music in my ninth year and even started composing immediately . " |
| 30 | With Adrar now five miles away , flotsam and jetsam were increasing , so I began to make a mental inventory of all I passed — six sardine cans , two bottles , the greater part of a tyre , too many small pieces of rubber to count , a five-litre can and the cylinder head from a car engine . |