Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three new subcommittees each met in Panmunjom , but none of them produced any significant progress . |
| 2 | Most of them found additional useful material , but found it difficult to understand " their location in relation to the original search " ( Figure 5.7 ) . |
| 3 | Since I became pregnant five months ago , he has neglected me . |
| 4 | I became Senior English Mistress at Shrewsbury High School ( G. P. D. S. T. ) in 1959 and Headmistress of Basingstoke High School in 1965 . |
| 5 | ‘ When he refused to pay I asked all 16 lads to put the jackets in my bag , and left . |
| 6 | I asked all these questions |
| 7 | Although I asked various qualified people if soil altered the flavour of wine from the same grape variety and district I got no clear answer … |
| 8 | Gradually , I was made to feel unpopular and I applied these new standards to him . |
| 9 | I read five walking/climbing magazines each month , but Outdoor Action was the only one to give details . |
| 10 | I made one stupid mistake in one of my books , about a car , and I got about 25 letters . |
| 11 | I made one good decision : to wear the trainers on the plane , and carry the paperwork in my hand luggage . |
| 12 | Depressed people can of course make hasty and unwise decisions , and I made one such decision when , during my second term at Berkeley , I decided to give up my London flat . |
| 13 | I am sorry , I forgot that I made one more telephone call — to Mr. Sellars , the Lothian region 's further education expert . |
| 14 | I made one bad decision : to board the plane . |
| 15 | I made two more visits to Knowlton , and it has now become a focus for my own particular pilgrimage . |
| 16 | Yes Mr , I made that very point . |
| 17 | Perhaps the only mistake I made all those years ago was not realising what an anti-democratic medium television would prove to be . |
| 18 | I mean it 's interesting I mean I , I made all those comments earlier about and I mean Peter he might disagree with them , but what I think is how we view the Royals as we were all growing up . |
| 19 | Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there . |
| 20 | It improved when I made this close friend , who had some of the same ideas as me on things like sex , drugs , politics , music . |
| 21 | I made this round trip between church and house three times and settled in the end for slaking my thirst from a tap in the churchyard . |
| 22 | I made this very mistake of criticising the course during one of my medical placements , when I spent eight weeks on a busy medical unit . |
| 23 | I made some new pots and put them in a very hot fire . |
| 24 | It could not be accomplished on the run though I made some schematic doodles based on observation : the way , for example , drainage run-off channels bulldozed off the sides of the track echoed the pattern of the tree branches or veins on a leaf . |
| 25 | By midnight we were all yawning hard and so I made some strong coffee to wake us up . |
| 26 | In my first few months I made some real gaffes — sitting in the wrong part of the dining room , for instance , and using a commanding manner with staff who were n't used to it . |
| 27 | ‘ When I heard you were coming I made some discreet enquiries about you at the newspaper . |
| 28 | And I think this is behind I made some adverse comment about the Prime Minister 's comment about the burden of the old — to be fair , I think one of the problems she probably had in mind was the fact not of the immediate peak of elderly people , but the peak in the twenty/twenties where the full impact of the erm pension scheme that we 've got will hit with a considerably older population — can we afford it ? |
| 29 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 30 | I made some Tommy-sized bets and ate very well in the ( literally ) below-stairs bar , and in general walked around , race-card in hand , binoculars around neck , exactly as usual . |