Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had any of them made any approaches to her ? |
| 2 | None of them made any concessions to the local Muslim culture . |
| 3 | Lots of them tried several times before succeeding . |
| 4 | The operation to free them involved four teams of three men from mines rescue centres at Selby and Doncaster working in 10-minute shifts to claw away debris from a bottom corner of the fall . |
| 5 | Two of them bore long fruits like courgettes , though pink in colour and set with needles like a cactus . |
| 6 | SO I asked some friends of mine who were in the antique business from , Indiana , pick it up . |
| 7 | To get a more general view of how the Health Service departments treat their Asian women patients , I asked social workers in different parts of London what their experiences had been in dealing with hospitals , Health Visitors and Area Health Authorities . |
| 8 | ‘ I overheard various conversations between her and other CIA people . ’ |
| 9 | He did his usual practice stint , during which I endured more jokes from the other caddies and from some of the players about my sudden fame . |
| 10 | I made four locks for the gates on Lord 's cricket ground er and when I 'm telling you this , and practically without exception , they must 've er got to know me and they come for what they wanted . |
| 11 | Could n't really tell you what it was now , but I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground . |
| 12 | They 'd got ta be secure as you could imagine and er not easily picked , if you follow what I mean and er yes , made I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground . |
| 13 | In the years that followed I made many flights with those ‘ intrepid bush pilots ’ and watched the development of aviation in Canada . |
| 14 | I made many friends among them . |
| 15 | Of course , I made many mistakes in my new life as King . |
| 16 | I made many speeches during the passage of that legislation . |
| 17 | I was happy with the arrangement because I did not want to be tied to a nine-to-five existence , and my employer remained happy , especially when I made regular appearances as his partner at various golf days — all good for business , of course . |
| 18 | I made 27 calls to Central Office , of which the best was the last . |
| 19 | Well Roger I , I made great pains in the presentation to make clear that this is not a standard , because we do n't have a standard . |
| 20 | ( 55 ) I found a bottle with which I made numerous marks on the ground surrounding our tents and a few yards into the jungle , as far as I dared venture . |
| 21 | In addition to conducting this particular case study I made some visits to another school ( which I have called ‘ Southend ’ ) in the same LEA which had gone through an identical appraisal exercise a year earlier . |
| 22 | I made some comm-calls to contacts on planets here and there , pretending to some that I was looking for commissions , to others that I was in different parts of the galaxy transporting things for different people . |
| 23 | Anyway , in the end I made 1,800 pesos on the funeral . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | For the next two or three years , I made elaborate paintings in which figures struck wooden postures and confronted each other in profile . |
| 26 | As I made these suggestions to her , I was continually reminding her that she was feeling very relaxed and comfortable and that she was in complete control of the situation and need do nothing ( even in her imagination ) that she did not choose to . |
| 27 | I made those notes in crude capital letters . |
| 28 | From my hotel at the foot of fifth Avenue I made short forays into the neon between soaking my cuts , counting my abrasions and nursing anxiety to sleep . |
| 29 | To get a wider picture than I had obtained from the local bookshops I made special journeys to various places , and acquired every library book I came across , only restricting myself by not acquiring more than one book from each library . |
| 30 | I made several speeches in the Lords propounding my belief that the Biafran side should have had our support , and I still believe we would have been very much better off had that ensued . |