Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my days as a Justice 's Clerk I saw enough corpses to know that death can grossly disfigure even the comeliest of faces . ’ |
| 2 | It was my responsibility I brought that child into the world , and there was no way I was going to thrust her off onto other people . |
| 3 | They asked me to help dress the models who wandered around showing clothes to the ladies having afternoon tea in the restaurant , and after a bit I did some modelling myself . |
| 4 | Like the woman 's no good Of course I told some things about Wendy . |
| 5 | Of course I had this spell er er do n't forget I was five years as a prisoner of war , and a lot of interest because I was a union member pra b previous to that you see ? |
| 6 | By a coincidence I met this man on the summit of Sergeant Man in the Lake District two months later . |
| 7 | During the late afternoon I received another call summoning a further Cabinet meeting at 7.30 p.m . |
| 8 | For the most part I enjoyed these interpretations . |
| 9 | Like a twat I decided that attack was the best way of preserving my job , and so I demanded that the board give me complete control over team selection , tactics , welfare etc. , with no boardroom interference whatsoever . |
| 10 | ‘ When I got back to my apartment I ate some ham and beans , and opened a bottle of rather rust-coloured claret . |
| 11 | I refer the honourable gentleman to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
| 12 | I refer my honourable friends to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
| 13 | I refer my honourable friend to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
| 14 | I refer the honourable gentleman to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
| 15 | I refer the honourable gentleman to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
| 16 | I refer my honourable friend to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
| 17 | In my rather disgruntled frame of mind I rebelled that night against the long way round . |
| 18 | Earlier in this chapter I gave some idea of the linguistic complexities of the Caribbean . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The programs were tried out extensively with my own students , and from their feedback I made several modifications . |
| 21 | You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think . |
| 22 | Mummy I wanted another Kit Kat . |
| 23 | Well I think he 's at my other school before common entrance I had this teacher for two years got forty percent and that 's . |
| 24 | This was a challenging task even for an accomplished side which had little time to acclimatise or practise . |
| 25 | I was brought up in the world of the arts because , apart from the Rothschild side which had some influence on me , my mother was a completely Bloomsbury figure , and her mother was a great friend of Matisse and a distinguished collector — she was a Strachey , very English . |
| 26 | In the semi-final they meet James Talbot and Michael Nutt of the Old Bleach Club , who will be seeking to gain some compensation after they were in the Old Bleach side which lost this season 's CIS Irish Senior Cup championship final to Carrickfergus by a mere five shots . |
| 27 | Did you see the poll published in the Sunday newspapers about public attitudes to AIDS which avoided any reference to the Terence Higgins Trust or any of the other gay support groups ? |
| 28 | He became a keen supporter of the BAAS , founding a club which gathered each year at the meetings , for conviviality and science . |
| 29 | Top : Harrowside 1984 with restored Coronation 660 on tour , followed by a one-man car which succeeded this type . |
| 30 | However it was thought by its sponsors to represent a programme which had some possibility of acceptance by the bodies to which the petition would be presented . |