Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On my third day of freedom I managed to steal some coins and sent a note to my master in Ipswich . |
| 2 | I felt very sorry for her by now and for want of knowing how to express my sympathy I offered to make another pot of tea . |
| 3 | And of course I had to get another lens , a piece of glass about the same size , in order to grind it , because you grind the glass with another piece of glass with a grit in between . |
| 4 | And I felt it was n't up to them , I did n't have enough experience I wanted to gain some more experience but it just fell away , lapse . |
| 5 | Possibly you have been influenced by the examples of masochism in the book , a term I coined to define that particular perversion . |
| 6 | It made little difference to the coal industry which continued to serve both . |
| 7 | For once , it was the losing side who seemed to have fewer reservations about the performance of the referee . |
| 8 | It was his fault she had to go all the way back to the house . |
| 9 | The US Supreme Court has effectively limited the power of the Endangered Species Act , by dismissing a case which sought to establish that federal bodies must comply with the Act when funding projects overseas . |
| 10 | On the other hand , Colonel Haldane did not succeed in winning the vote of the burgh of Inverkeithing itself , a failure which may perhaps be linked to the lasting hostility of the burgesses occasioned by his own quick temper two years earlier , for in 1752 he had given Provost John Cunningham a black eye when he had encountered the chief magistrate on the steps of the tolbooth , an error of judgement which served to undo much of the Haldane party 's work in that town , and indeed ran the colonel some risk of being mobbed . |
| 11 | With his help I arranged to invest some money in a shipping company called Clarrikers . |
| 12 | With a little juggling I managed to get each section of the garment starting with lilac , shading to blue then to a yellowish pink . |
| 13 | No mention of private Bills would be complete without paying tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for New Forest ( Sir P. McNair-Wilson ) for the way in which he chaired the Committee which sought to untangle this web . |
| 14 | An architecture which seemed to fulfill these requirements was the Chart parsing system ( Thompson and Ritchie 1984 ) . |
| 15 | So , to test their intelligence we decided to show each horse a plate of oats , and while it was still watching to place the food inside the ring of the tire with the empty feed bucket on top . |
| 16 | The local Labour MP , George Foulkes , whose constituency of Carrick , Cumnock and Doon Valley contains the Digital plant , said : ‘ This is good news for the Ayr workforce and I congratulate the management there and the Scottish Office for the work they did to achieve this successful outcome . |
| 17 | No wonder he liked to joke that ‘ oil , Jews , and Germans ’ were ‘ Romania 's best exports ’ . |
| 18 | One morning he woke up to discover the entire ‘ ARCHITECTURE ’ section stacked so high around his desk he had to wait half the day before pupils managed to free him . |
| 19 | Though 1660 marked the end of feudalism in its political aspect , in the sphere of private law it continued to cause many difficulties , which were not removed until 1925 . |
| 20 | It 's a pity it had to happen that way . |
| 21 | An archbishop who failed to challenge that kind of economic fundamentalism would virtually have abandoned the social hope of the Christian Church . |
| 22 | She told him that as soon as she had some money she wanted to buy some decent clothes , the kind that she could wear to her work in the evenings . |
| 23 | The others say the owner was a concrete salesman who wanted to use these fantastic sculptures to demonstrate the possibilities of his product . |
| 24 | This evening I tried to read some of Alcestis , but it was n't the same . |
| 25 | Its reflection on the water surface of the river at Abingdon advanced towards me , in this case not exactly to my feet because I was up on the bridge , but whatever else I managed to achieve in the picture I had to make this plane of the river advance . |
| 26 | An earlier thinker who declined to see any mutual contradiction between similar terms was Leslie Weatherhead , psychologist and cleric , who published his Creed of a Christian Agnostic . |
| 27 | In 1951 , he could still write to an author who wanted to publish some works in his collection : ‘ I have not given you my permission because I do not know what will be in the book you are writing . |
| 28 | Painfully and in the open she had to make all the running . |
| 29 | In fact , one particular evening we managed to get all twenty-one residents across there , plus some of the people from the Lodge and we had a lovely evening . |
| 30 | After the war it seemed to lose some of its attraction . |