Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to tag him on to group deals as a makeweight — you know , like the contract I did for twelve of my players with UK Airlines . |
| 2 | But that one was and I heard a year ago but I never saw it till the bus driver I went with some years ago up to John O'Groats . |
| 3 | One day , I fear that a demonstration of the kind I faced in 1982 will go wrong and someone will get hurt . |
| 4 | Of course I failed on all counts and so I was ignored most of the time — passed over . |
| 5 | He said of course I scampered through these bull rushes , they never saw me they never caught me and they never ever knew who it was who 'd done it , see . |
| 6 | Of course I refused with much indignation , and he grew very angry . |
| 7 | All the money I earned in that period my husband 's cousin took away from me . |
| 8 | As I stripped off and dipped my arms into the steaming bucket I wished with all my heart that the porcine uterus was a little short thing and not this horrible awkward shape . |
| 9 | In fact , my recent painting of Paddington Station was inspired by a sketch I made in 1953 when I was still a student . |
| 10 | The only wheel I found on this trip is still very much in business , grinding corn on two pairs of stones . |
| 11 | One agent I met with admitted that I was known in the business as a ‘ bit of a cheap turn ’ . |
| 12 | During the year , we have also reviewed the investment of our liquid funds , we have planned a ‘ Patrons ’ scheme , with an eye to support particularly from the smaller banks in the City ; we have introduced credit card payments , and resolved a major uncertainty I referred to last year over our Lombard Street offices . |
| 13 | I READ with interest the article about me ( Echo March 2 ) which draws on an interview I gave with two journalists from the Sunday Mail . |
| 14 | somebody 's Chronicle I borrowed for some reason |
| 15 | You 're still the slim chick I knew in nineteen seventy four . |
| 16 | And at the beginning of the following term I wrote in huge letters on the front of my rough book ( regularly inspected by the housemistress ) , ‘ Exuberance is beauty ’ . |
| 17 | I actually wanted someone to share the excruciating sad pleasure I got from some of the words … . |
| 18 | But then avowed with a great deal of feeling , ‘ I sorely needed somebody 's help when , with daylight I returned to that hotel and discovered you 'd taken a train back to Mariánské Láznë ! ’ |
| 19 | Nineteen fifty one , we moved in , er and , I 've had , you 're not the first person to come all round here , this house , they used , they used to come round in shows from the Corporation all visitors used to come , they used to say , right Jean can we bring them round we 've had people from Germany and everywhere and being in the architect 's department I fell for all this you know I had |
| 20 | Stella Webb discovered Medau in 1968 , and was subsequently cajoled into becoming a teacher by Cicely Harris , under whose guidance she qualified in 1973 . |
| 21 | Here on this sea-scoured coast she had at last found a place which she was content to call home . |
| 22 | In her mind she went to that island and it was there that the ‘ shower ’ played upon her cancer cells ‘ and washed them away . ’ |
| 23 | A contemporary newspaper account stated that ‘ as the Abergavenny was laden with an immense quantity of porcelain ware and 27,000 ounces of silver she sank with unusual speed ’ . |
| 24 | A study she conducted in 1990 showed it was not this simple . |
| 25 | In an interview she gave in 1974 she explained that the goal of her fiction was to re-activate the language of conceptual knowledge through metaphor : |
| 26 | In a piece she wrote in 1913 , Ada Nield Chew constructed an imaginary discussion between a Cockney and a Lancashire couple on women 's work and the vote , in which the London husband says : ‘ It would n't do for a man in my position to have a wife going out to work . |
| 27 | Visitors were not welcomed upstairs , and if Mrs Bostock haughtily insisted on the sovereign nature of her companionship she met with little encouragement in that belief . |
| 28 | Ah no , still got that other tape you taped from last night have n't you ? |
| 29 | Did you see you with that gas that advert she did with that poor woman ! |
| 30 | Her choice of transport is in stark contrast to the glitz and glamour of a horse-drawn carriage she used in 1973 when she married Captain Mark Phillips . |