Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [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 was his fault she had to go all the way back to the house .
7 With his help I arranged to invest some money in a shipping company called Clarrikers .
8 With a little juggling I managed to get each section of the garment starting with lilac , shading to blue then to a yellowish pink .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 No wonder he liked to joke that ‘ oil , Jews , and Germans ’ were ‘ Romania 's best exports ’ .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 It 's a pity it had to happen that way .
15 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 .
16 This evening I tried to read some of Alcestis , but it was n't the same .
17 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 .
18 Painfully and in the open she had to make all the running .
19 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 .
20 After the war it seemed to lose some of its attraction .
21 After the Second World War it broadened to include all boys ' schools .
22 At the moment he seemed to find all of them constricting .
23 Yahweh ( Exodus 3:13–16 ) is the God actively present with his people — but the moment he chose to make this known as when they , as doomed slaves , needed to be redeemed .
24 There was something of importance he wished to say that would affect them all .
25 All the week the receipts had been unusually high , but this evening he expected to break all records .
26 ‘ There was this group unity we had to have that I felt lost in and I did n't really relate to .
27 Now in that case we had to select those measures er by knowledge of the problem .
28 After a while I began to understand some of the noises that the people made to each other .
29 After all , she thought , how can I forget the day I agreed to enslave most of Europe ?
30 FIGURE 5 After the initial laying in of colour I began to introduce more of a feeling of form to the objects while retaining the strong sense of pattern
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