Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Now , I must confess I had n't seen much of Mr Wogan before I met him because , when I got my television set at Low Birk Hatt , Richard Megstone , the nice young gentleman who looked after the Youth Hostel in Baldersdale and kindly took care of my electrical things , said I had a choice — either BBC1 or Channel 4 . |
2 | I failed my school cert in French way back in 1948 so it was a question of starting out all over again . |
3 | The South African case remains interesting , and I asked my doctor friend for clarification , but so far he has not been able to get any further information . |
4 | It was so weird it made my hair stand on end ; it was almost as if a ghost had walked into the room . |
5 | The only thing that made my hair stand on end was when I would say : ‘ Dive through that window there and , as you go through it , hit it with your fists clenched together , tuck your head down in between on your elbows , get through and , as you go through , go into a roll . ’ |
6 | ‘ She and her magic made my horse slip on the ice last night . ’ |
7 | For it was Protestants who got better jobs , who skipped the queue for houses , who made my father work on Christmas day when the union voted against the optional holiday — to keep the Papes in their place . |
8 | But I knocked you to the floor , and the blow was so hard that it made my hand throb for hours afterwards . |
9 | Used my travel alarm for the first time having been appointed ‘ waker up ’ for breakfast — not a success as I had forgotten to resent for French time ( one hour ahead ) — many comments about my parentage . |
10 | The scientists analysed their crystal structure by measuring how the coccoliths scatter light rays and electrons and found that they all shared common features of crystal organisation throughout their history . |
11 | Marseille maintained their title challenge with a 3–1 win at struggling Nancy but Monaco , who beat fourth-placed Auxerre 2–0 , are just two points behind them . |
12 | Polly drew her index finger across his lips and gasped as his teeth fastened gently on it . |
13 | Long involved in Institute affairs , he headed its Taxation Committee from 1978 , became a Council member in 1988 and was a founder member of the Tax Faculty when it was set up in 1991 . |
14 | Eighteen days later Lord Keith saw another opportunity to help Mr. Dundas , for a number of new appointments were made in consequence of the commissioning of another captured French vessel , the Carmine , and George Dundas found himself Flag Lieutenant in the Minotaur in place of John Stewart who had been appointed acting commander of another vessel , whose commander in turn had assumed command of the newly commissioned ship . |
15 | Diana Dors was never really thought of as a great actress … indeed she once described her film career as ’ a lot of make believe held up by 37 inch bra cups ’ . |
16 | The sole Dino Berlinetta Speciale is now part of the permanent collection of the Le Mans car museum in France , a fitting place for a car that drew its design inspiration from the first mid-engined Ferrari sports racing cars and which shocked the world at Paris more than a quarter of a century ago . |
17 | Once in the lead there was no stopping the home side as they reinforced their gathering momentum with five second-half tries . |
18 | We paid £16 return per adult ( half-price for children ten and under ) for the three-hour ride and were greeted by the Foreign Legion parachuting out of the sky as we approached their home base of Calvi . |
19 | So if a dinosaur changed its skin colour from white to black it would cause a 7 or 8°C increase in body temperature ( so perhaps colour varied with size ? ) . |
20 | Kenneth was born in the year the Great Western changed its rail guage from wide to narrow . |
21 | Robbie wanted to ask if he really found her hair worthy of poetry . |
22 | She found her travel pass in her top pocket , and slipped it into the automatic gate , muttering ‘ open fucking sesame ’ to the machine . |
23 | I found her body chill in bed one morning . |
24 | Laura Medaware put the remains of her gin and tonic in its plastic cup down by her canvas chair , ground her menthol cigarette into the turf and said , ‘ Come on , Georgina . |
25 | Her breakfast finished , she showered and dressed in a beige and white skirt and plain beige top and , after a slight struggle with the clasp , fastened her gold locket around her neck before setting off to explore . |
26 | For example , a group of people I studied in Madagascar changed their marriage system in response to changing economic circumstances but did not adjust their kinship terminology [ Bloch , 1975 ] . |
27 | The members of the republican governments suspended their party membership on Aug. 28 , and the CP was " temporarily suspended " by the Ministry of Justice . |
28 | The princess received an equally warm welcome when elderly Korean women broke into spontaneous applause and smiled as she entered their welfare centre in BongchunDong , a poor Seoul suburb . |
29 | A MOTHER who beat her baby daughter to death was convicted of murder yesterday and jailed for life . |
30 | She met students at work in the Department of Mechanical , Manufacturing and Software Engineering , and staff and post-graduate students from Computer Integrated Manufacturing demonstrated their research work on the use of robots in a manufacturing environment . |