Example sentences of "[vb past] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was n't a shock when I got my first hit record because I was trying for that all our lives and so she backed me all the way . |
| 2 | When I got my first laser printer many moons ago , my bank manager almost had a heart attack . |
| 3 | So I got my I got my first christmas present . |
| 4 | I first became involved with releasing barn owls into the wild about two years ago , shortly after i got my first breeding pair , Barny and Mrs Barny . |
| 5 | Kapil said : ‘ When I got my 400th Test wicket in Perth last year I promised Sunny that one day both records would belong to Indians and I intend to honour that . |
| 6 | It was just four months ago that met my first contras face to face . |
| 7 | A couple of blocks away is John Smiths , where I met my old friend Robert Clow , in company with his number two , Willie Anderson , current treasurer of the BA . |
| 8 | Mr Deputy Speaker , I announced my provisional settlement proposals to the house on the thirtieth of November last . |
| 9 | On December the fourteenth I announced my provisional capping criteria . |
| 10 | Taking this as my cue , I produced my own drawing pad and began to draw google-eyed rabbits and donkeys , with great speed . |
| 11 | I was 19 and still studying at RADA when I made my first TV appearance . |
| 12 | Having done my first sound broadcast in the Forties and made my first television appearance in 1952 , I can remember when Lord Reith 's belief that broadcasting 's prime function was to inform , to entertain and give all sides a chance to state their case , still reigned . |
| 13 | He goes on with self-glorifying statements like , ‘ I made my first tube amplifier in 1957 ’ . |
| 14 | My hand was throbbing and light-headedness was giving way to a headache which made my left eyebrow twitch . |
| 15 | And I had a thought that made my whole body thrill with shame . |
| 16 | Many of you may have noticed that Good Housekeeping is now on sale at the checkout in Sainsbury 's , which has gone down brilliantly with shoppers , as I discovered when I visited my local London branch . |
| 17 | In the summer , I visited my local crime prevention panel and the police to discuss this matter . |
| 18 | When I traced my own family tree I found that the Heys had come into the parish of Penistone ( and more particularly to that part known as the township of Thurlstone where I lived ) about the year 1800 and that during the previous three centuries they had resided in Kirkburton parish immediately to the north . |
| 19 | I recently changed my 1971 Range Rover for a 26,000 miles , high compression engine , 1984 model . |
| 20 | I used my usual metal overflow piece , which I keep hidden in the dunes near the best dam-building site , and the piece de resistance was an aqueduct bottomed with an old black plastic rubbish-bag I 'd found in the driftwood . |
| 21 | The ISSC proposed its own work programme in the Human Dimensions of Global Change in late 1990 . |
| 22 | This feudal system was replaced by the capitalist mode of production , which created its own state system to serve the interests of the owners of the means of capitalist production . |
| 23 | It retained its old destination boxes and other appointments . |
| 24 | In 1972 , less than 16 per cent of this age group had been found to be upwardly mobile as against 60 per cent who retained their working class positions ( p. 18 ) . |
| 25 | The green light for the X100 brings to an end nine months of heart searching at Browns Lane while Ford invited its own design offices to submit plans for a new Jaguar sports car . |
| 26 | Little wonder then that during the build-up to her wedding she invited her former teacher Wendy Mitchell and pianist Lily Snipp to Buckingham Palace so that she could have dancing lessons . |
| 27 | DEPORTIVO Coruna underlined their Spanish championship aspirations by thrashing Real Sociedad 5-1 yesterday to consolidate their position at the top of the league . |
| 28 | They charged their hapless school mates a penny for the privilege of sporting a Sen product . |
| 29 | That 's the fully multi-threaded stuff SunSoft promised its independent software vendors to the sound of blasting disco music a year ago in September . |
| 30 | He bent her supple body back ; she took one look over her shoulder and saw nothing but fast-flowing black water . |