Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , most of the Gujerati women I spoke to I met through English classes they attended , through workmates and mutual friends , not through social workers and community workers . |
| 2 | When he applied for judicial review he did not know whether his tariff exceeded 20 years , but on 10 April 1990 his solicitors were informed by the Home Office that it did not . |
| 3 | I said , Why do n't you just say , ‘ I asked about those records you ordered ? ’ |
| 4 | I knew you 'd thought of something , and when you asked for extra milk it was n't hard to guess what it was . ’ |
| 5 | When boys tried for easy money they generally sold what belonged to others ; when girls were similarly tempted they were more inclined to sell themselves . |
| 6 | As Philip Warner has said in The Special Air Service , the official history re-issued in an expanded edition in 1983 , the regiment ‘ has often been criticised for the high proportion of officers and N.C.O.s , as well as first-class men , which it absorbed , and the answer must invariably be that used in this way they caused far more damage to the enemy than they would have done if they had been with other units . |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't imagine how they 'd manage with the zimmer , although there 's probably a whole magazine in the library devoted to obscene things you can do with disability aids . ’ |
| 8 | He tried punch bread with sloppy groundbait for small roach , but when he changed to double squatt he added five skimmers and a few small perch . |
| 9 | but I do n't think you actually mentioned at any time you know the , the wife 's involvement in it other than that point . |
| 10 | Whilst I was not physically built as an athlete , I found by hard training I could make the track and cross-country teams . |
| 11 | ‘ Before we came aboard this ship I was thinking of the possibilities . ’ |
| 12 | Whenever I played with other children it flew after me . |
| 13 | ‘ Maybe if I played with another side I 'd get more recognition for what I can do . |
| 14 | because he said that when I came into that corner I pulled in I 'd slowed too much and then had to drive round , drive round the corner with my left foot flat on the floor and I thought oh , should n't your left foot be flat on the floor when you corner and that 's probably what he was getting at , as I could off been slipping the clutch . |
| 15 | When stones like the Koh-i-Noor came into British ownership they would be re-cut to the rosette or brilliant pattern even at the cost of a considerable reduction in weight . |
| 16 | Once you learnt in this way it was easily recalled . |
| 17 | The last time she played in this competition she suffered a disastrous defeat and is keen to make amends . |
| 18 | A fleet of 80 ships was assembled at Brest under de Tourville , who was to be joined off Ushant by others sailing from Rochefort and Toulon , but in the event neither force was ready on time and when de Tourville sailed on 2 May he had only 37 ships , excluding fireships , under his command , though seven more arrived later . |
| 19 | And every time I came to that bit I jerked up in my chair and Miss Ross shouted at me . |
| 20 | The Frizzell sons-in-law might wear halos , but when it came to financial success they were nowhere . |
| 21 | ‘ I said when we arrived two weeks ago that by the time it came to this Test you would have to give us a 50–50 chance because this is a one-off game , not part of a Test series . |
| 22 | There used to be a woman sergeant in [ place ] who used to refer to the reserve men as ‘ dick-head reserve men ’ , ‘ fucking idiots ’ , till one day this reserve man says to her , ‘ See that man over there , before he came to this job he was a aircraft technician , [ name ] used to be a chief mechanic . |
| 23 | gentleman came to this house it seemed to be that he challenged the establishment and many of us welcomes that view it seemed to give a breath of fresh air , but now it seems to me that he 's become entirely institutionalised , can he explain that to the house ? |
| 24 | He says , you know when I came to this house I had to have split all my furniture into little bits so I could get it up the stairs . |
| 25 | And when it came to those Trumpers I could only agree with my father 's judgment . |
| 26 | What do you think happened to the letters that came to any house you lived in ? ’ |
| 27 | True , he was a vital part of the 2nd Div side but then so were a lot of players who really were n't up to it when it came to Div I. It was , as Wilko realised a totally different ball-game . |
| 28 | It seemed on this occasion she had met her match . |
| 29 | He reckoned that if any angler ever worked out how to hit all of the bites that came on that method they would win a lot of money . |
| 30 | So I came across these things you see when we were first married because I used to write out all Hector 's bills for him , by hand before we had a typewriter |