Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solanki had told the Lok Sabha on March 30 that " I now regret that I handed over this note " but that " neither I nor my ministry instructed the Swiss authorities to stop or impede investigations into the Bofors case " . |
| 2 | My decision pleased the present-day driver , as the fare would be expensive . |
| 3 | But yesterday she said : ‘ My boss said the best thing would be to get back to work as normal and I feel better for coming in straight away . ’ |
| 4 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 5 | The " eye " , as if with a will of its own , becomes the subject-agent in " as far as the eye could reach " ( 1 ) , " My eye followed the light cloud " ( 6 ) , " the only thing on which the eye could rest ( 4 ) . |
| 6 | In the mornings my husband walked the endless corridors of oil power , hoping for patience to overcome impatience . |
| 7 | There must be something in this : when morning came , amid some laughter , my husband re-enacted the closing chapter of the old year by going up into the rafters and suspending himself through the hole so that I could take photographs . |
| 8 | My shop recommended the following : |
| 9 | For the first time ever , my pride got the better of me and I desperately looked round for some means of defending myself . |
| 10 | To the west , the intricate pinnacles of the clock-tower suddenly jumped black out of blinding light into the narrow stone frame where my forehead received the first raindrop big as a grape and cold . |
| 11 | It was a big step to take , but there was no way I could contemplate settling down to bring up my family in London , and I knew my wife felt the same way as she loved the sea and country . |
| 12 | My father said the 17-horse power would use too much petrol , but it gave me a year 's pleasure before I swopped it for an A30 van . |
| 13 | He was another butcher , you see , he bought the other cart and my father kept the best , this cart you 've got was the best cart , yeah . |
| 14 | My father met the poor creature , who fled at his approach . |
| 15 | Now , for the first time , my father saw the barbaric splendour of the Abyssinian Empire He described it in a letter to his mother : |
| 16 | But my father attended the old Baron in his last illness . |
| 17 | Nobbs wrote Reggie Perrin because ‘ he was from the world I knew , we were from Kent , my father got the 8.16 to Cannon Street every day , ’ but he wrote Henry Pratt because ‘ it was the early '80s , Thatcher had taken over and I knew her politics would create a more divided nation . |
| 18 | There my father wore the first pair of plus-fours and my mother had the first Eton crop ( an accident of her father 's home hairdressing ) . |
| 19 | There was no electricity at the rectory , and every evening my father performed the only domestic task he ever did in his life — apart from lighting the fires — when he cleaned the wicks and lit the paraffin lamps . |
| 20 | Her hand waved in front of her and she said : ‘ My daughter wrote the best art book ever written . |
| 21 | That 's how people live these days , you know , my daughter did the same thing with her husband , you know , they 're in a |
| 22 | Well — that happened to me when my daughter joined the local Brownie Pack ; they were desperate for help and that ‘ couple of hours on a Friday ’ led to my becoming that pack 's Brown Owl , moving to a Guide Company that was in danger of closing and finally becoming District Commissioner administration four Brownie Packs , four Guide Companies and one Ranger Unit . |
| 23 | As an example close to home , it would be a sanction much more powerful than an SEC if , as head of audit of my firm , I was called in to that panel to be told that if my firm wanted the institutional shareholders to vote their proxies in favour of our being reappointed auditors to this or that company , we would have to mend our ways in some respect . |
| 24 | On a nest of cotton wool , in a little box , my grandmother kept the two wedding rings which had worn thin , then broken , during her married life , because of her handling of corn . |
| 25 | My predecessor had the back door and one side door permanently barred . |
| 26 | My shadow lapped the outside steps because the doors were open letting out the heat , wide open because I had n't bothered to bolt them , and the side door was open too , creating a through-draught that made the fire smoke and the dogs restless . |
| 27 | A few minutes later , when Nelly was preoccupied , I 'm sorry to say my cowardice got the better of me and I crept out of the room , down the stairs and ran off home . |
| 28 | When we arrived at the market town , my master hired the largest room in the public house , and placed me upon the table there . |
| 29 | In the present case , the judge carefully analysed the provisions of section 10(3) and ( 4 ) and in my judgment reached the correct conclusion as to when the cause of action arose . |
| 30 | As it happened my brother knew the leading professor in testicular cancer there , Dr Janet Husband . |