Example sentences of "of [art] [noun pl] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If we had stuck away some of the chances we had in the first half then we 'd have won it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We could play the US again tonight , it could go along the same pattern and we would end up winning 4–2 or 5–2 because of the chances we created . ’ |
| 3 | I have also enclosed a few of the papers I referred to at the beginning of the meeting , plus a travel claim form which you are welcome to use . |
| 4 | Most of the games he owned were very old and substandard but the one saving grace in his collection was a game called Rambo . |
| 5 | At the beginning of the holidays I spent a week with a school friend in London , and towards the end another week with another friend in Bedford . |
| 6 | And he does not like to be reminded of the gaffes he made as deputy chairman — branding the young unemployed as workshy , or musing on Radio Ulster whether Ian Paisley might like to be prime minister of a united Ireland . |
| 7 | This was a need that Pat Bateson , Gabriel Horn and I had hammered out in many long discussions about our imprinting experiments , and which we had tried to meet in practice in the design of the controls we had used in the early 1970s . |
| 8 | of course that is a point that we 've made all the way through , it 's not if nobody would bid , it 's if the franchising director was not satisfied with the quality or the long term viability of the bids he 'd received |
| 9 | 1 Choose one of the stories you told your partner . |
| 10 | 1 choose one of the stories you told last time . |
| 11 | ‘ A pity it 's necessary — unexpected drama , I mean , ’ said Jane , thinking of the stories she had heard of the bonhomie of the war , in contrast with the stiff , glib cult of the eighties . |
| 12 | It is for this reason that for the central part of the projects we selected representative variables that occur frequently and can therefore be quantified in terms of the full range of speaker-variables . |
| 13 | Both the Schools Council and Nuffield approaches shared in most of the projects they supported an essentially instrumental view in that they were based upon the managerial assumption that the initiators determined the content and progress of the programme ( although Arts and the Adolescent ( Schools Council , 1975 ) was a notable exception ) . |
| 14 | The World Bank has admitted that many of the projects it funded in Brazil during the 1970s and 80s resulted in massive environmental degradation and the eviction of over 100,000 poor farmers and their families , many of whom were forced into the shanty-towns of major cities . |
| 15 | ‘ One of the projects I worked on recently was in Queen Street with the Department of History and Applied Art . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , I wrote to him in rather a hurry , and did n't take copies of the notes I sent him . |
| 17 | When he got back to Istanbul and changed one of the notes he realised how much he had been given . |
| 18 | When he got back to Istanbul and changed one of the notes he realised how much he had been given . |
| 19 | One of the qualities of jade that contributed most to social harmony was the musical nature of the notes it emitted when struck . |
| 20 | Writing about the immediate aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution , the Kiev-born writer Mikhail Bulgakov recalled : ‘ I can say only one thing for the moment — according to the calculations of the Kievans they had 18 changes of power . |
| 21 | This means that they will recognise that they are not intended to commit themselves to all of the implicatures they had derived . |
| 22 | His ears tried to crawl into his head in terror of the syllables they had just heard . |
| 23 | ‘ According to the report here , one of the aliases he used in share deals and bank accounts was Mr Jemmel . |
| 24 | If I may say so the key point is n't it that a lot of the transactions you discussed were off market transactions , they were unusual transactions and the Financial Institutions that were carrying out those transactions whether they were acting as banker or acting a as broker , they would have had knowledge that those transactions were not normal market transactions . |
| 25 | But refinement did not stop with the genteel residences , it extended to the social life of the towns they inhabited — . |
| 26 | However the players encountered hostility and protests from the black communities of the towns they visited , and on Feb. 13 it was agreed to cut the tour short by two weeks . |
| 27 | Using Pope 's ‘ Mobil Guide to the North Island ’ we were able to look up what was worth seeing in each of the towns we passed through . |
| 28 | Morgan seems to suggest , however tentatively , reasons why one stage should change into another , in the idea that the processes of evolution themselves lead to the destruction of the stages they produced . |
| 29 | There was , too , the problem of the discrepancies she had found in those ledgers . |
| 30 | Their small majority made them all the more conscious of the problems they needed to surmount to win the next election . |