Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A noise I recognized among the eternal wastes of silence . |
| 2 | In Cardiff I went to the local elementary school and in 1939 , in the competitive scholarship examination , won a special place at Cardiff High School . |
| 3 | So then , of course I went to the Euro M P . |
| 4 | Of course I forgot about the sleeping child . |
| 5 | In Harehills I belonged to the upper crust of the lower middle classes who were getting out as fast as they could . |
| 6 | I did not usurp power but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power , in other words this is the modesty part I acted for the public welfare , I acted for the common wellbeing of all our people whenever and in whatever manner was necessary unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition Roosevelt suggested that the president subject only to the people of the United States and he identified himself with Andrew Jackson and with Abraham Lincoln . |
| 7 | For my work experience I went to the local primary school where I was a classroom helper with the reception class . |
| 8 | She was transformed from the young trollop I remembered to the middle-aged reader of Trollope she had always wanted to be . |
| 9 | I had never been a member of the Labour Party , and on the first occasion when I could claim a vote I voted for the Liberal candidate in the Hampstead constituency . |
| 10 | The first piece I wrote for the New Statesman , almost exactly four years ago , began : ‘ People keep asking me , ‘ On what platform will you be standing for deputy leader of the Labour Party ? ' |
| 11 | Checking a positive climb and flicking up the quick-retracting gear I concentrated on the slow process of building speed , getting the flaps in at 130 and maintaining a gentle increase in height with steady acceleration to 170 knots , when the nose can be raised for 3,000 fpm to show on the VSI as she really starts to go . |
| 12 | In 1980 when Allan Wells won a Gold Medal at the Olympics I looked at the British tracksuits and thought : well , nothing much has changed in 56 years ! |
| 13 | When it began to grow dark I noticed through the little connecting window that he did n't put his light on ; this alarmed me , somehow . |
| 14 | Before they left the house the boys also urinated all over the murals of Kamala and the Wheel you painted in the top room and smashed the player Ron had built , slashing the recorder with a knife . |
| 15 | So how could she possibly tell her friend about the almost wild grief she felt at the prolonged absence of her husband ; the deep , stabbing pain in her heart when she remembered their wonderful night of passion ? |
| 16 | Guy Sterne 's eyes held a glitter of amusement , but a darker emotion she saw in the pale green-grey brought colour sweeping up her neck to her face . |
| 17 | Mrs Stych snapped back that all the ladies present must be well aware of the multitude of offices she held in the charitable organizations of Tollemarche . |
| 18 | The Princess , dressed simply in a white blouse and dark skirt , was draped with crimson flower garlands as she flew over Mount Everest in a helicopter , 40 years after a British-sponsored expedition became the first to reach the summit of the world 's highest mountain.As she flew past the snowy peak a relative of a Nepalese climber who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary up Everest in 1953 was leading a seven-member Australian team up the mountain.Although the Princess did not see any climbers she told fellow passengers aboard her Super Puma helicopter that she had a wonderful time seeing the mountain through clear skies . |
| 19 | There are though , records of a talk she gave to the Royal Photographic Society at Russell Square in London on October 28th 1913 . |
| 20 | There are though , records of a talk she gave to the Royal Photographic Society at Russell Square in London on October 28th 1913 . |
| 21 | Apart from her looks , and especially those deep green eyes , she was cheerful and friendly and seemingly unaware of the effect she had on the unsophisticated young men around her . |
| 22 | His towers rejected the fear she had of the hideous , dehumanized sadists she had known at Mars-U . |
| 23 | Once at the College we settled into the homely and very adequate accommodation before having a light snack . |
| 24 | However , the figure we gave for the annual input of carbon into the soil ( 1.2 tonnes of carbon per hectare per year ) include the carbon contributed by algae and photosynthetic bacteria . |
| 25 | ‘ To bring our people back to the innocence they enjoyed under the old king . ’ |
| 26 | The story is told of one time Archbishop of Paris , who with two or three other of his friends as young lads they went into the great cathedral there at Notre Dame |
| 27 | Even today , in the amalgamated forces , this structuring principle holds good ; and many old hands still refer to the ‘ real police forces ’ as those small units they joined in the late 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 28 | On the first-floor terrace they sat at the round table while Roman did the honours with gin and tonics . |
| 29 | By and large they fell in happily with the exhortations they received from the Arab world not to take any unauthorized political initiatives . |
| 30 | BSkyB will not renew the £13 million three-season deal they had with the Scottish authorities which expired at the end of last season . |