Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [vb past] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewes has only had a mayor or two for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye , where it goes back to the thirteenth/fourteenth centuries , and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 2 | erm Lewes has only had a mayoralty for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye where it goes back to the thirteenth , fourteenth centuries and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 3 | Bill : I do n't know if anybody feels they have , but this is a thing which I felt was central to the gay movement of the seventies and I think I would go so far as to say that I assume that most of my close friends feel , like Mark , that it 's fine to have special relationships but it is n't fine to have ones where you are n't allowed to have anything else and also that there 's nothing more deadly to a relationship when you are trying desperately not to have it off with anybody else because you feel guilty about it . |
| 4 | In Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 the plaintiff sued in respect of defects with which she was born which she alleged were attributable to a motor accident that rendered her mother a quadriplegic at the time that she was pregnant with the plaintiff . |
| 5 | In section 1.1 , we looked at a number of general principles which we said were common to the behaviour of all types of institution . |
| 6 | Member states could however veto any proposal which they thought was detrimental to their economies , therefore very little progress to harmonise to common European standards took place . |
| 7 | He then went on to discuss whether an employee could use his recollection of any features of the plaintiff 's plant , machinery or process which they claimed were peculiar to them even though they admitted that their competitors used similar machinery . |
| 8 | There are several illuminating aspects of the Brown experience : the early promise of educational attainment ; the not unreasonable anticipation of good qualifications ; the gradual intensification of involvement with sport ; and , crucially , the persuasive parts played by teachers and , to a slightly lesser extent coaches , in fostering an interest in sport , which he admitted was detrimental to his education . |
| 9 | He was especially troubled by pain in his kidneys , which he believed was due to kidney stones ‘ occasioned by unsuitable diet in my youth ’ . |
| 10 | She knew he was referring to her last meeting with Jake and that explosive love scene in the drawing-room , only the sketchiest version of which he 'd been privy to . |
| 11 | The right ankle which he damaged was supposed to be his good ankle . |
| 12 | Cos everybody else got the erm , forms , erm , the appraisal , and the one they had was supposed to be target setting for each department manager . |
| 13 | His strategy changed with bewildering suddenness , but everything he did was devoted to the same end , that was certain . |
| 14 | For the twenty years I knew him he had been close to only three girls , maybe only one . ’ |
| 15 | The new men whom he introduced were central to Lanfranc 's plans . |
| 16 | so it was totally different work from what I 'd been used to . |
| 17 | A few smashed windows , drink , a fight or two , umpteen girls almost ‘ conquered ’ , long tall stories almost believed — but compared with what he had been used to it was the lure of the Orient , freedom , the cry of the Sirens . |
| 18 | It was only that none of this was quite what he had been used to . |
| 19 | WHILE Nick Faldo was stirring himself back to life again in the Freeport-McMoran Classic with a second round of 69 , Sandy Lyle was left contemplating what he felt was likely to be another missed cut in his final preparation for next week 's Masters . |
| 20 | What he saw was incredible to him : imperfect stones , yes , flawed , sometimes of poor coloration , but cut and set with such skill and ingenuity that their imperfections were disguised . |