Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [noun] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This herb has tiny leaves here , and is furiously strong : I made tea from some herbs I picked , put in a generous sprig of peppermint , and spat out the result in shock . |
| 2 | My wife and I met people of all ages and nationalities ; we particularly appreciated the enthusiastically-friendly and helpful staff . |
| 3 | " Actually , I got scholarships at both universities . " |
| 4 | I studied mathematics for some years at school and I have not totally forgotten all of them . |
| 5 | In 1985 I received letters from several women who described themselves as ‘ former secretaries ’ for Proctor and Gamble . |
| 6 | I received representations from both parties on [ Date ] and expect to receive replies to the representations on [ Date ] . |
| 7 | I needed reassurance from many colleagues that they too were thinking along the same lines . |
| 8 | I knew Moore for many years and can testify that he was a master of lifelike representation . |
| 9 | The idea was to try to bring back the spirit of entrepreneurship that I thought people in these neighbourhoods would be inclined towards if the right environment were established . ’ |
| 10 | I took advantage of these facts for my purposes . |
| 11 | Always an optimist , I sent copies of these reviews to Mr William Ross and to Mr King-Murray . |
| 12 | I gave talks on those subjects the participants judged to be of most interest ( e.g. tense and aspect , sentence connexion ) , and the Workshop progressed from the theoretical basis of communicative grammar to descriptive topics , and finally ( in the last two days ) to detailed devising and planning of teaching materials . |
| 13 | The head of the French secret service , the Comte de Marenches , who had visited the Shah just before he left Teheran , flew from Paris to express his won concerns to both kings . |
| 14 | Furthermore , Rossi and Rosadini ( 1967 ) , who also used the Amytal technique , reported that only one patient out of 74 right handers , all of whom received injections on both sides , did not have exclusively left hemisphere speech dominance . |
| 15 | Three days later the UN Security Council approved a resolution , without a vote , which recommended membership for both states . |
| 16 | Thus comparisons could be made which revealed progress in some areas and decline in others . |
| 17 | They decided to move on to Muscle Bay , which provided Gould with few prizes . |
| 18 | The organisation of the Latin office of the Church at the Canonical Hours evolved from a complex tradition of teaching which found justification for these hours of prayer in both Old and New Testaments of the Bible ; and a general pattern emerged in which they were connected with the Passion narrative . |
| 19 | In 1951 , another purine , 6-mercaptopurine ( 6-MP ) , was found which caused remissions in some leukaemias . |
| 20 | These powers were invoked in 1988 for the purpose of direct political censorship when the BBC and the IBA were ordered not to transmit any interviews with representatives of Sinn Fein , the Ulster Defence Association , the IRA or certain other extremist groups , or to broadcast any statement which incited support for such groups . |
| 21 | Senegalese President Abdou Diouf visited Kinshasa on Nov. 22 to attend the signing of the agreement brokered by Wade , which included calls by both sides for their supporters to eschew violence and to clear the way for the functioning of the national conference . |
| 22 | Great emphasis has already been laid on the rise in population which took place in these centuries . |
| 23 | Normally , the PFF planned the route , which took account of many factors such as the avoidance of heavily-defended areas and the upper winds . |
| 24 | A formula would have to be developed which took account of these differences . |
| 25 | In a wider cultural perspective , this was the period too of Fascism and Stalinism , of the apparent collapse of socialist revolutionary possibilities in the advanced capitalist countries , and of the emergence within ‘ Western Marxism ’ of varied attempts ( by Lukács , by Gramsci and by the Frankfurt School , to which Adorno belonged ) to adapt Marxist theory in ways which took account of these developments . |
| 26 | Something of a myth has developed about the universality of ‘ live ’ variety that can be explained in terms of generalizations based on those great centres London and New York , and by the ubiquitous nature of printed sheet music which often used the name of a star as a selling gimmick and which took songs into many pubs and drinking saloons as well as into many homes . |
| 27 | They produced a magazine called Feed Us , which contained contributions from many children in the school . |
| 28 | In place of a draft provision which gave protection in all cases where criminal or disciplinary proceedings were possible in a third State , the final Convention text allows States to declare that they will respect privileges and duties under the law of third States to the extent specified in the declaration . |
| 29 | This was the traditional view which held sway for many years . |
| 30 | She knew that a record had been kept on the child , including an educational psychologist 's report , and that the school logbook would record other incidents , so she sought disclosure of these documents to help her in her case against the authority . |