Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In 1943 I joined Northumberland , New Zealand Shipping Co vessel , and crossed the Atlantic to Panama , through to New Zealand and back again . |
| 2 | Whenever possible I chose crews who liked working in the north and they always backed me up well . |
| 3 | In the rickshaw on the way back from that morning 's tolly I asked Vimla whether she would like to be reborn as a hijra in her next life . |
| 4 | By the way , I really am sorry I hit Gavin . |
| 5 | Oh I 'm sorry I misunderstood John , then I 've |
| 6 | I was so bloody delighted to be alive I moved corpses minus their heads , legs and arms , and did n't turn a hair . |
| 7 | ‘ Shortly after that I met Ernest Owen in London at a big Rubery Owen function . |
| 8 | I heard the church clock strike two and some time after that I saw Matthew Choak 's little van go by . |
| 9 | ‘ Shortly after that I got blood poisoning and a clot in my leg . |
| 10 | ‘ After that I told Sir Alfred of my plans for a monocoque car for the next season , and got a sour letter back saying we had to win another grand prix before we talked about anything . |
| 11 | Soon after that I made arrangements to go to Australia ; I just felt I did n't want to be around when Mason and Jennifer got together . |
| 12 | I was pleased with W F Owtram 's opening two lines : ‘ Was it for this I quitted Rhondda , /In my dreams at large to wander … |
| 13 | Totally wrong I said D H Lawrence . |
| 14 | ‘ American blues artists did n't tour Australia back then ; it was only when I visited London in 1972 I saw BB King — that justtook me apart . |
| 15 | If I 'd been fourteen years old I should have commanded one shilling , but being only twelve and a half I got sixpence . |
| 16 | When I was 11 or 12 I had aspirations to be a goalkeeper too . |
| 17 | In July 1993 I left St Aidans in year 10 and moved to Suffolk . |
| 18 | On the night of 20–21 April 1808 I gave birth to a son . |
| 19 | And she 'd got , we was always very interested I played Puck in Midsummer 's Night 's Dream at school and all that kind of thing . |
| 20 | In 1985 I received letters from several women who described themselves as ‘ former secretaries ’ for Proctor and Gamble . |
| 21 | ‘ I am afraid I took pains to look out at the other side so as not to see him , ’ she had said . |
| 22 | I 'm afraid I cursed Mavis too . |
| 23 | The indicated remedy appeared to be spigelia , but when she was given this she developed palpitations and became quite anxious . |
| 24 | By this she meant society women who were compelled by their roles as wives and hostesses to live empty and meaningless lives . |
| 25 | Prior to this she played Ophelia in both Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead for Theatr Clwyd and on tour . |
| 26 | In this she discussed aspects of herself and of her art : |
| 27 | For this she drew accusations of inciting class warfare , as well as being politically indiscreet when her husband 's presidency is low on friends . |
| 28 | On 6 December 1881 she married Ernest David , son of George Bazett Colvin Leverson , a diamond merchant . |
| 29 | The brooch and the bag would make it clear she had originality although , taken in the context of the rest of the outfit , not too much . |
| 30 | In 1879 she visited repealers in Plymouth to canvass support for the new bill , which proposed that the courts should remove children living in the society of depraved and disorderly persons and place them in industrial schools . |