Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until I was eight I lived in the village of Feltwell in Norfolk where there was a joint RAF and USAF base . |
| 2 | After that I started in Bakery as an apprentice baker . |
| 3 | I was sure they could hardly wait , but then to be fair to Fenella she was the only woman under fifty I knew in London who made her own damson jam . |
| 4 | This I did in what I thought were circumstances of great secrecy . |
| 5 | Storm Jameson , a woman novelist active in the peace movement , later recalled : ‘ For some years after 1933 I lived in equivocal amity with pacifists and combative supporters of the League of Nations , adjusting my feelings , in good and bad faith , to the person I happened to be with . |
| 6 | The other half I sat in the Sheikha 's section trying to be as inconspicuous as possible . |
| 7 | In Chapter 2 I argued in a similar vein that the concept of an ontological existent involves the idea of non-arbitrariness , in the sense that by positing something as an ontological existent , i.e. as existing in its own right and not merely as an object of someone 's thought , we are by implication positing this something as a potential subject of a nun-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates . |
| 8 | So I did , just for a fortnight , but it was fourteen miles there in the morning , and fourteen back at night , and I 'm afraid I threw in the sponge ! |
| 9 | As he is interested in having inaccuracies corrected , perhaps I may be permitted to clear up some which appeared in his letter . |
| 10 | Charles 's sister Isabella , Edward II 's queen , was still alive , and his two predecessors , Louis X who died in 1316 , and Philip V who died in 1321 , had daughters — Philip had five . |
| 11 | Typescripts photocopied and distributed that carried the rivulet of dissent from eye to eye for the few who trusted in a future of change and the ultimate destruction of the monolith that controlled their lives . |
| 12 | Thus a proposed pit closure threatened the economic base of the entire community ; an absence of work for the male adults meant the destruction of every family 's economic foundation , for very few women ( save a few who worked in village shops etc. ) had either jobs or the local opportunities of jobs . |
| 13 | Given the Association 's fall in membership since the late 1940s , and given the views canvassed by some who worked in the field , exemplified by Bruce in The Highway , there were real fears that the WEA would lose its status as a Responsible Body . |
| 14 | This is a great part of the pleasure Matthew Spender found ; discovering craftsmen , for example , one of whom remembered who had built a palazzo in Florence , another who hid in the cellar for fear of thunderstorms , yet another who built him beehives . |
| 15 | A JETSKIER who died in a freak holiday accident was buried yesterday . |
| 16 | In 1903 she married in Paris Major John MacBride [ q.v. ] , |
| 17 | Until her marriage in 1903 she worked in post offices in Buckinghamshire , Essex , and Hampshire . |
| 18 | So far 500 individuals are seeking to become members , compared with the 970 who joined last year , and the 2,572 who joined in 1987 . |
| 19 | While all this good fortune unfolded , Seth said he was hard at work on his next novel , Mambo Mephiste , this one set in New Orleans . |
| 20 | But this one ended in terror when the mystery customer produced a hand gun |
| 21 | According to yet another study , this one published in the Lancet , red wine in moderation is thought to protect against coronary disease because it contains substances known as phenolic flavonoids . |
| 22 | The creature was large-headed , absurdly so , its body half man , half something lost in the primordial past . |
| 23 | The British government had naval attachés in Paris and Washington from 1860 , while a French one arrived in London in the same year . |
| 24 | This they succeeded in doing . |
| 25 | This they immersed in a solution containing pyrole ( a five membered organic ring molecule containing one nitrogen atom ) . |
| 26 | This they did in 1595 , when four galleys landed men at Mousehole and fired the village and Paul Church . |
| 27 | This they did in a quite literal way : Otto the Great , at the moment of his accession in 936 , went to Aachen to be ‘ elected ’ king of the Franks in Charlemagne 's own city ; he donned Frankish costume for the ceremony of investiture , was anointed and crowned in Charlemagne 's basilica . |
| 28 | Throughout the day there was torrential rain , but despite this everybody mucked in ( literally ) and worked very hard until late in the afternoon when the weather finally forced us to stop the good work . |
| 29 | Promoted to Field Marshall in 1895 he died in 1914 of pneumonia at the Front in France where he was visiting Indian divisions . |
| 30 | This it did in terms of the effect on the whole curriculum , and on individual subjects . |