Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four of them lived in one house with the father of the two men . |
| 2 | The huge majority of them lived in rented houses in North Oxford . |
| 3 | Thanking you for the great benefits of your goodness to me tokened in these natural provisions here . |
| 4 | They brought their families , some of them intermarried with time-expired soldiers who chose to settle here , too , and it grew into a real , life-and-death town , where everyone had a stake sunk so deep that when the legions started to leave , the locals still could n't get out . |
| 5 | The oldest tavern is the Vlissinghe , of which mention was first made in 1552 , but there are hundreds of little bars and cafes , many of them housed in olde-worlde buildings that have the Americans squealing with delight . |
| 6 | Few of them recovered from this experience . |
| 7 | The popes pressed their primatial and jurisdictional claims with impressive continuity in this period ; using every appeal to them made by Carolingian churchmen seeking to bolster their own positions ; making a bid to establish the authority of the papacy over the Bulgarian church ; declaring its sole power to establish a new archbishopric as at Magdeburg in 968 ; and developing the special relationship with the new Polish church at the turn of the first millennium which would ultimately bear fruit in a Polish pope at the turn of the second . |
| 8 | They stood together watching her , both of them moved by unfamiliar feelings . |
| 9 | Her assessment of me changed from one of total hostility to a slightly puzzled statement that my experience with these doctors , in her own words ‘ may prove , after all , not to have been a bad thing for this peculiar chap — half high principle and half unashamed pragmatism — to have been brought into personal dealings with this autocratic profession and to experience at first hand the kind of behaviour that has been driving Ministers of Health to despair for years ’ . |
| 10 | Perhaps Isabelle had n't wanted them found at all , had intended her secret , whatever it was , to die with her . |
| 11 | ‘ Arise ’ is a registered newspaper ; the publisher 's name is under the masthead ; you 'll find me listed as assistant editor . |
| 12 | Yorkshire , in common with East Anglia , has an ever-growing number of memorials , many of them dedicated to Canadian squadrons of Bomber Command . |
| 13 | Many of them fled to neighbouring parishes where the manorial structure was far weaker and poor immigrants were not prevented from setting up home . |
| 14 | During 1981–2 , twenty schemes of Unified Vocational Preparation were run in Wales , all of them sponsored by industrial training boards and the further education colleges . |
| 15 | Among the developing countries that participated in the World Fertility Survey ( WFS ) , the median age at which women aged 25 to 29 years at the time of interview first married or entered a union ( i.e. , the age at which one half of them entered into conjugal union ) ranged from 13.1 years in Bangladesh to 23.0 in Sri Lanka . |
| 16 | Yet it was the poem that brought Wordsworth to the notice of clerics in need of sermon material ( his poems were used for this purpose throughout the last century , and I have heard them used in this ) . |
| 17 | He has two or three bidets in his house in Beverly Hills , but he has never seen them used in this way , with gusto . |
| 18 | They held them cradled across one arm and even with the bullet belts and all , they looked kind of funny . |
| 19 | I believe some of them visited at first , but it gradually dwindled — even Sonia and Paul Mason , whom she was very friendly with , stopped visiting . |
| 20 | Between December and March , according to the Bank of Mexico , foreign ownership of them rose by 12.9 billion pesos ( $1.4 billion ) , compared with 27.6 billion in all of 1992 . |
| 21 | ‘ Hey , Alec ! ’ one of them shouted from ten yards down the corridor . |
| 22 | Cos I asked about that before I travelled down because I was worried in , you know , in case of breaking down . |
| 23 | When I asked about local amnesties , I was told : ’ It is for chief officers of police to consider whether offering opportunities for disposing of offensive weapons would be a worthwhile crime prevention initiative in their own force area . ’ |
| 24 | I asked about 20 people emerging from the polling station . |
| 25 | I said , Why do n't you just say , ‘ I asked about those records you ordered ? ’ |
| 26 | Sometimes I asked about these stories . |
| 27 | In 1938 I was offered a programme with full rehearsal and that I accepted , though when it came to the time I asked for separate section rehearsals — first strings , then winds — which met with some opposition , particularly as the orchestra was convinced that it knew the music already . |
| 28 | I asked for that did n't I ? |
| 29 | I asked for that to be done at the earliest opportunity , the following morning at 9 o'clock . |
| 30 | yes that was at quarter past eight Saturday morning and at ten to eight my aunty came at night and went fucking mad she said I want a dressing and I want it now , twelve hours ago I asked for that dressing and were n't done then came |