Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A passenger sitting next to me flung a coin into the river with great enthusiasm . |
| 2 | If we look at the Church we find the numbers of monks and secular clergy growing , especially in the eleventh and twelfth centuries ; we also find that more and more of them lived a life of celibacy after the papal reform . |
| 3 | One or other of them drafted a statement which was a flat denial that he had misbehaved either sexually or politically . |
| 4 | you know I can understand now the people that have n't got the truth , when one of the , the mate , when the mate dies whether a woman or a , or a , or a husband dies , they want to die , they do n't want to live because I felt that , I felt that , what 's there , what 's there me left to live , my kids they 're , they have their own families , there all time , they have no time , I brought up three children , I have a full time job and I have time for every one of them to look after and to bring them up and to set them on their way to live and not one of them became a prisoner or something , you know , they 're all have nice jobs and , and nice kid nice people , one , nobody 's in the truth the boys |
| 5 | One of them became a cardinal , and , in 1130 , pope — or , as he came to be reckoned , an anti-pope . |
| 6 | Carvajal was survived by a wife and two sons : one of them became a broker on the exchange , but neither of them seems to have married . |
| 7 | It was perhaps ironic too , that six more sections were cut at Great Casterton , and none of them produced a scrap of pottery from the rampart later than the early second century . |
| 8 | New theories about education challenged women 's intellectual credentials since most of them lacked a knowledge of the classics . |
| 9 | One of them made a stand for repeal of the Corn Laws , which must have taken some guts in this neck of the woods . ’ |
| 10 | A couple of them made a break for it . |
| 11 | One of them made a farewell address : |
| 12 | When neither of them made a move she turned to her things on the bed . |
| 13 | Extract 1 : The ghost One day me met a witch Jamaica [ inaudible ] me ( gor ra ) mother — me saw her dere , me sit down an she tell me all the story alrigh% ? |
| 14 | The three of them entered a place outside time , on a day of such stillness and heat . |
| 15 | … and from them rose A cry that shiver 'd to the tingling stars . |
| 16 | Overnight , almost , I became a voyeur . |
| 17 | About four years after completing my work with lead poisoning I became a lecturer in medical genetics , working part-time as by then I had two young children . |
| 18 | I became a bird watcher in Orkney . |
| 19 | I became a story-teller : painting my face , filching a gaudily embroidered robe and , not being versed in the French tongue , pretending I was a traveller lately returned from seeing the fables of India and Persia . |
| 20 | ‘ Because I became a sister so young , I suppose I did have high expectations of myself . |
| 21 | It followed that some schools were more competitive and selective academically than others : those which had no fee-payers ( in the pre-1932 sense ) were startlingly similar in character and purpose to the type of post-war grammar school of which , very much later , I became a head . |
| 22 | ‘ To cut a long story short — I became a potter . ’ |
| 23 | B before I became a councillor I did n't really realize about the three tiers of local democracy . |
| 24 | I became a wearer of double-breasted suits , a leaner on bars , a discusser of interest rates . |
| 25 | [ Margaret Mulvihill , Charlotte Despard , 1989 ; Andro Linklater , An Unhusbanded Life , 1980 ; Charlotte Despard 's pocket diaries , 1913–26 , Belfast Public Record Office ; Charlotte Despard , ‘ In the Days of my Youth ’ ( unpublished memoir ) , Belfast PRO , and ‘ How I Became a Suffragette ’ , Women 's Franchise , July 1907 . ] |
| 26 | I became a curate . |
| 27 | Erm ah , now that erm I think I was reasonably happy most of the time , erm I know if I can sort of look at the other side of the coin erm , I became a bit apprehensive as the war went on and er , obviously it was n't going to last much longer . |
| 28 | For a brief spell I became a Troop Leader , which I enjoyed because the Troop Leader carried the flag , but unlike " Sister Anna " ( who also carried a banner in the song which I was to learn much later ) I had a handsome leather pouch which went over one shoulder . |
| 29 | I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way . |
| 30 | To save my life , I became a Russian . |