Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [verb] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 21-year-old star — plucked from children 's TV last year to host TOTP — says : ‘ The doctors told me I had a very bad case of food poisoning . ‘ |
| 2 | She did seem to meet quite a number of people on her walks ; people whom I knew a little , so that fragments of conversation pursued me . |
| 3 | I had the pleasure of sitting next to Prince Abdullah at luncheon , whom I found a most interesting young man . |
| 4 | Well , erm , I I give a very small example of that , er , we 're very privileged er , in having four distinguished leaders of the voluntary sector , who meet with us every four months , and they , er , we only meet for two two and a half hours , and we talk through what we think we 're trying to do , as a company . |
| 5 | I wanted to ‘ do ’ someone I knew a little , but when I approached my number one seed , he served me up Roy as a better choice ( Roy just happened to be on holiday so not able to comment ) . |
| 6 | A few weeks ago I wrote to inform your Mother and Aunts of the Death of Mr. Green 's eldest unmarried Daughter , who was the main prop of the Family , and of a plan which had been set on foot for their relief by raising a Subscription , to which I received a most kind and satisfactory reply . |
| 7 | I located a couple of book reviews I had done on matters to do with the period , one about writers of the thirties , the other about the Mass Observation project , added a letter in which I wrote a little about the book I was writing and sent them off . |
| 8 | May we move on therefore to this very important work programme which I think a very substantial matter |
| 9 | The device which I call a Wurly costs no more than a standard pump to run . |
| 10 | Erm I was rather interested by the comparisons which you explained a little earlier in the evidence erm if you 've got an aircraft which is er going to replace , as I understand it the Jaguar and the Phantom which has already been retired , er against which you 've been comparing the F three er and the G R four of the tornados and the harriers , then er that gives rise in my mind to the possibility that this is an aircraft which might replace all of these , in which case will that have consequences for the still er publicly declared intention to order two hundred and fifty , might we order more for example ? |
| 11 | She was , of course , a singer of the highest calibre — producing that wonderfully mellow and rounded sound that was ideal for the music of Mahler and Elgar ( of which she became a justly famous interpreter ) . |
| 12 | The housewife refers to them as external obligations to which she feels a deep need to conform . |
| 13 | Throughout her self-pitying monologue ( for which she received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination ) , all Dustin has to do is stare at her while his moustache droops in sympathy . |
| 14 | My mother preferred the daily serial , Mrs Dale 's Dairy , which she mocked a little but rather liked because it was about a doctor 's wife . |
| 15 | ‘ Of course , ’ Belinda murmured , thinking that it was typical of Dr Russell not to mention this illustrious connection , which she found a little intimidating . |
| 16 | One of the most frightening aspects of all intelligence agencies is the manner in which they create a totally false brand of patriotism in order to further a particular cause on the spurious grounds that only they understand what needs to be done and should not be asked to account or explain for any of their actions which must remain secret for all time . |
| 17 | And the reason I say it , and the reason I labour the point , is that I think amongst the problems that we 've encountered particularly in budget review is to have chief officers and their staff producing reports in which they have a very clear vested interest . |
| 18 | The steady flow of emigrants from the British Isles meant that landowners in the West Indies did not need to look further afield to find workers for growing tobacco , for which they needed a relatively small labour force working all the year round . |
| 19 | He loved to speak Yiddish , and every Sabbath would find family and guests , rabbis and friends , some of them world-famous , discussing the sermon , the latest books ( of which he had a very fine collection ) , Jewish history and literature — in Yiddish , Hebrew and English . |
| 20 | Because Karajan was a legend in his own lifetime and thus in some ways indistinguishable from the legendary figures of the past , it is important not to overlook the ways in which he effected a thoroughly modern revolution in both the method and the manner of orchestral training . |
| 21 | His preoccupation with Russia was to show itself shortly after with the publication of The Dark Side of the Moon , to which he wrote a most interesting Preface . |
| 22 | On 28th August , The Observer printed a short statement by Sir Harold Wilson in which he expanded a little on his earlier remarks . |
| 23 | Another of the recent ‘ difficult ’ actors is Mickey Rourke , the tough , abrasive , good-looking actor who was n't his usual handsome self as Johnny Handsome ( 1990 ) , in which he played a horribly disfigured hood . |
| 24 | He was also a member of the permanent commission of the International Railway Congress Association , in which he played a very active part , and a member of council of the Institution of Civil Engineers from 1928 to 1934 . |
| 25 | It is the letter of a man who believed his own values were better than those of most others , but who wanted the reassurance of friendship , after which he strove a little officiously , for the fact that this was really so . |
| 26 | Princes of Christendom , to which he attached a partially translated work of his own entitled An Adioynder ( 1624 ) , A Relation of Sundry Particular Wicked Plots … of the Spaniards ( 1624 ) , and A Second Part of Spanish Practises ( 1624 ) . |
| 27 | He also agreed that he once claimed surfing was better than sex , and had said he could not be gay because he went surfing , which he considered a largely heterosexual sport . |
| 28 | He also agreed that he once claimed surfing was better than sex , and had said he could not be gay because he went surfing , which he considered a largely heterosexual sport . |
| 29 | The spectre of the great apostasy was always a threat to the more ideologically committed evangelicals but Terence O'Neill 's reforms , tepid and half-hearted as they were , raised the spectre to a power and status from which it threatened a far greater number of rural Presbyterians who saw the proposed changes as proof that Paisley had been right all along . |
| 30 | The LEA , then , appears to have been interventive on matters which schools themselves ought to have dealt with , and laissez-faire on other matters in which it had a wholly legitimate interest . |