Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the decrees of the Council are preserved , seventy-one in all , and nearly all of them became incorporated in the Church 's authoritative collection of the canon law compiled in 1234 . |
| 2 | As they became established , shares in many of them became quoted on the Stock Exchange . |
| 3 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 4 | And in fact , I think in recent years what we know as the third world is the fourth , because those oil producing countries in the third world retained the status of being third and everyone got pushed to the fourth . |
| 5 | The general effect of widespread miscegenation was , as in North American the creation of large number of métis , many of whom became assimilated into the ‘ Russian ’ population of Siberia . |
| 6 | When it was refused , some of them tried to climb over the wall . |
| 7 | And everyone tried to climb on the bandwagon . |
| 8 | And at me let fly with a ringing broadside . |
| 9 | As a newcomer to such work , I became involved through a meeting with Johanna Carrie . |
| 10 | From this first experiment , I became fascinated with the problem of including lights in paintings . |
| 11 | From this first experiment , I became fascinated with the problem of including lights in paintings . |
| 12 | As a boy , encouraged by my mother , I became fascinated by the mass of mostly unsorted papers lying in the cellars at Plas Newydd . |
| 13 | I became fascinated by the variety of ways . |
| 14 | I became fascinated by the variety of ways . |
| 15 | We did n't see any whales , sharks , or polar bears underwater , but I became fascinated by the cast of characters which made up the food chain in these waters . |
| 16 | Whilst at college I became intrigued by the evidence that Indian art seemed to mean ancient Indian art , referring only to that era before imperialism . |
| 17 | I became assimilated into the gay community and my identity as a Black person sloughed off me . |
| 18 | ‘ It hit Britain in a big way in the mid 80s and I became engrossed in the game . |
| 19 | He commented on his project : ‘ The more I explored , the more I became absorbed with the mystery of the environment . |
| 20 | I became engaged in a violent battle , first on behalf of the profession and subsequently as a mediator , when Mrs Barbara Castle — then the Secretary of State for Health and Social Security — pursued an honourable , but in my view misguided , determination to eradicate private practice from this country . |
| 21 | Life became so stressful that when I was making The Power Game the doctor put me on Mogadon and I became hooked for a while . |
| 22 | So flustered was I , in fact , that I became entangled with the bicycles in the hall ( my sons always keep them there , and other things being equal I usually get past them without too much difficulty ) , and I arrived in the dining-room even more distraught than I set out from the study . |
| 23 | Looking intermittently at the so-called colonial art of Latin America in churches , museums , private collections and books , I became magnetised by the figures of angels . |
| 24 | It was only when I actually visited the Broads that I became infected with the same enthusiasm which led Ransome to write the books . |
| 25 | Mr Waite , who was freed last November after five years in Lebanon , says on the ABC programme 20/20 : ‘ One day I asked to go to the bathroom . |
| 26 | I asked to speak to the person in charge of the station . |
| 27 | When I asked to speak for a moment with Miss Lavenza , a manservant showed me into a living-room and asked me to wait . |
| 28 | At the age of 42 I applied to go on a two-year business and finance course and finally , after a lot of readjustment , I have just had the results — pass with a few distinctions and merits thrown in . |
| 29 | I avoided looking at the headless pigeon in the gutter . |
| 30 | I avoided looking at the thermometer . |