Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four of them lived in one house with the father of the two men . |
| 2 | That was a bloody laugh last week , though everyone got in such mess ! |
| 3 | Few of them recovered from this experience . |
| 4 | ‘ Arise ’ is a registered newspaper ; the publisher 's name is under the masthead ; you 'll find me listed as assistant editor . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Everyone involved at this period put in time and effort far beyond what might have been predicted . |
| 8 | He has two or three bidets in his house in Beverly Hills , but he has never seen them used in this way , with gusto . |
| 9 | They held them cradled across one arm and even with the bullet belts and all , they looked kind of funny . |
| 10 | Nothing gilded about this youth today . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | I asked for certain research facilities and I got them . |
| 14 | My searches even led me to the absurdity of being directed to the deep freeze in one newsagent when I asked for Spare Rib . |
| 15 | I asked for professional counselling which I did n't get . ’ |
| 16 | I asked for one ticket and paid for it , then I watched him ask for the same and fish down inside his carrier bag and bring out a ten pound note . |
| 17 | I asked for special leave and borrowed the eighty pounds for a short-term return ticket on the letter-mail route to the UK . |
| 18 | I asked for more money because of Zadak : I wanted to give him money for rain . |
| 19 | I asked for more work — anything to keep my mind occupied . |
| 20 | And when I say I asked for more polenta , you will know that we were dealing with an intake situation of Road to Damascus proportions . |
| 21 | Erm now councillor and I asked for this matter to be brought to this chamber because erm we felt that the matter w was important enough that all members of this council should have an opportunity to debate it . |
| 22 | Right , that 's the end of that then , so let's move on to the projected sales reports I asked for last time . |
| 23 | I asked with careful innocence |
| 24 | I asked on that occasion for considerably more information . |
| 25 | I asked in some surprise . |
| 26 | And I applied for that job , and I got it . |
| 27 | I lost it in 1963 on the A30 west of Salisbury when I skidded on some diesel oil and rolled over and over . |
| 28 | I gazed at this scene thinking that of all of the things I wanted when I was grown up , the one I wanted most was to play a harmonium . |
| 29 | Our trucks had open sides and Marius , Vermulen and I clung to each other , faces buried in our hoods , as we churned down the slushy autoroutes , the speed of the trucks sending icy , sawing winds through us at seventy kilometres per hour . |
| 30 | Nietzsche wrote : " When I heard of the fires in Paris , I felt annihilated for some days and was overwhelmed by fears and doubts ; the whole academic ( wissenschaftlich ) , philosophical , artistic world seemed an absurdity , if a single day could wipe out the most glorious works of art , even whole periods of art ; I clung with earnest conviction to the metaphysical value of art , which can not exist for the sake of poor human beings , but has higher missions to fulfil . " |