Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As usual each one said something different , so I began timing my contractions and breathing deeply as I 'd practised . |
| 2 | Leslie Phillips played a psychiatrist and the part of the headmaster was played by the popular radio comedian Ted Ray — making his only ‘ Carry On ’ picture ( he would have made more , but Associated British who had him under contract but had never used him , refused to allow him to make them ) . |
| 3 | Not Napoleon cos this this one thought it was Napoleon |
| 4 | and eventually after some searching they nominated someone who then resigned from her post not Clare |
| 5 | With a further three she felt she had sufficient evidence to suggest that she could have supported the client at home but was overruled by others . |
| 6 | Nearly half those who killed themselves were suffering from mental illness , most of those were being treated for those problems when they died . |
| 7 | No we taped er or forty five what did he say ? |
| 8 | He was transformed into this sour lump of unbaked dough and , if the old , soft-voiced , slippery-tongued Finn had disturbed her , this new one cut her heart . |
| 9 | And that I 'm real sorry I missed her . ’ |
| 10 | In the early 1900s she began her research on the formation of sand ripples on the seashore caused by the oscillatory movement of water , and this led her to develop the ‘ Ayrton fan ’ in 1915 , a hand-operated device for expelling poisonous gases from the trenches . |
| 11 | In the early nineteen-sixties they liked their policy centralised ( and linked to manpower projections ) and their institutions big . |
| 12 | Ric Sissons 's team-mates in the Sussex University teams of the early 1970s who christened him ‘ Red Ric ’ were clearly unaware of the fact that the far left have been no more immune to the game 's charms than any other section of the community . |
| 13 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 14 | In the early 1590s he turned his attention to the Maritimes and New England and his long proposal for colonizing and developing the commerce of this region is one of the fullest and most sensible colonial projects of the period . |
| 15 | The handsome young Annamese in his early twenties who offered his hand promptly to Joseph and his mother had the piercing gaze and broad forehead of a scholar . |
| 16 | In some quarters , of course , he was enormously popular , and it may have been that as a young man in his early twenties he found it difficult to cope with the adulation of the fans . |
| 17 | Even pictorial Futurism of course contained much that was new ; as opposed to Cubism it was primarily an art of movement , concerned with treating large ambitious subjects , and with an aggressively contemporary aesthetic which expressed itself in its destructive attitude towards the past and a glorification of the machine ; unlike Cubism it was a highly romantic and literary kind of painting . |
| 18 | Waugh perceived a resemblance between the two books himself , and in his letter to Orwell on Nineteen Eighty-Four he reproached him in a jibe as potent as any he ever made to friend or enemy : ‘ Men who love a crucified God need never think of torture as all-powerful . ’ |
| 19 | After becoming a socialist in the early 1880s he retained what he called ‘ an Englishman 's wholesome horror of government interference and centralisation . ’ |
| 20 | In the early 1930s he turned his attention towards bibliography , becoming both special lecturer at the London School of Librarianship and joint editor of the important , if short-lived , series Oxford Books in Bibliography , as well as writing his classic , The Beginnings of Systematic Bibliography ( 1935 ) . |
| 21 | And the chap sort of the head of social services or local government officer , he said well in the nineteen nineties he said it is still possible , if you want to keep your children away from school . |
| 22 | By the early 1950s he had his own firm , loading ships . |
| 23 | In the early 1950s he used his creation to improve the size of the Aberdeen Angus and began to outcross with the red Beevbilde to produce a new breed of black beef cattle which combined Angus quality with the Lincoln 's fast weight gains . |
| 24 | If it 's that hard I had it before you said that . |
| 25 | As one person put it , ‘ The only ones who knew me from the time I was born have gone , and it 's almost as if that period in my life is less real now that there is no one left alive who shared it with me . ’ |
| 26 | But they were n't , even if the stocky little one wanted them to be . |
| 27 | But I do n't think it 's three thousand I thought it was four thousand . |
| 28 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 29 | Er seven ninety nine I got it |
| 30 | Fifty thousand we set it up to . |