Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] i [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Non , Inspector , everyone had the same — oh , save for the Prince of Wales for whom I made a special soup . ’ |
| 2 | When the Second World War broke out in Europe , it was difficult to get supplies of helpful books , and when the Japanese came into it after the disaster of Pearl Harbour , I myself , as well as the clergy and students for whom I had a pastoral responsibility , felt the need of prayers to meet the threatening danger , as well as the provision of prayers which would express a Christ-like spirit about war , enemies in war , dangers in war and sufferers in war . |
| 3 | They were the faces of two entirely separate people , and try as I would to superimpose them they would n't focus into a single man for whom I had a single , straightforward feeling . |
| 4 | a lot of the people used to come in and they 'd be in in his hotel , boozing rather than being at the pub you know , he says it for me I got a bottle and everything there . |
| 5 | Ron then spoke about debt management and Bank deposits , after which I took the platform to talk about investment and pensions . |
| 6 | I only kept the machine for a month and then sold it ( I often wonder how the lady buyer fared ) , after which I bought a Knitmaster 3500 . |
| 7 | ‘ When the first bell went and I saw the way Lennox was going after him I told the guys watching with me that Ruddock had better watch for that left of Lewis 's or he 'd be counter-punched with the right and get himself knocked out — and that 's exactly what happened . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ An eternity of time passed during which I had a blazing row with a nosy seagull which kept hovering over me . |
| 9 | I was in for two weeks , during which I had a wide variety of tests . |
| 10 | Another gift that was well received was a book of poetry for which I made a pressed flower bookmark . |
| 11 | The last time 1 wanted a telephone number in the US , I dialled information in New York for a number in Washington , for which I had no address . |
| 12 | He and I were present at the recent opening of its new school building , for which I had the pleasure of being the Minister responsible for making available the necessary resources . |
| 13 | He took all my clothes , my underpants , my toothbrush and razor , in return for which I received a clean set of fatigues , underwear and a wash kit . |
| 14 | I was lending a hand in the store of one of my compatriots ; for which I received a miserly stipend and a corner of a room in the warehouse already occupied by two young Chinese . |
| 15 | Another day we hired bikes and rode through the forests , seeing the Blue Lake and the Green Lake , and William and I went to Buried Village ( where we found a nice cafe with a superb carrot cake , for which I got the recipe ) . |
| 16 | I implored him not to , but he was adamant , thus following Rear Admiral Poland who had resigned from Muirfield in consequence of my being blackballed there ( ‘ it makes no sense at all ’ , he wrote to the secretary , ‘ that he can be accepted as a guest but blackballed as a member ’ ) : both were sacrifices for which I felt a personal responsibility and which caused me much distress . |
| 17 | It was dick-work , routing out pests , for which I paid a fair price . |
| 18 | See I 've got to remember , you see a few of them I had a load of them all talking , you know when I were at school ? |
| 19 | At one of them I had the experience of hearing the Bax works played by Eda Kersey . |
| 20 | From one or other of them I obtained the papers on the case , and these , together with the letters I myself had received from Meehan , were enough to dispel any lingering doubts . |
| 21 | ‘ From the age of sixteen onwards , I had one single ambition , from which I never wavered , in the prosecution of which I spent every ounce I could , on which I really and deliberately staked my whole contentment ; and I recognise myself as having unmistakeably failed in it . ’ |
| 22 | Griffiths far instance , only came across Lewis 's power of imaginative invention and insight of which I had no conception before . |
| 23 | His adventures concluded he retires to Dulwich saying that he will never regret those two years , with their ‘ scenes of which I had no previous conception ’ leading to ‘ the enlargement of my mind ’ , PP passim . |
| 24 | I point to the last Northern Ireland Assembly , of which I had the honour of being Speaker . |
| 25 | At the conference of the Institute of Housing at Harrogate in 1985 , Mr. Banham praised the authority of the city of which I had the privilege to be leader , describing it as the most efficient authority in Britain . |
| 26 | ( I did not earn , as Leslie imagined , three times his pay : in fact I got £200 a year , out of which I paid a pound a week income tax , a guinea a week for billeting , five shillings for transport , and the cost of meals at the cafeteria at Bletchley . |
| 27 | And I remind this council of something I said a few years ago of an incident , incident concerning the Atherstone hunt in my ward where the hounds attacked the dogs of , a couple of dogs of a constituent of mine in his back garden totally uncontrolled , they were running amuck right across land in Ellistown this is nothing the hunt could do nothing the hunt tried to do they were too busy off still dashing ahead chasing the fox or what they thought was a fox . |
| 28 | Yet despite it I experienced a sort of expectation . |
| 29 | The fear got worse and when it reached the stage where five brandies were required to get me on stage , I had to stop and take stock of myself I had no desire to inflict an alcoholic parent on MY children . |
| 30 | of what I heard the previous week . |