Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nell was sitting at a table with a fortyish couple who she later told me owned one of the horses in the box-car , a dark bay called Redi-Hot . |
| 2 | The reason for Dizzy 's locking of the door behind them became apparent within a minute , when Alina heard a hesitant tap on the other side followed by a young woman 's voice calling Dizzy 's name . |
| 3 | One of them got lost in the corridors and another dropped some important equipment into the sea . |
| 4 | And eleven of them got involved in a fist fight in the middle of one of those New York streets . |
| 5 | We find them mentioned first during the reign of Edward I , in the 14th century when they were assessed to pay 20/ for the knighting of the Black Prince . |
| 6 | I became involved with the Union ( ACTTS ) when an Equal Opportunities Policy Working Party was set up by them in 1984 . |
| 7 | I became involved with the inhabitants as soon as I was old enough to overturn a leaf . |
| 8 | Living in San'a , I was initially engrossed in the visual aspects of the architecture , but as I became involved with the Yemeni families , I started to record as accurately as possible all aspects of the traditional San'a culture that was rapidly being swallowed up by Western influence . |
| 9 | I have always loved dogs and I became involved with the association when I met a lady who was also involved in puppy training . |
| 10 | Brathay Women 's Institute decided to work on Spinning Galleries , and as I am a spinner and weaver and at that time was a member of the Institute , I became involved in the search for galleries . |
| 11 | The more I became involved in the executive work of CBC the less I liked it , but the more I worked with Ira Dilworth the more I liked him . |
| 12 | Slowly I became calmer among the beautiful mountains . |
| 13 | In the meantime , I became friendly with a neighbour , Derek Mills , and his wife Val , who said I could build an aviary on their land . |
| 14 | I became friendly with the woman in charge , a vast and haughty person who answered to the sobriquet Duchesse . |
| 15 | I became one of the enthusiastic mob ( mostly female ) who hung over the balcony rail at the end of performances of Swan Lake and Coppelia , yelling for Margot and Bobby ( Fonteyn and Helpmann ) , as if we knew them personally . |
| 16 | Bear in mind I became cynical after the introduction of Unified Threads in 1948 . |
| 17 | I realised the truth when I became close to a friend of a friend and gradually fell in love with her . |
| 18 | I became obsessed with the whole idea and spent an enormous amount of time researching it . |
| 19 | By half-term I weighed seven stone nine pounds , and I suspect it was only then that I became weight-conscious in the literal sense . |
| 20 | Through this experience I became interested in the mechanisms of contemporary of Mori 's ‘ composite card ’ . |
| 21 | I spent a great deal of time with housemasters ( see Chapter 22 ) and hence I became interested in the kinds of problems they encountered and began to follow-up the children I saw regularly in their offices . |
| 22 | As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river . |
| 23 | But I was to discover another facet of Soviet hospital life when , after the last meal of the day at six o'clock , I became aware of a plaintive female voice outside my window . |
| 24 | As I entered the cobbled main street , I became aware of a feeling of unease . |
| 25 | My glance fell upon a stricken shrub and I became aware of a terrible aloneness in that sullen and deserted place . |
| 26 | 3 In a very recent photograph I became aware of a shifting in the function of the photographic paper — ‘ skin ’ had become the object of the image — an undulating swathe of black rubber littered with bright crimson tulip petals , as though gashes in the fabric . |
| 27 | ‘ I became aware of a disturbance at the back of my house . |
| 28 | As we paddled on down this part of the river I became aware of a huge commotion behind me . |
| 29 | Because I became aware of the problems when I first came into gliding , I wrote a booklet on the subject , called Sub-Gravity Sensations and Gliding Accidents ( available from the BGA in the UK and SSA in the USA ) . |
| 30 | As I fiddled frantically with buttons that would n't depress and a monopod that would n't telescope downwards so I could actually see what professional fingers find in the dark , I became aware of the incredulous stare of a Japanese with an even bigger lens than mine . |