Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the survey did not ask them if they sold the products about which they said they had received insufficient training . |
| 2 | Coleridge 's Welsh visit , by contrast , was perhaps the least significant part of his wanderings during the next few weeks , and almost from the moment he left Cambridge , his simple plans for what he called his ‘ peregrination ’ began to grow more complex . |
| 3 | For her ability , her kindness and her enthusiasm for everything she did she will be remembered . |
| 4 | My earliest memories of being abused are of going into a neighbour 's house when I was five or six and getting money for what he made me do . |
| 5 | ‘ When I saw Tencel early on and heard the story about it I thought it was a great breakthrough . |
| 6 | This little ritual lasted about two minutes after which she raised her eyes and calmly told me that my money signified ‘ death ’ . |
| 7 | Andrew Jackson got a bit nearer what I thought we were asking for with his ‘ Crazy For You ’ from Madonna in support of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party . |
| 8 | Sometimes Brian tried to comfort himself with the fact that , however much he had wanted a child , he had not forced motherhood on Celia , that Harry 's conception had not exactly been his fault ; but then that thought had been instantly negated by the realisation that his own pleasure at her pregnancy , their move to the country and his insistence that all would be well , amounted to a foolish bigoted optimism for which he blamed himself entirely . |
| 9 | A lot of it was from ‘ Achtung Baby ’ , the album through which they reinvented themselves and took their act to new heights . |
| 10 | Features assistant Jayne Dowle , 24 , married sound engineer Dave Elliott in a humanist ( strictly non-religious ) ceremony for which she wrote her own marriage vows . |
| 11 | The Royal Canadian Mounted Police were equally upset by Igor Gouzenko 's revelations that a large Russian spy ring existed right under their noses about which they knew nothing . |
| 12 | Wilde , Shaw , Shakespeare , and Tree , the four authors of what he called his ‘ revelations ’ , were all to be subjects of his biographies . |
| 13 | Although this was no fault of theirs you hated them for it . |
| 14 | Others remembered setting Greek , Latin , other foreign languages and mathematics ( subjects of which they knew nothing , but which were a matter of professional pride ) . |
| 15 | She passed by the lifeguard , and after she had gone some three or four steps past him she turned her head , smiled , and waved to him . |
| 16 | Thus the poor were not slow to demand ( perhaps as a crowd , with its own forms of theatre and symbolism ) recognition of what they considered their " rights " . |
| 17 | It was vaguely insulting to know that he treated her as casually as he would have treated any stranger with whom he found himself forced to share a house . |
| 18 | His voice was soft , silky , which she supposed was a warning , but she still was n't prepared for the speed with which he moved her top aside . |
| 19 | Meredith 's senses were alerted to his hard , firm male body , the command with which he manoeuvred them around the square , the pressure of his fingers against her supple spine . |
| 20 | Kevin Drinkell , Coventry 's record signing from Rangers , ushered the club with whom he began his career towards the exit with a debut goal of which dreams are made . |
| 21 | The typical picture in such industries was one in which international oil companies , having secured concessions under which they risked their capital , discovered and developed the resource . |
| 22 | This year our stocks were customer-led , and we stuffed the shops with what we knew our customers wanted . ’ |
| 23 | Both of them were taken aback by the force with which she said it and she blushed red . |
| 24 | The Aborigines who were with me , and of whom I must speak in the highest praise , for the readiness with which they rendered me their assistance , affirmed , upon learning the nature of my pursuits , that they had come to meet me . ’ |
| 25 | We were impressed with the fluency with which she manipulated her thousand word vocabulary , though speech itself did seem to be a considerable effort for her . |
| 26 | All these memories are connected incoherently to my mother : the oozing uterine passage closing in on Superman ; the dead man disclosed by nuns [ so pretty and so erotically close to the nightclub ] ; and the sadness of Limelight where , sitting in the dark with her I knew her pleasure at the tale was different to mine , an adult one , beyond me . |
| 27 | I lived there for eighteen months with someone I thought I loved , indeed who I did , do , no , did love . ’ |
| 28 | It also involved a sensational TV interview martin Crowe had with his brother Jeff in which he revealed he had been asked to resign as captain on the fourth day of the third Test . |
| 29 | Indeed we are rarely aware of them as rules , until they are broken , since they are typical of the settings in which we received our moral training . |
| 30 | But George Dunbar , whose renegade 's knowledge of his countrymen and their terrain King Henry had seen fit to use where it could be most effective , on the Scottish march from which he derived his title , had counselled the waiting game , and Northumberland had come down upon his side . |