Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that one was and I heard a year ago but I never saw it till the bus driver I went with some years ago up to John O'Groats . |
| 2 | Mathematics was my subject , I was simply transferring what talents I had in that direction from one held to another . ’ |
| 3 | Of course I failed on all counts and so I was ignored most of the time — passed over . |
| 4 | He said of course I scampered through these bull rushes , they never saw me they never caught me and they never ever knew who it was who 'd done it , see . |
| 5 | Of course I refused with much indignation , and he grew very angry . |
| 6 | All the money I earned in that period my husband 's cousin took away from me . |
| 7 | The only wheel I found on this trip is still very much in business , grinding corn on two pairs of stones . |
| 8 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 9 | somebody 's Chronicle I borrowed for some reason |
| 10 | But then avowed with a great deal of feeling , ‘ I sorely needed somebody 's help when , with daylight I returned to that hotel and discovered you 'd taken a train back to Mariánské Láznë ! ’ |
| 11 | In a contest which arose from such proceedings about five years ago a Man was killed . |
| 12 | However , there continued to be successes from individual business units which resulted from another year of good effort , team work and commitment by Wimpol staff throughout the Group . |
| 13 | Significantly , it was the consul with a Greek surname , Q. Publilius Philo , who was entrusted with the drive into Campania which led to this pact in 326 . |
| 14 | … not noise , but something more like an invisible hammer which smacked into both ears at once . |
| 15 | This rethinking went on in episcopal households and monasteries as well as in some urban schools which survived in some areas well into the sixth century . |
| 16 | The pictures which led to such demand for the Daily Mirror that the Sold Out signs went up at newsagents all over the country . |
| 17 | And the gap which had to some extent been there from the beginning in popular consciousness between ‘ Hitler 's war ’ for racial empire and territorial aggrandisement , and the patriotic defence of the ‘ Fatherland ’ was widening . |
| 18 | A suggested reason for this decision is that to grant an action would have subverted the common law negligence action which lay in these circumstances . |
| 19 | Hough and Mayhew ( 1988 ) regard these figures as underestimates and Worrall and Pease ‘ s ( 1986 ) re-analysis of the BCS data which looked at all crimes , and attempted crimes , involving contact and where the victim could identify whether or not they knew the offender , found that women were much more likely to say that they knew the offender well and that the offender was a spouse in nearly 40 per cent of cases . |
| 20 | Waldendale means the dale of the Welshman , Welsh being a word once used to describe any foreigner , though in this case it probably refers to the last remnants of the Celtic peoples who retreated to this dale in the face of Norse and Anglo-Saxon expansion . |
| 21 | Western philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who speculated on these matters usually emphasized two criteria : |
| 22 | A telephone call to London found an agent who specialised in such transactions , and an appointment was made . |
| 23 | He thought that any Special Agent who dressed like this guy would be disciplined . |
| 24 | In her mind she went to that island and it was there that the ‘ shower ’ played upon her cancer cells ‘ and washed them away . ’ |
| 25 | There 's only so much that anybody 's brain can handle at any one time so let's just do a little experiment because there was a chap called George Miller an American psychologist who worked on this idea of what is the capacity of the brain , how many bits of information can the brain hold on to at any given time . |
| 26 | Marx and Engels suggest that priests were the first ideologists who emerged at this stage . |
| 27 | Visitors were not welcomed upstairs , and if Mrs Bostock haughtily insisted on the sovereign nature of her companionship she met with little encouragement in that belief . |
| 28 | Then four brothers turned up in a bus and killed three brothers who lived in that house next door . |
| 29 | The yeomen , husbandmen and craftsmen who lived in these tenements had mostly just a single fireplace in their timber-framed houses at the time of the hearth tax return of 1672 . |
| 30 | I told him all about Marie and showed him the pictures we took in that photo booth . |