Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [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 her mind she went to that island and it was there that the ‘ shower ’ played upon her cancer cells ‘ and washed them away . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I told him all about Marie and showed him the pictures we took in that photo booth . |
| 14 | There is a footnote from the editors : ‘ We now unreservedly withdraw any recommendation we made about this book . ’ |
| 15 | Even the songs they sang on such occasions had a defiance in them , always remembering of course they had a drink in them at the time . |
| 16 | This is Eadmer 's account of the steps they took in this emergency. : |
| 17 | We were talking about budget decisions and after the microphones closed at the end of the programme they commented about that home in Blenheim Road in Kidlington , and to them it was n't healthy . |
| 18 | They put up a prize at the awards ceremony they 're prepared to do all the art work for nothing or at cost price for the awards ceremony they laid on this evening for us now if three people turn up at their evening they gon na say as we putting our money in the right organisation |
| 19 | They were the last words they spoke to each other . |
| 20 | Among the informants he met in this way was a Lebanese Army officer known as ‘ The Captain' , with close connections to the Jafaar clan . |
| 21 | The white football he regarded as another non-starter . |
| 22 | But his philosophy that when your ‘ time 's up your time 's up ’ saw him through and he 's back to tell the tale , though sadly he chose not to include the pictures he took at that time . |
| 23 | It never again had quite the effect it did on that day when Grom the Paunch of Misty Mountain was driven from the field , and , in truth , Gambo could n't quite remember that recipe to his dying day . |
| 24 | Thirty years afterwards Charles still felt deeply the humiliation he suffered at this time ; but unlike some little princes in similar situations , he lived , politically as well as literally , to fight another day . |
| 25 | Imagine how much time and effort would be required if each speaker had to establish the denotation of each term he produced on each occasion of use . |
| 26 | Of the speeches he made on these occasions we have such various descriptions it is impossible to be sure what he actually said . |
| 27 | At intervals throughout the next months he worked on this material , in preparation for his show at the Lefevre Gallery in September 1951 and for other exhibitions . |
| 28 | In all this writing the emphasis was usually very heavily , as in the past , on the obligation of the diplomat to defend jealously the honour of the sovereign he represented against any claim , any change in ceremonial , which might be construed as the slightest threat to it . |
| 29 | The responses I heard to that question were most unsatisfactory , the County Council 's response was , ah , well we 'll have to get together again with the group of authorities , now if you look back over how long it has taken to produce this particular strategy that 's exceedingly worrying , that means they 'll have to get together again , even if it takes half the time or a third of the time , they 'll have to get together again towards nineteen ninety seven ninety eight to be considering the strategy post two thousand and six . |
| 30 | Scotland I found to most Peruvians who had heard of the place meant two things : whisky and Cubillas . |