Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh aye that 's right I heard it on the radio . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm just grateful I met her before the final operation . ’ |
| 3 | IN FEBRUARY 1985 I found myself on a flight scheduled for the Yemen Arab Republic , now called Yemen since its amalgamation with the People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen in May 1990 . |
| 4 | Kim Hyon Hui , 27 , a convicted North Korean saboteur , received a presidential pardon on April 12 which exempted her from the death penalty . |
| 5 | When she was free she took him into the office and sank into a chair as though exhausted . |
| 6 | When her breasts were free she teased him with the top half of her peach-coloured bikini , waving it over his head and snatching it out of reach as he stretched up for it . |
| 7 | And when he had said this he placed himself at the feet of the Bishop , and there before all the people made a general confession of all his sins , and all the faults which he had committed against our Lord Jesus Christ . |
| 8 | Of the second category of bishops as regional leaders , the northern prelates afford obvious examples : in 1346 Archbishop Zouche and Bishop Kirkby of Carlisle participated in the defeat of the Scots at Neville 's Cross , while Bishop Hatfield of Durham rode into battle at Crécy ; ten years later he , too , campaigned against the Scots , and in 1372 he offered himself as a mercenary in the pope 's wars in Italy . |
| 9 | 2 He provided us with a new theory as to the essential reality of governing , in the period of classical parliamentary government , in the period when members of the Commons enjoyed a golden age of independence between the fall of patronage and the rise of highly organised political parties . |
| 10 | It hurts me now to realize how much I numbed myself from the searing pains of those years . |
| 11 | When I saw my friend Bob Hope in some comedy or other at the age of six I provided him with an imaginary wife , who was called ‘ Nothing ’ . |
| 12 | After the original grants to her supporters in the coup d'état of 1762 which placed her on the throne , Catherine made very few presents of this kind during the decade 1762–72 , when her dependence on noble support is usually supposed to have been at its height . |
| 13 | On 11 February 1963 she gassed herself in the flat . |
| 14 | Mary had a metal cow she bought it for a tanner and every morning just at six she milked it with a |
| 15 | There was a difference of opinion what happened next — she thought it went in from there , I was convinced it hit him in the head and went in . |
| 16 | Although in 1962 he had appealed to the Government of Ireland Act , in 1963 he described it as a ‘ constitution of bondage ’ . |
| 17 | After that she said nothing for a while , only sat watching me in a broody way . |
| 18 | Every other week after that you paid them at the end every week , |
| 19 | It 's incredible I heard her on the radio , she sounded very allusive |
| 20 | At any rate Herbert clearly had a high regard for his services , for in 1734 he presented him with a large silver cup as a token of his appreciation . |
| 21 | Well that was quick it saved it on the C drive . |
| 22 | One explanation for this is that the two bodies constituting Pluto were originally moons of Neptune , but that something tore them from the giant planet 's grasp — the converse of what is thought to have happened to Triton ! |
| 23 | I 'm sure she wrote everything from the ‘ What 's On in Stoke Newington ’ column to the reports of the Council 's planning committee meetings with equal sincerity , convinced she was helping to change the world . |
| 24 | only your mother was n't sure she asked me on the phone |
| 25 | He was remembered with great affection by all who knew him in the course of his short life . |
| 26 | Whether dining in the glittering salons of Mayfair or ministering to the sick in Yorkshire or Somerset , Smith reduced all who met him to a state of breathless mirth . |
| 27 | A great student of literature and the classics , Donald Wilson , described by many who knew him as an ‘ avuncular Scot with an enormous sense of humour ’ , had been more than capable of helming the BBC 's Drama Unit up to its dissolution by Sydney Newman . |
| 28 | Jane , who had a natural feel for mood and background which complemented the clothes , swam more than competently and her black and white images of windswept models against bleak moors or stark beaches created for many who saw them on the white shop walls their indelible image of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ . |
| 29 | He was very generous and his friendship was abused by many who saw him as an easy touch financially . |
| 30 | Pragmatism can be viewed as appealing to many who located themselves at the convergence between liberalism and socialism , since it sought to temper and transcend the positivism and empiricism associated with Fabianism and the idealism identified with New Liberalism . |