Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [noun pl] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I got plans for this money . |
| 2 | " Actually , I got scholarships at both universities . " |
| 3 | yeah , I played darts against this bloke , scratch golfer |
| 4 | In 1985 I received letters from several women who described themselves as ‘ former secretaries ’ for Proctor and Gamble . |
| 5 | I received representations from both parties on [ Date ] and expect to receive replies to the representations on [ Date ] . |
| 6 | I showed paintings in many south coast towns and in the early 19802 began to show in London , first at the Patrick Searle Gallery in Motcomb Street and then at the Mercury Gallery , my present dealers . |
| 7 | I selected Scats for this purpose as their dietary and water requirements matched those of the green chromides . |
| 8 | Always an optimist , I sent copies of these reviews to Mr William Ross and to Mr King-Murray . |
| 9 | I gave talks on those subjects the participants judged to be of most interest ( e.g. tense and aspect , sentence connexion ) , and the Workshop progressed from the theoretical basis of communicative grammar to descriptive topics , and finally ( in the last two days ) to detailed devising and planning of teaching materials . |
| 10 | The head of the French secret service , the Comte de Marenches , who had visited the Shah just before he left Teheran , flew from Paris to express his won concerns to both kings . |
| 11 | I had doubts about that cover when I saw it because someone on seeing the flag would think it 's a political novel , whereas it 's not . |
| 12 | Furthermore , Rossi and Rosadini ( 1967 ) , who also used the Amytal technique , reported that only one patient out of 74 right handers , all of whom received injections on both sides , did not have exclusively left hemisphere speech dominance . |
| 13 | All this was achieved in the face of difficulties which deterred men with less gusto than Thomas and John Mason . |
| 14 | In 1951 , another purine , 6-mercaptopurine ( 6-MP ) , was found which caused remissions in some leukaemias . |
| 15 | Contestants would engage in three types of contest : close combat , in which knights would fight on foot with blunted daggers , swords or spears ; jousting or tilting , in which mounted knights on either side of a low barrier would charge each other with blunted lances ; and contests of skill in which mounted knights would attempt to skewer rings from posts . |
| 16 | Senegalese President Abdou Diouf visited Kinshasa on Nov. 22 to attend the signing of the agreement brokered by Wade , which included calls by both sides for their supporters to eschew violence and to clear the way for the functioning of the national conference . |
| 17 | Something of a myth has developed about the universality of ‘ live ’ variety that can be explained in terms of generalizations based on those great centres London and New York , and by the ubiquitous nature of printed sheet music which often used the name of a star as a selling gimmick and which took songs into many pubs and drinking saloons as well as into many homes . |
| 18 | A large ‘ wishbone pedestal ’ was created locally which incorporated 8,400lbs of half inch steel plate and 500lbs of welding rods . |
| 19 | They produced a magazine called Feed Us , which contained contributions from many children in the school . |
| 20 | Alongside this a freeform database enabled the creation of a set of topic headings under which summarised answers from each transcript could be listed . |
| 21 | Sir Anthony Barrowclough was told that police had wanted to interview Mrs Elizabeth Barlow in 1981 over the collapse of a stockbroking firm which had links with another investment company , Farrington Stead , a similar operation to Barlow Clowes . |
| 22 | Yes , I agree , ‘ if you mentioned clubs to most indie bands 18 months ago they would have spat in your face ’ , but only because the elitists controlled it . |
| 23 | Harvey Pitcher , doing research on nineteenth century Arran writers and painters and especially on the wealthy Muir family who rented houses for many years on Arran , has given me this delightful little gem . |
| 24 | Of German , French , and Swiss stock , she was educated at South Hampstead High School and at Newnham College , Cambridge , where , in addition to several scholarships and prizes , she obtained firsts in both parts of the classical tripos ( 1903 and 1904 ) , followed by a research fellowship . |
| 25 | The middlemen who organized supplies of these crops for European traders were not only accumulators of capital but also invested in new opportunities , such as that created by the demand for cocoa in the 1890s . |
| 26 | In her last year with the Company , aided by just one assistant , she raised orders for some £12,000,000 worth of new vehicles . |
| 27 | They were soon copied by the French , who developed formations of this kind on a large scale from the 1760s onwards , while light infantry were used for the first time in Europe by the Russians at the siege of Kolberg in 1761 . |
| 28 | The best-known architect working in this manner was Edward Buckton Lamb who submitted designs for all parts of the competition . |
| 29 | — The scarlet coat started as a uniform for the hunt staff ( paid professionals ) in the eighteenth century to distinguish them from the gentlemen riders who wore coats of all colours then . |
| 30 | The Louisiana Human Life Bill , passed by the state legislature on June 27 , provided punishments of 10 years ' " hard labour " and fines of up to $100,000 for doctors who performed abortions for any reason other than to save the life of the woman . |