Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mathematics was my subject , I was simply transferring what talents I had in that direction from one held to another . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I told him all about Marie and showed him the pictures we took in that photo booth . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is Eadmer 's account of the steps they took in this emergency. : |
| 6 | They were the last words they spoke to each other . |
| 7 | Among the informants he met in this way was a Lebanese Army officer known as ‘ The Captain' , with close connections to the Jafaar clan . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Of the speeches he made on these occasions we have such various descriptions it is impossible to be sure what he actually said . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And so in these circumstances I dealt with much speed and remarkably low Scottish cunning . |
| 13 | Er I wanted you to maybe describe some more of the responsibilities and duties you had in that job . |
| 14 | These examples suggest that while antislavery could not become an explicit test of membership of chapel communities it did in many cases become a norm of memberships and of a minister 's identity . |
| 15 | Osburn 's points were that his fellow Englishmen in India , whose heartless behaviour towards Indians he described in some detail , failed to ‘ realize that the British Empire depends for its existence on obtaining the consent and the friendly co-operation of the races governed ’ , and that the demand for independence ‘ need never have arisen but for the arrogance and want of tact of a large percentage of Englishmen who , in one capacity or another , are resident in India ’ . |
| 16 | What is most remarkable about the talks and lectures he gave on this trip is the extent to which America now revived in him the memories of his childhood . |
| 17 | Among other pursuits she served for many years as a Stewardess with the Donaldson Line which took her all over the world . |
| 18 | I mean it stuck out like a sore thumb , I mean er by King George 's playing fields erm cos of the , they had n't the , th the , the s other story for that was as I said was we they sent er some of us to a class in Walsall for er aircraft recognition and er the days I went to this class , cos I went as er , er both for the factory and for the Home Guard , so that I could cover both the factory and when I were on duty , Home Guard and we was at a building on the corner of Corporation Street and west , and we was taking classes in there . |
| 19 | The few days I spent on that trip will stay in my mind as some of the most pleasant times I have ever spent . |
| 20 | There are several poems I wrote about this fixation , and some unfinished ones like this : |
| 21 | Among the unpublished poems I wrote at that time there is one that tries to express my feelings of loneliness and abandonment by my beautiful god . |
| 22 | The amount you receive depends on the graduated NI contributions you paid during that period . |
| 23 | For the media clamouring for every sensational scrap of information about Kylie — good or bad — the troubles she endured during this period were mass circulation manna from heaven . |
| 24 | People from the stations we visited in such areas , or whom we encountered upon their being transferred to Easton , felt policing there was not typical and that we were obtaining an unrealistic view . |
| 25 | In the early 1960s I remember caddying for Brian Huggett and Peter Butler , but in those days we caddied for many players . |
| 26 | Certainly the boards we studied in more depth had made serious efforts to understand their duties and responsibilities . |
| 27 | Among places he surveyed at this time were the park of Auckland Castle and Lanchester Common . |
| 28 | Douglas Young reports from the Berlin Film Festival on several exciting discoveries he made among this year 's entries ( and some he wishes he had n't ) |
| 29 | With bank interest over the years it amounted to some £320,000-certainly enough to meet the Ingard cheque . |
| 30 | It was interesting to compare the performance of my tourer bike and the mountain bikes we hired on these roads . |