Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This strategy enabled the various members of the family to see the difficulty of the younger daughter 's task , and the part everyone played in making it worse . |
| 2 | She said , ‘ In case nothing came of it , I could cut him off . ’ |
| 3 | I am also grateful to the Friends of St Cecilia 's Hall and the Russell Collection for a grant I received from the J. J. K. Rhodes Bursary Fund towards the research for this paper . |
| 4 | I lost any faith I had in Taylor the day he named the side for the game vs Norway . |
| 5 | Up in the stand someone giggled with nervous tension . |
| 6 | First , a trick I learnt from a newspaper article about a discovery in psychology . |
| 7 | I exercised all the patience I could muster , trying every trick I knew of to get a performance out of Monty . |
| 8 | The M and M I did n't like This trick I obtained from Paul Daniels , and my sister the Amazing Avril uses it in her children 's shows . |
| 9 | On the other hand , I 've been as happy as a turkey in January , and all because of a story I spotted in a medical magazine , stating that regular lashings of oily fish cut sharply your chances of having a heart attack . |
| 10 | The first story I wrote as a full-time reporter concerned the death of a local man who had been visiting friends in Indiana and whose remains were being sent back to Moose Jaw for burial . |
| 11 | I used a variant of it in a pastiche of the 1930s story I wrote for the fiftieth anniversary of Collins Crime Club in 1980 . |
| 12 | ‘ I remember the cover story I did on The Clash in 1977 , the thing that became ‘ Capital Radio ’ . |
| 13 | I had to tag him on to group deals as a makeweight — you know , like the contract I did for twelve of my players with UK Airlines . |
| 14 | In an excess of enthusiasm I suggested to a GCE examiner that with the help of well-written programmes , we would soon enable nearly all students to pass O-level mathematics . |
| 15 | My arm was beginning to hurt pretty badly , so I decided to pull my chute straight away in case I fainted from loss of blood . |
| 16 | Tricia sat between Melanie and me , which made me change gear ever so carefully in case I brushed against her ample thigh , and Melanie shouted instructions around her . |
| 17 | Going back to the railway station was for the moment out of the question , just in case I bumped into someone who recognized me . |
| 18 | I did n't venture further in to find the owls in case I bumped into a Brother . |
| 19 | ‘ I feel fine and in any case I wanted to be here in person and not have to watch you on television . |
| 20 | My mum and dad had been through a very bad divorce , so I suppose she was frightened of being too strict and pushing me away , in case I turned against her . |
| 21 | It 's , it 's the skating I got with the boots |
| 22 | Jamie and the girl were inches away from me , holding me by an arm each , being bumped into frequently , but my drunkenness had now got to such a state — as the last two quickly consumed pints and an accompanying whisky caught up with my racing bloodstream — that I might as well have been on another planet for all the hope I had of making them understand what I wanted . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A bus driver I spoke to in told me that the tinkers stayed down from . |
| 25 | The blow I shrank from did not fall . |
| 26 | Always ready for a dip I leapt into the water and grabbed hold of an elderly lady with neat little curls and bifocals on the end of her nose . |
| 27 | For an instant I seemed to be staring into smoke . |
| 28 | A. M. I went into Lime Street one night at ten o'clock and found a crowd of lads on the corner of Skelhorne Street coming out of the pub . |
| 29 | In addition I explained to her that , having found the original event and looked at it through adult eyes , there was no danger that she would put an end to one problem only to replace it with another , as might have happened if we had not investigated its origins . |
| 30 | When I began to visit Chedworth many years ago , often with a party of students , I well remember the difficulty I had in explaining the buildings in these terms . |