Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] in " 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 | I lost any faith I had in Taylor the day he named the side for the game vs Norway . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Here the difficulty I found in talking about psychoanalytic criticism is compounded , not because I am an unbeliever , but because anything that the middle-aged male commentator says about feminism is liable to be wrong : to be approving may be condemned as patronizing , and to be critical is to be sexist . |
| 6 | Er right welcome back B B C Radio York Whaley 's on until er two this afternoon and before we do anything else er a little bit I saw in the paper , Unions about turn , that 's the shop workers ' union known as USDOR erm have done an about turn and they now say because they saw the writing on the wall , that they think Sunday trading is okay , well more or less . |
| 7 | One day , I fear that a demonstration of the kind I faced in 1982 will go wrong and someone will get hurt . |
| 8 | This hour I spent in sketching Ranza Castle . |
| 9 | Many of the most important and prominent proteins of the synaptic membrane are of the class known as glycoproteins , which , if the description I gave in Chapter 3 now seems a long way back , can best be summed up as molecules made in two parts ; an amino acid chain embedded in the membrane , to which is attached a further chain made of sugar molecules such as glucose , fucose and galactose , sticking out from the membrane into the extracellular space beyond . |
| 10 | At the end of the EFL training course I did in London , a British Council type gave us all a pep talk before we were packed off to Ankara or Kuala Lumpur . |
| 11 | That afternoon I sat in my room and unpacked my things . |
| 12 | ‘ I mean that we go back a long way , and yes , there 's a very special relationship between us , but that 's because … ’ another pause , and he raked his fingers through his hair in a helpless , frustrated gesture ‘ … it was her sister I fell in love with all those years ago . ’ |
| 13 | I have n't told the management about the lymphoma , and have n't had a repeat of the weakness I experienced in Birmingham , so have put it down to adrenalin overdose and imagination . |
| 14 | ‘ It was n't money I had in mind . ’ |
| 15 | All the money I earned in that period my husband 's cousin took away from me . |
| 16 | ‘ I still lie awake at night trying to justify the decision I made in Libya . |
| 17 | And therefore I , I would like to tell you an experience I had in Madagascar because it 's one of the things that will be in my memory on my deathbed . |
| 18 | A drug I shot in San Francisco froze all my joints . ’ |
| 19 | In fact , my recent painting of Paddington Station was inspired by a sketch I made in 1953 when I was still a student . |
| 20 | If one of the dietary amino acids is made radioactive ( as in the experiment I described in Chapter 2 ) and fed to or injected into an animal , it is incorporated into the proteins just as its fellow , non-radioactive amino acids are , and the proteins become slightly radioactive in their turn by virtue of containing the radioactive amino acid . |
| 21 | Through a literary agent I had in New York I was able to help Sir Charles arrange the publication of that last book in America and I visited him many times , to hear him talk . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought you might like some tea , and a slice of the fruit-cake I found in a tin . ’ |
| 23 | Last spring I sat in the Windows on the World restaurant on the 45th floor of the World Trade Center , whose twin towers are a New York landmark . |
| 24 | Analogy I used in my book , was actually suggested to me by , although this is a ana a kind of metaphor that , that her father was very fond of . |
| 25 | Strange advert I saw in the week it it was erm |
| 26 | I sometimes think back to that first talk I did in Mr Taylor 's class , and how scared I was . |
| 27 | Clare Lawrence ( Mrs Hatcher ) writes , ‘ Since qualifying as a solicitor specialising in corporate and commercial work in private practice I worked in industry 1986- 8 as a Legal Director of Bricom plc . |
| 28 | I consider playing the hand-held I bought in Inverness but I 'm either not hooked on it yet or my jaded palate has produced game-boredom already . |
| 29 | CARL LLEWELLYN ( Party Politics ) : ‘ As soon as he jumped the first fence I gained in confidence . |
| 30 | I 'll play the secret tape I made in the orchard |