Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Most of them became good Americans .
2 She do n't pay me got another pack of peanuts so I have got a few that few , but you do n't need any old bag do you ?
3 Oh , they 'll be back , they 've none of them got that sort of money .
4 Most of them got thirty years .
5 It was noticeable that many of them made emotive comments when addressing this question ( for example , ‘ a last resort ’ , or ‘ a place for old people to go when nobody else wants them ’ ) , a reflection possibly of their personal involvement with the residents of the home and concern for their well-being .
6 Had any of them made any approaches to her ?
7 None of them made any concessions to the local Muslim culture .
8 ‘ And how many of them made any effort to get along with me ? ’ she exploded .
9 They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation .
10 Lots of them tried several times before succeeding .
11 The operation to free them involved four teams of three men from mines rescue centres at Selby and Doncaster working in 10-minute shifts to claw away debris from a bottom corner of the fall .
12 Economists were being involved in the process of economic decision making in a manner which had been unknown previously , and most of them found this admission to the counsels of the influential and powerful to be very congenial .
13 They needed each other , them complemented each other , they were bound together in a joint world order that defined the period 1948–1989 .
14 Indeed , given the high claims monarchs made for themselves , and the excesses of adoration with which they were treated — and by the time of Mary Queen of Scots , this had reached a very high level indeed — we may wonder that so many of them retained any sense of balance at all .
15 Two of them bore long fruits like courgettes , though pink in colour and set with needles like a cactus .
16 I became chief executive in 1971 and I then became responsible for the implementation of the plan .
17 ‘ As I became chief executive there was a change of policy .
18 Young Black and I became good friends .
19 There I became two people — one who watched and one who tried to forget that the other watched .
20 After that Nellie and I became close friends and so did her Mum and my Dad .
21 In the course of my newspaper work for the Times-Herald I became Provincial Editor , a title which brought no increase in salary .
22 ‘ In every year since I became Prime Minister , more money has been spent on the health service .
23 When I became Prime Minister this is what I promised .
24 IN AN interview with The Independent newspaper , John Major complained of ‘ the inheritance I had when I became Prime Minister .
25 Three weeks later , on the day I became Prime Minister , my first impulse was to sit down in the study which had been Harold 's and write him a letter of appreciation and grateful thanks .
26 ‘ When I became Prime Minister we were on the eve of war to free Kuwait .
27 A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above .
28 Then we had to change the Unions to Newsize and er I er I became National President of the Newsize er district inspectors branch of Newsize Yes I was president till I retired .
29 I became head chef in a kitchen with two cordon bleu chefs at The Rose Revived in Oxford .
30 So I became Red Hat the clown and travelled among the street people ( in Europe ) , a little drunk , but not crazy drunk in those days .
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