Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stunned by a Thameside painting by Whistler , it was only later that Strayhorn discovered it was actually a view of Battersea Bridge that he 'd admired ! |
| 2 | The thought of all that money calmed them down , and they subsided . |
| 3 | I did n't buy that jumper did I , Mikila , cos it 's not very |
| 4 | That bit made me think even then . |
| 5 | Although he could not read or write , Burke learnt fast , but it was not until he was 18 , nearly 19 , that Parrish gave him his first fight . |
| 6 | That upbringing served him well for Robert Redford 's Thirties drama The River Runs Through It , adapted from a novel by Norman MacLean about family conflict and fly fishing . |
| 7 | The experience in Gentle Jack and the speech that caused all the problems in that play stood him in good stead . |
| 8 | Each genre established you as ‘ commander ’ at a particular level — for example as total military supremo controlling grand strategy , or at regimental level in charge of smaller units such as squads or platoons , or at the lowest level actually controlling individual tanks or airplanes . |
| 9 | ‘ Are yer sure it 's what that geezer said it was ? ’ |
| 10 | I do n't frighten easy , but that geezer frightened me . |
| 11 | In neither case did they mean they had personally been involved . |
| 12 | Deacon had taken over the head of the formation as the leader 's R/T was not working , and calling a warning to the other pilots , he swung into the attack on one Messerschmitt from the quarter position , breaking away to attack a second similarly , though in neither case did he observe any results . |
| 13 | That 's all that Christian offered me when I went up there to lay out that poor young wife of his . |
| 14 | The basis of the control was that the courts have held that , when Parliament gives a public body statutory authority to act , it can be implied that Parliament intended it to act in a particular way ; in good faith , in a reasonable manner , in accordance with the requirements of natural justice . |
| 15 | If we ask where that power comes from , the answer is broadly that Parliament claimed it and the courts recognised it . |
| 16 | But Mr. de Lacy submits that both it and the previous cases which it applied are clearly distinguishable from the instant case because they all rested upon the critical circumstances that the lender or creditor in each case left it to the principal debtor to obtain , in such a way as he thought fit , the execution of the document . |
| 17 | That bike took me all over the place . |
| 18 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 19 | Delahunty 's reports from the burning stand that afternoon won him worldwide acclaim and a number of top international radio and journalistic awards . |
| 20 | That mum said she cu definitely cut it off . |
| 21 | But Rosemarie felt so strongly that mum suggested she write to director Steven Spielberg … and to her surprise she received a reply from his scientific adviser Don Lessem in Massachusetts . |
| 22 | Of Burke 's politics Johnson believed , as he did of any political opponent , that honesty deserted him when embroiled politically , only to return when engaged conversationally or intellectually . |
| 23 | He was a good footballer , who would have made the top in that field had he so wished . |
| 24 | He was running short of petrol and that route offered him the chance to capture replenishments along the way . |
| 25 | That coincidence pleased him . |
| 26 | Here , some teachers found themselves , often for the first time in their careers , with the opportunity to engage in depth with a small number of individuals , yet were not always able fully to exploit the possibilities because sustained questioning and discussion at that level required them to have a clear framework of the kinds of question they wished to promote and a grasp of the ways a sequence of such questions related to the wider map of the curriculum area in which a particular learning task was located . |
| 27 | that experience changed him in every way . |
| 28 | Little Chef tracked her down in the pink dusk at the bottom of the garden , with her arms round an apple tree , sobbing her heart out . |
| 29 | The use of enamel , the brilliant understanding of colour , yes , that piece reminded him of Giuliano , though-the design was more subtle , less heavy . |
| 30 | We 'd been drifting apart until then , and that talk brought us right back together . |