Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If that was the case I found great difficulty in seeing how he could get permission from my local authority to license me , ’ he said . |
| 2 | It was my responsibility I brought that child into the world , and there was no way I was going to thrust her off onto other people . |
| 3 | They asked me to help dress the models who wandered around showing clothes to the ladies having afternoon tea in the restaurant , and after a bit I did some modelling myself . |
| 4 | Of course I had this spell er er do n't forget I was five years as a prisoner of war , and a lot of interest because I was a union member pra b previous to that you see ? |
| 5 | By a coincidence I met this man on the summit of Sergeant Man in the Lake District two months later . |
| 6 | During the late afternoon I received another call summoning a further Cabinet meeting at 7.30 p.m . |
| 7 | Like a twat I decided that attack was the best way of preserving my job , and so I demanded that the board give me complete control over team selection , tactics , welfare etc. , with no boardroom interference whatsoever . |
| 8 | ‘ When I got back to my apartment I ate some ham and beans , and opened a bottle of rather rust-coloured claret . |
| 9 | ‘ Didya read the script I brought last week ? ’ |
| 10 | In my rather disgruntled frame of mind I rebelled that night against the long way round . |
| 11 | Earlier in this chapter I gave some idea of the linguistic complexities of the Caribbean . |
| 12 | Erm I was very , very interested in an interview I heard last weekend I think it was with Pete , when he made the comment that he was n't interested in back to basics because that was looking backwards a lot of people in the past lived pretty miserable lives . |
| 13 | So after I finished Sleeping With The Enemy I walked Pennine Way to release all the pent-up aggression and that helped , ’ he says . |
| 14 | You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think . |
| 15 | By the end of the summer term I weighed six stone one pound . |
| 16 | At the beginning of the O-level summer term I weighed eight stone three pounds and , if I was pleased at having lost two pounds , I certainly did n't say so . |
| 17 | Mummy I wanted another Kit Kat . |
| 18 | Well I think he 's at my other school before common entrance I had this teacher for two years got forty percent and that 's . |
| 19 | Brett parted with Boris Becker after a fruitful association which brought Grand Slam triumphs , including Wimbledon , with the German superstar saying : ‘ Bob needs a new challenge . ’ |
| 20 | This was a challenging task even for an accomplished side which had little time to acclimatise or practise . |
| 21 | I was brought up in the world of the arts because , apart from the Rothschild side which had some influence on me , my mother was a completely Bloomsbury figure , and her mother was a great friend of Matisse and a distinguished collector — she was a Strachey , very English . |
| 22 | In the semi-final they meet James Talbot and Michael Nutt of the Old Bleach Club , who will be seeking to gain some compensation after they were in the Old Bleach side which lost this season 's CIS Irish Senior Cup championship final to Carrickfergus by a mere five shots . |
| 23 | After this assault Mosley reputedly was forced to discipline his own followers in order to maintain order in the BUF , and to discourage further acts of violence which invited retaliatory action by the authorities . |
| 24 | For the first time he met , peeping above the surface , the force of a prejudice which had unrelenting ferocity . |
| 25 | When the twelfth-century bard , Cynddelw , recalled ‘ the clash of Powys … with Oswald ’ , he was looking back on an episode which had considerable significance not only for the Welsh but also for the Mercians . |
| 26 | An episode which attracted particular concern was a strike that occurred at an obscure photo-processing plant in North London , the Grunwick works . |
| 27 | Did you see the poll published in the Sunday newspapers about public attitudes to AIDS which avoided any reference to the Terence Higgins Trust or any of the other gay support groups ? |
| 28 | He became a keen supporter of the BAAS , founding a club which gathered each year at the meetings , for conviviality and science . |
| 29 | Top : Harrowside 1984 with restored Coronation 660 on tour , followed by a one-man car which succeeded this type . |
| 30 | However it was thought by its sponsors to represent a programme which had some possibility of acceptance by the bodies to which the petition would be presented . |