Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [adj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Chief Fyvie who first introduced me to the fine travelogue books of H.V. Morton when he loaned me a copy of ‘ In Search of Scotland ’ . |
| 2 | As we drove back to Chelmsford we all wished we were back in the sunshine of southern Germany . |
| 3 | At an early age he developed a desire for foreign travel and it was the Dutch East Indies which first attracted him . |
| 4 | It was Jo who first got me to see that I had done my best . |
| 5 | The Lorenz equations , named after Ed Lorenz who first introduced them as a model of a two-dimensional convection { 21 } , have been important for a number of different reasons at various times in the past 20 years or so . |
| 6 | I think it was René Descartes who first formulated what I have called ‘ the heat-pain argument ’ . |
| 7 | But in Biomorph Land itself each occupied its own unique position , determined by its genetic formula , surrounded by its own particular neighbours . |
| 8 | And when the door finally flew open it was Mandy who first saw them . |
| 9 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |
| 10 | The most famous is Esperanto , the invention of a Pole , Ludwig Zamenhof who first published its principles in Russian in 1887 . |
| 11 | Mary , Ed , John they all said it . |