Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I followed the telephone cord and found where it went into the wall . |
| 2 | It transpired that he wanted to be able to comment on each question in more depth and indeed some staff did so on separate sheets . |
| 3 | When Mrs Orton proposed that they listen to the Queen 's Speech on the radio , Bill 's only protest was to produce a bottle of brandy from his case , open one of his gift books , roll himself a cigarette with gift tobacco , lean back and stare covertly at his son . |
| 4 | One example , suggesting that we may be able mentally to rotate objects , was mentioned at the end of the last chapter , and a second , in this one , demonstrated that we do in fact recognize sets of similar markings ( note that a psychological demonstration that we can do something , and an account of a calculation which would enable us to do so , are quite different things ) . |
| 5 | As long ago as 1893 , I.S. Leadam demonstrated that they did in fact enjoy the protection of the courts . |
| 6 | It helped that they believed in his faked war record and legends such as that the religious leader Gregorio Aglipay inserted a slither of wood into Marcos 's back before the Bataan campaign in 1942 , allegedly giving him magic powers . |
| 7 | Whilst there are undoubted cultural factors acting on the latency phenomenon , as Freud himself recognized , he nevertheless maintained that it rested on a biological , innate foundation . |
| 8 | Some people mentioned that they acted as models to their patients . |
| 9 | It mentioned that he lived with his mother , Lady Ursula Berowne , and his second wife in one of the few extant houses built by Sir John Soane and that he had one child by his first marriage , 24-year-old Sarah Berowne , who was active in left-wing politics and who was thought to be estranged from her father . |
| 10 | When I last wrote to you in January I mentioned that I hoped to be relieved of the secretarial duties of the B.A.E.C. by another member who had volunteered to take these over . |
| 11 | I remember that song that you mentioned that you quoted at the beginning of the programme ‘ Look into the Irish , the Welsh and the Scot , you 'll find he 's a stinker as likely as not ’ is how it went on . |
| 12 | He was at the front door when , on impulse , he turned back and said to Meg Dennison : ‘ I think you mentioned that you walked from the Old Rectory , Mrs Dennison . |
| 13 | Imagine my amazement when , on my first day in the new set-up , I found that everyone fought for attention by dramatizing every event . |
| 14 | I addressed first two ancient problems : the relationship between Luke and Acts ( I found that Acts resembled Luke more than it resembled any other book of the NT ) and the relationship between the Apocalypse and the Gospel of St John ( I found that they differed from each other more than any other two books of the NT ) . |
| 15 | Women workers who were covered by national insurance found that they tended to be submitted to strict surveillance by national health insurance visitors because of the unexpectedly large number of sickness claims . |
| 16 | ‘ In some ways , ’ he said yesterday , ‘ Python does look very old-fashioned now , yet when I arranged a compilation of all 45 shows for the BBC I found that we had on the Not The Nine O ’ Clock News unintentionally pinched a number of things , putting the signature in the middle of the programme , parodying famous TV interviews . |
| 17 | Dr Vickery found that there appeared to be a critical acidity level which affected both dippers ' breeding success and a stream 's population of the invertebrates on which the birds feed . |
| 18 | Miss Groundwater — he found that he thought of her in this way again , as a fillip to rage — was seated at her mirror , already in her nightgown , brushing out her hair . |
| 19 | Going to Libya in 1988 , Jousiffe — her name is English , possibly of French origin and not Middle Eastern in spite of its sound — found that she suffered from the negative influence she had absorbed and thought : ‘ I wo n't enjoy this . |
| 20 | Some years later , when her health and strength failed her , she found that she had to ; but when that day came , she packed her courage as well as her clothes into her suitcase . |
| 21 | She took a path across the land at the side of the house and found that it led to a small wood which girdled the top of the hill on which the house was built . |
| 22 | and I found D Y by D X and I found that it came to erm X squared . |
| 23 | Assembling our find on deck we found that it consisted of a case of 10,000 cigarettes and several cases of spirits . |
| 24 | When he tried to swallow the lump in his throat he found that it tasted of beck-water . |
| 25 | In her study of 61 white mothers conducted in London in 1983–4 , Wilson ( 1987 ) found that none relied upon their children 's grandparents to carry the main burden of child care while they themselves went out to work , but most regarded grandmothers as support which they could use on a more casual basis for babysitting , and as help in emergencies . |
| 26 | This survey revealed that 4 per cent of adults reported that they looked after a dependant living in the same house ( i.e. they were co-resident carer ) with a further 10 per cent reporting that they looked after a dependant in another household ( i.e. they were an extra-resident carer ) . |
| 27 | Further south , government forces reported that they had on May 12 taken from Garang 's forces the town of Liria ( east of Juba and on the road to Torit ) and on May 28 Kapoeta ( some 50 km north of the border with Kenya ) . |
| 28 | They reported that they knew of no matter involving her in any way and asked for a description of the white identification cards . |
| 29 | Three additional parents reported that they worked on contract at nuclear sites and had been monitored for exposure to radiation before their child was diagnosed ( one father of a case , after conception ; one father of a control , before conception ; one mother of a control , before conception ) . |
| 30 | Then they moved to Chelmsford by foot , where they stopped until they embarked for France on 30 March 1915 , part of the 145th Infantry Brigade of the 48th Division . |