Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they were bulging-full , he stitched them closed with a curved needle and woollen thread and laid them ready in a pile . |
| 2 | Houses to accommodate them rose as a compact group south of the churchyard , and the church itself was soon ambitiously transformed to provide the setting for an elaborate cycle of daily worship . |
| 3 | These are ancient divisions of the territory , recognized for centuries past as distinct pays , but you are unlikely to find them entered on a modern map , so I should apologize for introducing what will seem like obsolete names . |
| 4 | He found himself stymied by an old oppo of mine when setting out on one of the Bielefeld Viaduct sorties with Tallboys . |
| 5 | Passing through the foyer on a last check before retiring , Mr Multhrop found himself engulfed in a merry throng of post-hollands revellers , intent on beginning a new party . |
| 6 | ( Marr was sporting a huge rockabilly quiff which looked like a French loaf sticking out of the top of his head . ) |
| 7 | She had an idea , ‘ When you go back , say you bumped into an old friend of your Gran 's . |
| 8 | He opened a second door , which again had an elegant stained glass transom above it , and Belinda found it led to an open veranda that must connect with the one they had sat on for drinks . |
| 9 | After entering I found it came from a little sister of those drowned Children , that was singing to a bundle of clouts , rudely put together to look like a Doll , which she held in her arms . |
| 10 | I found it preoccupied by a little company of artists , either professional or amateur , who made use of the rainy day by camping in the coach-house to sketch from its shelter a fine group of trees , with some good foreground rock and bracken , all within a stone-throw of the cottage . |
| 11 | Some Berliners want it preserved as a historic site , others fear that it could become the focus for neo-fascist demonstrators . |
| 12 | Home po 2 monitoring was undertaken in 134 patients ; in the 120 patients who have discontinued it lasted for a median duration of 5.5 months ( range 0.3–17.5 ) . |
| 13 | Police say he escaped with a considerable amount of money . |
| 14 | There were some who had been destined for fighters , especially Meteors , who found themselves headed for a dreaded bomber tour . |
| 15 | She took the covering from one of the nearer pieces , revealing what looked like an old-fashioned letterpress . |
| 16 | The comment was made with the intention of changing the subject and , thanks to the Dane 's interest in his commercial success , her ploy worked , for he nodded and proceeded to recite what sounded like a full two pages from his order book . |
| 17 | The new trial was reopened before the Juzgado Quinto de Primera Instancia Penal de Sentencia ( Fifth Criminal Sentencing Court of the First Instance ) , and new evidence admitted which led to a guilty verdict . |
| 18 | It was n't going to help Andrew 's plight , endowing himself bewitched by a young gypsy girl he could never have , but Fate was n't always kind when it selected the tricks it was going to play . |
| 19 | If the policy makers are willing to learn from some of the mistakes made in industry , where hasty changes were made which led to a dramatic brain drain subsequently , the unpalatable adjustments that will need to be made in London should create less harm than will otherwise be the case . |
| 20 | He says she fell onto a concrete road . |
| 21 | Detective Sergeant Andy says she wandered across a nearby golf course . |
| 22 | And as she played she sang in a high contralto . |
| 23 | By the time morning finally came she felt like a total wreck . |
| 24 | Still less at lectures which , Rosengarten recalled they avoided on a regular basis . |
| 25 | He says it came as a great shock , although when she was a drug addict they had wondered how she managed to pay for heroin . |
| 26 | Her hands grasped his back , and she could feel it wet with a thin film of perspiration . |
| 27 | The idea was that a system did n't have just a single history in space-time , as one would normally assume it did in a classical nonquantum theory . |
| 28 | And he recalled those who had practised best , dressed them up , and sent them out into Rome 's most fashionable streets in procession , to advertise his productions — Turandot he preceded with an enormous Chinese display , dragons , lanterns , fluttering silks and banners — all around the city . |
| 29 | In so acting it acted for a dependent reason , for the assumption is that individuals have reason to wish for a convention and hence reason to take action to help form one . |
| 30 | MacIver had said he knew of a double-deck trailer which went every week from Cumbernauld to Stornoway , via Inverness , carrying £300,000-£600,000 worth of spirits , groceries and tobacco . |