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 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 .
5 ( Marr was sporting a huge rockabilly quiff which looked like a French loaf sticking out of the top of his head . )
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Some Berliners want it preserved as a historic site , others fear that it could become the focus for neo-fascist demonstrators .
9 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 ) .
10 Police say he escaped with a considerable amount of money .
11 There were some who had been destined for fighters , especially Meteors , who found themselves headed for a dreaded bomber tour .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 He says she fell onto a concrete road .
17 Detective Sergeant Andy says she wandered across a nearby golf course .
18 And as she played she sang in a high contralto .
19 By the time morning finally came she felt like a total wreck .
20 Still less at lectures which , Rosengarten recalled they avoided on a regular basis .
21 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 .
22 Her hands grasped his back , and she could feel it wet with a thin film of perspiration .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 I have never seen anyone flattened by a runaway horse and cart .
27 The small meadow in which the Brownies met was dotted with clumps of bushes and young trees , and most other parts of Longreen Park were wooded , so it could be understood why a pilot should choose what looked like a clear open green space to land his plane on .
28 Whenever she felt unwell or oppressed she embarked on a new course of treatment at the alternative medicine centre or ingested a new range of vitamins .
29 WITH Martin Randall Travel I went on a thrilling journey in July called Country Houses of the Hapsburg Empire .
30 That 's another story , where they were , and if you 're interested , downstairs there 's a very good map that shows you superimposed on a modern map of Oxford where they were , but they very much affected citizens in the St Aldate 's , because every citizen , and every scholar who was still in the university , between the ages of 16 and 60 had to work on the fortifications at least one day a week , or pay a shilling fine .
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