Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their words fluttered between them like lubricious little doves . |
| 2 | The lids were wrinkled above them like old venetian blinds . |
| 3 | Our dramatis personae are the people who inhabit these places and the people who speak about them in various public ways . |
| 4 | But while he argues for general connections between the rites , incidentally ignoring the many repudiations of Gnosticism that were made of it by early Christian leaders , his viewpoint is much more balanced than Scobie 's . ) |
| 5 | After what seemed an age , they came into a small room where the roof beams straddled above them like great barren trees , and the wind whistled through the tiny cracks where the moonlight shone through . |
| 6 | The Major encouraged him , then walked him round in a circle , conversing with him in low reassuring tones . |
| 7 | He looked with amusement at her small , vivacious figure almost bouncing alongside him with effervescent high spirits . |
| 8 | The easiest one , and the one undoubtedly is the one that will continue to be used to keep whatever needs that we have presented to us within reasonable financial budgets , will be on the home care , respite care , day care , er short-term emergency admissions , support in the home , and indeed our ability to develop those services . |
| 9 | I have a duty to nearly a thousand people from the Leicester area who have written to me about adult basic education and community further education . |
| 10 | No-one can have shown Americans round cities such as London , Brighton or Bristol and not been subjected to gasps of horror when they see the depredation wrought on them by ill-sited high buildings and demolished streets . |
| 11 | Although there had been considerable growth in Russian manufacturing industry between 1880 and 1914 , by any criteria it was still quite inadequate to cope with the strains imposed on it by modern industrialised warfare . |
| 12 | Blix warned that the agency was experiencing serious financial difficulty as a result of the ever-increasing demands being made on it without adequate financial provision and because many members were failing to pay their annual contributions in full . |
| 13 | For example , they have reanalysed studies of mother-child bonding and maternal deprivation ; have criticized conclusions drawn from them about good mother-child relations ; and have extended investigations of these relations to take into account , not just maternal exclusivity and sensitivity , but children 's relationships with other adults and children , and the physical , psychological and social quality of care . |
| 14 | At the top was a faded blue-painted door with the single word , Studio , emblazoned upon it in plain black lettering . |
| 15 | Alain came in without even knocking and she turned on him with furious hurt . |
| 16 | MI6 never appreciated the amount of opposition that existed within Germany to Hitler and the Nazi party in its early days and as a result failed to exploit the very considerable amount of information that was offered to it by well-placed anti-Nazi groups . |
| 17 | Outdoor shops are just sports shops , but instead of a seedy man with a moustache selling you nylon football strips and tennis balls , outdoor shops stock only merchandise connected with hill-walking , climbing , skiing and sometimes canoeing , all of which will be offered to you by rosy-cheeked young sales people in fleecy tops . |
| 18 | Universities are supposed to ensure that all posts approved by them for general clinical experience meet the GMC 's recommendations . |
| 19 | The very young have astonishing guts , but there 's so little we 're allowed to do for them without signed parental consent . |
| 20 | The names would only have sounded to them like unfamiliar ritual incantations . |
| 21 | As the trio grew up , so the hurts piled up until they were stacked upon them like old 78 records , each playing the same dreary old repetitive tune . |
| 22 | Because the early metronome and the 35 or so tempos of French Baroque works calculated from them by 18th-century French writers have already been well documented and discussed in recent studies , particularly in respect to dance tempos , they will not be discussed further here . |
| 23 | The canvas was a close weave , the paint laid upon it in careful regular strokes , the tones built up , it seemed , in glazes . |
| 24 | And his dark head bent , his mouth closing over hers with burning sensual expertise . |
| 25 | Second surprise was the music — a soft waltz coming to her through deep blue dusk , strings and woodwind , as if someone in a grand house up on the hill had just opened the door of the ballroom . |
| 26 | SCD acted on behalf of a primary housing co-operative , Ekarro Housing Co-operative , who were active in the area , housing single people referred to them by various caring agencies . |
| 27 | They walked through sad places where small coloured children sat on doorsteps , too depressed and apathetic to play games , and stared after them with huge black eyes in which the tropic sun was extinguished . |
| 28 | — Lament sang to her in old familiar melodies , and Tallis recognized the words and she felt chill |
| 29 | She stared at him with defiant hazel eyes . |
| 30 | Myles raised his head and stared at him with wide terror-filled eyes . |