Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Alison met him in the same bar .
2 Keller 's Zurich upbringing made him into a skiier and sculler , and he raced for the Grasshopper club .
3 He more than filled the gap left by Alex ; his presence animated her with a mysterious excitement .
4 Trent met it with a slight movement of the tiller bar , and the big catamaran lifted smoothly .
5 All these meetings concerned themselves with the Spanish question .
6 Peregrine interrupted her with a languid chortle and was properly admonished .
7 At noon , the exhausted Pack gathered together and Brown Owl led them to a shady area .
8 I believe that it was , or had some connection with , a species of agoraphobia , which in his case manifested itself as an acute fear of heights .
9 The coronet is shown in loving detail as it embodies the moment when this family of merchants made it to the princely ranks .
10 I must have said that several times already because Ma fixed me with a glittering stare and exclaimed , ‘ If you say that word once more , Andrew , just once more , I 'll send you to the Science Museum again … with Annabel . ’
11 Windows opened ; grocers ran to the doors of their shops ; customers stopped discussing bacon and turned ; our teachers wobbled on their bicycles as the noise buffeted them like a violent squall ; and boys sprinted to the school gates as they came out of the building , though many others , cool boys , shrugged or turned away in disgust , gobbing , cursing and scuffling their feet .
12 The blow caught her on the right side of her face , high on the cheek bone , beneath the eye .
13 Nour drew me as an English Miss : Ingleesy , prim , uneducated , unsophisticated .
14 Lady Constance visited some suffragettes imprisoned in Holloway gaol , and this experience transformed her into a public figure with a single-minded burning cause .
15 Alon also experimented with the basic design , building a 130 hp Franklin-engined version and a prototype Alon A–4 with a Lycoming O–320 160 hp motor , before selling the type certificate of the Aircoupe to Mooney Aircraft , whereupon Mooney changed it to a single-tail design and manufactured it as the M–10 Cadet , producing 61 at $9,295 each before shutting the line down for good in 1970 .
16 On the day before de Macon sailed on his second voyage , the Ralembergs invited me to a formal supper .
17 For a time Malins regarded himself as a Liberal Unionist , but he made policy toward drink the only basis for supporting parliamentary candidates .
18 Coun Bob Brady , committee chairman described it as an exciting project which would be part of the town 's City Challenge programme .
19 In the course of dealing with those who demanded excessively high wages or who broke their contracts , the courts provided us with a great deal of evidence about wage rates , and continuity and frequency of employment .
20 The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished .
21 When Pauline Kael reviewed him as the bloated Jake La Motta in Raging Bull , she said that what De Niro was doing was certainly something , but she 'd hesitate to call it acting .
22 THIS OPPORTUNITY PROVIDED ME WITH A WELCOME BREAK FROM THE PURELY BOTANICAL WORK TO WHICH I WAS ACCUSTOMED .
23 A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen .
24 Her investments provided her with an annual income of well over a million dollars , in addition to the trusts and investments left to her directly by her husband .
25 Postine subdued it with a single blow to its long wrinkled neck .
26 Britain 's golden boy who lost his shine when newcomer David Grindley beat him for the final place in today 's 400 metres final is ready to take a year off from the track if it means he can beat the trouble .
27 Santerre was about to protest but Mandeville dismissed him with a curt move of his gloved hand .
28 Straightening up , Roman regarded her with an unreadable expression .
29 At a symbolic rally , held on May 23 in the capital San Salvador , the FMLN transformed itself into a political party .
30 In war , more common as the Dukes of Normandy used their English kingship to press their rather doubtful claims to the French throne , Sussex found itself in the front line , convenient both for intended invasions and retaliatory expeditions by licensed French pirates .
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