Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the rainforests belong to developing countries which have to resort to milking their most precious resource to make ends meet , and to pay back money lent to them by Western countries . |
| 2 | Their words fluttered between them like lubricious little doves . |
| 3 | His eyes clung to her like thirsty leeches , watching for any movement , the revolver trained on her back . |
| 4 | Two liquid brown eyes gazed on them with mild curiosity , rising and falling with the pull of the waves . |
| 5 | Sylvie gazed at him in momentary confusion . |
| 6 | Almost two years after the beer orders went through the House , we are entitled to ask the Minister what good came of them at last . |
| 7 | I am reminded of the famous poem , by Robert Southey , about the battle of Blenheim , when little Peterkin asks : ’ But what good came of it at last ? ’ |
| 8 | Taxi driver Peter Simpson said that two cars raced past him at high speed . |
| 9 | Words flowed from him in effervescent abundance , ranging from lengthy essays , autobiographical fragments and provocative tirades to witty or angry letters to magazines or newspapers . |
| 10 | Lucifer turned on them with such ferocity that some actually fell backwards off their benches . |
| 11 | She walked back into the house , and Piers glanced at her with one raised eyebrow . |
| 12 | Beyond , the river was a polished blue and the feluccas glided across it like pink-winged swans . |
| 13 | Letterman confided to me after one of our tennis games that my pieces in Manhattan had always struck him as somewhat trivial — artifices — until he read my piece ‘ Drancy , Ante-chamber of Death ’ . |
| 14 | Passers-by looked at him in some curiosity , seeing the tears course down his cheeks ; and still he walked on and on . |
| 15 | Visiting players , Raimundo , the grooms and Alejandro looked at her with ill-concealed lust , but her dead-pan hauteur and Señor Gracias ' large , looming presence kept them at bay . |
| 16 | The quietly spoken words fell on her like stinging blows . |
| 17 | Politically speaking the issue of local autonomy and sovereignty scarcely ever arose : people recognized popular committees as valuable means of access to resources ; in their democratic aspect most educated Libyans thought of them as rhetorical devices , not really conferring power on a community , but representing curious elaborations of ideology in what was really a simple and straightforward problem of administration of services . |
| 18 | Morley looked at her with genuine concern . |
| 19 | ’ Woolley looked at them with stony satisfaction |
| 20 | Hari looked at him with raised eyebrows . |
| 21 | ‘ Bore da , miss , what can I get you ? ’ he asked pleasantly and his blue eyes looked into hers with obvious admiration . |
| 22 | Large dark eyes looked at her without any expression and all he said was : ‘ Sir ? ’ in a voice both deep and guarded . |
| 23 | Puffins buzzed below us with short wings whirring , zooming out to sea and back , to disappear into holes in the crumbling top layer of boulder clay . |
| 24 | Zelah looked at him in amused astonishment . |
| 25 | Mr Edgar looked at her in angry surprise . |
| 26 | Sylvie looked at him in some perplexity . |
| 27 | Edward looked at her with grey eyes like Tilda 's , but without much expectation from life . |
| 28 | He also caught a number of covert glances at himself : was that what a few moment 's conversation with a presidential aide did for you in this town ? |
| 29 | One young teacher working in a more conservative college spoke to me of this period with some amusement . |
| 30 | His wife Ellen wrote to us with this smashing picture and told us that because Russell works so much she only ever sees him in his overall or a track suit . |