Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Originally it had no towers and was aisleless , but extensive additions in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries made it into a three-aisled church with a tall tower . |
| 32 | An ad in the Sevenoaks Chronicle led him to the white 1988 Sierra Sapphire 1.8 LX , advertised at £3750 . |
| 33 | Glenn Hoddle got them to the Premier league … maybe Keith Scott can keep them there ! |
| 34 | Lucenzo 's golden hair streaked back in the wind , emphasising the high purity of his cheekbones , and briefly his eyes lanced hers with a calculating look . |
| 35 | Woolley met her in a Belgian hospital in the summer of 1916 , after he had broken both ankles in a forced landing . |
| 36 | His eyes met hers with a strange sort of intensity . |
| 37 | At the door , Xanthe took her by both hands and held her so hard Miranda felt her nails cut into the palms and her eyes met hers with a pale blue flare , as clear as her father 's , and as unassailable , as she breathed out , holding Miranda by her side , and turned to face her father across the room . |
| 38 | Vitor 's eyes met hers in a steady look . |
| 39 | His glance met hers for a brief , breathtaking moment , before he started forward , his stride slow , and rangy . |
| 40 | Philpott led them to a pale-blue door at the end of the passage . |
| 41 | A car passed them on the single track road , heading north ; they stood aside to let it pass , waving at the single occupant when he waved at them . |
| 42 | Israel perceived its military supremacy as essential for its safety , while Syria regarded it as a mortal threat to its own interests . |
| 43 | To flesh out the story , the DIA provided him with a German mailing address , Postfach 1151 , Geilhausen 6460 , from which all correspondence , including anything from the DIA , would be readdressed to Coleman 's maildrop in Barrington , Illinois . |
| 44 | Her General Practitioner referred her to the surgical Outpatients Clinic where the surgeon examined her and placed her on the waiting list for stripping ( removal ) of varicose veins . |
| 45 | With a stifled groan that for some reason moved her deeply , his lips found hers with a sweet fire that seemed to sear her very soul . |
| 46 | The Welshman kicked the ball away and referee Dangaard dismissed him for a second bookable offence . |
| 47 | But even if the note was deleted ( and Ramsey deleted it in a later edition ) , Raven could not have voted for Ramsey with enthusiasm . |
| 48 | In January 1990 the Education Department provided her with a new tutor . |
| 49 | In my teens , similar doubts lured me into the darker recesses of the family 's medical encyclopedia , there to discover I was Britain 's first recorded case of Futtock 's Syndrome . |
| 50 | Sure enough , a high-pitched peeping drew me to the stable , and there on the floor was the hen with one minute black puff-ball of a chick . |
| 51 | First of all Gyggle tried me on the same sort of rudimentary exercises that I remembered performing as a child . |
| 52 | Drawing refreshed him as a long walk refreshed him , and it was part of the art of forgetting slights , frustrations , old wounds , so necessary if he was to survive and stay serene . |
| 53 | In response to some implied criticism I made of his treatment of the sub-editor , Porua regarded me in a sneering silence and then said , ‘ Why should I have regard for my fellows ? |
| 54 | A contemporary writer from Lika compared it to the Mongol invasions and the depredations of the Goths and Attila the Hun . |
| 55 | The long black limousine drove them through the wintry city . |
| 56 | Designed to counteract poor visibility on murky winter afternoons , it had been used in Scotland and by the visiting South Africans in 1924 before Arsenal adopted it for a public trial match three years later . |
| 57 | One critic likened it to a titanic High Mass on Mars . |
| 58 | The second man ( who appears at the left-hand side of the composition , drawing back a curtain ) in one of the earliest sketches , carries a skull , and Picasso identified him as a medical student . |
| 59 | ‘ I have also been to the Guildhall , ’ he mournfully concluded ‘ The mayor told me in no uncertain terms how displeased His Grace the Regent Duke of Lancaster is at our lack of progress . |
| 60 | Ramsey had moved out of the Barthian influence which via Hoskyns attracted him during the earlier 1930s . |