Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the fight did not prevent the fundamental beliefs in the nation and ‘ the historic integrity of the island of Ireland ’ , as nationalist parties described it in their New Ireland Forum ( 1983 — 4 : i. 28 ) , from remaining basic to the perceptions of both parties . |
| 2 | Pat told me of her other' schemes for making money which , of course , never came to anything . |
| 3 | Finally his eye was caught by the billowing of Izzie 's blue dress , as the wind pressed it against her thin , flat-chested body . |
| 4 | Markby thanked him for his prompt intervention and help . |
| 5 | The familiar waste-land of the empty auditorium engulfed him with its seedy , oppressive presence . |
| 6 | Rhodri watched them with his hooded , wary eyes , and said nothing . |
| 7 | Kids watched it in their millions every week because it was that rarity : an adult show which listened to their viewpoint . |
| 8 | ‘ Susan Swales hit her with her clenched right fist four times in the face and three times in the head , ’ said Mr Walker . |
| 9 | Grief hit me in its fullest force much later . |
| 10 | As the Local Government Chronicle put it in its leading article of 1 November : ’ To introduce poll tax is a mistake , to bring in council tax is a disaster . ’ |
| 11 | As I escorted Marinka to the Oasis Arena in the torrential rain , the scene of mimose reminded me of my halcyon days at . |
| 12 | It was alleged ( a ) that the plaintiff was possessed of the goods ; ( b ) that he accidentally lost them ; ( c ) that the defendant found them ; ( d ) that the defendant converted them to his own use . |
| 13 | The time may not , therefore , be too far away when , as McKinsey put it in their 1989 report , the scenario of ‘ potential unlocked ’ becomes a reality for AEA . |
| 14 | Rose Mundy told me of her continual battle with overweight thighs , a problem that had been with her for as long as she could remember . |
| 15 | A few years later , when a Japanese professor on holiday in England visited her in our other house in Bath , Hill House in Sion Road , he said to her , in the usual Japanese joky way : ‘ I 'm sure your son will be marrying some nice Japanese lady , Mrs Kirkup . ’ |
| 16 | Seb always felt vaguely uncomfortable when Melody caught him on his own . |
| 17 | As show jumper and trainer John Bunyan told me on our first lesson ( see next month 's diary ) : ‘ You have to work out the difference between ‘ Ca n't ’ and ‘ Wo n't ’ . |
| 18 | Their secret organizations had long planned a revolution ; it took place on 18 September 1885 , when the Turkish governor-general was expelled , and a telegram sent to Prince Alexander welcomed him to his new realm . |
| 19 | The girl watched him through her pretty , almond eyes . |
| 20 | She first represented her country when she was just 15 and only last month , Tennis Ireland selected her for her fourth international match , which was played in Italy at Easter . |
| 21 | ‘ Count on us , ’ Tina reassured him in her rough , warm way . |
| 22 | His parents took him into their adjoining cabin when he wept — and saved his life . |
| 23 | But typical Mansell courage and skill took him past his arch rival … and with Patrasse in the pits it was left to Mansell to claim victory … only just though on a set of well worn and blistered tyres . |
| 24 | The fate awaiting someone pitched from his horse in such a place might be blood-poisoning , ‘ being dreadfully venom 'd by rolling in slake ’ , as William Hall put it in his nineteenth-century fen doggerel . |
| 25 | Out of gratitude for his rescue of the Everqueen , the Elves of Ellyrion presented him with their finest steed , Malhandir , last of the bloodline of Korhandir , father of horses . |
| 26 | That night Eva put me in her clean little spare room . |
| 27 | Quiet and modest in manner , speaking with an occasional stutter , his initiative , absolute reliability and willingness to help in the humblest duties endeared him to his many friends , not only in the literary world . |
| 28 | The law had them in her cloudy embrace and was spilling out of their eyes and lips her deathly must . |
| 29 | For much of the last couple of decades , he has been living in France , where he is accorded a reverence denied him in his native country . |
| 30 | In this sample , however , not one parent wanted it for their own child , and in general they were more prescriptive about what was morally correct for other parents here than on any other issue . |