Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experience in Gentle Jack and the speech that caused all the problems in that play stood him in good stead . |
| 2 | The hooded eyes surveyed her with frank appreciation mingled with amusement . |
| 3 | I was selling houses and apartments on a commission basis , and I think that my English accent stood me in good stead . |
| 4 | This decision filled her with profound gloom ; not only because her home had been so special and so very much loved , but also because the selling of Rose Cottage could do nothing but plunge her into financial disaster . |
| 5 | Kate 's voice was full of warm concern as though some conspiracy held them near each other . |
| 6 | As for the computer password , on the other hand , this reviewer guessed it in one and had to wait twenty-odd pages for Casaubon to catch up . |
| 7 | Smith 's wife died in 1825 ; this loss made him for some time anxious to resign , and may help to account for the relative lack of distinction of his period of office . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd have gone there last year but for the shin splints ’ she added , before a note of irritation and frustration became evident as she went on to say ‘ This question haunted me for half of last year . |
| 9 | Their exploitation of this recently opened path aroused jealousy among the knights , one of whom refused to answer a charge levelled against him by the Erembalds in the court of Charles the Good , on the ground that his accusers ' lowly social origins barred them from comital justice . |
| 10 | His observation of the way in which after 1942 Churchill took on the role of Roosevelt 's faithful second left him with long-lasting suspicions of Britain 's priorities . |
| 11 | Frankly , this proposal reminded me of one of the quotations with which Taylor prefaces his chapter on ‘ Value-added Processes in Information Analysis ’ : |
| 12 | Old tombstones provided her with that lit match to the powder trail of her imagination . |
| 13 | A theatrical gentleman approached me after one of the performances , said he was impressed by my singing , and that he could obtain a part for me with the Schikenader Company in Vienna . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman asked me about future numbers . |
| 15 | This assignment introduced you to various sequences of notes played ascending and descending , within all five pentatonic scale shapes . |
| 16 | Yet I found that the breadth of my Scottish education stood me in good stead in the work of assessing and editing material from the whole agenda of a serious newspaper . |
| 17 | When international marketing first appeared as a distinct subject few writers described it by any title other than that . |
| 18 | Erm you know any anyone we met and and spoke to I think some people held us in some kind of suspicion , but a lot of people were glad er to have the er you know have the company and erm that were were available to them . |
| 19 | Enchanted , she too watched the sweet-faced boy who was chattering excitedly while his fond father plied him with Carnival cakes . |
| 20 | But Everton 's recent success this season hoisted them into second place — and Johnston 's Goodison story may not be over yet . |
| 21 | There were times when Eliot seemed uncertain or ill at ease , suddenly very much the " resident alien " — one has the impression , always , of a man invaded by inexplicable moods and anxieties which he did his best to conceal — and Hayward 's own dominating and very English manner afforded him at such times a certain amount of confidence . |
| 22 | I suppose that simple precept from that old foreman stood me in good stead for thirty odd years , until now . ’ |
| 23 | So although we know this today , very few people knew it in nineteen thirteen , and er , nobody knew it before the turn of the century . |
| 24 | French press releases overran our positions , German amendments raked us with deadly fire . |
| 25 | Ceauşescu 's distancing himself from his fellow countrymen , whether for reasons of security or hygiene , meant that his daily life involved him in regular contact with relatively few people . |
| 26 | The old man told me in this connection : |
| 27 | And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there . |
| 28 | Acting on a French tip-off , the British police arrested him on 6 June 1931 , along with a young woman , Li Sam , described as his niece but more probably his mistress . |
| 29 | Now Ebenezer Judge understood what he must have felt , as a dozen willing hands hoisted him on high , held him for an instant in mid-air , then let him down , inch by inch , until the back of his head knocked against the stone wall and the freezing water lapped over his boots . |
| 30 | Beattie 's outstanding record as a dedicated social worker stood him in good stead at the ‘ Diplock ’ tribunal and partly explained the presence of a total of twenty-four persons who came to testify on his behalf . |