Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I shouted at it in English but it kept on . |
| 2 | I shouted after them in hoarse astonishment . |
| 3 | I stared at him in great surprise . |
| 4 | I looked at her in mock sternness . |
| 5 | Perhaps because I was unaware of the enormity of the task I had been set , I went at it with tremendous dash and verve , and together with my two colleagues , nominated from other parts of the company , visited no less than twenty companies in eight countries in three weeks . |
| 6 | I listened to them with great interest . |
| 7 | I listened to it with great interest , and er , I thought again that the County Council was lead role was modestly but quite accurately described in that , fairly lengthy er , interview . |
| 8 | I spoke for us with blinding certainty . |
| 9 | I smiled at them in friendly fashion . |
| 10 | The self-inflicted loss of Dominic Clarke following an off the ball incident in the second minute had left Armagh dicing with death and the killer blows subsequently rained in mainly from the accurate boot of Raymond Gallagher — remember what I said about him at Minor level last week ? — and the deadly finishing of Mark Gallagher and Malachy O'Rourke . |
| 11 | However , virtually nothing came of them except occasional improvements . |
| 12 | Wherever we travelled amongst the islands we would collect rare and exotic shells which became for us like fragile clues in a paper-chase of changing life-forms as we moved across historical as well as zoographical boundaries . |
| 13 | But then she looked into his eyes , which dwelt upon her in huge solemnity , and knew that he was burningly sincere . |
| 14 | Nobody talked to her in particular , but she was sitting opposite Miles and , from time to time , a smile flew roughly in her direction , for which she was grateful . |
| 15 | As she gazed at him in mute appeal he turned his back . |
| 16 | She gazed at him in blank astonishment . |
| 17 | She gazed at him in horrified disbelief as realisation hit home . |
| 18 | She gazed at me with ice-blue eyes and murmured , ‘ I see . ’ |
| 19 | She gaped at him in blank astonishment , then frowned . |
| 20 | His offence against those who came to him for medical help was less easy to punish . |
| 21 | Perkin on her other side was saying contritely , ‘ Sorry , darling , sorry , ’ and she turned to him with ever-ready forgiveness , the adult of the pair . |
| 22 | Alain came in without even knocking and she turned on him with furious hurt . |
| 23 | Jack and Rose Hayward were attacked by two men who fired at them at close range . |
| 24 | She glanced at him in quick surprise , wondering what sort of favour he could possibly have in mind . |
| 25 | The walls and ceilings were all painted the same insipid magnolia and there was rush matting on the floor which trapped bits of food and stuff and hurt if you walked on it with bare feet . |
| 26 | She grabbed at it in irritable haste . |
| 27 | And those who worked with him on ecumenical committees knew that this was nothing like so rigid an Anglo-Catholic as sometimes he was portrayed ; and remembered what he did for the Methodists and other non-Anglicans in Durham . |
| 28 | Stopping in her tracks , she stared at him with cool , blank eyes and freed her arm . |
| 29 | She stared at him with defiant hazel eyes . |
| 30 | She was scarcely aware of the tapping at the door until it opened and Niall came into the room , his presence the catalyst for so many warring emotions within her that she stared at him with mutinous , tear-filled eyes . |