Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has all the nonsense off the field distracted you at all , made your h job harder ? |
| 2 | At the end , the photographer kissed her on both cheeks . |
| 3 | A mile 's drive south in the car took us to all that remains of Clare 's beloved heath land . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's nigh on two year since I 've been out that house , ’ said Bella suddenly , ‘ since the Warden took me for that X-ray after I fell over and hurt me wrist . ’ |
| 5 | I was very nervous , and I found myself coming on very strong and direct with her , and saying , ‘ I liked Rosemary 's Baby , but the picture bothered me for this reason … |
| 6 | The plaintiff encouraged him in this behaviour . |
| 7 | And then he gave order that all the windows of the towers which looked in upon the town should be closed up , that the Christians might not see what the Moors did in their houses ; and the Moors thanked him for this greatly . |
| 8 | The name reminded me of that , but the peculiar detachment of shock prevented the reminder from disturbing me in the slightest . |
| 9 | The serveuses reminded me of those I had seen in paintings by Monet . |
| 10 | Mind reading At one of my first-ever children shows , the father told me of this mind reading trick which we found worked well with the children . |
| 11 | Those words were capable of constituting a resignation and the manager interpreted them as such . |
| 12 | The snows of Mount Hermon streaming northwards , the blue vales of Galilee , the brown waters of the Litani encircled us in that little cyclone , We could be seen , for above the sound of the gale we heard the clatter of bullets tossed by the wind against the ramparts . |
| 13 | The Inspector left it at that and as I was waiting expectantly for the interview to end , he said : ‘ Why does an educated man like you spend his time caddying ? |
| 14 | But Judge Karl-Heinz Schmoll ruled : ‘ The policy covered him in all situations in life . ’ |
| 15 | The Colonel kissed him on both cheeks . |
| 16 | Taking a proof of this or his own shaded drawing , the artist completed it in those light washes of colour that are so peculiarly his own ; and this tinted impression was handed as a copy to the trained staff of colourists , who , with years of practice under Ackermann 's personal supervision , had attained superlative skill . |
| 17 | Many more women sought separations after the passing of the 1886 Act , which allowed them to do so on grounds of the husband 's unwillingness or inability to maintain , although in practice the legislation provided them with little material assistance . |
| 18 | I was beginning to think that we 'd missed the boat , even though we knew in our heart of hearts that the Lord wanted us in some form of full-time capacity . |
| 19 | With another black look , the man led us to that door over there . |
| 20 | Those days climbing at Swanage and the Lizard reminded me of some familiar truisms , so easily lost when one is chained to the desk : that the spice of adventure and uncertainty , faced in partnership with others who feel the same , is at the core of all good climbing . |
| 21 | Then the attacker drove her to another spot nearby , before raping her again . |
| 22 | Next , they offered to pay the woman of the house for the milk , and she asked a shilling , at which some of the men goaded her towards more ; when she refused to raise her price , Boswell gave her a half-crown ( influenced , I feel , not so much by her honest generosity , but by her shapeliness which he described as ‘ comely almost as the figure of Sappho ’ ) . |
| 23 | I 'd like to know how the fox persuaded them to that . ’ |
| 24 | His engineering analysis of the problem brought him to many ideas that were very similar to Alexander 's in terms of posture and sitting . |
| 25 | ‘ While engaged in watching the movements of the several species of the great family of Procellaridae , which at one time often and often surrounded the ships that conveyed me round the world , a bright speck would appear on the distant horizon , and , gradually approaching nearer and nearer , at length assumed the form of the White-headed petrel , whose wing-powers far exceed those of any of its congeners ; at one moment it would be rising high in the air , at the next sweeping comet-like through the flocks flying around ; never , however , approaching the ship sufficiently near for a successful shot , and it was equally wary in avoiding the boat with which I was frequently favoured for the purpose of securing examples of other species ; but , to make use of a familiar adage , the most knowing are taken in at last ’ ’ ; one beautiful morning , the 20th of Feb. 1839 , during my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney , when the sea was perfectly calm and of a glassy smoothness , this wanderer of the ocean came in sight and approached within three hundred yards of the vessel ; anxious to attract him still closer , so as to bring him within range , I thought of the following stratagem : — a corked bottle , attached to a long line , was thrown overboard and allowed to drift to the distance of forty or fifty yards , and kept there until the bird favoured us with another visit , while flying around in immense circles ; at length his keen eye caught sight of the neck of the bottle ( to which a bobbing motion was communicated by sudden jerks of the string ) , and he at once proceeded to examine more closely what it was that had arrested his attention ; during this momentary pause the trigger was pulled , the boat lowered , and the bird was soon in my possession . ’ |
| 26 | And in this sense it must be said that the Resistance experience , by making us believe that politics is a relationship between man and man or between consciousnesses , fostered our illusions of 1939 and masked the truth of the incredible power of history which the Occupation taught us in another connection . |
| 27 | ‘ The system invested them with this responsibility and there is no room for errors or excuses . |
| 28 | Ariel was n't thinking clearly , her brain was fogged by the din around her and the rage of Sycorax , but the message in the stones summoned her to some action , something to break the silence and the stasis that held her prisoner . |
| 29 | We do swear — ’ He paused , and a murmur followed him with some clearer , harsher voices audible amongst it : ‘ We do swear — ’ He went on : ‘ Never to swerve , ’ and they said it together , ‘ Never to swerve — from our present path — till we have cleansed the country — or this oppressive Act . |
| 30 | No eyes beheld them for any of its windows ; no one beat a carpet or scraped a cauldron or swilled out their slops . |