Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or scanned you at a maiden aunt 's , |
| 2 | It was still unthinkable to see him without his sketchbook and pencil , but of the hundreds and hundreds of drawings he made , he gave away many or sold them for a few francs . |
| 3 | Frequently , they expressed a sympathy for guerrilla activities and direct action , without recognizing that successful guerrilla movements were either controlled by an organized and disciplined party ( as in China ) or turned themselves into a traditional type of party ( as in Cuba ) when it became necessary to consolidate their rule and implement their policies . |
| 4 | A useful outcome is the third ingredient , for what would be the point of skills that led you to a useless outcome ? |
| 5 | Economic living is a splendid virtue when practised by the bourgeoisie , but the French neither liked nor respected it as a kingly attribute . |
| 6 | But it came too late for him to do anything about it , for when he straightened up and turned towards the bank the bullet hit him in the chest and his body seemed to disintegrate and fly in all directions , and he knew that death was on him and that it was something that divided you into a million parts and each fragment screamed as it flung itself into eternity . |
| 7 | Bees hummed steadily through the yellow bird 's foot trefoil that wove itself in a tangled carpet over the sand . |
| 8 | As he stood there , his glittering black eyes were the only feature that identified him as a living creature , and not a darker patch of shadow in the benighted forest . |
| 9 | Surely this love-struck lothario was not The Doc that bullied them to a successful FA Cup Final . |
| 10 | But his drawings were remarkable for their acuteness of observation and their complete lack of sentimentality , qualities that placed them in a different league . |
| 11 | Horrible as was the deed that bound them in a fascinated confederacy of blood they were , for the first time , having a conversation . |
| 12 | He concentrated on drawing cartoons and in 1932 had his first acceptance from Punch , the beginning of a partnership that established him as a major comic artist and one of the most original talents in the long history of the magazine . |
| 13 | The walls were brick lined and the floor covered with dull tiles set in a herringbone pattern that reminded her of a Roman villa she had once seen near the South Coast . |
| 14 | Backed by just one woman trainee officer she confronted the suspect in alley off Lawrence Road , the scene of an attack in December 1991 that left her with a smashed up face . |
| 15 | Of course , that left me with a large question — how could people ignore what happened to the Jews ? |
| 16 | CHELSEA defender Paul Elliott is to sue Dean Saunders and Liverpool over the tackle that left him with a severe knee injury . |
| 17 | The move came after his parents Allan and Barbara won a court ruling allowing medical staff to switch off the life support systems he had relied on since the tragic injury that left him in a persistent vegetative state . |
| 18 | She turned on taps that emitted nothing but a despairing sigh and she laughed . |
| 19 | The Levellers articulated this awareness , and channelled it into a coherent set of democratic political demands . |
| 20 | Then they peeled back the bedcovers and laid him on a crisp sheet , covering him from the waist down with another sheet . |
| 21 | He took her protesting hand , and laid it on a thick roll of tablecloths between their bodies . |
| 22 | I stood up , took Flavia 's hand and led her into a little room . |
| 23 | He untied Dobbs and led her into a large dark shed . |
| 24 | They were opened with huge and ancient keys , and led one into a secret world of liquid green shadows . |
| 25 | The girl swung round as a silent invitation to follow , and led them past a tangled bunch of bicycles and a wall of political posters to hopeless causes . |
| 26 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 27 | Someone grabbed his arm , and led him to a waiting horse on which he galloped away leaving behind his winnings . |
| 28 | Sylvie wrapped her hand round Thomas 's arm and led him towards a far corner . |
| 29 | The man took off his spectacles and wiped them on a snowy white handkerchief . |
| 30 | A man dragged her into an alleyway , and attacked her in a nearby churchyard . |