Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detectives do not know if she was attacked somewhere else and driven to her death , or met her fate in the lovers ' lane . |
| 2 | Most reports of this incident underlined Mrs White 's loss , or used her son as a metaphor for the ‘ death of hope ’ in a precinct riddled with drugs . |
| 3 | The restoration of the monarchy and its patronage proved a particularly valuable source of wealth and position to those who had remained faithful or changed their allegiance with a careful eye to the future . |
| 4 | So to say , ‘ Jesus is God ’ , does not imply or claim that we have made direct observation of a hidden ‘ divine nature ’ in him , or explored his relationship with the Father from the inside . |
| 5 | The red bitch became short-tempered , snapping at the puppy when it went to suckle her dangling teats , now empty of milk : pushing it aside when it clambered over her sleeping body or pummelled her head in a rowdy mock fight . |
| 6 | Once upon a time Camille would have dipped her oar in here : she would have turned on Brian for attacking her mother or chided her mother in no uncertain terms for being a drunken slut . |
| 7 | This was originally used as a sales technique — you shook hands or put your arm around a relation or friend — the idea was to develop this — the salesperson put his/her arm around the buyer and thereby instilled a sense of security into the individual . |
| 8 | I tell you this sister only that you may be warned and not endanger your dear son 's health or put your husband to an unnecessary and useless journey . |
| 9 | Write about a journey to an unfamiliar place , a place that , when you visited it , fractured , ruptured or enlarged your understanding of the world . |
| 10 | But he was a bisexual , and his sexuality was something that coloured his life to a great extent and , along with a chronic alcohol problem , contributed to his decline . |
| 11 | Was there a secret reason that made them hanker for a new life in a new world ? |
| 12 | In particular , I was waiting for the hedgehog that made its nest at the end of our garden last autumn to come back to life . |
| 13 | The bid , made in partnership with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts ( KKR ) , the group that made its name in the leveraged buy-out binge of the 1980s , enhances the deal-making reputation of Fleet/Norstar 's chairman , Terrence Murray . |
| 14 | The procession of raised rook and chicken pies , with their intricate decorations , that made its appearance in the kitchen raised their expectations as high as the pie coffins , as did the jellies vanishing into the larders , and sorbets into the refrigerators . |
| 15 | She flashed me a glance that made it clear there was some backbone in there , it was just the training that made her act like a dipstick . |
| 16 | Like heat-seeking missiles , his eyes collided with hers and on his face was an unconcealed , raw , earthy hunger that made her clutch at the pillar for support . |
| 17 | It was n't really the sting of the blows , but the amount of time the thrashing continued that made her burst into a flood of tears . |
| 18 | ‘ I know what you want , ’ he said in that soft deep voice that made her think of a silk-sheathed scalpel . |
| 19 | Or , rather , a lion — there was something about those gold-brown eyes and swept-back mane of hair that made her think of the King of Beasts , dressed up in the trappings of civilisation . |
| 20 | These performances directed by Kuijken have many of the qualities that made his set of the Haydn ‘ Paris ’ Symphonies , also on Virgin , so winning . |
| 21 | Not a single one of the millions of fish that fought their way up the river ever returns to the sea . |
| 22 | Tired by her journey from the north of England and the heat , she had decided to defer unpacking until the next day , standing her cases temporarily to one side of the curtain that divided her cabin from the small galley . |
| 23 | He had no wish to look out over the Shatt al-Arab , the narrow glistening strip that divided his country from the Islamic Republic of Iran . |
| 24 | Great cars helped to develop great drivers and wealthy Britons Lord Howe and Sir Henry Birkin were two of the many aristocrats that tried their hand at the sport . |
| 25 | In elections to the Landtag ( provincial parliament ) in Upper Austria on Oct. 6 the extreme right Freedom Party of Austria ( FPÖ ) more than tripled its share of the vote , winning 17.7 per cent ( 5 per cent in the last Upper Austria provincial elections in 1985 — see p. 34110 ) and 11 seats ( three hitherto ) . |
| 26 | By 1969 Laura was spending much of her time poring over old books — the endpapers of novels were a rich source of small prints as were old plates , teapots , and patchwork quilts , in fact anything that caught her eye in a variety of odd shops . |
| 27 | But direct observation does give you the colours and you do become more accurate , even though sunlight and shadows move so fast during the time it takes to paint such a scene that the particular arrangement that caught your eye in the first place has long since gone by the time the picture is finished ! |
| 28 | A charge of magic bigger than he had ever seen was building up ; when he moved , in painful slow motion , his limbs left trails of golden sparks that traced their shape in the air . |
| 29 | Charity was thankful for the sunglasses that shielded her surprise from the other woman 's prying eyes . |
| 30 | Walking beside her now , he prayed she would not notice the peculiar tic that jerked his face into a spasm of nervous twitches and always made her so terribly angry . |