Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A week after the operation that took us to Southern Ireland , I was told to take Venturous up the east coast to Hull and from there , after a crew change , we were to carry out extended patrols northwards which would eventually involve us in a complete circumnavigation of the British Isles . |
| 32 | The situation is best illustrated by a letter that reached me at this time from Mrs Mugabe : There was no way in which I could reply to the letter except by a futile expression of sympathy . |
| 33 | Greeting him on his return from battle , she hands him over to his wife with palpable reluctance ; seeking to calm him before his confrontation with the people , she shackles him in an iron grip ; and , in the great plea with him not to sack Rome , she pinpoints the lines about him treading on his mother 's womb ‘ that brought thee to this world ’ . |
| 34 | Now he staggered towards Holly , making a path between the tables and benches and the backs of sitting men that flanked him on one side , and the waiting line on the other . |
| 35 | Uncle Hilbert , however , was only just sixty , very hale and hearty , still very much in practice as a solicitor , and Lewis could not imagine stepping into his shoes , nor did he in those days think it very nice to anticipate such things . |
| 36 | He was always happy to help her keep her hair beautiful , even when it was time to use the greenish-brown powder that reminded him of warm cow-dung when she mixed it with water . |
| 37 | He had a kind of inbuilt guilt that saved him from most affairs , but also occasionally made a fool of him . |
| 38 | Each had used her ; none had discovered the essential quality that differentiated her from other lovers . |
| 39 | Some of the stimulus for this came from a survey of senior medical students , yet when 30 current house officers were consulted all but two said that , though they would be happy to have the opportunity to apply for both jobs at one hospital , they would not have applied for a one year block contract that restricted them to one hospital . |
| 40 | And as she pushed open the west door Miss Danziger was met by the scent of fennel , the six-foot stems of which towered over her from a huge stoneware pot , very different from the musty scent of piety that greeted her in English country churches . |
| 41 | Sheffield Wednesday 's player-manager watched his side claim a place in the last eight of the Coca-Cola Cup by destroying the club that sacked him in controversial circumstances . |
| 42 | Mervyn Wilson gives a good service to his cricket clients and it is hoped that he was able to put his money where his mouth is and lay this price to all that wanted it to reasonable limits . |
| 43 | As I developed I became a big bloke and that stood me in good stead . |
| 44 | That , mixed with the mule 's contribution , produced an atmosphere in the cabin that stood me in good stead for the rest of my flying career . |
| 45 | Although all this assured him a footnote in the history of British science , it was his intimate association with one of the most celebrated scientific forgeries that rescued him from relative obscurity . |
| 46 | He waved Rostov to an empty place at his side , and one of the aides drew Yuan and Alexei off and seated them among younger men . |
| 47 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 48 | Zach and George dragged the case up to the bedroom and laid it on one side . |
| 49 | The Gardeners ' Chronicle , reviewing the experiment , coined the name ‘ carpet bedding ’ for it , and recommended it for wider trial . |
| 50 | He particularly admired the beautiful white spikes of Itea and recommended it for late flowering , a quality which also applied to Clethra alnifolia . |
| 51 | Bryant and Bradley chose 65 of the children who had not been very good at categorising sounds at the beginning of the study and divided them into four groups . |
| 52 | In one such experiment , L. R. Donaldson and G. E. Allen took 72,000 young salmon at the ‘ fingerling ’ stage ( when they are about one year old ) from the Soos Creek Hatchery in Washington ( for locations see Figure 4.5 ) and divided them into two groups . |
| 53 | Bragg tipped the contents of the drawer on to the table , and divided them into two piles . |
| 54 | So he 'd taken an upstairs room and divided it into six spaces , figuring he could charge £1.50 an hour for each of them and really coin it in . |
| 55 | Gaveston opened a door in the far wall and led them down some steps , dimly lit by torches fixed in iron brackets . |
| 56 | A man with a great bunch of keys joined us and led us down some steps to a doorway marked ‘ Luftschutzraum ’ . |
| 57 | He pulled the sheets aside and led us down some steps . |
| 58 | I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra . |
| 59 | Madame raised her crackling voice from the large brown desk where she presided in the hall beyond , and asked them with unusual largesse if they would like some refreshment . |
| 60 | Then he built a double-skinned oak door and studded it with fat-headed iron nails from the nearby , long defunct Presteigne nail-making machine . |