Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [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 | A useful outcome is the third ingredient , for what would be the point of skills that led you to a useless outcome ? |
| 4 | Economic living is a splendid virtue when practised by the bourgeoisie , but the French neither liked nor respected it as a kingly attribute . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | What left his stamp on the stewardship of our movement was that he held to these passions so tenaciously and yet drew on inner reserves that illumined them with an unshakeable commitment to excellence and that rarest of all qualities personal integrity . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Surely this love-struck lothario was not The Doc that bullied them to a successful FA Cup Final . |
| 9 | But his drawings were remarkable for their acuteness of observation and their complete lack of sentimentality , qualities that placed them in a different league . |
| 10 | Horrible as was the deed that bound them in a fascinated confederacy of blood they were , for the first time , having a conversation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Miranda and Angus sat in a velvet-lined , crimson booth that reminded her of an old-fashioned railway carriage . |
| 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 | The Levellers articulated this awareness , and channelled it into a coherent set of democratic political demands . |
| 19 | Then they peeled back the bedcovers and laid him on a crisp sheet , covering him from the waist down with another sheet . |
| 20 | He took her protesting hand , and laid it on a thick roll of tablecloths between their bodies . |
| 21 | I stood up , took Flavia 's hand and led her into a little room . |
| 22 | He untied Dobbs and led her into a large dark shed . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Someone grabbed his arm , and led him to a waiting horse on which he galloped away leaving behind his winnings . |
| 26 | Sylvie wrapped her hand round Thomas 's arm and led him towards a far corner . |
| 27 | The man took off his spectacles and wiped them on a snowy white handkerchief . |
| 28 | A man dragged her into an alleyway , and attacked her in a nearby churchyard . |
| 29 | Having had the good fortune to fall in with Gabriel outside Cat 's Coffee Shop as she was on her way home , he had seized his chance and asked her for an early supper . |
| 30 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |