Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Miranda and Angus sat in a velvet-lined , crimson booth that reminded her of an old-fashioned railway carriage . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I supervised her professional training while she was working at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute at Penicuik , and appointed her as an Assistant Librarian at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh just over a year ago . |
| 5 | During pre-trial interrogation Talb told Swedish police that between October and December 1988 he had retrieved a bomb from one of the PFLP-GC 's West German safe houses and passed it to an unnamed person , causing speculation that it could have been identical to the Lockerbie device . |
| 6 | Cleo took the velvet poison bag and the money pouch out of her drawer , together with a handful of stockings , and stuffed them into an old leather holdall in which she 'd formerly kept a collection of limbs , torsos and heads from broken porcelain dolls . |
| 7 | Some elements in the Argentine military , along with members of the opposition UCR , characterized the abandonment of the missile programme as a capitulation to US demands , and described it as an irresponsible move at a time when Chile was suspected to be seeking a new missile . |
| 8 | This house was run down until the owner completely renovated it and redecorated inside and out , and transformed it into an impressive home |
| 9 | ‘ Next ! ’ she plainsonged and fixed me with an old-fashioned look from behind her lorgnette . |
| 10 | That used to be a completely different tune ; I had the lyrics , but I played it on an open tuned National , then when I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Fender Vibrolux amp , it became what it became on record . |
| 11 | It twisted and turned and bore her into an ominous and derelict suburb , stark in the orange street lights . |
| 12 | The rapist approached the 17-year-old waitress in a bus station at Holmfirth , West Yorks , and subjected her to an hour-long ordeal . |
| 13 | The Bishop took off his mitre and handed it to an adjacent altar-boy . |
| 14 | In financing the development at home and abroad of the railways , it made possible the enormous growth in the production first of iron , later of steel , which characterised the secondary stage of the Industrial Revolution and guaranteed it as an irreversible change . |
| 15 | She wanted to check , but Sharpe pushed her through a gap in a straggling hedgerow and spurred her across an undulating pasture which , years before , had been under the plough and the old furrows still formed corrugations that faced Sharpe like waves of pale grass . |
| 16 | Manchester United manager , Alex Ferguson , gave England winger Lee Sharpe a vote of confidence and named him in an unchanged side for tonight 's home game against Arsenal . |
| 17 | The honeybees have taken this basic arrangement and elaborated it to an extreme degree so that they live in colonies of many thousands . |
| 18 | Len Seager had been conscious throughout the entire rescue operation and as Rachel joined him briefly in the back of the ambulance and covered him with an extra blanket he managed another smile . |
| 19 | When I moved in to my flat she had to a certain extent taken me over , and treated me like an erring and somewhat unintelligent son who obviously needed the care and attention of a responsible adult . |
| 20 | She pulled away , but his hand followed , and took hers in an unrelenting grasp . |
| 21 | Sheffield Crown Court heard that the man , who ca n't be named for legal reasons , kidnapped his twenty seven year old wife and took her to an isolated spot on the moors above the city and raped and sexually assaulted her . |
| 22 | He thanked John Edelsten for his ten years of service as treasurer and presented him with an engraved tankard as a token of the Chamber 's gratitude . |
| 23 | A SALESMAN who raped his ex-girlfriend and tortured her with an electric stun gun was behind bars last night . |
| 24 | Then she lit a king-size cigarette and slipped it into an amber holder . |
| 25 | Then he began to shift the first screen and leaned it against an adjoining stretch of wall . |
| 26 | He returned shortly and ushered them into an airy office , overlooking the Grand Union Canal . |
| 27 | After their winning match against Crewe Alexandra , the Shots polished performance improved their league position by four places , and left them with an outside chance of going up into Division III . |
| 28 | He scooped up some pellets and pushed them into an empty flower pot , keeping his thumb over the hole in the bottom . |
| 29 | Yet he opened his challenge for The Masters with a 75 and closed it with an 81 . |
| 30 | There were , in short , pious men and women who not only failed to find it blasphemous , but regarded it as an integral part of their belief — as integral , say , as Peter 's role is to the Church of Rome . |