Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [art] ring " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I realised the ring had probably gone back to England that was one of the first things I checked . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ My brother Francis won the wager and I handed the ring over . |
| 3 | I loved the ring of sledgehammers on metal , the bellowing and roaring of the rig in the African night , the smell of diesel and brake pads , the scream of angle-grinders , the spray from the welding torches , the all-night poker games and the hare-brained helicopter rides . |
| 4 | My gaze dropped and I saw a ring — an iridescent opal , set in a circle of rich , blood-red garnets . |
| 5 | He wagered a necklace of great value so I proffered the ring on who would win her favours first . ’ |
| 6 | It was like people were looking at me and guessing my age and looking to see if I had a ring on my finger . |
| 7 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 8 | She was a nice girl and she expected the ring . |
| 9 | She caught the ring at last between her teeth and he tickled her until she laughed and gave it up . |
| 10 | Evelyn did so while Rose picked and tugged at the hem until she found the ring . |
| 11 | She jangled a ring of keys , opened the door and led him up the bare , creaking stairway which climbed steeply out of the hallway . |
| 12 | She kissed the ring , and replied seriously , ‘ I 'll wear it until the day I die . ’ |
| 13 | She seemed very thoughtful , and as I was leaving , she placed a ring on my finger . |
| 14 | She wrenched the ring from her finger and thrust it at him . |
| 15 | Her heart did a flip when she saw the ring binder that lay open on his desk . |
| 16 | But it was not a dream : she heard her own voice making promises to worship João with her body and to be faithful to him unto death ; she felt the ring being pushed onto her finger , and found herself looking into her husband 's melting eyes . |
| 17 | Much later , when she was sure that Rose was asleep , she crawled the length and breadth of the room with fingers outstretched , feeling in every crevice , until she had the ring safe again . |
| 18 | ‘ I still think it was a black day for British boxing when you left the ring , ’ said Huw . |
| 19 | We took the Ring to the Metropolitan Opera in New York , which was a partial success . |
| 20 | When we did the Ring people said it was ‘ chamber music ’ ; but I would deny that . |
| 21 | They used the ring because of their line into Switzerland . |
| 22 | All three are already very powerful and know that if they used the Ring for their own purposes , good or otherwise , they would be wielding more power than they could cope with . |
| 23 | ‘ From then on , ’ he recalled , ‘ we learned to snatch our stories from the headlines and they had the ring of truth . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It was n't until he produced the ring that I took him seriously . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I realised it lacked the ring of truth , ’ Silas said while regarding her intently . |
| 26 | He snatched the ring . |
| 27 | As the sound system blared out Gary Glitter 's ‘ Do You Wan na be in My Gang ’ , he would lunge towards the crowd as he entered the ring at Finsbury Park 's Rainbow . |
| 28 | He recognised the ring . |
| 29 | He rested the ring on her open palm and pushed her fingers closed around it . |
| 30 | She also promised that , if he returned the ring to her whenever he was in trouble , she would help him . " |