Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing seemed to be happening , all his senses were apparently functioning normally , except … that the sweet in his mouth seemed permeated with the awful smell ; had become a slimy lump of filth . |
| 2 | For the purpose of saving her , Ransom ( veteran of the journey to Malecandra in Out of the Silent Planet ) is actually made a Ransom for her , a sort of Christ figure sent to wrestle with the wicked scientist Weston who tries to bring about the Fall on the newly inhabited planet Venus . |
| 3 | The judiciary committee 's preliminary examination of the affair led to accusations that members of the Bush administration had tampered with the pre-1990 export records concerning Iraq , and had impeded a federal investigation of a $4,000 million fraud at the Atlanta branch of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro ( BNL ) . |
| 4 | By the end of the 1787 season the White Conduit Club had merged with the new Marylebone Cricket Club . |
| 5 | Larky jaunts to the back of beyond returned to fashion with the 1980s boom in travel writing . |
| 6 | The revolutionary Marxist ideology adopted by the intelligentsia began to merge with the working-class movement . |
| 7 | The session had ended with the seven of them grinning broadly , their earlier mood of despondency cast aside , their sense of unity rebuilt . |
| 8 | In Albania , Panic had met with the Albanian Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi , the first such visit by a Yugoslav leader to Tirana since 1948 . |
| 9 | His home had burned with the same anger that the men responsible had felt , the anger which Carrefour had striven to purge himself of . |
| 10 | When the intensive questioning was at last over , fitzAlan had left with the other men , looking as stern and thoughtful as the dour Fleming commander . |
| 11 | She shivered again and then again until somehow it became impossible to stop and her whole body became racked with the uncontrollable involuntary movements . |
| 12 | Senator Albert Gore , one of the most respected and influential members of the Democratic Party , on June 24 called for a " formal investigation " of the " October Surprise " allegation — the claim that the Reagan-Bush campaign team had negotiated with the Iranian government in 1980 in order to reap electoral advantage by delaying the release of 52 US hostages held in Iran . |
| 13 | Holly had talked with the old man and realized only later that when he spoke all those who were within earshot had listened and tried to learn about him from his words . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the crisis had passed with the timely appearance of Evan-Thomas . |
| 15 | Familiarity bred business so it seemed , as established dealers with a limited clientele continued to deal with the same few people day after day , generating sometimes fantastic commissions for themselves , as well as token fines for the overtrading habits that ironically were tacitly encouraged . |
| 16 | To enable the supplies to reach their destination , the US Navy began to co-operate with the Royal Navy in convoys across the Atlantic . |
| 17 | The days and nights that followed this procession became filled with the ghostly rhythms of the Ma'badong dance a cumulative mantric tone intended to induce altered states , which most successfully we found , interfered with our capacity to keep a grip on the job of filming . |
| 18 | Anger began to mingle with the shuttered coldness in her heart . |
| 19 | Preston , whose coming of age had coincided with the New Wave , mentally categorised him as a Punk and , therefore , Harmless . |
| 20 | It was now that the Greeks ( illiterate for several centuries , since the clumsy syllabary evolved in the later Bronze Age had died with the social system it served ) borrowed the suppler consonantal alphabet developed by the Phoenicians and improved on it by using some of the symbols for vowels . |
| 21 | Commercial Union began to cope with the temporary loss of its headquarters building by making the maximum use of available space elsewhere . |
| 22 | There were suggestions this afternoon that , as a result of a switchboard hitch , Mr Mynott 's outside call had crossed with the internal link-up inside Downing Street . |
| 23 | The way he had misled her , Blanche thought , was heinous enough if his loyalty had lain with the same country . |
| 24 | During a three-week sentencing hearing in late September and early October , however , Judge Marvin H. Shoob , of the US Federal District Court of Atlanta , declared that he did not believe that Drogoul was the sole orchestrator of the Iraqi loans , and alluded to Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) documents which proved " definitely " that Drogoul had acted with the full knowledge of BNL 's head office in Rome . |
| 25 | During 1990 the government attempted to deal with the economic consequences of massive Soviet immigration , which presented a more serious threat to the Israeli economy than the Gulf crisis . |
| 26 | But the vast majority preferred to live with the moral problem and forgo the reputed advantages of freely hired labour rather than contemplate the abolition of their traditional rights over their peasants . |
| 27 | After two years the Communist League decided to merge with the Independent Labour Party in accordance with the " entrist " tactic of those French and American Trotskyists who had joined their respective socialist parties . |
| 28 | Housewife Maureen Mainwaring was left bitter and confused after new Warrington South Labour MP Mike Hall declared hopes for a full accident and emergency department and maternity unit at the hospital had died with the recent granting of trust status . |
| 29 | She wore a taffeta dress the colour of port wine and a white lace cap , and there was a happier air about her , though the lines of care had deepened with the extra years . |
| 30 | All were unmistakable ; but if the crazed face of her grandfather had elided with the beckoning features of Mercurius then something had gone very wrong . |