Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keller 's Zurich upbringing made him into a skiier and sculler , and he raced for the Grasshopper club . |
| 2 | He more than filled the gap left by Alex ; his presence animated her with a mysterious excitement . |
| 3 | At noon , the exhausted Pack gathered together and Brown Owl led them to a shady area . |
| 4 | I believe that it was , or had some connection with , a species of agoraphobia , which in his case manifested itself as an acute fear of heights . |
| 5 | Windows opened ; grocers ran to the doors of their shops ; customers stopped discussing bacon and turned ; our teachers wobbled on their bicycles as the noise buffeted them like a violent squall ; and boys sprinted to the school gates as they came out of the building , though many others , cool boys , shrugged or turned away in disgust , gobbing , cursing and scuffling their feet . |
| 6 | The blow caught her on the right side of her face , high on the cheek bone , beneath the eye . |
| 7 | Lady Constance visited some suffragettes imprisoned in Holloway gaol , and this experience transformed her into a public figure with a single-minded burning cause . |
| 8 | Coun Bob Brady , committee chairman described it as an exciting project which would be part of the town 's City Challenge programme . |
| 9 | THIS OPPORTUNITY PROVIDED ME WITH A WELCOME BREAK FROM THE PURELY BOTANICAL WORK TO WHICH I WAS ACCUSTOMED . |
| 10 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 11 | Child labour recommended themselves to the early factory masters not only because it was cheap but also because it avoided dependence on adult labour whose traditional work habits were too deeply ingrained . |
| 12 | Emotion stabbed her like a physical pain . |
| 13 | An ad in the Sevenoaks Chronicle led him to the white 1988 Sierra Sapphire 1.8 LX , advertised at £3750 . |
| 14 | The mathematician propelled himself towards the prone figure some yards away . |
| 15 | His glance met hers for a brief , breathtaking moment , before he started forward , his stride slow , and rangy . |
| 16 | A car passed them on the single track road , heading north ; they stood aside to let it pass , waving at the single occupant when he waved at them . |
| 17 | To flesh out the story , the DIA provided him with a German mailing address , Postfach 1151 , Geilhausen 6460 , from which all correspondence , including anything from the DIA , would be readdressed to Coleman 's maildrop in Barrington , Illinois . |
| 18 | Her General Practitioner referred her to the surgical Outpatients Clinic where the surgeon examined her and placed her on the waiting list for stripping ( removal ) of varicose veins . |
| 19 | In January 1990 the Education Department provided her with a new tutor . |
| 20 | Sure enough , a high-pitched peeping drew me to the stable , and there on the floor was the hen with one minute black puff-ball of a chick . |
| 21 | Drawing refreshed him as a long walk refreshed him , and it was part of the art of forgetting slights , frustrations , old wounds , so necessary if he was to survive and stay serene . |
| 22 | But come in out of the cold , ’ he said , seeing how the little priest hunched himself like a ruffled bird inside his gown . |
| 23 | The long black limousine drove them through the wintry city . |
| 24 | One critic likened it to a titanic High Mass on Mars . |
| 25 | Half the people in the study received nothing from a formal agency and the authors conclude that the Social Fund ‘ is largely irrelevant to most real-life situations within which the poorest people find themselves ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ I have also been to the Guildhall , ’ he mournfully concluded ‘ The mayor told me in no uncertain terms how displeased His Grace the Regent Duke of Lancaster is at our lack of progress . |
| 27 | Complaining that a recent photograph showed him with an unrecyclable styrofoam coffee cup , he denounced it as ‘ politically incorrect ’ . |
| 28 | The priest measured him with a pitying look . |
| 29 | Nicolo 's mouth captured hers in a slow , insolent kiss . |
| 30 | And his hard mouth claimed hers in a burning kiss that sent her pulses racing , a muffled gasp of pleasure coming from her as her mouth opened hungrily beneath his . |