Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But slimming , whether intentional or — as now — the result of unhappiness , never seemed to affect her breasts , and the much washed , faded T-shirt clung to her like a second skin . |
| 2 | The coy attitude with which the Press still view this and other sexual matters is illustrated by the experience recounted to me by a well-known columnist . |
| 3 | Hours of bending and stretching and twisting down on the prom in singlets and shorts while the wind whipped over us from the wintry sea . |
| 4 | Appeal from a decision of Macnaghten J. on the further consideration of an action tried by him with a special jury . |
| 5 | The helmeted figure shouted at him through a face mask . |
| 6 | His Majesty appealed to him as a Statesman and as one who had been a Minister of the Crown to place before everything the present dangerous situation of the country , Sir Herbert replied that he and his party were just as patriotic as the Conservatives : the country would be in far greater danger from Tariffs — price of food stuffs would rise , there would be strikes and outbreaks all over the country . |
| 7 | This time masculine appreciation came at her like a wave and her answering smile was enough to light the room on its own . |
| 8 | Wherever he walked , spring came at him with a rush , overwhelming him with sensation . |
| 9 | The children 's bedroom seemed to me like a microcosm of maturer communities : the same shifting alliances , occasional irritations , necessity for tolerance and need for periods of privacy . |
| 10 | The bear sprang at him with a growl . |
| 11 | Fear fell off her like a jacket . |
| 12 | Oppression lay on me like a dead beast , not gaunt and stiff-legged like the animals which lay where they had dropped along the desert road , but soft and smothering like something from which the breath had only just gone . |
| 13 | ‘ I have n't any serious plans to marry him , if that 's what you 're asking , ’ she told him as levelly as she could , and had the hardest work in the world in hanging on to her temper when his glance flicked from her through the open door into her sitting-room . |
| 14 | If this was a challenge the American film industry reacted to it in a determined and ultimately triumphant way . |
| 15 | He watched her : saw how fear battled in her with a need to obey . |
| 16 | As one wag said to me at the time , ‘ Only R is different ’ . |
| 17 | As he dressed for dinner in his room , Dorian remembered what he had seen and cold fear ran through him like a knife . |
| 18 | The voice could then be raised until the instrument responded to it above the level of the background noise . |
| 19 | Obviously he did n't remember me , for when the College wrote to him for a reference , he replied that he had not heard of me . |
| 20 | His mouth closed over hers with the passion and glory she knew would never die and she melted into his impassioned embrace with a heart that was free to be his at last . |
| 21 | Sometimes the dark arch of a crumbling doorway loomed past them in the gloom . |
| 22 | Simon 's big head and loose mouth loomed above him against the ridiculous English summer sky , which was the color of iron . |
| 23 | A wild , violent delight that had intolerable hunger as its other side spasmed through her as the deep , slow throb low down in her slender body became a pounding , yearning ache that must be soothed , or she thought she would die . |
| 24 | The cold wind closed around her like an icy fist , chilling her to the bone . |
| 25 | To miss out on the opportunity afforded to us by the Chancellor of the Exchequer is to deny those in the greatest housing need the opportunity to get decent low cost housing . |
| 26 | At the same time , the sound of distant gunfire , explosions and shouting came to him on the night breeze , somewhere off his right and muffled by the intervening trees . |
| 27 | She stopped to catch a child by the hand and whisper some word which was rewarded with a kiss , then caught the corner of her veil to cover her already masked face as the chief driver came towards her for a quick answer to a query , always given and received after the words of greeting and queries as to health had been exchanged . |
| 28 | The sun crept towards me over the red tiles . |
| 29 | He looked extremely unhealthy ; the anxious eyes of a child peered at her from a white mask . |
| 30 | She closed her eyes as the memory rushed back vividly into her mind again , and a feeling of panic rose through her at the thought that a fierce spark of that madness might be living on within her as she approached the middle of her life . |