Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We thought all was well until the Battlebus passed us at full speed in the opposite direction . |
| 2 | His mouth met hers with bruising force , and the clamour inside her head rose to a deafening crescendo , the world twisted and turned , tossing her adrift with the turbulence of a whirlwind . |
| 3 | I put on my coat and we went out to where the wind welcomed us with savage glee . |
| 4 | Plans for their future brought them into political contact with enemies of the ninth electorate which led first to the secret murder of Königsmarck in 1694 , with the connivance of Ernst August , and later to Sophia Dorothea 's confinement in her father 's keeping at the palace of Ahlden , following her divorce from Georg Ludwig in 1694 , which carried the rider that she could not remarry . |
| 5 | His great horse earned it with apparent ease — but lost 29lb in the process and came home to Ballydoyle more exhausted than after any of his previous races . |
| 6 | What gave rise to the protest of the intelligentsia , and what lay behind the revolutionary protest of its extreme wing , was the lack of opportunity afforded them by tsarist society . |
| 7 | This decision filled her with profound gloom ; not only because her home had been so special and so very much loved , but also because the selling of Rose Cottage could do nothing but plunge her into financial disaster . |
| 8 | His gaze pierced her like cold steel . |
| 9 | As so often in the past , Our Lady blessed us with fine weather so that were able to hold our group procession on Wednesday morning , carrying her statue along the holy mile to the Shrine , singing hymns and reciting the Rosary . |
| 10 | But the last unspoken question consumed her with fresh guilt . |
| 11 | The youngster addressed him with condescending friendliness , and got a morose answer . |
| 12 | The guard examined it in close detail , checking off the listed physical peculiarities . |
| 13 | The exchange put him in excellent mood for his breakfast . |
| 14 | The triumph of the Ulster Workers ' Council left it with huge prestige during the remainder of the summer . |
| 15 | Her hard work and determination set her in good stead for the confrontation she had had with the Johnson representative , Albert Buller . |
| 16 | Failure led him to mass manipulation and an attempt to revolutionize British politics from outside the system . |
| 17 | Have we been expelled from an arcadia of fun where nature provided us with innocent automata , lowing and braying machines for our amusement ? |
| 18 | Gandhi dissociated himself from this development and withdrew from politics until 1939 , when the outbreak of the Second World War stirred him to political action again . |
| 19 | This perfidious inner reaction drove her into ferocious silence as they headed back down the coast again , berating her stupidity as she watched the lush green hills glide by . |
| 20 | The Flack team restored her to pristine condition as G–FURY , and she made her first flight at Elstree in June 1980 . |
| 21 | The fear that it might show on her face caused her to turn away from him and hasten towards the food hampers , and as she did so a shock revelation hit her with full force . |
| 22 | Apart from learning more about my own language , the eloquent richness of the Queen 's English and the previously undiscovered interest I had in teaching , my job brought me into close contact with real Spanish people . |
| 23 | First , she contended that her husband put her under undue pressure to sign and that she finally succumbed to the pressure . |
| 24 | After murdering some of his art-loving favourites in 1482 , one group imprisoned him in reasonable comfort in Edinburgh castle and formed a provisional government . |
| 25 | His early training as an engineer stood him in good stead , and he not only devised but also constructed most of the apparatus that he used . |
| 26 | Houghton 's wife reported him to naval security for being in possession of large sums of cash . |
| 27 | Mould lifted them with great effort . |
| 28 | The yellow glow from his little oil lamp showed her in unusual array , her black hair braided in a red ribbon , with curls artfully breaking free around her temples , her gown deepest and brightest blue like her eyes , and a girdle of gold braid round her hips . |
| 29 | Only one person managed it on public transport . |
| 30 | Yet I found that the breadth of my Scottish education stood me in good stead in the work of assessing and editing material from the whole agenda of a serious newspaper . |