Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 In an effort to quell the hysteria she made herself do ordinary things — putting the kettle on to boil — milk to warm — instant coffee in two brown mugs .
2 " He 's been shaking like this ever since he was sixteen years old , " the Keraing told us , " when he first had the experience which made him take up the profession .
3 She was standing on the drive , reaching the end of a discussion about a kitchen order with Leif , and as Vitor climbed from the car she felt herself grow tense .
4 Oddly enough , later on in the Mess I heard him repeat part of the rollicking , but not my reply , to the station commander .
5 As she entered the alleyway she heard someone call .
6 You 're in the hall you heard one shout of armed police .
7 And it was not only that he had not got what he had hoped for , nor was it the jealousy which made him feel unsure .
8 As I left the room I heard you say … ’
9 ‘ It 's not I , but all the lenders who made it work . ’
10 In the chemistry I did you seem to me to be terribly empirical , you had an inorganic substance and you had to learn absolute by heart what it did if you put it in water and you heated it and you did this that and the other .
11 Bernie did one very important thing for The Pistols He made us focus our thoughts .
12 acid and the metal what did we get ?
13 He would try not to hurt her , but the minute she touched him , the minute he felt her skin against his body …
14 Middlesbrough bring back Robbie Mustoe for Tommy Wright , but are otherwise unchanged , fielding most of the players who helped them win promotion last season .
15 Over the same period , Joe has been one of the players who helped it develop from its infamy as the so-called sign of a mis-spent youth to become a symbol of sporting success .
16 In the mirror she saw him slide open one of his drawers , checking that his suspicion was correct , that the contents of the drawers had become the contents of the packed bag .
17 And after you 'd opened the door what did you do ?
18 The identity of the person who abandoned the Zodiac dinghy and therefore presumably planted the bombs has never been discovered but from the descriptions it seems fairly certain it was Bartelo from the Ouvéa , while the man who helped him get the dinghy into the water was Mafart .
19 The Forbra Gold Challenge Cup Handicap Chase provides an ideal chance for Major Match to return to the form which saw him win the Charisma Gold Cup last season .
20 Far away along the path we saw him turn and look back at the hound .
21 But the needs of his body , so long suppressed , caused him to avail himself of her a second time , and towards the end he felt himself impregnate her .
22 But it was the way they made him feel .
23 I hated the way it made me feel , someone the sight of whom could contaminate , endanger a baby .
24 The bar chart that was the result of the survey we did you need to look at that piece of work and ask yourself a question , is this piece of work the best thing I have ever done ?
25 glowed like the ploughland I saw it swerve towards
26 I was awake last night and suddenly remembered the time you made me rise early to flight the duck .
27 By the time he let her catch him , Claire had forgotten what he 'd said , and he had temporarily forgotten why he said it .
28 about the French what did they do
29 His second goal was the highlight of the afternoon — the single-minded determination to score almost as impressive as the execution which saw him hold off Paul Parker and Alan McDonald and allow the ball to run past him before spinning and shooting across David Seaman , from right to left .
30 Following its flight in the binoculars he saw it make a sweep over a rough piece of land shunned by the golf course architect , a triangle of unsuitable terrain enclosed by the 2nd , 9th and 17th holes .
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