Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hooded eyes surveyed her with frank appreciation mingled with amusement . |
| 2 | I was selling houses and apartments on a commission basis , and I think that my English accent stood me in good stead . |
| 3 | Their exploitation of this recently opened path aroused jealousy among the knights , one of whom refused to answer a charge levelled against him by the Erembalds in the court of Charles the Good , on the ground that his accusers ' lowly social origins barred them from comital justice . |
| 4 | His observation of the way in which after 1942 Churchill took on the role of Roosevelt 's faithful second left him with long-lasting suspicions of Britain 's priorities . |
| 5 | Old tombstones provided her with that lit match to the powder trail of her imagination . |
| 6 | A theatrical gentleman approached me after one of the performances , said he was impressed by my singing , and that he could obtain a part for me with the Schikenader Company in Vienna . |
| 7 | The hon. Gentleman asked me about future numbers . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Enchanted , she too watched the sweet-faced boy who was chattering excitedly while his fond father plied him with Carnival cakes . |
| 10 | There were times when Eliot seemed uncertain or ill at ease , suddenly very much the " resident alien " — one has the impression , always , of a man invaded by inexplicable moods and anxieties which he did his best to conceal — and Hayward 's own dominating and very English manner afforded him at such times a certain amount of confidence . |
| 11 | I suppose that simple precept from that old foreman stood me in good stead for thirty odd years , until now . ’ |
| 12 | French press releases overran our positions , German amendments raked us with deadly fire . |
| 13 | Ceauşescu 's distancing himself from his fellow countrymen , whether for reasons of security or hygiene , meant that his daily life involved him in regular contact with relatively few people . |
| 14 | The old man told me in this connection : |
| 15 | And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there . |
| 16 | Acting on a French tip-off , the British police arrested him on 6 June 1931 , along with a young woman , Li Sam , described as his niece but more probably his mistress . |
| 17 | Now Ebenezer Judge understood what he must have felt , as a dozen willing hands hoisted him on high , held him for an instant in mid-air , then let him down , inch by inch , until the back of his head knocked against the stone wall and the freezing water lapped over his boots . |
| 18 | Beattie 's outstanding record as a dedicated social worker stood him in good stead at the ‘ Diplock ’ tribunal and partly explained the presence of a total of twenty-four persons who came to testify on his behalf . |
| 19 | Thrill-seeking impulses led them to many momentary and immediate adventures , and it was this period of his life he referred to when he said he had never been in an orgy of more than three people , although he tried ineffectively to promote it a time or two . |
| 20 | The other old nomes watched her in horrified silence . |
| 21 | The idea that a free India would remain loyal to the British empire filled him with brilliant scorn . |
| 22 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |
| 23 | Great Britain , for their part , will be looking to recapture the many admirable qualities which brought them that improbable victory after Steve Hampson 's early dismissal reduced them to 12 men . |
| 24 | The seeming contradiction reminded her of another : ‘ the solution posed the question ’ . |
| 25 | When the Central Authority carpeted him for this , he stated that he had done it both to meet statutory obligations and to make faster progress on rural electrification than agreed . |
| 26 | During this period of voluntary ostracism from social contact with those around him , Mr Thesiger 's fondness for out-of-doors sports and predilection for the simple life stood him in good stead . |
| 27 | The superior numbers of the Imperial army stood them in good stead : within a few minutes , Dara 's forces had broken through the rebels ' artillery and put to flight the infantry . |
| 28 | ‘ Around 80 Subject Assessors visited us during that fortnight , and every module was looked at . |
| 29 | A few hours earlier Mrs Valerie Williams was robbed of her firm 's wages on a quite road in South Wales when masked men overtook her in this stolen car and forced her to stop and then rammed her vehicle from behind with another car . |
| 30 | No , he was n't — one glance at his chilling expression convinced her of that . |