Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found them in an old file . |
| 2 | I found it in an unexpected place . |
| 3 | When I saw my friend Bob Hope in some comedy or other at the age of six I provided him with an imaginary wife , who was called ‘ Nothing ’ . |
| 4 | But I am glad that I provoked him into an unqualified withdrawal of his disgraceful unjustified comments . |
| 5 | That used to be a completely different tune ; I had the lyrics , but I played it on an open tuned National , then when I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Fender Vibrolux amp , it became what it became on record . |
| 6 | Gareth took a step or two after them and I called him in an explosive croak , ‘ Gareth , ’ and he stopped and turned immediately and came back , bending down . |
| 7 | I write in the past tense because I lost it in an arctic spell of weather and for some inexplicable reason have yet to replace it . |
| 8 | I saw her through an open doorway . |
| 9 | In that too I saw him as an obvious heir to the boys of the old Paris suburbs ’ ( p. 143 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ I saw it as an exciting challenge and a chance to be nearer the business . |
| 11 | We could find no cause for this when I regressed him to an earlier period in this life and so I went on to regress him to what appeared to be a previous life . |
| 12 | I said I wanted it for an amateur production of James Saunders A Scent of Flowers — a play I knew well and which required a coffin to be positioned downstage during the entire action . |
| 13 | you met me with an exalted smile |
| 14 | She led us to an unmarked oak door which opened into a short corridor , obviously a modern extension to the farmhouse . |
| 15 | She regarded it as an unofficial library , as remote and as Municipal as the library itself And then , one Saturday morning , she went into it with Walter Ash , to look at ( not to buy ) the text of Anouilh 's Ring Round the Moon , which was being currently performed at the local rep . |
| 16 | She mimicked him with an Italian accent which always made him laugh . |
| 17 | Despite her antagonism , she recognised him as an awesome adversary . |
| 18 | Lissa 's money gave out , and she told me over an international phone hook-up that she was n't interested any more . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm going to find the nearest policeman , ’ she informed him in an icy voice . |
| 20 | Because she turned unexpectedly she surprised him in an unguarded moment of frank sexual appraisal , but his dark , unsmiling gaze continued to hold hers steadily until she looked away again . |
| 21 | Say , ‘ You lost him at an early age , did n't you ? ’ and I 'll say , ‘ Lost him ? |
| 22 | Clare levered the coins off the counter , and carried her cup out into the small enclosure , where she balanced it on an unsteady iron table , her feet cushioned by a carpet of litter . |
| 23 | Tonight for the first time she saw him as an attractive young man rather than as a boss . |
| 24 | Suspecting that her diarrhoea and wind might be due to Candida infection , she put her on an anti-Candida diet and a course of anti-fungal drugs . |
| 25 | She marched him in an exact 15 metre circle . |
| 26 | She escorted him into an inner office where a young man sat behind a very large desk . |
| 27 | but then you left him for an American carpenter . |
| 28 | When Suor Eusebia saw me she greeted me with an approving smile . |
| 29 | They parted at dawn but when he approached her later the same morning she froze him with an icy gaze and said , ‘ In the circle in which I move , sleeping with a man does not constitute an introduction . ’ |
| 30 | To determine whether DP-1 is present in complexes containing Rb , we immunoprecipitated them with an anti-Rb monoclonal antibody from extracts of the human leukaemic cell line JM , which contain high levels of the DRTF1/E2F-Rb complex . |