Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That device — whatever the hell it is — that I found in Magee was made of the same material I found melted in the other bodies . ’ |
| 2 | The door was open , and as there was no reply to our knocking , we walked in and along the corridor which I knew led to the main living quarters . |
| 3 | Later , years and enchanted years later , it seemed , she lay enfolded in the hard warmth of his arms , shivering from time to time as memory of the passion and intensity of their lovemaking rocked her slender frame all over again . |
| 4 | Like everyone else in the Lodge , Meryl had locked her window and door and mentally earmarked a makeshift weapon among the everyday objects by the bed , but she felt dissociated from the whole procedure . |
| 5 | She felt intoxicated by the male scent and taste of him , aroused by just the pressure of his body so close to hers . |
| 6 | Her sympathy had evaporated ; she felt sickened by the self-centred attitude of the Shergolds . |
| 7 | These with some stalls intervening , we saw reached to the furthermost end of the main building , a wall separating them from the Museum and also from College Street . |
| 8 | And apart from the giggles from the party frocked section of the audience , there was little background buzz from the children as they became enticed by the bizarre tale . |
| 9 | Hence everything he built sprang from the fifteenth century and before . |
| 10 | His most spectacular fraud , in 1976 , was reportedly tricking a US paper out of £25,000 for a pair of shoes he claimed belonged to the murdered head of the Teamsters union , Jimmy Hoffa . |
| 11 | He felt intimidated by the high white building , the scrubbed step and polished doorplate . |
| 12 | He loved the bittersweet aura of it all , the mixture of ecstasy and debasement that he felt lay at the paradoxical heart of life . |
| 13 | El País of July 8 noted González " reticence on the question of human rights , which it said resulted from the Spanish government 's hopes of turning to its advantage a downturn in Morocco 's relations with France [ see p. 38354 ] . |
| 14 | A third view of what he wanted came from the same head telling himself that he wanted pupils in his school to have a vision of learning as an embodiment of self-improvement . |
| 15 | He stood silhouetted in the soft light that flowed out of the room and silently toasted me . |