Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pron] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nour drew me as an English Miss : Ingleesy , prim , uneducated , unsophisticated . |
| 2 | Straightening up , Roman regarded her with an unreadable expression . |
| 3 | To bring about greater stylistic variation and interest , the extract could be rewritten , by combining sentences ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) , and sentences ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) : As a way of reflecting the development of their heroines , both Brontë and Hardy present them within an organic structure . |
| 4 | Ken tried to rid himself of the guests , so that he could get away to the theatre , by telling Pat to call him to an imaginary telephone call . |
| 5 | Stok quoted it with an excellent Highland accent , ‘ Robert Burns , ’ pronounced Stok , ’ ‘ To a Mouse ’ . ’ |
| 6 | Cornelius seated himself in an exquisite chair before a mahogany partners ' desk . |
| 7 | Ruth interrupted him with an embittered laugh . |
| 8 | The Sandfords provided us with an elderly Amhara called Habta Mariam as cook . |
| 9 | Shortly after his arrival in England , Wordsworth found himself in an impossible moral position . |
| 10 | Wheeler motioned him to an easy chair and made to put away the handsome leatherbound notebook in which he had been writing . |
| 11 | His title " Button " stuck even when Harvard shifted him into an administrative role ; he was obviously too intelligent to remain a runner . |
| 12 | It was once a country remedy for rheumatism , using the fresh green tops made into a tea , and Culpeper recommended it as an excellent medicine for the " quinsy … to gargle it , when boiled with figs " . |
| 13 | ‘ And there you are wrong , ’ Alain assured her in an amused voice . |
| 14 | In his autobiography Reflections in a Silver Spoon Mr Mellon describes himself as an Incurable Collector . |
| 15 | Dieter guided her to an empty chair ; she was trembling violently and he called for brandy . |
| 16 | In the Champion Hurdle , which he won at 50-1 and in the Sandeman Hurdle at Liverpool , where at 10-1 he gave weight and a beating to some of the best hurdlers in training , Beech Road established himself as an outstanding champion , and although he did not win the Charles Heidsieck Champagne Bula Hurdle on Saturday , he confirmed his position at the top of the tree . |
| 17 | Fairly early in Take a girl like you , Patrick delivers himself of an unqualified condemnation of women , which is followed by a sentence from the narrator concerning and presumably condemning Patrick 's attitude to Jenny at that stage , as a girl to be taken and left : ‘ He wanted more than his share of her before anybody else had any . ’ |
| 18 | Pinza ran only once more , Gordon Richards partnering him to an easy victory in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot ; Aureole was again second . |
| 19 | We hear that during September , Pest Control Westminster found itself in an embarrassing situation of having under spent on its petty cash budget by 10% . |
| 20 | Seeing him in good spirits now , Boswell teased him for his earlier hesitancy , called him ‘ a delicate Londoner … a macaroni ’ , and Johnson defended himself with an unserious disingenuousness by saying he had only feared not finding a horse able enough to carry him . |
| 21 | For Mr Till presents us with an intellectual Mozart , linking him with Rousseau and Voltaire , Goethe and Schiller . |
| 22 | Christina led them under an arched stone portico and through a labyrinth of white-stucco passageways opening onto vine-covered courtyards where tiny humming-birds fluttered through tall bamboo , and antique urns overflowed with red and pink angelica . |
| 23 | Given its origins , the NUR saw itself as an industrial union ; originally it organized most groups of BR workers , and it continues to be recognized by BR as representing all grades of staff other than management . |
| 24 | The Old Gang Smelting Mills reminded me of an old deserted coal pit I played around as a child . |
| 25 | John Marshall was given ample time to cross and Farrell redeemed himself with an unstoppable half volley . |
| 26 | Gusev likened himself to an industrious spider , sitting at the heart of a complicated web , pulling a thread here , tightening one there , until finally he began to see a pattern . |
| 27 | The dress proved such a hit that the London company who made the original for Diana turned it into an off-the-peg line . |
| 28 | Lloyd George defended them by an aggressive verbal attack on the privileges of landowners : |
| 29 | Film stars , such as Marilyn Monroe , are likely candidates , and the pressure of such a role can create unbearable conflict ; Monroe killed herself at an early age and at the height of her popularity . |
| 30 | On the day of Mussolini 's arrival in the city Il Piccolo greeted him with an enigmatic front-page headline : ‘ Duce , Duce , Duce ! |