Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frau Nordern gazed at him for an icy moment then stalked into the bedroom . |
| 2 | The QDMs passed to you by the DF operator are now your track to the station . |
| 3 | Iron Josh beckoned him down , and Denis knelt beside him in the cart . |
| 4 | He created around himself at Hamilton Terrace a kind of family and it was this aspect of his life that allowed Susan Einzig to conceive of herself as a mother figure . |
| 5 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
| 6 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 7 | She slid across the bed , making room for Johnny to sit beside her on the mattress . |
| 8 | Having met Hermione Farthingale , David lived with her for a year . |
| 9 | Not till later was it diagnosed that the mental breakdown which destroyed Hoskyns crept upon him for a year or more before he died . |
| 10 | Manville toyed with it for a few moments , imagining the corridors of the Pentagon and White House alive with zooming figures , grey-flannel covered asses farting tongues of flame . |
| 11 | Max Gate , the house Hardy designed for himself on the edge of town , is stranded behind a new roundabout and it is difficult now to imagine him setting out from there to ride along the lanes with Kipling or H. G. Wells . |
| 12 | Bella peered at her through the dark . |
| 13 | When Pat came to me in the autumn of 1989 she was suffering from osteoarthritis of the neck and spine with accompanying raised blood pressure . |
| 14 | George Kidner came to me in a great state of mind because he has been asked to appear before a committee consisting of C. Bathurst , Peto & C. Mills & sitting at Central Office . |
| 15 | She lied to her father on the day of her escape when Lancelot says to her of the escape — Act 2 , Scene 5 , line 39–41 : |
| 16 | A chubby young man called Laird Cregar appealed to me as a suspect , if only because he had the habit of being seen loitering around places where beautiful women had just been strangled . |
| 17 | I mean you get Sweet Fanny Adams done with them on the run up to Christmas anyway , E.l.S . |
| 18 | He stabbed a man scrambling up the bulwarks beside him , and cheered as Hector 's galleys swept up to the shore and another horde of Macleans poured from them to the rescue of their clansmen . |
| 19 | The latter readily agreed , inviting Corbett to walk with him in the silent , shadowy cloisters , taking advantage of the first soft breezes of early summer . |
| 20 | Erica grinned at me like a witch , saying , ‘ You 're much too physical for the literati . ’ |
| 21 | Disappointed at the constable 's absence , since he and Richard had prepared a verbal message for their mother , Edward remarked on it to the servant , a stranger , who brought their supper . |
| 22 | And it was then that she saw Christie Goldsborough coming towards her along the path , his spectacular , fur-lined driving-cape swinging loose around his shoulders , his feet encased in the finest quality leather , his carriage — a shiny , high-perch sporting phaeton — waiting for him just there , in the road beyond the church wall , whenever he had a mind to take the reins in his gloved hands and go dashing off to drink champagne and eat bride-cake at Frizingley Hall . |
| 23 | What time is Lucy coming to you by the way Terry ? |
| 24 | She followed , and Lucy waved at her in the mirror at every light . |
| 25 | Angus talked to them in a strange tongue . |
| 26 | Schellenberg brooded about it for a moment . |
| 27 | Surere looked at him for a long time . |
| 28 | Bert looked at him for a full half minute . |
| 29 | He seemed to love her as fiercely as he had once loved Ryan , Shiona thought to herself with a little inner shiver . |
| 30 | Lucy stared at herself in the mirror . |