Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Singh worried about him a great deal , and was often very angry at his apparent lack of progress . |
| 2 | His recent return to England brought with it a 120-day qualification ban and he admitted : ‘ This game will be crucial because I need the extra edge . |
| 3 | Every shrill cadence of the birds ' song , every soft utterance of Dr Tariq poured into him the high exhilaration of fear . |
| 4 | I think we all need to bear in mind that as far as what Mr said about what the approved strategy was and what the Secretary of Sta of State previously said . |
| 5 | Fran stared at him a puzzled frown marring her smooth brow . |
| 6 | And if Jesus incorporated in himself the double role of royal and priestly Messiah , he would indeed have been a figure worthy of such adherence . |
| 7 | Fourteen points put Master James eighth in the championship and Hesketh made of him a public figure , a British hope at a time when Graham Hill , Mike Hailwood and others were fading from the scene and Jackie Stewart was about to retire . |
| 8 | Whatever Coleridge 's precise setting during those few days , the autumn landscape of Culbone drew from him an immediate poetic response . |
| 9 | Johnson extracted from him the English meaning of the Gaelic place-name ; it signified a place of , or near , water , conforming , claimed McQueen , to ‘ all the descriptions of the temples of that goddess , which were situated near rivers that there might be water to wash the statue ’ . |
| 10 | Her dear sweet silky head was a breath from Jay 's lips , but Jay sensed in her a wild creature that scares easily , and held her tongue , her lips , her sanctified body , in check . |
| 11 | Along the way Brian talked to us the whole time , not in a loud voice or a whisper , but in a low confident tone , the kind every good falconer adopts when he 's in the presence of birds of prey . |
| 12 | It is almost certainly from a Roman source — an autobiographical letter by Scipio Nasica — that Plutarch derived his picture of Aemilius Paulus , the father of Scipio Aemilianus , receiving King Perseus as a prisoner : " Aemilius saw in him a great man whose fall was due to the resentment of the gods and his own evil fortune , and rose up and came to meet him , accompanies by his friends and with tears in his eyes " ( Aem . |
| 13 | Raymond said to me the other day , I asked him was there any lemonade ? |
| 14 | Ever mindful of the utility of involving all the regime 's political " families " in the business of government , Franco distributed amongst them the remaining posts in his 1951 cabinet . |
| 15 | Loch Ranza opened to us a complete change of scene : there were houses , a church , an inn , and even the old castle was allowed to retain its site , and guide the fishers in their homeward course . |
| 16 | Manco Capac carried with him a golden staff . |
| 17 | Whoever killed Father Reynard shot at us the previous evening . |
| 18 | To the day of his death on the guillotine in January 1793 France remained to him an unknown land . |
| 19 | Jean-Claude saw in me an exotic combination of youth and money . |
| 20 | The job with Karr brought with it a private living unit in Bremen : four rooms , including the luxury of his own private bathroom . |
| 21 | When the cotton trade began to boom in the 1780s , Africa and Asia took between them a fifth of cotton goods exported , with Europe and America sharing the rest almost equally . |
| 22 | but the actual extract as , as Cath said to me the other day , you know she felt sure and I said to her you know in a full length film they could 've actually chosen a better moment |
| 23 | When he and Ricky returned in December , Minton had with him a considerable mass of drawings and watercolours . |
| 24 | They were facing a mounting legal bill , whereas Cassidy had behind him the huge resources of the diocese — much of it contributed by gays and lesbians , Moreover , the Chancellor 's opinion was clear . |
| 25 | Strange as it may now seem , the primacy of Canterbury seemed to him an immovable feature which guaranteed the firmness of the whole structure . |
| 26 | This year the IRA has killed two people in Belfast compared to none the previous year . |
| 27 | The work is enormous — comparisons with the second piano concerto are entirely justified , as familiar melodic and rhythmical thematic material pounds in the ears — and Conway and Evans brought to it a satisfying feel of sonority and stature . |