Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alison met him in the same bar . |
| 2 | When Pauline Kael reviewed him as the bloated Jake La Motta in Raging Bull , she said that what De Niro was doing was certainly something , but she 'd hesitate to call it acting . |
| 3 | Britain 's golden boy who lost his shine when newcomer David Grindley beat him for the final place in today 's 400 metres final is ready to take a year off from the track if it means he can beat the trouble . |
| 4 | Mountbatten 's task was not simplified when General MacArthur saddled him with the additional responsibility of taking over Indonesia and Indo-China , previously within the American sphere . |
| 5 | When the hamlets were first included in the development area for the new city of Milton keynes in the 1960s , people of Calverton fought it in the High Court and won . |
| 6 | Glenn Hoddle got them to the Premier league … maybe Keith Scott can keep them there ! |
| 7 | First of all Gyggle tried me on the same sort of rudimentary exercises that I remembered performing as a child . |
| 8 | A contemporary writer from Lika compared it to the Mongol invasions and the depredations of the Goths and Attila the Hun . |
| 9 | Ramsey had moved out of the Barthian influence which via Hoskyns attracted him during the earlier 1930s . |
| 10 | Brownie Owl was very sympathetic when Penny told her about the lost budgie . |
| 11 | Linda recognised her from the previous day at school . |
| 12 | Markby joined her on the further side and they both stopped to watch as their bovine companions lumbered up and stood in a row staring at them expectantly , tossing muddy heads . |
| 13 | Late that evening , Corbett was found by a servant sent by Selkirk , who announced in broad Scots that the knight would be grateful if Corbett joined him in the outer bailey near the main gate . |
| 14 | Grimma followed him across the chilly floor as more nomes filed into the shed and huddled apprehensively along the walls . |
| 15 | David followed her up the short path between the borders of spring flowers . |
| 16 | Captain Meredith observed her from the open door , as did Miss Jarman . |
| 17 | Your very welcome Letters of the 20th of Aug. and 14th of Septr. reached us on the 23rd and 25th of Jan : they were a joyful relief to us all and were the most acceptable to me since for the first time you acknowledge I have been tried and not found wanting : believe me it will always be my highest gratification to merit the good opinions of every one but of none more than yourself : and the more confidence you repose in me the more strenuous will be my efforts to prove myself worthy of it . |
| 18 | Donna saw it in the rear-view mirror , convinced and elated that she 'd done it crippling damage . |
| 19 | By the late 1980s the CPSU itself accepted , as Gorbachev put it to the 27th Party Congress , that no single party could have a ‘ monopoly of truth ’ and that the movement as a whole would not normally be unanimous on all the issues it confronted . |
| 20 | Millie remembered it from the previous evening . |
| 21 | When they drew apart at last Travis carried her to the nearest armchair , cradling her across his lap . |
| 22 | Their work was still circulating in the 1940s when Simone de Beauvoir criticised it in The Second Sex ( 1949 ) . |
| 23 | Woolley chased him to the nearest bomb-crater . |
| 24 | Ward told him about the two diversions below Chilete and the need to switch to the old road that ran along the lip of the gorge . |
| 25 | It must have taken a while from Taunton , Charles thought , as Frances drove them in the yellow Renault 5 along the route Lesley-Jane had described . |
| 26 | Jane met him at the front door . |
| 27 | Sheffield went ahead after 30 minutes when Gage knocked the ball past Allen as he burst into the goalmouth and , though Walker parried both his shot and Deane 's follow-up , Deane beat him at the third attempt . |
| 28 | But my heart was not in insurance , and when Fred Workman recalled me to the editorial offices I rushed back to my old love . |
| 29 | So Brenda told her about the adventurous ride by the short cut . |
| 30 | Alice Fell was such a stumbling-block that Wordsworth withdrew it from the 1820 edition of his poems . |