Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] [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 | Stok quoted it with an excellent Highland accent , ‘ Robert Burns , ’ pronounced Stok , ’ ‘ To a Mouse ’ . ’ |
| 4 | Ruth interrupted him with an embittered laugh . |
| 5 | The Sandfords provided us with an elderly Amhara called Habta Mariam as cook . |
| 6 | Wheeler motioned him to an easy chair and made to put away the handsome leatherbound notebook in which he had been writing . |
| 7 | His title " Button " stuck even when Harvard shifted him into an administrative role ; he was obviously too intelligent to remain a runner . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | ‘ And there you are wrong , ’ Alain assured her in an amused voice . |
| 10 | Dieter guided her to an empty chair ; she was trembling violently and he called for brandy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Old Gang Smelting Mills reminded me of an old deserted coal pit I played around as a child . |
| 13 | The dress proved such a hit that the London company who made the original for Diana turned it into an off-the-peg line . |
| 14 | Lloyd George defended them by an aggressive verbal attack on the privileges of landowners : |
| 15 | On the day of Mussolini 's arrival in the city Il Piccolo greeted him with an enigmatic front-page headline : ‘ Duce , Duce , Duce ! |
| 16 | Yon Yonson married her in an evident attempt to qualify for the Irish dole . |
| 17 | The fried brains , the sun-bleached looks , the tie-dyed duds , the slurred intonation , the language — Spicoli walked it like an entire demographic talked it : incomprehensibly . |
| 18 | Whatever it was , the Regent saw it as an unlooked-for opportunity . |
| 19 | The whole family dreaded going to court , so Theresa took them to an empty courtroom , showed them where everyone sat and explained what would happen . |
| 20 | McFarlane won it in an extraordinary 10.08 seconds , gale assisted . |
| 21 | Vice-chairman Violet Durkan presented him with an inscribed gold watch on behalf of the members . |
| 22 | Instead Barclays asked him for an extra £15 commission on his traveller 's cheques . |
| 23 | The plebiscitary acclamation which could always be mobilized by Hitler provided him with an unassailable base of popularity , and as such offered the regime legitimation both within Germany and in the eyes of foreign powers , allowing the scope for further mobilization and a gathering momentum of Nazi policy . |
| 24 | Desert Storm commander , General Norman Schwarzkopf described it as an historic day : a day to make it clear who was in charge . |
| 25 | Then , when they turned out on to the main road , Luke overtook her with an authoritative toot . |
| 26 | Simmons signalled her to an empty chair on the fringe of the disputatious group , and walked round the back of the table to take a chair opposite . |
| 27 | Lowe put him through an intensive course of twice-a-week sprint training and night hill-running . |
| 28 | But when they finally met , Shug greeted her in an enigmatic tone , ‘ You sure is ugly ’ . |