Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steve Cauthen had partnered Pebbles in her first three races of the season but Pat Eddery had ridden her with sublime confidence in the Champion Stakes when Cauthen was claimed for Slip Anchor , and it was Eddery who had the mount at Aqueduct . |
| 2 | The two men knew that the USSR had matched them in nuclear terms , believed that the Soviets could help to extricate America from the ‘ unwinnable ’ Vietnam war , and hoped to deal with Russia on rational , balance-of-power terms instead of the ideological rivalry of the past . |
| 3 | Now , Taheb had set it with large earthenware tubs , from which a profusion of tall dark-green plants grew . |
| 4 | Dara had handled her with humiliating ease , and no doubt could continue to do so if their paths were ever to cross again . |
| 5 | Mandy had plied her with tender loving care until the tears had come . |
| 6 | ‘ You 'll like Bertie , ’ Evelyn had promised her with characteristic misjudgement , ‘ he 's very with it ’ . |
| 7 | George had told him in private the reason for Sarah Butler being packed off to Leeds , and he had realised then that her infatuation for George was an obsession . |
| 8 | The apartment itself was enormous and , as if she were scared of the space , Jane Pargeter had crammed it with expensive furniture . |
| 9 | Others in the FLNC had attributed them to anti-nationalist elements in Corsica linked to the ( Gaullist ) Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) and the Left Radical Movement ( MRG ) . |
| 10 | The MPs said Mr Clarke had received them with great sympathy and had promised to take time to consider every possible factor which could strengthen the town 's security . |
| 11 | Perhaps Nour had burdened her with noisy , tearing girls who had shattered the afternoon calm with screams of merriment and wild gestures , or frenzied weeping . |
| 12 | Gandhi was enchanted by the viceroy 's frankness , and recalled to him that Smuts had treated him with similar candour , recognizing , as he said , the justice of his claim on a certain issue , but advancing unanswerable reasons from the point of view of government why it was impossible to meet . |
| 13 | The key thing appeared to be that Delander had fitted it with double wheel or duplex escapement — and it could be the first of the rare group of his clocks that include the feature . |
| 14 | She confessed that Sally-Anne had written them on old ones Miss Laura had collected on earlier trips , and Miss Laura had posted them for her , to deceive us . |
| 15 | The conclusive Senate vote was scheduled for Oct. 8 , but had to be delayed for seven days following revelation of new evidence from Anita Hill , 35 , a black University of Oklahoma teacher of law , who alleged that Thomas had subjected her to sexual harassment with explicit , pornographic suggestions when she worked for him at the Department of Education and the EEOC in the early 1980s . |
| 16 | Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons . |
| 17 | At first , Lucien had watched them in awed fascination , hardly daring to practise any movements himself for fear of ridicule . |
| 18 | Was it because life itself is a battle and Hatton had waged it with unscrupulous weapons , winning rich spoils and falling as he marched home with a song on his lips ? |