Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he never made to go after you at all . |
| 2 | So we agreed to compromise with him on certain things , in return for him keeping his nose out of my business . ’ |
| 3 | She tried to reason with herself about this . |
| 4 | She tried to think of nothing at all , but found her mind drifting back to that one subject all the time . |
| 5 | She always felt rather uneasy when he became absorbed in anything like this . |
| 6 | We 'd been prepared to buy houses with flaws invisible to the naked eye , but now we 'd fallen for one with all its flaws only too obviously visible . |
| 7 | Certainly , since the disturbing emotions unleashed at Ghar Hasan , he 'd withdrawn from her in some subtle way . |
| 8 | Talking to Gavin Selerie in 1983 McGrath detailed some of the influences that came to work on him at that time . |
| 9 | Thus , like Julian , the Prophet Muhammad said that his revelations seemed to come to him in two ways : some were clear and others were obscure and very difficult to understand . |
| 10 | But her vibrant , reasoned tone seemed to slip off him without any effect at all . |
| 11 | And erm anyway we got more from the unemployment exchange that prepared to work for him for fourteen pound , when we could have a eighteen pound on the dole . |
| 12 | All these emotions vanished when Richard came bounding towards him with scarlet cheeks and shining eyes , looking happier than the detective had ever seen him . |
| 13 | He came to talk to me about that . |
| 14 | And when Mother came to look for them at eight o'clock , they were asleep in the sun . |
| 15 | The tenants ( foreros ) paid a customary quit rent to the owner of the dominium eminens or forista ; as in most parts of the world where such tenures obtained , tenants came to look on themselves as outright owners . |
| 16 | If he 'd thought about it at all , he 'd imagined that they could find the Shuttle plane and wedge the Thing on it somewhere . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd thought about it for some time , and decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 18 | The intense darkness that wrapped itself about them was like a black cloak that seemed to press upon them from all sides . |
| 19 | I began to dislike her ; she looked sly and I felt indignant that she 'd spoken to me like that . |
| 20 | She could see his disdain , and it was n't so much for her — she hardly seemed to count for anything at all in his eyes . |
| 21 | His narrow shoulders had a permanent forward-drooping hunch , with the result that clothes seemed to hang off him in shapeless folds . |
| 22 | Our older son and his wife came to live with us for four months , between University and his first job . |
| 23 | The relief must have shown in her face , as she caught his brief little smile of amusement drifting in her direction , and when she thought back on their encounters lately she realised that he often seemed to glance at her in that same lightly amused way , as if he found her mildly diverting — the way he might feel , perhaps , about a pretty child . |
| 24 | I lay on my back and tiredness came spinning towards me in widening circles as the white beach and whiskery grasses had come spinning towards me out of the night . |
| 25 | then Sandy has n't given me a time but I think I 'd suggested to him between six and seven I think people like that they do n't have to go home and |
| 26 | When he turned to look at her with some compassion , she walked the few steps that kept them apart and , staring at him with desperate eyes , insisted , ‘ That woman in the docks … it was her , was n't it ? |
| 27 | ‘ Angus ’ — he dropped the timber he was lifting , letting it clank off the others , and turned to look at him with widened eyes and squared mouth , like the face of someone taking a great strain . |
| 28 | So got rid of him at last , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , and went in to the glass . |
| 29 | Wiping the board clean , she began to write on it in bold letters something that would be comprehensible only to herself and Miss Harker : PLEASE HELP ME |
| 30 | If the view through Williams ' window of history did not please everyone , it at least appears to have pleased many , especially those Negroes from the lower classes , and in particular Creole woman , who began to look upon him as some kind of messiah . |