Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he never made to go after you at all . |
| 2 | She tried to reason with herself about this . |
| 3 | She tried to think of nothing at all , but found her mind drifting back to that one subject all the time . |
| 4 | She always felt rather uneasy when he became absorbed in anything like this . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Certainly , since the disturbing emotions unleashed at Ghar Hasan , he 'd withdrawn from her in some subtle way . |
| 7 | Talking to Gavin Selerie in 1983 McGrath detailed some of the influences that came to work on him at that time . |
| 8 | But her vibrant , reasoned tone seemed to slip off him without any effect at all . |
| 9 | He came to talk to me about that . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd thought about it for some time , and decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 12 | The intense darkness that wrapped itself about them was like a black cloak that seemed to press upon them from all sides . |
| 13 | I began to dislike her ; she looked sly and I felt indignant that she 'd spoken to me like that . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Then last year , everything just started running against me for some reason . |
| 19 | My presence disturbed them and they flew screaming about me for many minutes until they tired and began to settle on the dark water . |
| 20 | They kept nagging at him about all that space he had and how she 'd got nowhere and her dad would n't have her back and her with a baby inside her . |
| 21 | She kept pushing at it with all those millions of invisible little arms and hands that were reaching out from her eyes , feeling the power that was flashing straight from the two little black dots in the very centres of her eyeballs . |
| 22 | Alice would have liked to talk to her , for she felt drawn to her in some kind of kinship ; but Caroline did not feel this , it seemed . |
| 23 | She lay thinking about it for some time , then decided she had nothing to lose . |
| 24 | Good headlines did scream at you in those days . |
| 25 | Kylie did agree with him on that . |
| 26 | But Daphne 's dear familiarity , the pleasure of her company , the comfort of knowing pretty well what she would say in response to any remark , the whole warm , easy , ancient closeness that had subsisted between them for more than half a century , won over Cecilia 's temporary , though profound , embarrassment . |
| 27 | ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ had just been released in England and David was doing well with it , or so I 'm told , but no-one had heard of him at all in America , so Tony DeFries gave us each a box of 25 albums to just give to whoever we thought was cool , which actually turned out to be a pretty good idea . |
| 28 | He had heard of me from some of his colleagues and asked to see me to discuss the Labour Party 's decision in relation to the litigation it had brought , with my guidance , against the Manchester Guardian as a result of the leaks from the National Executive . |
| 29 | Somewhere in the back of my mind I think maybe I was afraid that they would find you although I had heard from you by that time and knew you could not possibly be there at the bottom of Loch Craig . |
| 30 | I am so pleased with the Elna ; I began making my bedroom curtains some time ago , but had to steel myself and put them away , as the ‘ British Biographies ’ book was exerting great pressure to keep to its schedule and I had to work on it in much of my spare time . |