Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , since the disturbing emotions unleashed at Ghar Hasan , he 'd withdrawn from her in some subtle way . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His narrow shoulders had a permanent forward-drooping hunch , with the result that clothes seemed to hang off him in shapeless folds . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | ‘ You could have done it on the sly , like , arranged to speak to her in private . ’ |
| 8 | I turned towards one of the crowd , a grey hunched wrinkled old crone , and started arguing with her in formal fashion : was I dead , or was I not ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Good headlines did scream at you in those days . |
| 11 | The children could take early dinner , but they usually preferred to eat with us in one of the dining rooms . |
| 12 | Wisteria frutescens , a climbing shrub known as the Carolina kidney bean tree and Ascryum hypericoides , St Peterswort , were both depicted , also Myrica cerifera , fully described in Catesby 's book , and Fraxinus caroliniana , seeds of which Miller had received from him in 1724 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Census of 1981 revealed that this figure had dropped to one in five residents in Wales . |
| 15 | Flattered when he had looked at her in that particular way which was both critical and yet admiring at the same time ? |
| 16 | Bertha had looked at her in thoughtful silence for several long moments before she 'd said , ‘ Dear Lucy — I believe you could help me in this affair . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Nobody had looked at it in great detail , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Since her inheritance , ten years ago , all her pleasures and hopes and excitements had come to her in such small parcels . |
| 19 | Prost did to Mansell what Piquet had done to him in 1983 , and in winning the title he became the first man since Jack Brabham ( Aus ) in 1960 to defend the title successfully and one of only four men to win it in successive years , joining two other greats , Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) . |
| 20 | The links between what the medical profession had done to me in British patriarchy and the cruelties and outrages perpetuated by every patriarchy throughout the world were glaringly obvious . |
| 21 | Now the door had closed on them in three more weeks scheduled for Spain . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't worry , misses , ’ the driver said staring at her in open curiosity , ‘ I 'll take you to a very respectable lodging house run by a real lady . |
| 23 | His former partner Jean-Louis Picard sold a charcoal and chalk drawing by Maillol of a nude to Dina Vierny , who had posed for it in 1938 , for FFr2 million ( £212,765 ; $423,404 ) on June 3 . |
| 24 | I pointed out the way we had gone about it in 1974 , when we wished to add an item to the ICAO agenda and were able to agree upon a concerted approach by the major European delegations towards achieving our aims . |
| 25 | The new party subsumed the Finnish Communist Party ( Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue — SKP ) , the Finnish Communist Party-Unity ( Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue-Ydennäisys — SKP-Y ) , the anti-reformist grouping which had split from it in 1986 , and their respective electoral umbrella organizations : the Finnish People 's Democratic League ( Suomen Kansan Demokraattinen Liitto — SKDL ) and the Democratic Alternative ( Demokraattinen Vaihtoehto — DEVA ) . |
| 26 | A spokesman for the British Field Sports Society said it was the first time he had heard of this happening ; which prompted Chapman Pincher to write in saying that the same thing had happened to him in 1961 ( Daily Telegraph , 21 and 24 December 1987 ) . |
| 27 | General principles of equity and fairness allowed the corporate organisational veil to be lifted to protect the interests of the third party , Westland , which had contracted with it in good faith . |
| 28 | I had to speak to you in private . ’ |
| 29 | I stood staring at them in utter bewilderment . |
| 30 | Jessamy wanted to shout at him in sheer frustration . |