Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nothing came for her by the first post . |
| 32 | Four times a day the nurse came towards her across the wide spaces of lino with the shiny basin containing the rattling metal syringe . |
| 33 | It was full of pieces of paper , which he dropped behind him for the other boys to follow . |
| 34 | Kernaghan , seeking a transfer this summer from relegated Middlesbrough , said : ’ I 'm pleased and relieved because I blamed myself for the goal Albania scored against us in the last match . |
| 35 | After a word with his clerks , Henniker came with me into the other room . |
| 36 | It worked ; the old man came with him into the junk-filled yard . |
| 37 | Johnny Miller played with us for the last two days . |
| 38 | Before the side-car receded from her along the straight avenue , she observed a gun case ( sometimes Anderson shot the bogs with Dada ) , a rod case , and a bulging Gladstone bag tied together in the space ( called the well ) situated between the opposite wings of the sidecar . |
| 39 | Something twisted inside her at the naked emotion that flashed for a moment across his face . |
| 40 | Since it was the golden-fleeced ram the king really wanted , he was not at all pleased when Marko came before him on the seventh day with a jug of sweet wine and a cluster of grapes in his handkerchief . |
| 41 | I played in one at the previous place I worked . |
| 42 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |
| 43 | He shook his head and clucked to himself like the White Rabbit in Alice . |
| 44 | Essentially , the proofs of the reality of God appealed to him as the only adequate explanation for the existence of the world . |
| 45 | Leon Kennedy slumped in his chair , laughing , and it came to him with the same elegance as movement . |
| 46 | The tiny movements of the wherry and the gentle , muted river sounds which came to him through the warm night air gave him no relief . |
| 47 | It came to him in the small hours . |
| 48 | Conversely , if the accused can show that the material came to him in the normal course of business from a reputable supplier , he may have a defence . |
| 49 | Eluard 's soaring ‘ lyricism ’ helped to perpetuate a tyranny , and is the kind of thing which led Kundera to employ the title The Lyric Age for the work which first came to him in the mid-Fifties , and which his publishers prevailed on him to retitle Life is elsewhere when it was completed in 1969 . |
| 50 | He , too , suffered from an occasional enlightening vision which came to him from the dim past and which he must have suppressed at the time … |
| 51 | Almost always she answered ‘ yes ’ because she had come to prefer lying still , with his soft sleeping body behind her , breathing the night air scented with pine wood and wild thyme as it came to her through the open shutters , and listening to the faraway ululation of the Borzoi dog chained beneath the walls of the Castello Crocetto . |
| 52 | Voices from the breakfast table came to her through the open window . |
| 53 | A picture came to her of the shaggy wanderers huddling together in the bus shelter at the top of the road where she had been born and bred . |
| 54 | A moist breath of autumn and ripeness came to them through the open window . |
| 55 | One such attempt came to nothing during the Second World War , when a military coup mounted under the pro-Nazi Rashid Ali al-Gailani was defeated . |
| 56 | With distant astonishment at her own efficiency , she heard her voice saying very clearly and reasonably : ‘ I do beg your pardon , but I came to you as the nearest house . |
| 57 | Erm Mr referred to er put great store it seemed to me on the long term effectiveness of of of reducing er building . |
| 58 | Britain , in the mid-1970s , seemed to me like the promised land of progressive education . |
| 59 | As for Mr Berkley , the conversation seemed to him like the macabre chorus of some drama in which he was eventually to appear , by some unexpected twist of the plot , as the despicable villain . |
| 60 | The more History attempts to transcend its own rootedness in historicity , and the greater the efforts it makes to attain , beyond the historical relativity of its origin and its choices , the sphere of universality , the more clearly it bears the marks of its historical birth , and the more evidently there appears through it the history of which it is itself a part … inversely , the more it accepts its relativity , and the more deeply it sinks into the movement it shares with what it is recounting , then the more it tends to the slenderness of the narrative , and all the positive content it obtained for itself through the human sciences is dissipated . |