Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] and the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Gun cannoned into him and the two men sprawled on the ground . |
| 2 | And then she knelt over him and the round childish face with its bush of bright hair shut out the sky . |
| 3 | In the dusk of the evening and the darkness of the house , the things were only just visible … innumerable obstacles that intervened between us and the cosy hearth . |
| 4 | For that reality too may be reinterpreted philosophically as an illusion , a world of appearances , what Schopenhauer calls " the veil of maya " , interposed between ourselves and the ultimate reality — by which is meant the ground of being , the primordial oneness or unity of all individual things . |
| 5 | The realisation , which came to her and the unmistakable clarity of truth , was quite a shock . |
| 6 | It came to nothing and the two settled for the broadbrush alliance on the PowerPC RISC and the creation of Taligent Inc and Kaleida Inc , but it now seems clear that the idea of the big one still appeals to John Sculley , and according to the Independent on Sunday , Sculley was very much considered as the successor to John Akers , but his terms were that IBM sell the mainframe business and merge with Apple to create a profitable $30,000m a year company , and the courage of the outside directors failed them when they considered what announcement of such a deal might do to the IBM share price . |
| 7 | You 're suggesting they leaked against you and the departmental structure you wanted and undermined it ? |
| 8 | The immense sky opened before her and the warm sun lifted her spirit . |
| 9 | His doubted claims to have been the greatest mountaineer of his generation have foundation in fact , despite the hostility which existed between him and the English Alpine Club . |
| 10 | They were talking about the House of Representatives at Weimar — ‘ That troublesome place ’ , as the T'ang continually called it — and about ways of shoring up the tenuous peace that now existed between it and the Seven . |
| 11 | Swindon and , by extension , the Jefferies country around Coate won a permanent place in Thomas 's life because of the indissoluble friendship that developed between him and the old man called ‘ Dad ’ Uzzell . |
| 12 | We talked about it and the following day , we registered the company . |
| 13 | I held him with one arm and the other lay between him and the small bump that was the baby . |
| 14 | penetrate the chilling force-field that lay between him and the two men . |
| 15 | In the afternoons fishermen in small skiffs laid nets along the low island of reeds which lay between us and the main channel , returning to gather them at night . |
| 16 | She was well aware that she purred inside like a cat if he even looked at her and the whole thing filled her with amazement . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose , ' ’ Rab said , but he hardly felt the better ; not , with hobo drinkers , they looked at him and the tattooed barman called him Stick . |
| 18 | As the head snuggled into her and the thin arm came round her waist , Aggie drew in a long tight breath ; then when her own arm automatically went around the child , she closed her eyes tightly , because for the first time in her life she was feeling flesh close to her own . |
| 19 | But one of the ironies of life in the border districts was that it also produced Poles who became more German the more nearly they were incorporated into the Polish state , and Poles and Jews whose political opinions were so far to the right that only their ethnic , religious or national identity stood between them and the Nazi Party . |
| 20 | He said McMullan hurled the bomb while McCrory stood with him and the two men escaped through Garland 's garden and house , the doors of which had been left open as pre-arranged . |