Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far I 'd managed to avoid giving him the exact address , but now he asked for it with a determined note in his voice — " Just in case I 'm down that way " and I was forced to invent one , praying that he 'd never check up on it . |
| 2 | ‘ 2.4 million people done those Italians last weekend , I just read about it in the Daily Mirror . |
| 3 | Her body bounced between them in the light gravity . |
| 4 | He waded through it with a non-stop grin and managed to turn it to political advantage . |
| 5 | He stood up , and he towered above her like a golden figure in one of the hospital 's many paintings . |
| 6 | He joked with them like a cheerful , older brother and sang one or two shockingly rude Army songs that made them both giggle . |
| 7 | A Briton known to leaders of a charity based in Northampton discovered them and fled with them to the relative safety of Split . |
| 8 | Then she was giving him her mouth again so that he might swallow the choked cries of pleasure rising from her throat as the frenzy claimed her once more , and a little later she was thrashing against him , pleading hoarsely for his possession , until Luke held her down and sank into her with a harsh groan . |
| 9 | Just as he disagreed with him about the essential or principal properties of body , Locke disagreed with Descartes about the mind . |
| 10 | As the two women were saying their goodbyes he came to the end of his task , switched off the motor-mower and headed with it towards the narrow gate at the side of the house . |
| 11 | The Ranters were a group of extreme religious libertarians who believed that God dwelt inside them as an inner light . |
| 12 | Excitement flickered inside her like a random spark that found itself landing in a pile of dry autumn leaves as she hardly dared consider the possibilities and what they might mean for her . |
| 13 | Here and there logs surfaced from it like the inclined hulls of sinking ships . |
| 14 | Black fury rose in him against the evil creature who was leeching Ireland of her youth , but Nuadu quenched it , lest the Robemaker turn it to his use . |
| 15 | Fenella looked over her shoulder at them and saw that they were looking at her with such blind trust and with such faith that cold anger rose in her at the evil Lord who had forced them to his work . |
| 16 | She told herself not to let negative thoughts take over , but , night after night , her will-power dissolved into helplessness , and when at last she slept , her past life rose before her like a grotesque apparition . |
| 17 | And as she pushed open the west door Miss Danziger was met by the scent of fennel , the six-foot stems of which towered over her from a huge stoneware pot , very different from the musty scent of piety that greeted her in English country churches . |
| 18 | The lack of attention devoted to it by the British Government and , in particular , by the British press , in terms of the discussions at Maastricht , is symptomatic of our isolationist approach not only to Europe , but to the development of regional policy . |
| 19 | In 1741 Collinson reported to him on the miraculous achievement at Thorndon : |
| 20 | Dependent on relief helicoptered to them by the American armed forces , the mountain refugees are still losing their young and their old to malnutrition , cold and disease . |
| 21 | This weighed on him like an inactive dreadnought suit of combat armour , imprisoning him ; and he sought his enhanced clarity , as it were , to restore power to that suit . |
| 22 | I understand that it is possible , even at this late stage , that the review itself could be overturned by the refusal of France to agree the new allocation of seats and we 've already had an exchange on that , Mr Deputy Speaker , which indicates that whatever we decide today might actually be overthrown and overturned completely by the inability of the French to ratify their part of the arrangement , er the minister referred to it as a massive inconvenience , I suggest that if we have to resort to going back to the old boundaries to fight these elections and indeed the problems that that will cause for the selection of candidates as well , that that will be one of the greatest understatements that even this house has heard . |
| 23 | Robert Savage referred to it as a box-iron piece , a piece of land roughly the shape of an old fashioned box-iron used for smoothing linen ; and he related that the old ploughmen used to refer to the ploughing of this type of field as goring work . |
| 24 | The reflections flickered on her like a distant storm . |
| 25 | I stopped beside him as the other three went on ahead . |
| 26 | It occurred to him with a sudden pang that this was now in jeopardy . |
| 27 | The coy attitude with which the Press still view this and other sexual matters is illustrated by the experience recounted to me by a well-known columnist . |
| 28 | He looked extremely unhealthy ; the anxious eyes of a child peered at her from a white mask . |
| 29 | His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again . |
| 30 | She dabbed at hers with a clean corner of napkin , laughing . |