Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 2.4 million people done those Italians last weekend , I just read about it in the Daily Mirror . |
| 2 | Her body bounced between them in the light gravity . |
| 3 | A Briton known to leaders of a charity based in Northampton discovered them and fled with them to the relative safety of Split . |
| 4 | Just as he disagreed with him about the essential or principal properties of body , Locke disagreed with Descartes about the mind . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Here and there logs surfaced from it like the inclined hulls of sinking ships . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In 1741 Collinson reported to him on the miraculous achievement at Thorndon : |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I stopped beside him as the other three went on ahead . |
| 13 | Mother and daughter were glad of each other 's company then , while the electric storm boomed and crashed around them in the black night , as if aiming for this one exposed place . |
| 14 | The sun crept towards me over the red tiles . |
| 15 | As Mr Mansell hesitated , Emerson Fittipaldi from Brazil and Arie Luyendyk from Holland zoomed past him on the main straight . |
| 16 | Four times a day the nurse came towards her across the wide spaces of lino with the shiny basin containing the rattling metal syringe . |
| 17 | It was full of pieces of paper , which he dropped behind him for the other boys to follow . |
| 18 | After a word with his clerks , Henniker came with me into the other room . |
| 19 | It worked ; the old man came with him into the junk-filled yard . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Something twisted inside her at the naked emotion that flashed for a moment across his face . |
| 22 | Essentially , the proofs of the reality of God appealed to him as the only adequate explanation for the existence of the world . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It came to him in the small hours . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 … |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Voices from the breakfast table came to her through the open window . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | A moist breath of autumn and ripeness came to them through the open window . |