Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] a [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 | He waded through it with a non-stop grin and managed to turn it to political advantage . |
| 3 | He stood up , and he towered above her like a golden figure in one of the hospital 's many paintings . |
| 4 | He joked with them like a cheerful , older brother and sang one or two shockingly rude Army songs that made them both giggle . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The reflections flickered on her like a distant storm . |
| 12 | It occurred to him with a sudden pang that this was now in jeopardy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He looked extremely unhealthy ; the anxious eyes of a child peered at her from a white mask . |
| 15 | His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again . |
| 16 | She dabbed at hers with a clean corner of napkin , laughing . |
| 17 | Appeal from a decision of Macnaghten J. on the further consideration of an action tried by him with a special jury . |
| 18 | The animal seemed to understand Sir John 's words for it lunged towards him with a strangled growl ; its top lip curled , showing teeth as sharp as a row of daggers . |
| 19 | With a hiss , the double-sided door began to close , just as the figure of Mahon turned the corner and came after them at a terrifying speed . |
| 20 | They called to him twice before he heard , and then he started and came after them at a rapid walk , like a man driven by some urgent pain he could not slough off . |
| 21 | She stopped to catch a child by the hand and whisper some word which was rewarded with a kiss , then caught the corner of her veil to cover her already masked face as the chief driver came towards her for a quick answer to a query , always given and received after the words of greeting and queries as to health had been exchanged . |
| 22 | But the others evidently had not , or Rufus had not , walking jauntily and with swinging stride across the tarmac , his stethoscope bobbing up and down , letting himself into the main hospital block , Shiva later saw , by a door marked ‘ Private ’ , which he slammed behind him with a fine disregard for the notices exhorting all to silence . |
| 23 | Tolstoy clearly appealed to him as a great apostle of non-violence , and one who enabled all votaries of ahi sā to realize and understand that non-violence involved not only the negative attitude of freedom from anger and hate but also the positive attitude of love for all men . |
| 24 | Very few came to him with a complete understanding of who he was and what he had come to do , so their faith was correspondingly weak . |
| 25 | To develop his system , the idea for which probably came to him during a passing involvement with cable trams , Holroyd Smith built three experimental miniature lines in Halifax during 1883–4 . |
| 26 | The sun came to him in a warm gust or like a warm veil enveloping him . |
| 27 | If it now came to him in a new way it was no doubt simply an aspect of his belongingness with Marcus and Irina . |
| 28 | Mabel looked astonished ; any event in her life , no matter how mundane , always came to her as a great surprise . |
| 29 | She vaguely heard Matilda 's angry voice , but it came to her from a great distance . |
| 30 | and then he came to me as a last hope |