Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She described again and again how they went to India in the early 1920s and returned in the Depression , his work as an electrician in the mines , poverty , living in digs with the old soldier who polished the shoes and got my brother to put the finishing kaybosh on them . |
| 2 | She narrowed her eyes to send the close out of focus , and painted in broad splashes of border colour — a bank of lupins there , clumps of huge red poppies over here . |
| 3 | She narrowed her eyes to catch the first mosquito smudge of distant cormorants — give them till daylight , she told herself as if you can command their flight ! |
| 4 | Human beings turned out to be more intelligent than dandelions and modified their behaviour to match the new circumstances . |
| 5 | The Hussars drew their sabres to drive the unarmed men back into the river , but French artillery had already closed on the southern bank and , as soon as the Hussars went into the trot , the first roundshot slammed across the water . |
| 6 | At a congress in Linz on June 14-15 the SPÖ changed its name to become the Social Democratic Party of Austria ( Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs — SPÖ ) rather than the Socialist Party of Austria . |
| 7 | Tess helped her mother move the big bed against the church wall . |
| 8 | In 1864 the family moved to St Leonards , where Florence helped her mother visiting the sick . |
| 9 | She clenched her jaw to kill the sultry languor that was stealing over her at the sight of his thick lashes lying in two black arcs on his gilded cheekbones . |
| 10 | Joan Halton used her husband to express the emotional greed of which she was so frightened in herself . |
| 11 | There was n't really enough light to allow a thorough examination of the shadows in question , but Roman duly bent his head to inspect the pale oval of Caroline 's face in the soft lights from the trees . |
| 12 | ‘ Roman , the other night at Casa Sciorto , ’ she whispered shakily , tightening her arms around his neck , trembling as he bent his head to trace the lightest of kisses along her temple , ‘ making … making love with you . |
| 13 | He let his eyes slip the other way , towards the little group of waiting people , hunting along the front line until he picked out Harriet Shakespeare . |
| 14 | Muddiman continued to report the doings of both Monck and the Rumpers until they quarrelled , whereupon he used his papers to support the former . |
| 15 | Dreamer used his knife to cut the red snow into blocks . |
| 16 | Sonia 's deportation was only reversed because the Home Secretary used his discretion to consider the compassionate circumstances of her case . |
| 17 | Gould also used his time to visit the great Australian explorer Charles Sturt at his home at Varroville outside Sydney . |
| 18 | In such ways Augustus changed his image to match the changing political regime over which he presided . |
| 19 | Therefore , eight British and two Belgian centres pooled their resources to establish the British/Belgian Gall Stone Study Group 's ( BBGSG ) post-dissolution trial . |
| 20 | She rapidly expanded her exhibitions to include the Royal Academy ( from 1870 ) , provincial outlets such as Liverpool , Birmingham , and Manchester , minor London shows , and the Grosvenor Gallery ( from 1879 ) . |
| 21 | July 1 : Nine leading Soviet reformers announced their intention to form the Democratic Reform Movement [ see p. 38347 ] . |
| 22 | All the girls opened their grammar books at the page Mademoiselle commanded then Mary-Lou found she had her English grammar instead of her French one so she reopened her desk to get the right book . |
| 23 | After being cook on the last Whitbread she announced her intention to enter the next Whitbread in her own yacht , with an all women crew . |
| 24 | After thought , she asked her mother to bring the remaining Potters — Bill and Frederica — to Christmas dinner in the cottage . |
| 25 | Did n't you say that those youths who got their friend drunk the other Saturday were not the kind of visitors you liked here ? ’ |
| 26 | Wonderful Wang WORLD champion Wang Junxia fulfilled her ambition to become the first woman to run under 30 minutes for the 10,000 metres when she today slashed an astonishing 42 seconds off the world record . |
| 27 | On 23 March 1934 , members of the Communist League informed the ILP that the International Communist League had disbanded its British section and advised its members to join the Independent Labour Party . |
| 28 | It crushed and lifted her breasts to create the deep fleshy cleavage he always tried so hard not to stare into . |
| 29 | Hérard Abraham fulfilled his promise to reorganize the Presidential Guard , which had served as an important prop of the Avril regime , but the Army as a whole seemed unwilling to become involved in imposing authority . |
| 30 | As a teenager , and later as a club reporter , city-dweller Kieth waterhouse relished his chances to explore the lush countryside and wild moors of the Yorkshire Dales , tramping by rills and becks and over craggy rocks and soaring hills . |