Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I divested myself of all my own French honours and laid them in my elder son 's lap on condition he should be content to be French , as I had discovered I was English . |
| 2 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 3 | He stopped himself from looking at any of them and stuffed them into his waste-paper basket . |
| 4 | Well it , it , not yesterday , the day before , I got them under my right shoulder blade , |
| 5 | ‘ Not to say meet , but Matthew Choak passed me in his old van . ’ |
| 6 | When I think of love or beauty or gardens , the images that moved me in my everyday life appear again and I feel the same sensations as when I first found them . |
| 7 | Later , Carl scolded me in his own fashion : |
| 8 | He saw the wisdom of this ploy and invited me to his next fight , when he lost his title . |
| 9 | Ben and his young friends had been told at the start of the meeting to behave themselves and not get in the way of the other archers , so they were not too pleased when he beat them at their own game . |
| 10 | ‘ He caught me on my right thigh , my left foot came down and I did the splits . |
| 11 | It helped me in my desperate attempt to respect his judgement . |
| 12 | He conceded that his knowledge of the language was slight ; that is why he referred me to his young assistant . ’ |
| 13 | To hasten this process , Bakewell rented out his bulls so that their performance was proven elsewhere before he used them in his own herd . |
| 14 | It was , in fact , the professional warrener , the man who became each estate 's killing machine , who perfected the various sporting methods that exist today and who honed them to their maximum effectiveness . |
| 15 | So when I approached them with my intricate scheme for escaping the greedy jaws of Mr Kinnock and his pals via the strategic disappearance of Punch , they saw the beauty of it straightaway . |
| 16 | Also , the process of writing often brings fresh insights to mind , and helps to ground them in your everyday life — as anyone who keeps a dream diary will know . |
| 17 | He contradicted himself within his own question by saying that we have no constitutional ideas and then identifying an area on which we are currently consulting with a view to making constitutional changes . |
| 18 | They were not sitting next to each other , luckily , but he found himself opposite her accusing face over drinks and remembered the things he 'd last said to her . |
| 19 | Wexford let himself into his own house and the dog Clytemnestra galloped to meet him . |
| 20 | From the point of view of certain owners , these diet-shifts are nothing but a nuisance , but if ever , for some dramatic reason , the cat found itself without its usual owner , they would stand it in good stead . |
| 21 | Subscription lists were taken , the premises were turned over , and the paper found itself with its first crisis . |
| 22 | I have drawn you in , and involved you in my own anger at my son 's disobedience . ’ |
| 23 | Her hands fumbled with the bunch of keys as she let herself into her own flat again . |
| 24 | Sylvia found herself with her naked slit facing the ceiling , and felt his fingers busily parting her thick cunt-lips . |
| 25 | She drew herself to her full height . |
| 26 | Caroline drew herself to her full height . |
| 27 | His estranged wife Danielle and their three children spurned him at his sick bed when he announced plans to wed the former Bond girl . |
| 28 | Style director Hamish Bowles , a lifelong fan , visited her at her magnificent home , Templeton , on Long Island and spent a day talking to and photographing her in some her favourite clothes ( see page 220 ) : ‘ It 's a ravishing and evocative home , C.Z. is a scintillating hostess and brings a contemporary touch to a house that is almost Edwardian in its management and battalions of staff . ’ |
| 29 | A few years later , when a Japanese professor on holiday in England visited her in our other house in Bath , Hill House in Sion Road , he said to her , in the usual Japanese joky way : ‘ I 'm sure your son will be marrying some nice Japanese lady , Mrs Kirkup . ’ |
| 30 | When Callahan and I visited him at his large house on Sunset Beach , it was like walking around a graveyard : every board was a headstone with memories buried beneath it . |