Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are a scientific community , ’ he said as he led them into a dismal cavernous hall , ‘ and also a spiritual one . ’ |
| 2 | She led them onto a small covered terrace running the full width of the house . |
| 3 | The Parquet had existed , he thought , since at least 1883 when a reforming Minister of Justice had unearthed in his office some Arabic translations of parts of the French Code Napoleon and promulgated them as the new Egyptian legal system . |
| 4 | She led me into the pink-and-green chintzy sitting-room where Harry , pale with blue shadows below the eyes , sat in an armchair with his bandaged leg elevated on a large upholstered footstool . |
| 5 | And that got me into the last three so I had to do it all again at the Barbican which I think was to see if I could fill that theatre with enough presence and vocal range . |
| 6 | Yet if Mosley came to see Lloyd George as a fellow economic radical , objections to the management of Irish policy divided them in the early 1920s . |
| 7 | To determine whether DP-1 is present in complexes containing Rb , we immunoprecipitated them with an anti-Rb monoclonal antibody from extracts of the human leukaemic cell line JM , which contain high levels of the DRTF1/E2F-Rb complex . |
| 8 | The man took off his spectacles and wiped them on a snowy white handkerchief . |
| 9 | There was a period of incredibly intense excitement which , I think , probably sustained me for the next five or ten years . |
| 10 | My text here is Evans-Pritchard 's unrivalled study of the witchcraft beliefs of the Zande people of the southern Sudan as he found them in the late 1920S and early 1930S living under the generally benign rule of the British raj . |
| 11 | Dutifully , I changed them to a complete muesli-type food which is described on the bag as ‘ Hi Protein Fitness Food ’ . |
| 12 | The combative veteran gave his side the lead on the hour , and then helped them to a flattering 3-0 win . |
| 13 | However , Will Purser helped me with a few defensive sentences such as , ‘ Please talk slowly , I have only just begun to learn Burmese . ’ |
| 14 | Our canvas stretcher-beds were quickly drenched with blood , because we used them for the worst wounded — the others had to be laid on the tiled floor . |
| 15 | Indirect Rule , then , with its implicit exaltation of the man-on-the-spot over the man in the central office , set the seal of legitimacy on the centrifugal tendencies long at work in the British Colonial Service , and provided them with a rational institutional expression independent of the existence of a frontier . |
| 16 | We scrambled up the track and found ourselves beside the inevitable little mountain railway . |
| 17 | One night , he found himself with a few other police enveloped in the hatred of a black township uprising . |
| 18 | Shocking as the assault had been , it had prepared her for another encounter — an encounter with a youth of her own age , bewildered and uneasy , one called to high estate who found himself of a sudden alone on the edge of an abyss … |
| 19 | Last summer Frankie had climbed the tallest ash and found himself in a whole new world . |
| 20 | Shortly after his arrival in England , Wordsworth found himself in an impossible moral position . |
| 21 | The hon. Member for Spelthorne ( Mr. Wilshire ) found himself in an interesting ideological twist on whether function or structure came first . |
| 22 | He never ever thought that he might live in one of these houses ; he always cast himself as the honoured young guest . |
| 23 | The Bulgarian Social Democrat Party ( BSDP ) had originally called itself the Bulgarian Socialist Party , but redesignated itself as the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party ( non-Marxist ) , at its first national conference held on March 31 in Sofia , thereby ceding the BSP name to be adopted by the BCP [ see p. 37380 ] . |
| 24 | The government found itself in a difficult diplomatic position , given the fierce denial of the allegations by the Belgian authorities . |
| 25 | Indeed , while with one hand trying to hold down expenditure by local authorities , the Government found itself by the late 1980s involved with the other hand in massive ear-marked spending on inner urban areas . |
| 26 | Although hailed by the leaders of the Catholic revival as their patron , ‘ the good Earl John ’ ( as he was known by them ) retained something of the recusant Catholic families ' suspicion of ‘ enthusiasm ’ , religious fervour , and triumphalism . |
| 27 | It looked round for an ally , and found one in the old hereditary enemy , Austria-Hungary . |
| 28 | However , while searching the many rooms for signs of the species Homo Sapiens , Daisy caught herself on a mystic spinning wheel and fell into a sleep so deep it would surely last for a hundred years ( zzzzzzzz ! — Ed ) . |
| 29 | She found herself in a large square hall , with a pair of half-glazed doors ahead of her leading directly into the kitchen , and wooden double doors to her left , giving access to the rest of the house . |
| 30 | Her new velvet cloak was whisked away , and she found herself in a large red room full of lights and people . |