Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] [subord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We termed it thus because the depression arose from role performance and not from their psychopathology . |
| 2 | On 5 June he is said to have ignored a request from a Catholic merchant for protection for his family in the Mansion House ; and he stirred himself only when the Bank of England was reported to be in the mob 's sights . |
| 3 | The wind caught the sail and he threw himself backwards until the folds of his galabeah were trailing in the water . |
| 4 | The pursuer threw himself aside as the vehicle mounted the pavement , slamming into a lamp-post . |
| 5 | I would n't have made a good martyr , for the frown of the tyrant alarmed me more than the threat of wild beasts or the rack . |
| 6 | They contacted me rather than the police , and we 've had our own doctor patch him up . " |
| 7 | Although he blamed himself rather than the department for his own failure , making comments like ‘ I 'm just not an academic basically ’ and ‘ I do n't think there 's a lot wrong with the course , if you want to do an academic course ’ , the path he saw himself as taking seemed directly opposed to the departmental ethos ; stating that he did n't want to do ‘ anything theoretical ’ , he told me that he wanted to train to be a nurse . |
| 8 | His own followers cheered him repeatedly as the rhetoric boomed out through the slight electronic distortion of the public address systems . |
| 9 | That she achieved it just when the company was set for major expansion , was an accident of timing that Bernard was determined to exploit to the full . |
| 10 | He took the crank-handle , inserted it in the hole at the bottom of the radiator and , encouraged by a chorus of ‘ One , two , three , heave ! ’ , swung it energetically until the engine sprang to life . |
| 11 | How could she have been foolish enough to let it happen ? she asked herself inwardly as the lift slowed and stopped , and its wide metal doors sighed open . |
| 12 | The chief magistrate watched me intently as the prosecutor , a blundering serjeant-at-law , failed to prove I had any grievance against the Ralembergs and could not proffer any motive for the crime . |
| 13 | It frightened me more than the people behind the counter . ’ |
| 14 | The US Embassy in Iraq treated me worse than the Iraqis . ’ |
| 15 | The US Embassy in Iraq treated me worse than the Iraqis . |
| 16 | I thought they sent them home cos the rains in |
| 17 | Sycorax fainted , and Ariel bent her cheek to the discoloured cheek of the old woman and licked the salt that fell in her tears , and when she reached the cabin took her inside where the rush screens would keep the flies off her wounds , and made her as comfortable as she could on the ground , with fresh dressings on her burns , a cool soaked cloth on her forehead . |
| 18 | I found my penknife and kept it close as the shadow of a vulture wheeled over the tent . |
| 19 | Corbett devoured it hungrily while the gaoler watched impassively but , when Corbett tried to ask him a question , slapped him in the mouth , grabbed the bowl and waddled out of the cell . |
| 20 | If on the other hand if they got it genuinely after the policy was enforced , that 's the risk that we take . |
| 21 | I liked them more when The Style Council played with pop history , assembled their own fantasy of ‘ perfect pop ’ out of Philly , Blue Note , Left Bank , Holland-Dozier-Holland . |
| 22 | He did it automatically when the girl attacked the man who 'd been fighting with her father , recognizing it as a natural reaction to shock and grief . |
| 23 | He did it twice before the bottle broke . |
| 24 | ‘ Good evening , Fabia , ’ he greeted her smoothly as the housekeeper melted away , his dark eyes flicking over her from the top of her golden head , taking in her features and perfect complexion before travelling over her long-sleeved fine wool lime-coloured dress , its straight lines hiding none of her femininity , before his all-assessing gaze ended at her neat two-and-a-half-inch-heel shoes . |
| 25 | I kicked him aside as the dream faded . |
| 26 | Two figures bent and picked up Madra , and half carried , half dragged her away whilst the rest fought a running battle with the maddened grypesh . |
| 27 | Apart from anything else , this project is worth a great deal financially and I 'd be a fool to myself if I forfeited it just because the client is an obnoxious , egotistical swine . |
| 28 | Bonanza said he wanted me there so the police would know where I was . |
| 29 | Not because she considered herself better than the people who were forced by circumstance to reside there , but because she found the atmosphere depressing . |
| 30 | Fran flushed even more , trying to draw away , but he would n't let her as he curled her to him and held her tightly until the ache subsided . |