Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they were bulging-full , he stitched them closed with a curved needle and woollen thread and laid them ready in a pile . |
| 2 | Passing through the foyer on a last check before retiring , Mr Multhrop found himself engulfed in a merry throng of post-hollands revellers , intent on beginning a new party . |
| 3 | After entering I found it came from a little sister of those drowned Children , that was singing to a bundle of clouts , rudely put together to look like a Doll , which she held in her arms . |
| 4 | I found it preoccupied by a little company of artists , either professional or amateur , who made use of the rainy day by camping in the coach-house to sketch from its shelter a fine group of trees , with some good foreground rock and bracken , all within a stone-throw of the cottage . |
| 5 | There were some who had been destined for fighters , especially Meteors , who found themselves headed for a dreaded bomber tour . |
| 6 | The new trial was reopened before the Juzgado Quinto de Primera Instancia Penal de Sentencia ( Fifth Criminal Sentencing Court of the First Instance ) , and new evidence admitted which led to a guilty verdict . |
| 7 | And as she played she sang in a high contralto . |
| 8 | By the time morning finally came she felt like a total wreck . |
| 9 | Still less at lectures which , Rosengarten recalled they avoided on a regular basis . |
| 10 | Whenever she felt unwell or oppressed she embarked on a new course of treatment at the alternative medicine centre or ingested a new range of vitamins . |
| 11 | The man claimed he spoke for a large group of serving and former policemen who styled themselves ‘ the Inner Circle ’ . |
| 12 | When Antoine finished he looked like a floodlit gantry . |
| 13 | Thus began what developed into a full Department of Ballet at the university , offering , from 1941 , a three-year certificate course for which pupils were required to attend lectures , read widely and study music appreciation as well as their dance classes . |
| 14 | When suddenly they heard what sounded like a powerful wind from heaven , the noise of which filled the entire house in which they were sitting . |
| 15 | He heard what sounded like a stifled cry of pain from a shriller voice ; then the commotion beside him resumed once more . |
| 16 | He hit what looked like a tremendous shot and the wind should have pushed it back left-to-right , but it did n't . |
| 17 | At least , one may take this assumption from the terms which the French emissary Paul Mus , after an arduous journey , presented to Ho in May 1947 and which required what amounted to a conditional surrender ; and in any case now that the Communist Party had been ousted from the French government there was no longer the same effective demand in France for a negotiated settlement . |
| 18 | Portugal , with star winger Paulo Futre back in the side after being dropped , will have been encouraged by Italy 's recent poor form which saw them held to a goalless draw in Scotland and then struggle to overcome Malta 2-1 . |
| 19 | She knew she sounded like a sulky little girl , but his news was a shattering disappointment . |
| 20 | ‘ I knew she went to a certain museum but I did n't know where else she went , nor any of her sources , nor what she paid for things . |
| 21 | Marie was sure that this was because he did n't want to make his family out as ‘ better ’ than hers : he knew she lived on a scruffy council estate with a bad reputation . |
| 22 | I was about to return fire but saw it came from a Croatian position . ’ |
| 23 | I remembered what he 'd told Mavis and me about the book and more than ever I thought it sounded like a good idea — the story of a man rationalizing his own lack of self-belief … |
| 24 | I thought it sounded like a good idea as it would give me a taster . |
| 25 | I thought it sounded like a faulty needle but she said ‘ I 've changed I do n't know how many , all on the ribber bed , so I do n't think it 's that . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I thought he died of a broken heart when the Russians bombed Long Bridge . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The price of a common press was only about one-tenth of the cost of the 1,000 kg of type that kept it occupied in a busy shop … so that the master could afford to own more presses than he would normally need . ’ |
| 28 | As she looked up she saw what looked like a loud speaker in one corner of the room . |
| 29 | And when I did I behaved like a damned fool . |
| 30 | ‘ They were afraid to put their heads out and when they did they came in a whole convoy , shooting at women and children . ’ |