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Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	‘ The Prince of Wales discovered that I was to be at Broadstairs at this time ; my cooking pleased him , ’ he added simply , ‘ and voilà , he asked for me to cook this banquet too .
2	As it was , however , no suitable opportunity arose for me to gain such information .
3	His description of how he watched helplessly as one of the deadly missiles thundered towards him makes chilling reading .
4	Instead his hands were eagerly outstretched , and she moved towards him knowing that life could hold no greater happiness than this .
5	She bent with him to examine troubled roots , spotted leaves , patchy bark .
6	Nathan 's look as he towered over her sent cold shivers rippling down her spine .
7	But the secular mind looked to them a starved mind , desolate of passion because robbed of faith , and it never occurred to them to doubt that religion possesses and monopolises the spiritual life .
8	It never occurred to us to criticize these conditions , which we accepted as a part of Eton life , like the tailcoats and top hats we wore .
9	Sir Alf Ramsey was n't popular with many ( it is n't a manager 's job to be popular ) but every player who played for him had enormous respect and liking for him .
10	The manager replied it was cleaned out that morning , and came with us to take another look .
11	Eidesis came upon me trapping both layers into a third internal one .
12	Ember would n't even tell her what from , but she could sense through the flux of data that came from her paling blue awareness that the others had something planned for her , something that she did n't want .
13	The first correct entry came from who wins 500 EfaCoat capsules
14	that came from someone doing this sort of thing .
15	He seemed to himself to need more leisure to pursue his studies of the New Testament and of Christian thought more profoundly .
16	All the same , I said , if they came across anyone fitting that description in their care , please would they tell George Burley his name and room number .
17	Why was Roger Seelig told by someone giving medical advice several months after his trial began that he was on the verge of a mental breakdown , yet last week he was roaring up the M4 in his Porsche to look after his two properties ?
18	The rooms he opened for her had few signs of childish occupation .
19	Regarding the Nationalists as the lesser of two evils he joined with them to resist Japanese encroachments .
20	The teachers ' accounts of what happened to them make disturbing reading .
21	What happened to your keep fit classes speaking of tapes cos you had some tapes of keep fit ?
22	The interest in birds that he shared with them transcended all prejudices and the racism rife among the resident colonials .
23	The third respect in which Galileo 's theologizing backfired arose from his taking that office upon himself .
24	And er what was I going to tell you , I told you about , I talked about we had nine pawnbroker 's shops , I did n't did I , but that we did have nine pawnbroker shops in Ipswich .
25	And even Gazzer did not appreciate the strength of character it needed for her to make that choice .
26	" We worked on him getting better rotation with his forearms .
27	Mr Begg called on anyone experiencing genuine hardship over payment of poll tax arrears to contact the council .
28	Mr Begg called on anyone experiencing genuine hardship to contact the council .
29	Due to unforeseen problems , they became so heavily involved in the project that both found it necessary to develop new skills which led to them becoming competent programmers in their own right .
30	Well — that happened to me when my daughter joined the local Brownie Pack ; they were desperate for help and that ‘ couple of hours on a Friday ’ led to my becoming that pack 's Brown Owl , moving to a Guide Company that was in danger of closing and finally becoming District Commissioner administration four Brownie Packs , four Guide Companies and one Ranger Unit .