Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wherever we travelled amongst the islands we would collect rare and exotic shells which became for us like fragile clues in a paper-chase of changing life-forms as we moved across historical as well as zoographical boundaries . |
| 2 | Muted sounds , and , once , a cry of pain , came from behind the closed doors that led off it on either side . |
| 3 | ‘ Now I know what passed between you over that cup of coffee . ’ |
| 4 | What passed between you on that occasion ? ’ |
| 5 | Gassendi adopted it enthusiastically and argued for it at great length . |
| 6 | But Beatriz Lavandera has adopted this approach to syntactic variation in a much more radical form , and argued for it in some detail . |
| 7 | He really lusted after me in those days … |
| 8 | I shouted after them in hoarse astonishment . |
| 9 | And neither of the other ships changed position as we fled past them towards deep space . |
| 10 | Shock made her cry out , and he closed the door and moved towards her in quick strides , putting his hand across her mouth to stop-her scream . |
| 11 | I used to think he behaved like someone with constant PMT — irrational and unpredictable to an alarming degree . |
| 12 | Even though hooded by shadow , Blanche sensed Urquhart 's eyes narrow and bore into her like hungry grubs . |
| 13 | It was a foolish thing to do , she knew that a fraction of a second too late ; he cannoned into her with such force that she fell heavily to the ground . |
| 14 | There are dozens of ministers , some highly qualified , who have been purged from the leadership by Mr Ceausescu , usually because they disagreed with him on particular issues or because their superior intelligence made him insecure . |
| 15 | ‘ I thoroughly disagreed with him on numerous issues , ’ said Teller , ‘ to this extent I would like to see the vital interests of this country in hands which I understand better and therefore trust more . ’ |
| 16 | No longer does he cling on to the status that he wrested from him with such arrogance and cruelty . |
| 17 | But then she looked into his eyes , which dwelt upon her in huge solemnity , and knew that he was burningly sincere . |
| 18 | Sometimes we find things like the Moan Lisa , which have been denigrated and used in lots of different ways , but some people when they see it are still overpowered by the beauty of the object . |
| 19 | Rose bent over him with pure attention . |
| 20 | Chris described to her in painstaking detail the story of the cartoon they 'd been watching . |
| 21 | It rose to something like 35,000 tons per year but then began to tail off ( see appendix D ) . |
| 22 | We always referred to them as those ladies of the stage . |
| 23 | Mention is also made of his lease of the customs and the way ‘ he presided over them with singular liberality towards those of higher rank ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ To tell you the truth it never occurred to me until this minute . |
| 25 | Because , it occurred to her with heart-stopping suddenness , the last thing in the world she wanted was to be around when Rohan Saint Yves married Antoinette — or anyone else . |
| 26 | On waking , it occurred to her with renewed conviction that the experience of two days before might have been no more than a temporary aberration of an exhausted mind . |
| 27 | She gaped at him in blank astonishment , then frowned . |
| 28 | He gaped at me in silly bliss . |
| 29 | I 'd like to remind him that 's nothing to the idiot he made of himself on All Fools Day last when he found the dead stoat I 'd placed in the pulpit . |
| 30 | As he followed the path that led towards it between bare-branched shrubs and sturdy evergreens , he fancied for a moment that he would come upon Morpurgo and find him a replica of himself , some doppelgänger of Dysart 's devising planted here in England whilst he had been banished to Rhodes . |