Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Halfway round the ring when he asked for little more collection she offered no resistance and they moved as one into an easy working trot rising . |
| 2 | The Ranters were a group of extreme religious libertarians who believed that God dwelt inside them as an inner light . |
| 3 | This weighed on him like an inactive dreadnought suit of combat armour , imprisoning him ; and he sought his enhanced clarity , as it were , to restore power to that suit . |
| 4 | My Pop came to me with an old Army pistol in his hand , knelt beside me and said , ‘ If you want me to kill him , I will . |
| 5 | ‘ The Commission appointed to investigate the disaster came to us after an earlier attempt to prove the cause of the crash had failed , ’ explains senior project manager Steve Jackman . |
| 6 | Behind they heard the death screams of the abandoned mules , and their steeds accelerated even more whilst the grey ghosts of Murtach 's wolves darted beside them at an impossible speed . |
| 7 | She turned to him with an affectionate grin , knowing his soft heart had been hugely moved by the children that afternoon . |
| 8 | The producer turned to him with an apologetic smile , his voice injected with what the sergeant considered a theatrical dose of concern . |
| 9 | They walked with him to an old wooden building near the farmhouse . |
| 10 | ‘ It does n't apply , ’ Kingsley Amis remarked to himself as an adolescent Marxist on joining the army during the war and glancing around the barracks at his new comrades . |
| 11 | For three days this terrible possibility hung over me like an appalling nightmare , but then the agony was lifted — the prognosis was brighter . |
| 12 | Australia beckoned to him like an uncut diamond . |
| 13 | They grinned at her in an easy , friendly way and she returned their smiles . |
| 14 | Albert grinned at her in an indulgent , knowing way and it made her angry . |
| 15 | She glanced at me in an odd way . |
| 16 | Doyle 's attention was drawn by a youth , wearing suit and bow-tie , who called to him from an empty table . |
| 17 | He beamed on me like an indulgent father promising a marvellous present off the Christmas tree . |
| 18 | After we had talked , Philip read to me from an unpublished memoir which he had entitled ‘ The Two Burtons ’ . |
| 19 | She had the guts to decide what she wanted and went for it in an open , una-shamed way . |
| 20 | I thought he 'd be thrown but he went through them like an express train . ’ |
| 21 | She heard Adam gasp , and panic went through her like an electric shock . |
| 22 | He had treated her exactly as he 'd said he would , and not even for an instant had Kate had even a bat 's twinkling that he thought of her as an attractive woman . |
| 23 | She thought of him as an aging hippy . |
| 24 | Somebody thought of it at an editorial conference , and Muggins here had to ring round all these celebrities to get comments . |
| 25 | On a June night in 1746 , she disguised the haughty Prince as her Irish maid , ‘ Betty Bourke ’ , and went with him/her in an open boat from Benbecula to the seat on Skye of Sir Alexander Macdonald . |
| 26 | ‘ Criminals far more vicious than Nicholas Dodman looked upon him as an easy target to provide an outlet for their criminal activities , ’ he said . |
| 27 | ‘ Criminals far more vicious than Nicholas Dodman looked upon him as an easy target to provide an outlet for their criminal activities , ’ he said . |
| 28 | The Bishop and the Archdeacon were old and wily but not too well-informed ; Spruce , on the other hand , looked to her like an intelligent adversary . |
| 29 | The landlady stared at her in an uncomfortable silence . |
| 30 | Then after a pause he took a letter at random from the middle of the stack ; he stared at it with an unfocused , an uncommitted eye . |