Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , in the 1590s , Essex failed to get the Attorneyship for Francis Bacon , he sought for his protege the vacant post of Solicitor . |
| 2 | Returning to Falmouth Street in his new acquisition — and already encountering some resistance to engaging first gear — Harry listed in his mind the excellent reasons for buying a car . |
| 3 | Rincewind stood up as slowly as he dared , and drew from his belt the short sword he had taken from the guard a few hours and a hundred years ago . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's no weight to isolated acts of self-aggrandizing heroism in a decaying society , ’ said a man who was generally nice , and who bore on his forehead the triangular scar of a marble paperweight that had been thrown at him by his best friend , a Tory , for a sentence like that . |
| 5 | As John Fairchild noted in his book The Fashionable Savages in 1965 : ‘ She looks best wearing what no one else would ever wear , something so simple another lady would n't dare … |
| 6 | The spinach was in her mouth when a terrible sound came from her throat the gaping croak of nausea . |
| 7 | ‘ I rang him — he 'd given me a list of all the Grands Prix contact numbers — but when he came to my hotel the next morning it was of his own accord . ’ |
| 8 | Miss Abbott , when you came to my house the other day and wandered round my studio and let me see something of your thoughts , it was as if a gale had blown through all the dust and cobwebs , all the mouldering old habits that were growing up round me like ivy , and when you had gone , I tore that canvas off the easel and smashed it — ’ |
| 9 | He stood watching beside the flower-beds ; and after a long minute of uninterrupted work , Orrie straightened his long , athlete 's back again , and turned towards his audience the massive , stony beauty of his face , flushed with exertion . |
| 10 | Numerous people ran into debt from being unable or unwilling to settle their credit card accounts at all or in full each month , and allowing their purchases to grow in price as every month passed , but the sums people in Britain owed in this way was a very small proportion of the total outstanding personal credit granted , which in 1987 Janet Ford reckoned in her book The Indebted Society was £30,000 million . |
| 11 | The telephone was already ringing when Merrill arrived at her office the following morning . |
| 12 | A nice basket of flowers arrived at our house the next day . |
| 13 | She did not respond to this , but stared at him , until he spoke again , saying , ‘ I 'd have been along before now , but I heard about me father the very day when we last spoke , and so I had to go off straightaway to Newcastle . |
| 14 | AI discovered from his letter the appalling living conditions at Shalla , including a water shortage and rampant diseases . |
| 15 | When he knocked on our door the older detectives would n't answer it . |
| 16 | I returned to his caravan the following afternoon after school bearing my load , which was by then little more than a dusty stain on the inside of a beaker . |
| 17 | As Simone de Beauvoir argued in her book The Second Sex , man has constructed woman as ‘ the Other ’ , as the one who is not oneself . |
| 18 | I got in my bed the other night it were red hot , I thought ooh God I must n't put it on too early , you know ! |
| 19 | It included in its preface the following statement : |
| 20 | With uncustomary generosity , he included in his letterpress the Aboriginal name for a species , when he knew it , alongside its Latin and common names . |
| 21 | In order to make the exercise of the privilege unnecessary in the present case Buckley J. included in his order the following paragraph : |
| 22 | And conversely , in the exalté atmosphere of Northern Nigeria , a Resident who admitted defeat at the hands of his emir was deemed to be guilty of two unpardonable sins : he disgraced by his ineptitude the good name of the British Colonial Service ; and he brought the whole principle of local administrative autonomy into disrepute . |
| 23 | The anthem : ‘ Blessed by Thou , Lord God of Israel ’ was sung by Thomas Street Church choir and the sermon was preached by Mr Guard who chose as his text the fourth verse of the twenty-seventh Psalm : ‘ One thing have I desired of the Lord , that will I seek after , that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life , to behold the beauty of the Lord and to enquire in His temple . ’ |
| 24 | ( It took as its model the Chinese treaty port system . ) |
| 25 | He chose for his format the imperial folio size ( 22 x 16½in/59 x 42cm ) considerably smaller than Audubon 's double elephant , but still affording him the chance to draw most of his subjects life-size . |
| 26 | But Lions manager Geoff Cooke said he was disappointed that two crucial decisions went against his side the disputed second minute try and the penalty which gave Grant Fox the chance to kick his last-minute winner . |
| 27 | Catchpool ( known to his friends as ‘ Jack ’ and to his colleagues as ‘ Catch ’ ) combined in his personality the innocent enthusiasm of a child and the tenacity of purpose of a mature and deeply spiritual man , enlivened by a puckish sense of humour . |
| 28 | Then I made another , sat down by the telephone , and took from my pocket the dirty envelope Kress had given me . |
| 29 | He bent and took from his case the half-burnt diary still in its protective transparent wrapping . |
| 30 | George inclined his head and took from his pocket the folded paper that carried the statement he had read at his press conference . |