Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [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 rooms he opened for her had few signs of childish occupation . |
| 14 | Regarding the Nationalists as the lesser of two evils he joined with them to resist Japanese encroachments . |
| 15 | The teachers ' accounts of what happened to them make disturbing reading . |
| 16 | The interest in birds that he shared with them transcended all prejudices and the racism rife among the resident colonials . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And even Gazzer did not appreciate the strength of character it needed for her to make that choice . |
| 19 | " We worked on him getting better rotation with his forearms . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | However , we managed between us to make sure things did n't go according to plan — or to script . ’ |
| 22 | But branches need a facility , it 's not about in-fighting , it 's about something that actually happened within my branch , I 'd like to add that we won the appeal , when the branch went through it raised two questions , we won one , we lost one . |
| 23 | We thought about him buying some property and letting it out . |
| 24 | For she was pleased , just as she always was when people pointed out how much she looked like her adored older brother . |
| 25 | Claudia pleaded with him to make some defence . |
| 26 | Anyway , she went to she took this sister 's post in The Yale |
| 27 | It was her present delight , this business with the wax , and Dowd cursed it , given that it fell to him to unpack these treasures . |
| 28 | Do you know what it did to me to see that animal on top of you , about to … ? ’ |
| 29 | Erm you know any anyone we met and and spoke to I think some people held us in some kind of suspicion , but a lot of people were glad er to have the er you know have the company and erm that were were available to them . |
| 30 | Plainly , merulite tubes removed one of the favourite weapons of attack at football matches , and since the containers were easily disposed of by burning , without any pollution effects , appeared to us to have strong advantages from an environmental point of view . |