Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the first furrow was straight , example and actual guidance helped to persuade the ploughman who followed after him to draw the other furrows in the stetch in like manner : if the first furrow was bent nothing could prevent the others from being less than perfect also . |
| 2 | ‘ 'Morning , ’ he said cheerfully , as she walked towards him to take the proffered bottle . |
| 3 | Among other things he chastises Renault for their failure to respond to BMW 's challenge which led to him losing the 1983 world championship , chides Dennis for his lack of punctuality and disinterest in anything that is not his own idea and expresses his admiration and respect for Niki Lauda , with whom he was partnered in 1984 . |
| 4 | She seemed able to find interest in any topic , a gift which led to her becoming the first regular columnist for the Manchester Guardian 's women 's page . |
| 5 | I thought of them studying the Military Manual of Fakhr-i-Mudabbir , the Adab al-harb Wa'l-Shaj'a , which was written at about the time Tughlukabad was being built . |
| 6 | The news that something was amiss quickly spread to the rest of the group , who gathered round him to hear the latest developments . |
| 7 | As in 1813 the people looked to us to destroy the Napoleonic terror , so today in 1943 they look to us to destroy the terror of National Socialism . |
| 8 | Maxim reached around him to pull the front door shut and ushered him down to the car . |
| 9 | Sex having been invented this way ( and later used to help the individual to develop disease resistance and the species to evolve more quickly ) a new problem arose : when an egg and a sperm fused during sex , a battle ensued between them to monopolise the resulting offspring . |
| 10 | The fall of France , in June 1940 , appeared to him to present the ideal opportunity for the redistribution of her overseas possessions . |
| 11 | And waited for her to make the next move . |
| 12 | But nor was it every day that in broad daylight — given that the light was n't all that good — that she stood in what was now quite heavy rain getting soaked while her amorous swain waited for her to make the next move . |
| 13 | When he motioned for her to take the wooden spoon from him she did so , avoiding touching him at all costs . |
| 14 | He ran towards it fearing the worst , but to his amazement the figure faded and disappeared as he neared the line side . |
| 15 | He said that a solid body moving through a fluid medium such as air was in fact propelled by the air , which was cleft by the moving body and then rejoined behind it to provide the forward drive , for there could be no such thing as a vacuum , that is , mere nothingness . |
| 16 | Er , I gather that the last letter that had from you dated the twenty fourth of November in which you say that you will get back as quite soon to decide whether you want to apply for one of these erm erm ways of dealing with the problem or not . |
| 17 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
| 18 | Cardinal Pironio , from the Pontifical Council for the Laity , wrote to them to convey the good wishes of the Holy Father . |
| 19 | As the sign for Piccadilly Circus flashed by I braved the warm draught on the platform again and on my way to the National Gallery I passed Trafalgar Square where I observed the pigeons strangely doing the same things I had seen just moments before , except of course rather less ‘ chicly ’ . |