Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report on the projected sales for the next quarter , he asked for it at the last meeting , it 's okay . |
| 2 | ‘ 2.4 million people done those Italians last weekend , I just read about it in the Daily Mirror . |
| 3 | Her body bounced between them in the light gravity . |
| 4 | You could tell her it 's her fault , not mine and next time she 's feeling like a bit of fun — if that was what she had been feeling like — maybe she 'd give a chap a chance to explain that there 's already a woman in his flat , a woman he will kick out with the utmost speed if she 'd just hang on , a woman he never even invited into it in the first place . |
| 5 | A Briton known to leaders of a charity based in Northampton discovered them and fled with them to the relative safety of Split . |
| 6 | Just as he disagreed with him about the essential or principal properties of body , Locke disagreed with Descartes about the mind . |
| 7 | As the two women were saying their goodbyes he came to the end of his task , switched off the motor-mower and headed with it towards the narrow gate at the side of the house . |
| 8 | Here and there logs surfaced from it like the inclined hulls of sinking ships . |
| 9 | Black fury rose in him against the evil creature who was leeching Ireland of her youth , but Nuadu quenched it , lest the Robemaker turn it to his use . |
| 10 | Fenella looked over her shoulder at them and saw that they were looking at her with such blind trust and with such faith that cold anger rose in her at the evil Lord who had forced them to his work . |
| 11 | It 'll be a way to acknowledge the end of an era as well as to acknowledge the people who contributed to it over the last 20 years . |
| 12 | When he proposed to her on the last night I think she took him because , having been in her room for seven days , she 'd met nobody else and could n't bear to see her investment wasted . ’ |
| 13 | The lack of attention devoted to it by the British Government and , in particular , by the British press , in terms of the discussions at Maastricht , is symptomatic of our isolationist approach not only to Europe , but to the development of regional policy . |
| 14 | In 1741 Collinson reported to him on the miraculous achievement at Thorndon : |
| 15 | Dependent on relief helicoptered to them by the American armed forces , the mountain refugees are still losing their young and their old to malnutrition , cold and disease . |
| 16 | I stopped beside him as the other three went on ahead . |
| 17 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 18 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 19 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 20 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 21 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 22 | Kypov shouted at him across the few metres that separated them , and the breath spouted white from the Major 's mouth . |
| 23 | Mother and daughter were glad of each other 's company then , while the electric storm boomed and crashed around them in the black night , as if aiming for this one exposed place . |
| 24 | The sun crept towards me over the red tiles . |
| 25 | As Mr Mansell hesitated , Emerson Fittipaldi from Brazil and Arie Luyendyk from Holland zoomed past him on the main straight . |
| 26 | Nothing came for her by the first post . |
| 27 | Four times a day the nurse came towards her across the wide spaces of lino with the shiny basin containing the rattling metal syringe . |
| 28 | It was full of pieces of paper , which he dropped behind him for the other boys to follow . |
| 29 | Kernaghan , seeking a transfer this summer from relegated Middlesbrough , said : ’ I 'm pleased and relieved because I blamed myself for the goal Albania scored against us in the last match . |
| 30 | After a word with his clerks , Henniker came with me into the other room . |