Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would never have dreamed of doing what Brian demonstrated to us with broken or damaged feathers . |
| 2 | ‘ I shouted at it in English but it kept on . |
| 3 | The word came from her with sudden and frightening force and it seemed to Creggan as if it was a burden he would carry always in this place . |
| 4 | She separated from him in 1929 and later divorced him . |
| 5 | The foundation is a complex of buildings which includes Son Abrines , the family home still occupied by Pilar , the artist 's widow , Son Boter , the old stone house which Miró employed as his graphics studio , coating its walls in charcoal sketches , the studio which Josep Luis Sert constructed for him in 1954–56 and where he worked until his death in 1983 , and the new exhibition centre of Sert 's pupil , Rafael Moneo , Dean of the Graduate Design School in Harvard . |
| 6 | The softly voiced question was innocent of guile as he selected a pair of black , jean-cut trousers from a built-in wardrobe and stepped into them with graceful and accurate power , as Gina struggled to control her erratic breathing . |
| 7 | Tom had an amazing knack of being able to put all his candidates for the practical examination at their ease , it certainly worked for me in 1967 and was still working for our students in 1991 . |
| 8 | Shoa submitted to him in 1858 and Menelik , the young Prince of Shoa , became a captive at his court . |
| 9 | I think they went off us after that although I 'm still friendly with Morrissey . ’ |
| 10 | Erm erm they just went through it like that and then he gave her instructions on how to fly it as well , how to throw it |
| 11 | I took it , I , he said well try it and we went round it in first and I went and it went rrah |
| 12 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 13 | I apologized to him for this but he said , " I 'm glad to be out of it . |
| 14 | ‘ I just said , it looked to me at first as though it was a woman , then just something made me think it might be a man . ’ |
| 15 | It was five or six minutes later that Piladu appeared on the mountainside , stared at them for sometime and then tramped slowly towards them tightly wrapped in his hooded cloak . |
| 16 | ‘ He did not start the incident but reacted to it with fatal and tragic consequences , ’ said the counsel . |
| 17 | I spoke to him about this and he confided that it was a mixture of polyurethane and Danish oil . |
| 18 | Rejecting pluralist and other writings as a conscious decision by academies to defend the privileges which this new system of power gave to them through military and industrial contracts , Mills argued that the power elite could be defined in terms of the institutional positions which people commanded in society . |
| 19 | ‘ You slaved for her with six or eight hours of technical studies a day besides practising … |