Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Muted sounds , and , once , a cry of pain , came from behind the closed doors that led off it on either side . |
| 2 | ‘ Now I know what passed between you over that cup of coffee . ’ |
| 3 | What passed between you on that occasion ? ’ |
| 4 | But Beatriz Lavandera has adopted this approach to syntactic variation in a much more radical form , and argued for it in some detail . |
| 5 | He really lusted after me in those days … |
| 6 | It was a foolish thing to do , she knew that a fraction of a second too late ; he cannoned into her with such force that she fell heavily to the ground . |
| 7 | No longer does he cling on to the status that he wrested from him with such arrogance and cruelty . |
| 8 | We always referred to them as those ladies of the stage . |
| 9 | ‘ To tell you the truth it never occurred to me until this minute . |
| 10 | He narrowly avoided collisions with two cars as he drove onto the western bypass and forced the pursuing police car to take evasive action when he drove towards it on another road . |
| 11 | Radical sects like the Quakers , the Shakers and the Methodists all encouraged the faithful to feel the divine in tangible forms ; some Pentecostal sects would speak in tongues , hear voices or experience powerful feelings which came upon them with such force that they were believed to come from God . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ I 've got a soft spot for the league , because I played in it for many years . ’ |
| 13 | He appealed to her in several languages , including German . |
| 14 | Contemporary audiences would have understood that the film appealed to them on that level but were also aware that the tragedy of the film consisted of an ordinary innocent American being hounded by external events and being forced into failure and crime . |
| 15 | The attempt in the Treaty to reorganize the Balkans as a stable structure of national states appealed to them for this reason . |
| 16 | And long after Dana had left me , I still thought of him every day , and from time to time wrote poems about him , like this one which came to me after several viewings of a film that greatly disturbed and fascinated me , Pasolini 's Teorema : |
| 17 | And if somebody came to you with those sorts of things , you 'd think to yourself , it ca n't just go on , and gradually just build up and build up . |
| 18 | How on earth could he tell ? she wondered , hunched against the banshee howling that came at her from all directions , hurling rain against her skin with such force it stung like grit . |
| 19 | Quigley gave what I can only describe as an eldritch screech and came at me with both arms , legs and the front bit of his head . |
| 20 | I tried to drive on , but he came at me with some story of having run out of petrol . |
| 21 | And then they came at us from both sides . ’ |
| 22 | In I think it happened to me to some extent . |
| 23 | Now a day 's residue is some association which relates the manifest content usually to what happened to you that day , and often i they 're very oft it 's often that the day 's residue is built into the manifest dream , so it 's quite obvious , you had this dream because of something that happened to you on that day . |
| 24 | Lucifer turned on them with such ferocity that some actually fell backwards off their benches . |
| 25 | ‘ We had builders here for six months before we moved in , and then lived with them for another year , ’ says Sally , who was not only busy with their two young daughters , but was also running a full-time interior decoration business in Cirencester . |
| 26 | Our younger son Barney and his wife lived with us for several years , and their son was born while they lived with us . |
| 27 | Elsie , who lived with us at that time , just sat with tears streaming down her face . |
| 28 | So I got into it through those channels … . |
| 29 | The arguments for nationalisation , the performance of nationalised industries and the disenchantment that developed with them in some quarters are studied . |
| 30 | He conversed with them on all matters connected with their business and had his trouble often many times repeated with the useful wrinkles he gained . |