Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Moghul tombs , the Red Fort , the towering minarets of the Jami Masjid , made me aware for the first time of the significance of civilization , and the meaning of history . |
| 2 | I tried to become one with nature on the games-field , which made me unpopular with the enthusiastic cricketers . |
| 3 | Taking a step back , he flung the blanket aside , cursing aloud as the movement wrenched his arm , and lowered them both to the hard bench . |
| 4 | I usually keep him in when I wash his clothes and I got them special for the cold weather so he should be all right . |
| 5 | Kenneth Andrew Sanderson , of Wallace Avenue , Huyton , was sentenced in January 1991 after a Southampton Crown Court jury found him guilty of the two robberies for each of which he received seven years , concurrent ; he got six months concurrent for an admitted burglary . |
| 6 | Some of us worried and went looking for him , then one of Alf Wood 's sons found him dead in the old pw hut , we think he died of a heart attack or so the doctor said . |
| 7 | All found it one of the hardest forms of market intervention . |
| 8 | We found it one of the simplest to use because of the trigger action and the compact shape . |
| 9 | The 44 has a 1/4in shank , and I found it perfect for the aggressive work I was attempting . |
| 10 | They ignored me safe in the open field where the old ridge and furrow strips and the flatter headlands where the plough was turned were clearly silhouetted by the sun . |
| 11 | Indeed on the nineteenth of January the Noble Earl Lord told me that of the three hundred and sixty letters which had been received from a wide variety of organisations representing people of totally different political opinions and that following the publication of the White Paper . |
| 12 | When I was getting better , he told me some of the local news . |
| 13 | and he was saying , told me some of the different names , you know , other than pine , I suppose their name for whatever these pines were , the timber there was beautiful |
| 14 | as their political and moral equals by signing an agreement which committed them all to the same values . |
| 15 | I sat down in Dad 's chair and told him all about the old lady and her brother , or at least what I knew , which was n't much . |
| 16 | She needed to know that you loved her ; so you told her all about the new drugs she could get from the Arcturans , or the huge advances in radiation treatment since rho mesons had been discovered . |
| 17 | Lawrence played it cagey after the goalless draw against Blackburn Rovers . |
| 18 | She had just come from London and she told us all about the great spirit of British resistance to the Nazi air attacks . |
| 19 | To be able to fly one around in a circuit made you one of the top flyers in the world . |
| 20 | With the aid of many ‘ outside ’ advisers , both professional and amateur , we scrutinised them all in the 2 weeks of sorting . |
| 21 | He had picked up a group of experienced hunter-killers from the Phoenix NoGo , and turned them loose on the remaining sandrats . |
| 22 | So instead she stormed into the kitchen , surveyed the two lumps of meat and the assortment of vegetables , threw them all into the largest pot she could lay her hands on , and fried them . |
| 23 | Tom handed him one of the two small buff-coloured boxes and they both slung them over their shoulders and set off . |
| 24 | Dickie bored him all through the first course with stories of the Navy in the First World War , and all through the second course with stories of the Navy in the Second World War , and then he got up and said , ‘ I 've got to go now to a meeting of the Chiefs of Staff , but the Prime Minister will keep you amused . ' ’ |
| 25 | My wife also read it and declared it superior to the equivalent magazine sent her by her old University — Oxford . |
| 26 | Rommel arrived at Alamein , the Russians drove the Germans out of Russia , English and American troops landed on the continent , whole German cities were razed to the ground in one night : I heard it all from the same patch of sand , four hundred yards long by a hundred wide in the middle of a Silesian Pine forest . |
| 27 | He covered them both with the cool sheets but he had no intention of giving up his questioning . |
| 28 | Maggie asked breathlessly , sitting wide-eyed and making no move to stop him when his hands went to her hair and pulled it free of the restraining band . |
| 29 | Esther sent a card to Alix , too , but Alix 's mother forwarded it accidentally-on-purpose to the wrong address possibly because she did not care for a rather elaborate allusion to Lacrima Christi in the text , nor for the brightly coloured shiny modern Madonna which the card portrayed . |
| 30 | That was the one that started it all at the 1976 Montreal Olympics . |