Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest clambered into their saddles , and followed him unquestioningly as he led them at a canter downslope to where the hills opened out and patches of ground could be seen where the snow was melting . |
| 2 | When it came to boxing , Reg Witter paired me with a bigger boy called Charlie Featherstone , who happened to be quite a friend of mine . |
| 3 | The crumbling of the old idea of a state based on obligations and obedience may have helped increase the dynamic force that enabled European countries to spread their authority over most of the world ; the very widespread acceptance of the new idea of a state based on independence and equality gave people outside Europe political principles which helped them in the later struggle to dismantle the European empires . |
| 4 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 5 | But even if the note was deleted ( and Ramsey deleted it in a later edition ) , Raven could not have voted for Ramsey with enthusiasm . |
| 6 | Thin and tiny in stature , her back was as straight as an arrow , but her legs often pained her in the cooler winter and spring weather . |
| 7 | The two owners were aged 84 and 71 and , after the chewing incident , the RSPCA swapped it for a smaller dog . |
| 8 | Markby joined her on the further side and they both stopped to watch as their bovine companions lumbered up and stood in a row staring at them expectantly , tossing muddy heads . |
| 9 | Duncan took out his passport and handed it to the older man , who opened it to the relevant page and stamped it with a small stamper he had with him . |
| 10 | After the death of old Daniel , the five year lease was carried on by old Smythe who renewed it for a further term of two years though at a lower rental . |
| 11 | Some criticised his method of combating Bodyline by stepping away to cut the ball to the off , but Bradman claimed that this exposed him to a greater risk of injury than the orthodox type of batting . |
| 12 | Now , in his wonderful aria of lamentation , he brought the whole performance to life and raised it to a higher plane of artistry . |
| 13 | On the contrary , his direct line to Hitler and Mussolini placed him in a better position than the monarchists to deal with Axis pressure . |
| 14 | and then if you needed it for the further education you could use it |
| 15 | Then gradually , imperceptibly , she led him into the trickier terrain of the past . |
| 16 | It was not the case that he neglected domestic issues — least of all in the period 1963 – 65 — but rather that he saw them within the larger framework of France 's relations with the world . |
| 17 | Although these children were potentially a lot more intelligent than the rest of society , they still feared something and this is what suppressed them for a longer period of time . |
| 18 | His small son , age five , was hanging from a steel bar eight or ten feet above the ground while William 's , a year older , taunted him from a greater height and threatened to tread on his fingers to make him drop . |
| 19 | The research Jarvis embarked on for his book took him into the lower level concourse at Bond Street . |
| 20 | To her relief , although it was very faint , she found a pulse , and quickly she loosened his tie , unbuttoned his shirt and somehow manoeuvred him into a better position , all the while talking to him , reassuring him , telling him he was safe . |
| 21 | Increasingly , the authorities became concerned about the adverse effects of this trend and viewed it in a dimmer light . |
| 22 | The whole incident had been exaggerated with talk of a threat to the institutions of government , and many saw it as a further example of the insensitivity of the Republican administration to the human sufferings of the period . |
| 23 | They gave the magic to a cripple named Birkinlig , and he took it to the lower land and in turn bestowed it upon his friends , his household . |
| 24 | The court therefore has to approach its construction on the footing that the new Act may exhibit policies and intentions which are not necessarily the same as those in the earlier Act , and which require similar words to be given different meanings from those which the courts gave them under the earlier legislation . |
| 25 | We could find no cause for this when I regressed him to an earlier period in this life and so I went on to regress him to what appeared to be a previous life . |
| 26 | Oh , I might , thought Lydia , but she said : ‘ I did n't poison Betty either ’ , in a childishly defensive way which put her in a worse mood . |
| 27 | The BeSHT did more ; he promoted it to a higher level of importance ; he confirmed and extended the principle of enjoyment , bringing it much more centrally in to the people 's worship as a sense of divine gladness . |
| 28 | Christopher Columbus did it with a smaller crew than Taylor has tried so far . |
| 29 | So Nissan replaced it with a snappier car , the Primera . |
| 30 | It had originally been called The Rest Cure but Eliot discovered that the title had already been used and , after some hesitation , he replaced it with The Elder Statesman . |