Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I divested myself of all my own French honours and laid them in my elder son 's lap on condition he should be content to be French , as I had discovered I was English . |
| 2 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 3 | He stopped himself from looking at any of them and stuffed them into his waste-paper basket . |
| 4 | Well it , it , not yesterday , the day before , I got them under my right shoulder blade , |
| 5 | ‘ Not to say meet , but Matthew Choak passed me in his old van . ’ |
| 6 | When I think of love or beauty or gardens , the images that moved me in my everyday life appear again and I feel the same sensations as when I first found them . |
| 7 | Later , Carl scolded me in his own fashion : |
| 8 | He saw the wisdom of this ploy and invited me to his next fight , when he lost his title . |
| 9 | Ben and his young friends had been told at the start of the meeting to behave themselves and not get in the way of the other archers , so they were not too pleased when he beat them at their own game . |
| 10 | ‘ He caught me on my right thigh , my left foot came down and I did the splits . |
| 11 | It helped me in my desperate attempt to respect his judgement . |
| 12 | He conceded that his knowledge of the language was slight ; that is why he referred me to his young assistant . ’ |
| 13 | To hasten this process , Bakewell rented out his bulls so that their performance was proven elsewhere before he used them in his own herd . |
| 14 | It was , in fact , the professional warrener , the man who became each estate 's killing machine , who perfected the various sporting methods that exist today and who honed them to their maximum effectiveness . |
| 15 | So when I approached them with my intricate scheme for escaping the greedy jaws of Mr Kinnock and his pals via the strategic disappearance of Punch , they saw the beauty of it straightaway . |
| 16 | Also , the process of writing often brings fresh insights to mind , and helps to ground them in your everyday life — as anyone who keeps a dream diary will know . |
| 17 | I have drawn you in , and involved you in my own anger at my son 's disobedience . ’ |
| 18 | His estranged wife Danielle and their three children spurned him at his sick bed when he announced plans to wed the former Bond girl . |
| 19 | Style director Hamish Bowles , a lifelong fan , visited her at her magnificent home , Templeton , on Long Island and spent a day talking to and photographing her in some her favourite clothes ( see page 220 ) : ‘ It 's a ravishing and evocative home , C.Z. is a scintillating hostess and brings a contemporary touch to a house that is almost Edwardian in its management and battalions of staff . ’ |
| 20 | A few years later , when a Japanese professor on holiday in England visited her in our other house in Bath , Hill House in Sion Road , he said to her , in the usual Japanese joky way : ‘ I 'm sure your son will be marrying some nice Japanese lady , Mrs Kirkup . ’ |
| 21 | When Callahan and I visited him at his large house on Sunset Beach , it was like walking around a graveyard : every board was a headstone with memories buried beneath it . |
| 22 | After Mary de Rachewiltz , Ezra Pound 's daughter , visited him in his gloomy study in Carlyle Mansions she wrote , " I had met a great man , and Loneliness " and one friend has remarked that " I knew he was intensely — even wretchedly — lonely " . |
| 23 | I was so affected by his discovery that I pursued his future career with the Museum Service and later visited him in his cardboard box . |
| 24 | He seemed far away from Ruth , in a trance whose nature she could only guess at — but free , she thought , of the despair and anger that beset him in their own world . |
| 25 | Would she ? she wondered as he drew her into his special world of sensuality . |
| 26 | Marco stroked him under his non-existent chin , murmuring consolingly to him . |
| 27 | Marco stroked him under his non-existent chin , murmuring consolingly to him . |
| 28 | Anton though , as if waiting for this opening , Parker 's panic , caught him for his best bite yet , a chunk : with all of his teeth , his werewolf mouth , from high inside of a beefy thigh . |
| 29 | Lufbery became obsessed by the urge to avenge his friend , which evidently pursued him until his own death in May 1918 , and he was to be the first American to earn the title of ace . |
| 30 | Werner never met W. E. Taylor [ q.v. ] , whose obituary she wrote ; while not rivalling his mastery of Swahili , she excelled him in her wide command of Bantu languages . |