Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] an [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped a pace or two away from the bed and regarded her with an unexpectedly teasing glint in his eyes . |
| 2 | Small wonder children and female passengers regarded him with an almost breathless adoration , she found herself thinking . |
| 3 | James Brown interviewed me in an even smaller cupboard full of old NME s . |
| 4 | Andrew had not been pleased , not at all pleased , when she told him : told him with an almost religious reticence . |
| 5 | A secretary showed me into an ornately furnished drawing room and a few minutes later Sir George came in . |
| 6 | The May evening was warm and filled with a golden light , and as he passed the Maria-Therese gardens the scent of the lilacs hit him with an almost physical pain . |
| 7 | Kevin MacDonald settled it with an even better one , drilled in from handsome distance . |
| 8 | The count alleged that the seneschal 's lieutenant entered the hall of the castle at Vic-de-Bigorre with the dean of Le Puy , and treated him in an inexcusably unmannerly fashion by seizing him by his clothing and expelling him and his household familia from the place . |
| 9 | At the 10th plenum a new draft political platform was released , which some commentators saw as marking a return to central planning , while others saw it as an essentially reformist tract . |
| 10 | Rochford did it with an almost perfunctory efficiency . |
| 11 | We did it in an entirely different way . |
| 12 | I noticed his saying in a magazine interview that he could never have survived these past few years without the help of Fleet Street — and that struck me as an unusually candid confession for a politician . |
| 13 | It was the second time Vonetta and I had met ; both times she struck me as an extremely self-possessed young woman with a lot of presence . |
| 14 | He had said and done nothing that was not polite , yet he left them with an inexplicably awkward feeling , as though something unpleasant had taken place . |
| 15 | It struck her as an unnervingly fatalistic way of looking at things . |
| 16 | She said it with an almost questioning tone , as though listening to the sound of her own defiance to gauge how real it was . |