Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I was at drama school , they paired me off with a lovely actor who was only five foot eight and we had to play husband and wife ! |
| 2 | I lit a cigarette , whose first jab doubled me up with an unmufflable bark of outrage from my lungs . |
| 3 | She fixed him suddenly with a beady stare from beneath the crêpy lids . |
| 4 | I drew it downwards with a clean cut . |
| 5 | I noticed that she was very modest in front of me , going through mild contortions putting on her undies beneath her dressing-gown , and once when it fell off , revealing her shabbily but quite decently clad in a mauve rayon slip , she snatched it up with a quick " Sorry dear " . |
| 6 | Although the most recent writings on Mary have taken us away from the image of pantomime villainess or fairy queen , created in the sixteenth century and revived with such enthusiasm in the eighteenth and thereafter , and provided us instead with a human being of more believable proportions , nevertheless Mary still remains an infinitely more shadowy figure as queen of Scotland than her Stewart predecessors and successors . |
| 7 | Early on , the Quakers were the better side and had good scoring chances even before Nick Pickering blasted them ahead with a 25-yard volley in the 16th minute . |
| 8 | Sara and Matthew ate theirs companionably with the two teachers and the bus drivers sitting outside in the sunshine , sharing Lizzie 's meat pies and coffee and chocolate cakes . |
| 9 | Their patient was a man in his late thirties , and Kathleen recognised him immediately with a sinking heart . |
| 10 | I rinsed it off with wet tissue , dried it off with the same soft wipes , and it came up like new . |
| 11 | The guys at New Deal filled us in with the latest on Harrow skatepark . |
| 12 | But their defence could do nothing as winger Sharpe burst down the left and opened them up with a devastating cross . |
| 13 | In the second half , Swindon were again on top whilst Maclaren fired them up with a free kick . |
| 14 | He took off his spectacles and polished them thoughtfully with a red snuff-handkerchief . |
| 15 | unwrap it as I showed you before with the first aid kit , |
| 16 | He went on like that until the chief officer nodded him through with a glazed look in his eyes . |
| 17 | He shook her off with an irritable gesture and turned to the gendarme . |
| 18 | He caught a glimpse of the fair hair and saw that she was talking to someone he recognised as the drummer from the band ; the whole group was there , giving an impromptu concert on tin whistles to the tired hikers sleeping on their rucksacks undaunted by the howl and shriek of the space-invader machines on the other side , a cacophony of mechanical rage that deafened him together with the thin notes of a rebel song . |
| 19 | Tears of pride stung her eyes and she brushed them away with an impatient hand . |
| 20 | Corbett nodded and opened his mouth to speak but Bruce brushed him aside with a peremptory wave of his hand . |
| 21 | In these crates — ’ he beckoned her over with a cool , authoritative wave ‘ — is the very latest ‘ state of the art ’ satellite communication system imported from France . |
| 22 | Now 26 , she spent many years after college hitchhiking around the world , drifting through the punk scene in San Francisco to demonstrations in Dallas , squats in Amsterdam and the women 's peace camp in Cosmo , Italy , before a British producer recognised her itinerant musical talent and signed her up with the bestselling Texas Campfire Tapes LP . |
| 23 | He plunged at Rex , who had nowhere to run , scooped him up with a single movement and held him good and high . |
| 24 | But unlike many well-meaning friends , he followed it up with a practical alternative : ‘ Tell God every detail of your needs in earnest and thankful prayer , and the peace of God , which transcends human understanding , will keep constant guard over your hearts and minds as they rest in Christ Jesus . ’ |
| 25 | He padded them out with a torn sheet from sick bay to stop them making any noise . |
| 26 | She found that tears were trickling from her eyes , and dashed them away with an impatient hand . |
| 27 | The tears welled up into her eyes again and she dashed them away with an impatient hand . |
| 28 | MacDiarmid waved him forward with a commanding sweep of his arm and he came and sat at the end of the table . |
| 29 | Then I rang her up with a real ‘ he said , I said ’ story , an embroilment with a friend which had worried me . |
| 30 | Lori dominated the table and Travis urged her on with a few well-chosen words . |