Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 When they returned with one last load Bicker stopped them -from going out for more .
2 It was Chris who prodded him into handing over to Patrick .
3 I did in fact attempt to return your telephone call , but when I rang you were out , and our current panic ( we 're in the throes of mounting our summer exhibition ) prevented me from getting back to you before your letter reached me .
4 What was worrying him more , he said , was the language barrier which prevented him from linking up with his Japanese teammates .
5 Others applauded him for standing up to America .
6 In the bedlam the Spaniard built a 5-0 lead but then 22-year-old sports journalist Nicola stunned her by fighting back to 5-3 .
7 Susie smiled when I thanked her for putting up with me .
8 He sounded impressed , then spoilt it by lapsing back into the mocking tone of their earlier conversation .
9 We were doubtful as to whether Owen would lie still long enough for a back massage , but he surprised us by putting up with it for about ten minutes .
10 In November 1974 , it was he who talked me into going along for the audition for ‘ New faces ’ at the Blue Angel nightclub in Leeds .
11 ‘ Anna warned me about sitting out in the sun , but … ’
12 It may be that it was their actions that tipped the balance for Rank , and decided him against pushing on with his ambitions .
13 But what undermined him in office , and made him worth hearing out of it , was his surprise at becoming Prime Minister in the first place — Rab Butler shared that — so that , he agreed , he never quite suppressed a sense of the absurdity of his position .
14 The withdrawal of privileges is a very popular response by parents to non-compliance — for example : ‘ You 've been cheeky so I wo n't let you go out ’ ; ‘ You disobeyed me by going out on the road so you ca n't have that ice-cream . ’
15 There were Sundays when Dadda did n't come to lunch , when depression kept him from stirring out of doors .
16 She found the trug in the outhouse , not the kitchen , and cleaned it before trotting off towards the rectory , which was quite a long walk from Vetch Street , through a rowdy street market where an organ-grinder and his monkey were performing , and a Punch and Judy man stood on the corner , and Sally-Anne — no longer McAllister now that she was out of the house — for all of her advanced years stood and watched Mr Punch for some time before she guiltily remembered what she was supposed to be doing .
17 Then he accused me of going off with everyone there , which was totally untrue .
18 ‘ Still , I liked you for standin' up for me like you did .
19 Some of her fellow students accused her of selling out to the whites .
20 Tatum , 29 , was said to have walked out because he banned her from going back into movies after six years as a wife and mother .
21 They accused him of dressing up as a woman to seduce his enemies , and of fancying Elmer Fudd .
22 His opponents accused him of selling out to the United States on North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) with the United States and Mexico and leaving Canada with more unemployed and a bigger public debt than ever .
23 Though he was , like McCarthy , anti-war , he believed Johnson to be invincible ; now he too entered the race , much to the chagrin of the McCarthy camp who accused him of muscling in on their act .
24 The thought stimulated her into springing out of bed , showering hastily , and dressing in her warm green trousers and top .
25 Until recently Saddam Hussein was supported only by a lunatic fringe in the Soviet Union ; the leader of Pamyat , an anti-Semitic group , praised him for standing up to Zionism .
26 He hoped to make amends in the 200 metres and would have started a clear favourite had first the marksman and then the referee not barred him from lining up for the heats .
  Next page