Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped himself from looking at any of them and stuffed them into his waste-paper basket . |
| 2 | Well it , it , not yesterday , the day before , I got them under my right shoulder blade , |
| 3 | ‘ Not to say meet , but Matthew Choak passed me in his old van . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ He caught me on my right thigh , my left foot came down and I did the splits . |
| 6 | It helped me in my desperate attempt to respect his judgement . |
| 7 | He conceded that his knowledge of the language was slight ; that is why he referred me to his young assistant . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | His estranged wife Danielle and their three children spurned him at his sick bed when he announced plans to wed the former Bond girl . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 " . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Would she ? she wondered as he drew her into his special world of sensuality . |
| 18 | Marco stroked him under his non-existent chin , murmuring consolingly to him . |
| 19 | Marco stroked him under his non-existent chin , murmuring consolingly to him . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On Oct. 9 , shortly after appearing before a special tribunal [ see below ] , she accused him of " naked aggression " against the judiciary , and added that she regarded him as her main opponent . |
| 22 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
| 23 | It was the interest of his parents which sustained him in his early school career . |
| 24 | Jonathan prodded her with his average-sized weapon . |
| 25 | He was confronted , in fact , by a farm labourer , who helped him into his small cottage and offered him a cup of tea . |
| 26 | Unable to accept again the superstitions he had discarded , nevertheless with time and misfortune he found himself turning back to the three deities who had guided his early life , and helped him through his harsh apprenticeship as a scribe : the reasonable Thoth , ibis-headed , god of the scribes ; Horus , son of Osiris ; and the protector of the hearth , Bes — the little god of his childhood . |
| 27 | The clothier who wrote in 1760 that high wages made his workfolk " scarce , saucy and bad " was seeking to impress no one , for he entered it in his private diary . |
| 28 | Osborne too felt his viola was mightier than the machine-guns : he used it as his only protection , making a conscious decision not to wear a flak jacket . |
| 29 | After a long time , a familiar voice woke them from their lazy reverie . |
| 30 | The storm came and drove them into their flimsy shelter . |