Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | In France many noblemen , especially those of middling to lower rank , were so impoverished that they needed the king 's wages , which provided them with a better and surer income than did their lands . |
| 2 | Women elsewhere , different women , living by another code provided them with a common and inexhaustible theme . |
| 3 | It twisted and turned and bore her into an ominous and derelict suburb , stark in the orange street lights . |
| 4 | When sentencing him at Oxford Crown Court today , Judge Leo Clarke described it as a motiveless and shocking attack . |
| 5 | Does my right hon. Friend remember that when the investment income surcharge was abolished in 1984 , the then Chancellor of the Exchequer described it as an unfair and anomalous tax on savings and on the rewards of personal enterprise ? |
| 6 | The Chinese also evaluated Microsoft Corp Windows NT but dismissed it as an incomplete and immature platform . |
| 7 | The Earl of Salisbury , director of government intelligence ( and chief minister of the realm ) , infiltrated and masterminded it as a timely and much-needed device to make permanent the rule of the same monarch and régime . |
| 8 | The three candidates never lifted it beyond a hard and drab slog . |
| 9 | Dzo bells lulled us to sleep and then woke us to a clear and sunny morning . |
| 10 | Edward of course was unaware of its connotations and encouraged it as a handsome and relatively uncommon plant . |
| 11 | When Polybius and Scipio found themselves alone in the neighbourhood of the Forum ( Polybius goes on to tell us ) Scipio , " blushing slightly , addressed him in a quiet and gentle way : " Why , Polybius , since there are two of us , do you constantly converse with my brother and address to him all the questions and explanations but ignore me ? " " ( 31.23.8–9 ) . |
| 12 | The second and third albums , ‘ Freewheelin ’ ( 1962 ) and ‘ The Times They are a Changin ’ ( 1963 ) , established him as a real and original talent , as both singer and songwriter , with a message that seemed as arresting and vital as the times through which he was fortunate to be living . |
| 13 | Keller 's Zurich upbringing made him into a skiier and sculler , and he raced for the Grasshopper club . |
| 14 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |
| 15 | When I moved in to my flat she had to a certain extent taken me over , and treated me like an erring and somewhat unintelligent son who obviously needed the care and attention of a responsible adult . |
| 16 | Most observers , therefore , saw him as a tough and humourless man whose intransigent attitude had led to the quarrels with his friends ; Keats dubbed him ‘ the Egotistical Sublime ’ . |
| 17 | By contrast , though Dr McNab also possessed authority and combined it with a calm and dignified manner , he seemed to lack Dr Dunstaple 's good humour . |
| 18 | And thanks to Tom chasing up membership that actually brought us in a hundred and ninety nine pounds seventy er throughout the year . |
| 19 | The wind caught the spindrift and flung it as a jewelled and treacherous veil into the depths of the ragged sky that dizzied her when contrary winds ripped the clouds this way and that . |
| 20 | Jimmy had the gun in his hands now , and levelled it with a cool and grim purpose at Rohmer . |
| 21 | Years later she reminded me of a forgotten and to me everyday kind of question . |
| 22 | Even following the assassination in February of the leading Nazi functionary in Switzerland , Wilhelm Gustloff , by a young Jew , the proximity of the Winter Olympics and foreign policy considerations confined him to a single and , in his terms , relatively ‘ moderate ’ , speech at the funeral , attacking Jewry in generalized terms as the stimulus behind practically every political ‘ martyr ’ of the Right since the Revolution of 1918 . |
| 23 | Phoebe loathed housekeeping so profoundly that she felt guilty about it and always did it with a disciplined and joyless rigour , expecting everyone else to do so too . |
| 24 | I did it in a hundred and twenty three , the actual stage one equivalent in the month if |
| 25 | It struck me as an intelligent and fair system which had the merit of being open and above-board and easily comprehensible . |
| 26 | And after Cardinal Red carried him to a two and a half length win over Gaelstrom in the Belle Epoque Sefton Novices Hurdle , de Haan said : ‘ That has set me up perfectly for the National . |