Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [verb] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing him made Sarah think with anguish of their child . |
| 2 | The Queen invited Sarah to stay at Sandringham in January 1986 ; soon after , Charles and Diana took her skiing to Klosters in Switzerland . |
| 3 | When Leonora went downstairs she found Penry lounging in front of the fireplace listening to a newcast on the transistor . |
| 4 | Jenny let Adam descend from altitude towards the fiord , down to two hundred feet above the frozen water . |
| 5 | Columbus-America designed Nemo to remain at depths of 1.5 miles for several days . |
| 6 | Mr McIntyre visited Ottawa to act as consultant to the Canadian Co-operative Preservation Project , working on the National Preservation Policy and Strategy for Canadian libraries . |
| 7 | Ron Wood invited Buddy to stay on stage for his own short set and then Gary Moore strode on once again , his keyboard player teasing the audience with a few notes from the Stone 's classic Satisfaction , hinting at what was to come . |
| 8 | Her aunt directed Melanie to sit beside Victoria with a nervous wave of her thin arm . |
| 9 | Poor daggled Urs'la stalks from Cow to Cow , |
| 10 | Manja van Wynkoop was a welcome visitor from the Netherlands to the Lilleshall Weekend , and renewed Hertfordshire links as guest of Gill Hill 's Hemel Hempstead class . |
| 11 | Browning , who revived it in the late nineteenth century , thought it showed Smart rising from sanity to transfiguration , or , as Rossetti put it , from Earth to Heaven . |
| 12 | We fell asleep almost immediately but as I dropped off I heard Marius pissing over Macier as a Christmas present . |
| 13 | Suddenly they heard Mary calling for Billy in a shrill excited voice . |
| 14 | In the relative quiet that followed Harbury appealed to Rain for information about Wickham , ignoring that she 'd had no success over Pascoe . |
| 15 | When the Merc asked Michels to reply to accusations of hugging and kissing two of the women against their will during business hours , Michels , it said , replied , ‘ How serious a crime is that ? ’ . |
| 16 | Towards the latter part of the first century , Rome 's presiding cleric named Clement wrote on behalf of his church to remonstrate with the Corinthian Christians who had ejected clergy without either financial or charismatic endowment in favour of a fresh lot ; Clement apologized not for intervening but for not having acted sooner . |
| 17 | Sophie was in the branches of a tree eating an apple while she watched Lori going from window to window like someone trying to escape from a fire . |
| 18 | It made Lydia go to sleep in the afternoon too , which was why she did it . |
| 19 | This Act enabled LEAs to arrange for children under school leaving age to have work experience as part of their education in the last year of compulsory schooling . |
| 20 | Numbly she saw Fand step in front of her and Adam , spear raised . |
| 21 | Katherine saw Violette look at Sylvie with frank admiration . |
| 22 | The development of the steam engine had resulted in a rapid growth in vessel size and the opening of the dock enabled Leith to keep in step with facilities suitable for the handling of modern tonnage . |
| 23 | It was probably that prediction which persuaded Diana to call in Penny after taking her first overdose . |
| 24 | After taking a close first set Fowler saw O'Connor increase in confidence with some great service returns and O'Connor 's attacking tennis paid dividends by grabbing the second set . |
| 25 | Is it any wonder that I now plead with my right hon. and learned Friend to intervene on behalf of pupils and parents who wish to move their children over the border to Staffordshire because they are fed up with their own high-spending council and they want that council to take responsibility ? |
| 26 | ‘ Did Ken think of Apricot as a name , or you ? ’ |
| 27 | Did Nicklaus ask for £1,500 for a chat ? |
| 28 | Did Nicklaus ask for £1,500 for a chat ? |
| 29 | Which parable did Jesus tell in answer to the question , ‘ Master , what must I do to inherit eternal life ? ’ |
| 30 | What advantage did Grimsby have over Hull for the distribution of fresh fish ? |