Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he never made to go after you at all . |
| 2 | So we agreed to compromise with him on certain things , in return for him keeping his nose out of my business . ’ |
| 3 | Talking to Gavin Selerie in 1983 McGrath detailed some of the influences that came to work on him at that time . |
| 4 | Thus , like Julian , the Prophet Muhammad said that his revelations seemed to come to him in two ways : some were clear and others were obscure and very difficult to understand . |
| 5 | But her vibrant , reasoned tone seemed to slip off him without any effect at all . |
| 6 | And erm anyway we got more from the unemployment exchange that prepared to work for him for fourteen pound , when we could have a eighteen pound on the dole . |
| 7 | He came to talk to me about that . |
| 8 | And when Mother came to look for them at eight o'clock , they were asleep in the sun . |
| 9 | The intense darkness that wrapped itself about them was like a black cloak that seemed to press upon them from all sides . |
| 10 | His narrow shoulders had a permanent forward-drooping hunch , with the result that clothes seemed to hang off him in shapeless folds . |
| 11 | Our older son and his wife came to live with us for four months , between University and his first job . |
| 12 | The relief must have shown in her face , as she caught his brief little smile of amusement drifting in her direction , and when she thought back on their encounters lately she realised that he often seemed to glance at her in that same lightly amused way , as if he found her mildly diverting — the way he might feel , perhaps , about a pretty child . |
| 13 | When he turned to look at her with some compassion , she walked the few steps that kept them apart and , staring at him with desperate eyes , insisted , ‘ That woman in the docks … it was her , was n't it ? |
| 14 | ‘ Angus ’ — he dropped the timber he was lifting , letting it clank off the others , and turned to look at him with widened eyes and squared mouth , like the face of someone taking a great strain . |
| 15 | Wiping the board clean , she began to write on it in bold letters something that would be comprehensible only to herself and Miss Harker : PLEASE HELP ME |
| 16 | If the view through Williams ' window of history did not please everyone , it at least appears to have pleased many , especially those Negroes from the lower classes , and in particular Creole woman , who began to look upon him as some kind of messiah . |
| 17 | Then they began to glance about them with jealous , embittered eyes , wondering if someone other than they had been saved , whether God had favoured one and not another . |
| 18 | ‘ You could have done it on the sly , like , arranged to speak to her in private . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Because of that , the superstitious say I met the fairies and went to live with them for nine years . |
| 20 | There was always that about Mario , that if he had n't been one hell of a racing driver , you still would have wanted to talk to him ; and that , although he was one hell of a racing driver , you still preferred to talk to him about other matters . |
| 21 | The children could take early dinner , but they usually preferred to eat with us in one of the dining rooms . |
| 22 | You were allowed up to three visitors at a time and had to sit opposite them at individual tables . |
| 23 | I am so pleased with the Elna ; I began making my bedroom curtains some time ago , but had to steel myself and put them away , as the ‘ British Biographies ’ book was exerting great pressure to keep to its schedule and I had to work on it in much of my spare time . |
| 24 | As it was Judge Justice had to rule against it with all the authority of the Supreme Court of Texas . |
| 25 | Even so she found it impossible to keep her mind properly on her own problems when he continued to look at her like that , so she picked him up on one niggling point that continued to irritate her . |
| 26 | It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it . |
| 27 | ‘ I had to lie to you about that , to give you the confidence to stand still . ’ |
| 28 | I had to speak to you in private . ’ |
| 29 | There was the most tremendous row — Sykes refused to go with them at first , and the master was brought in to persuade him . |
| 30 | She wanted to struggle against him with all her might . |