Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] [prep] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shoa submitted to him in 1858 and Menelik , the young Prince of Shoa , became a captive at his court . |
| 2 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 3 | ‘ He did not start the incident but reacted to it with fatal and tragic consequences , ’ said the counsel . |
| 4 | I spoke to him about this and he confided that it was a mixture of polyurethane and Danish oil . |
| 5 | Rejecting pluralist and other writings as a conscious decision by academies to defend the privileges which this new system of power gave to them through military and industrial contracts , Mills argued that the power elite could be defined in terms of the institutional positions which people commanded in society . |