Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've heard nothing from him for the past four months since that heart attack in Italy . |
| 2 | Was n't that what had attracted her to him in the first place ? |
| 3 | Perhaps , because I had really addressed myself to him for the first time , he thought we were in accord . |
| 4 | Carolyn commented on them , and for once incurred Bryony 's pleased attention , as she explained how a friend had made them for her to an ancient design , and that unlike any shoes you could buy , they were made to last a lifetime , were completely healthy and natural , and did not threaten to deform the foot or posture in any way . |
| 5 | Few singers have ever matched her musical intelligence or her strange , foggy timbre , and her exquisite agony has made her into something of an icon . |
| 6 | She 'd been very positive about that , not just here in the car , but she had said it to me in the bedroom while I was packing her things and she was still in a mentally uninhibited state . |
| 7 | Quite apart from all the pictures in the papers , she had seen it for herself at the presentation . |
| 8 | Gina had once owned a wedding ring , but had chucked it at him in an early quarrel before disappearing for days . |
| 9 | Dad and Eva would come back late , and I 'd get up to see them and hear , as they undressed , who 'd said what to whom about the latest play , or novel , or sex-scandal . |
| 10 | They had n't said anything to him at the depot ; they had n't told him anything about not getting unemployment money . |
| 11 | After suggesting the reason for his presence was revenge , he asked , ‘ Has Anna said anything to you about the man who attacked her ? ’ |
| 12 | How can she ever have felt anything for him as a man ? ’ |
| 13 | Well , first of all we told the people at the earliest opportunity we told the church members what we 've learnt told them about our of the advantages and our enthusiasm and commitment to the process . |
| 14 | The naan bread was big ; we 'd both stuffed ourselves with it during the meal but it was still big . |
| 15 | The following morning , after breakfast , a bruised Clare cut a photograph of herself from the local newspaper ; luckily , her face was totally obscured by the banner , which had wrapped itself around her like a winding sheet . |
| 16 | Anyway , now that I 've got you to myself for a moment can we make some plans ? |
| 17 | Ooh , I 've got something for you in the cupboard . |
| 18 | The lines of experience were marked on her face and although she still had all the exuberant charm which had drawn him to her in the first place , he thought she looked older than he knew her to be . |
| 19 | It was those very firebrand qualities of ruthless daring , initiative and enterprise which had drawn her to him in the first place . |
| 20 | ‘ Be quiet , child , ’ said Philip , laying a hand restrainingly on Harry 's arm , though he would have preferred to lay it about his ears if he could have had him to himself for a moment . |
| 21 | Got it inside him like a stomach-ache . |
| 22 | At this point the poet ‘ takes off ’ and in a moment of vision tells us that Man 's ‘ greatness ’ is derived from early childhood experiences — provided that we have contributed something from ourselves to the bare impressions . |
| 23 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
| 24 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 25 | He fumbled for his skeleton keys and realised that he had not brought them with him from the car . |
| 26 | He turned to reach the two glasses of wine that stood on a bedside table ; he 'd brought them with him from the dinner table . |
| 27 | When Pc Black had found him in the toilets he said he had temporarily removed his glasses to wipe them , and that a friend who was there had brought them to him at the police station . |
| 28 | Mum had found them for me in the house at Lochgair . |
| 29 | ‘ If it helps , his fiancée has not exactly endeared herself to anyone in the short time that she 's been here . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's always struck me as something of a misogynist . |