Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You take me away for the weekend and then come back and act as if you 've just met me at a friend 's house for the first time ! |
| 2 | This was good news , as I had met him after a children 's charity evening and had found him shy , attractive and funny . |
| 3 | My faithful driver , Murphy , met me at the gate , taking my bags and walking me past the vagrants and money changers to his car , an old American model that had become something of a collector 's item . |
| 4 | Daalny was shaking out and combing her long black hair in the women 's rooms , and listening to the chatter of a merchant 's widow from Wem , who had availed herself of a night 's lodging here on her way to Wenlock for her daughter 's lying-in . |
| 5 | We had to do this because some chucklehead had provided him with a typist 's chair on castors and every time the truck turned left he did a circuit of the flat-back , sending everybody else flying . |
| 6 | Various critics have likened it to a Tesco 's superstores ! |
| 7 | But it was Cromwell who remained the arch repository of true evil in the world , Cromwell who had persecuted Ireland so greatly as to overshadow even Queen Elizabeth who , vilifying Mary Stuart , had put her to a martyr 's death . |
| 8 | By a stroke of luck , she had spotted it on a colleague 's bookshelf before lunch . |
| 9 | ‘ You have deprived me of a father 's love , ’ she said , peering closely at her toes . |
| 10 | It becomes less important to Picasso later on but it is something which is constant for Matisse and it has always been recognised by critics who have described him as a painter 's painter . |
| 11 | You must have read it in a woman 's magazine . ’ |