Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meryl had joined them with some reluctance after the welcoming address , but the moment had been well chosen ; Anthea and the professor had been deep in conversation with an eager group of ladies from Leicester , leaving Meryl momentarily alone . |
| 2 | I have to say that nothing in my career so far has prepared me for this kind of work . |
| 3 | You 've probably saved me from some kind of demonic sacrifice . |
| 4 | Hast Thou ever seen me for that reason at all dejected ? |
| 5 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 6 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 7 | Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control . |
| 8 | Ramsay had not seen him since that day at Musselburgh when the good Regent Moray died and Seton had been sent off to Fife to try to hamper Balliol 's landing at Kinghorn , a gallant but unsuccessful endeavour in which Seton had been wounded . |
| 9 | ‘ He was a black Jew ; the Church has turned him into some kind of Barbie doll . ’ |
| 10 | I had n't seen her since that night at the Club and I was beginning to despair of ever seeing her again . |
| 11 | I will certainly visit Loughborough to see 4771 , as Ii have not seen her since that day in August 1962 . |
| 12 | I 've seen her in that dress with the whole of the bar top covered in loose change , laboriously counting the coins , bagging the silver and copper coins separately . |
| 13 | ‘ That I 'd never seen her from that day to this , of course . |
| 14 | I have not seen her from that day to this . |
| 15 | I remembered , however , that my father had told me of this sort of thing happening in the past , and the sands had always returned over the following few weeks and months . |
| 16 | A little thrill of anticipation ran along her skin as she turned and looked into the eyes of the man who 'd watched her with such intensity during the fashion show . |
| 17 | How on earth could she have accused him over that conversation with Salvo ? |
| 18 | Part of her , that stubborn , spirited side , the side that had got her into this mess in the first place , would n't let her give up , back out and admit that Luke Denner and his sexuality were more than she could handle . |
| 19 | Before he had become involved with Sien he had used her for some time as a model . |
| 20 | Because I have had it with that kind of treatment of Americans . " |
| 21 | And from the branches of NALGO , NUPE and COHSE within Northumberland had produced it under this kind of joint format . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , I would advocate studying some subject in depth , not necessarily as an undergraduate , so that you can feel you have really mastered it at some stage in your career . |
| 23 | Once you became head of the department , you could have pulled me off this job at any time . |
| 24 | Generally middle-aged , they may even have children who are working for the left-wing opposition , but their own closed environment has protected them from any understanding of the reality of their country . |
| 25 | Confronting Nubenehem with his problem , she had introduced him to another customer of the City of Dreams , an elderly papermaster with flaccid skin and a bald pate ringed with long , dank hair . |
| 26 | It was the first time Carolyn had heard her without that note of irony in her voice . |
| 27 | Deng 's developmentalist stance had not always endeared him to Mao , but had aligned him to some extent with Premier Zhou , who also saw overly radical , leftist policies as a threat to China 's economic and social development . |
| 28 | The Tryons , in return , have frequently joined him for some fishing at Balmoral . |
| 29 | Because Mr has represented him , Mr said before that he he thought it was as duty solicitor that he , he has represented him at some stage as duty solicitor but , he is represented under legal aid though this defendant by a firm of solicitors in Birmingham and he 's anxious to be committed for trial today . |
| 30 | He , he has represented him at some stage as duty solicitor . |