Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by far the best gift was given me by a little red-haired girl , Betty , who gave me ( a virgin boy ) her body . |
| 2 | People whose parents baptised them into the Roman Catholic Church will probably be counted as Catholics all their lives — even if they never go to church ; for people to be counted as Baptists , however , they will have to have expressed a strong commitment to their faith and to have undergone adult baptism . |
| 3 | plagued me like a treacherous intimate |
| 4 | They had been coming over steadily ever since , in spite of warnings about the difficulties of living in a foreign land — warnings given them by the English Jewish establishment . |
| 5 | I have therefore grouped them on a broad geological basis : sand , chalk , clay , and the gravels and loams of the coastal plain which probably also enjoys a modest climatic advantage over the rest of the county . |
| 6 | Irritated with herself for reminding him , Julia turned back to face the front and said nothing more until Bill had dropped them outside a big yellow house on the edge of Fiesole . |
| 7 | A tramp had found her freezing and near to death on the doorstep of a gin palace near the Elephant and Castle and he had carried her to the local Catholic church . |
| 8 | In August-September 1982 it proved unable to clinch a peace treaty with its Maronite ally , having effectively installed it as the new Lebanese government . |
| 9 | Nothing had prepared me for the overwhelming architectural beauty of Salamanca , and in particular for the grandeur of the university , the oldest in Spain and one of the oldest in Europe , with its noble façade in plateresque style . |
| 10 | True , I had the somewhat grisly T-shirt and track-suit bottoms which had gamely seen me through a two-hour run-through , but they were in a state and could probably have walked unaided to the BBC on their own . |
| 11 | She had seen them through a strange fuzzy blankness , as if they were constructs of her subconscious which were being projected against her closed eyelids . |
| 12 | Henry is , or whether Mrs G. has presented you with a little Tasmanian , or likely to do so , a point upon which her mother is so exceedingly anxious that on finding it was not mentioned she sat down and cried with vexation . ’ |
| 13 | Might I have seen you on the Great White Way ? ’ |
| 14 | If she lives on her own and poor health has robbed her of a normal social life , it is to be expected that her loneliness may have created such a build-up of unexpressed thoughts , feelings and opinions that she may need to talk herself to a standstill before she is ready to converse with you , and interest herself in anything you have to say . |
| 15 | Something I do n't understand turned her into a neurotic depressed agoraphobic . |
| 16 | ‘ She 's turned her into a proper little snob ! ’ |
| 17 | Doc Threadneedle had turned her into a human perpetual motion machine , like one of those dipping birds her father had bought her as a child . |
| 18 | And she , too , had something of the precision and contrived charm of a doll with an almost round head poised ’ on a long delicate neck , a snub nose with a splatter of freckles , a small mouth with a full upper lip beautifully curved and a bristle of cropped hair , originally fair but with bright orange tips which caught the sun and trembled in the breeze so that the whole head seemed for a moment to have a vivid life separated from the rest of her body and , the image changing , he had seen her as a bright exotic flower . |
| 19 | Ken Russell took the removal of restraint and stiff-upper-lip repression that American finance had encouraged and turned it into a distinctive aesthetic style . |
| 20 | I would have done it for a young white guy if he was from my club and I realised that he did not have enough money to play the Tour . " |
| 21 | Had n't she finally made it as an integrated human being without the help of her father ? |
| 22 | On page 110 we 've used them in a wonderful vegetarian Christmas pie , and on page 77 freshly cooked cranberries have been combined with a shop-bought cranberry sauce as a chunky topping for apples to serve with goose . |
| 23 | Suppose someone you know has recently accused you of an uncaring hypocritical attitude . |
| 24 | After having wooed her in the old high way for most of his young manhood , Yeats was horrified when she suddenly decided to marry the revolutionary hard-man John MacBride . |
| 25 | Some have attributed it to the old French torques in reference to Turkey by way of which the stone reached Europe , and others to the Persian word piruzeh . |
| 26 | They 'd locked him in a dirty little hole with a bed you would n't put a dog under . |
| 27 | ‘ My God , ’ said Wexford in disgust , ‘ I just hope you have n't landed us with a female Tichborne claimant . ’ |
| 28 | This was a sort of celebration meal , as word had reached us of the successful British attack on Caen . |
| 29 | Those amiable but blatantly incompetent buffoons have brought me to the wrong fucking airport ! |
| 30 | At one level Jamaica had provided him with an intense visual experience . |