Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun prp] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James and his immediate circle had always regarded Scotland as a sideshow and while Mar , Mackintosh and Forster were engaging in their bloodless manoeuvring in the north , he had despatched the Duke of Ormonde [ or Ormond ] to make another attempt in the south-west . |
| 2 | Privately , the museum staff members have dismissed Beck as a troublemaker and crank . |
| 3 | I had met Hugo at a party and unforeseen and overwhelming emotions had consumed me . |
| 4 | She had known William as a boy and as an adolescent ; she was beginning to know him as an adult and as a lover ; but between the two blocks of knowledge was a ten-year gap . |
| 5 | It was over two years after I had subtracted Blyth with an adder that I found an opportunity to get rid of Paul . |
| 6 | Having settled Rachel in a corner and piled our luggage round her and left you , Mig , on guard , I struggled back against the refugees and climbed the gangway again to find Tim looking a little bewildered in the midst of a seething mass of humanity but remarkably calm , and soon we were back on the small boat . |
| 7 | Because he is a servant of God , he has served Christ as an apostle and missionary . |
| 8 | After creating the maximum of confusion , they piled into the Lancia and set off back along the road for their rendezvous with the LRDG , accompanied by an Italian whom they had taken prisoner after he had foolishly asked Lewes for a light while the latter was placing a bomb on his truck . |
| 9 | Riches : until she had given Luke the money she owed him , paid a month 's rent in advance , redeemed a few things from the pawnshop , bought extra coal for the cold weather , taken Liam to a doctor because something had to be done about his cough ; looked down the bleak distance of the weeks ahead with no work promised . |
| 10 | Mother Francis the celibate nun who had never thought she could know the joy of seeing a child grow up in her care had loved Eve in a way that might well have made her blind to the feelings and sensitivities of other people . |
| 11 | Sabine Jourdain had faced Tim in a rage and Sabine Jourdain was dead . |