Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun] [vb past] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even up here in the wood miles away from the class-room Philip felt his face burn at the way he 'd made a fool of himself . |
| 2 | ‘ Remarkable ! ’ the Computer Programmer heard himself say . |
| 3 | When the King was a boy , rebels from the West Country made him flee from the city whilst the pretender , Perkin Warbeck , actually laid siege to Exeter . ’ |
| 4 | Only in the figure compositions did he work largely from imagination and memory . |
| 5 | Ever since the days it had been called Kingstown , it had been a lovely place to live ; tropical palm trees along the coast line made it seem like somewhere much more exotic than it really was . |
| 6 | When the Under-Secretary met the TEC chairman did he apologise for the 97 per cent . |
| 7 | I had tried this myself and knew it was not nearly as simple as the village boys made it seem . |
| 8 | but in actual fact it , it was only really The Yorkshire House did anything direct |
| 9 | Perhaps I 'm sounding cynical , but the sight of Diana reaching for Lady Spencer 's arm during the funeral service made me feel quite sick . |
| 10 | drop in their fortunes in the opinion polls did they decide that , with the general election coming up , and the prospect of their being routed , they should do something . |
| 11 | The famous British journalist and broadcaster , Alistair Cooke , recalled that at no time in his many years in the United States did he receive such a " blizzard of disgusted mail " from the old country . |
| 12 | The price tag made her wince . |
| 13 | Only after his ageing parents had died and he was left to manage the dining rooms did he begin to look around for a wife , and Fred smiled bitterly at the memory . |
| 14 | When they endorsed the democracy declaration did they do so in good faith or not ? ’ |
| 15 | The landrover ride made him feel nauseous . |
| 16 | Some of the love passages made me cry to the astonishment of John who came in with the coals . |
| 17 | On that occasion , in 1988 , he had barely warmed the chair when reorganisation following the Britoil acquisition saw him move to Buchan . |
| 18 | ‘ How long after pressing the door switch did you come outside ? ’ |
| 19 | Arnold chased Samantha Foggo , of Newcastle , all the way and , at the 400m mark , the Nottingham swimmer made her move . |
| 20 | The draught coming in through the ventilation ducts made it tremble continuously . |
| 21 | Neither in Germany nor in the Habsburg empire did they make the slightest difference to the way in which foreign policy was decided and carried out . |
| 22 | The return to normality after the Angelus hush made him feel that the all-seeing spirit which had for a while hovered doubtfully over his actions had now moved on . |
| 23 | Only with the development of factions and the growth of the party system did it come about that monarchs found themselves confronted , in Cabinet , by Ministers presenting a united front on matters on which they had previously deliberated in the absence of the monarch . |
| 24 | It went down her nail to the quick and the onion juice made it sting . |