Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alison met him in the same bar . |
| 2 | Father Devlin clapped him on the shoulder with a large heavy hand . |
| 3 | Devlin clapped him on the shoulder . |
| 4 | ‘ Monsieur Gaston concerned himself with other things . ’ |
| 5 | When Roy Mason arrived in 1976 to take up his duties as secretary of state for Northern Ireland , the present writer met him as part of a deputation from my political party . |
| 6 | He took charge of his third club in almost as many months after Alex Ferguson recommended him to St Mirren . |
| 7 | Keller 's Zurich upbringing made him into a skiier and sculler , and he raced for the Grasshopper club . |
| 8 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 9 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
| 10 | My enthusiasm transmitted itself to Malc and he left at the end of visiting time a happier man . |
| 11 | His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter . |
| 12 | Her insistence on setting up lone stations cut off from the central missionary settlement led her into conflict with the authorities , who often thwarted her persistent applications to go further ‘ up-country ’ . |
| 13 | Mona and Sheila met her at Dublin Airport and the three sisters drove to Great Meadow in Mona 's car . |
| 14 | Patrick flung himself on the mattress which Sarah was to use , and jumped up and down on his knees , full of boyish energy . |
| 15 | Data could pop up in boxes around the screen , and in due course graphics , mice and icons led us into the wimps era ( window , icon , menu , pointer ) . |
| 16 | A pickup truck passed us with three men in the back sheltering under a tarpaulin . |
| 17 | On the handling of the union 's finances , Wilson 's enemies attacked him with equal vituperation . |
| 18 | However , the prior hypothesis led us to the finding in the rural high oil worker category ( table II , both for all ages and the 0–4 age group . |
| 19 | Acheson , as acting Secretary of State , may not have gone so far ; although just before the war began , when it looked as if Moffat was going to meet Ho in Hanoi , Acheson asked him to ‘ keep in mind Ho 's clear record as agent international communism , absence evidence recantation Moscow affiliations … and support Ho receiving [ from ] French Communist Party . ’ |
| 20 | Laura 's insistence on punctuality for meal times became something of a fetish , not because she was herself preparing meals which risked being spoiled ; she rarely had time for cooking any more . |
| 21 | Malengin Fole led them through several apartments , all of them apparently abandoned . |
| 22 | There is little evidence that peasant faith declined , but the authority of village priests was progressively undermined : in terms of culture and way of life they differed too little from the ordinary villagers to inspire much respect , and the miserly provision made them by the State resulted in constant friction over money matters between priest and parishioner . |
| 23 | Robins has so far scored seven goals after Ferguson sold him to Norwich for a cut-price £800,000 on the eve of the season . |
| 24 | At the junction of the Welford branch , a boat from Welford met them with ample supplies of refreshments to fortify them against the passage of Bosworth tunnel . |
| 25 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
| 26 | But after three disappointing Five Nations games , Ciaran Fitzgerald drafted him into the side — as well as making him captain — for the game in Paris . |
| 27 | All I can remember is having a pickled onion and my sister stabbed it with a fork and the middle shot across the room . |
| 28 | In line with the preference for heuristic pedagogies associated with RBL and a child-centred progressive ideology , all the proposals concerned themselves with information-handling skills of one sort or another . |
| 29 | Pollensa and Alcudia were in the north of the island and Fernando owned nothing in that region . |
| 30 | Trent seated himself on the taffrail . |