Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | MacDonald read it to the members of the Cabinet ( imposing further conditions before a loan would be given ) . |
| 32 | Bernard enveloped her in his arms . |
| 33 | Influenced by these dreams , beautiful mornings seemed to mock her waking despair , but once she had shaken herself free from their shades , sun , sky , trees and birds enveloped her like a benediction . |
| 34 | The web tangled and clung mawkishly around her reasoning as Fernando lowered her to the bed . |
| 35 | The 28-year-old cab driver attacked her in a clearing after she went to join Queen 's Club in west London , Mark Dennis , prosecuting , told the Old Bailey . |
| 36 | His talents , his wealth , and the changing times raised him to the court of assistants of the Levant Company from 1644 to 1648 , and in 1645 Parliament appointed him to the Goldsmiths ' Hall committee , through which Royalists redeemed their sequestrated estates by paying compositions . |
| 37 | Sotheby 's , determined to protect Irises ’ ‘ most expensive ’ tag , repossessed it , and in March sold it to the Getty museum , probably for $40 to $45 million . |
| 38 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 39 | Trent met it with a slight movement of the tiller bar , and the big catamaran lifted smoothly . |
| 40 | I think Mum made it for me . |
| 41 | Debt and dear money got us into it and , until we break debt 's grip , we shall never get out of it . |
| 42 | She confessed that the bitter jibes and over-exposure led her to the precipice . |
| 43 | William met him at university . ’ |
| 44 | Later in my life — ça sera pour un autre jour — birds led me into a very unusual experience . |
| 45 | Peregrine interrupted her with a languid chortle and was properly admonished . |
| 46 | George Best , a thin teenager from Belfast , whose dribbling skills made him into a star with Manchester United and the darling of the sports and gossip columns epitomized the new era . |
| 47 | Le Gall translated it by forme , thus by the choice of two words remoulding the whole Neo-Confucian cosmology after the analogy of Aristotelian form and matter . |
| 48 | At noon , the exhausted Pack gathered together and Brown Owl led them to a shady area . |
| 49 | She 'd have to take off her thick blue jersey soon , and she could n't remember how many buttons had come off the shirt underneath , and it was sleeveless , and she had n't shaved her armpits since Philippa asked her to supper last week . |
| 50 | Bridhe and Seamus Ban consulted him about the amount of drink that would be needed , and were told to double it . |
| 51 | Giffen led us into a room on the left . |
| 52 | As they strolled deeper into the gardens she became aware that the Pantominteatret was by no means the only form of free entertainment , as their progress led them from one area of performance to another . |
| 53 | Linium Got it from down the chemist . |
| 54 | Messiahs appeared , as we all know , under the procuratorships of Cuspius Fadus and Antonius Felix , and Josephus decried them as men who deceived and deluded the people by their pretence of having received from God in the wilderness the signs of liberty ( Jos . |
| 55 | Her mum got her into hospital but Sharon discharged herself . ’ |
| 56 | Mum got you into trouble all right with me , did n't she ? |
| 57 | Well my mum got it for |
| 58 | So your mum got it from er Spectrum . |
| 59 | Alison led me through the hall into the kitchen , a sprawling space with a flagstone floor dominated by a huge table , a Welsh dresser and rows of large cupboards . |
| 60 | Asked us ower fur drinks and when we got there — I mean Ah 'd had a bath , splashed on some of the Givenchy for Gentlemen that Isabel got me for ma Christmas and got into ma designer tracksuit just to be casual like … |