Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
5 | He took charge of his third club in almost as many months after Alex Ferguson recommended him to St Mirren . |
6 | Keller 's Zurich upbringing made him into a skiier and sculler , and he raced for the Grasshopper club . |
7 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
8 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 ’ . |
11 | Mona and Sheila met her at Dublin Airport and the three sisters drove to Great Meadow in Mona 's car . |
12 | 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 ) . |
13 | A pickup truck passed us with three men in the back sheltering under a tarpaulin . |
14 | On the handling of the union 's finances , Wilson 's enemies attacked him with equal vituperation . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . ’ |
17 | Malengin Fole led them through several apartments , all of them apparently abandoned . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | All I can remember is having a pickled onion and my sister stabbed it with a fork and the middle shot across the room . |
24 | When eventually its report , Lead and Health , was published in 1980 , various environmental groups damned it for being too meek . |
25 | YOU recently mentioned con tricks well , I was waiting at Lime Street Station for my mother when a well-dressed man with a briefcase asked me for £1 . |
26 | His political inclinations got him into trouble again in 1940 , however . |
27 | He more than filled the gap left by Alex ; his presence animated her with a mysterious excitement . |
28 | Pepys met him in 1665 . |
29 | Bernie Scholtz passed her on the iron stairs as she was hurrying out . |
30 | Harvey led me to a room which he unlocked with a key . |