Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My virginity was wet noodled to death . |
| 2 | Shortly before midnight , the French retreated in disarray , leaving the field to the English . |
| 3 | It was , moreover , a hope which the French encouraged from time to time although what was achieved seemed always to be less than what was promised . |
| 4 | ( Did you know that whenever the English went to war with France , our soldiers immediately hanged any of these Scottish mercenaries they captured ? |
| 5 | The British complained of arrogance and aggressive self-seeking . |
| 6 | The unemployed stood at street corners , dejected . |
| 7 | If Labour came to power , it would remove all that money and thus deprive the public of the pleasure of the special exhibitions that are staged as a result of the charging policy . |
| 8 | The doctor said the body could be taken away , and when the mortuary men were lifting it , something very odd came to light — the pockets were stuffed with live rifle bullets . |
| 9 | In Lawrence the appropriation took place because an Italian student handed over extra money to a taxi-driver who had deceived him as to the taxi fare , but Lawrence is not restricted to instances where the accused appropriated by deception . |
| 10 | The accused drew by cheque card on a bank balance which had insufficient funds to meet the sum . |
| 11 | New automatic weighing scales by Molenschot ( U.K. ) Ltd. came into use at the Back Delivery Section in April . |
| 12 | In China , during the Cultural Revolution , something similar happened to class membership . |
| 13 | But she went on : ‘ It was the day Sabine went to supper on the boat . ’ |
| 14 | None of the accused appeared in court . |
| 15 | ‘ Then tell him the truth , ’ Sabine said with bravado . |
| 16 | In Ryan [ 19921 Crim.L.R. 187 , where the identifying witness was brought to and conducted around the police station where the parade took place by officers involved in the investigation , the Court of Appeal regarded what had occurred as a ‘ substantial breach ’ of the Code , and the subsequent identification of the suspect was admitted in evidence only because there was proof that nothing untoward had in fact been said to the witness by the officers in question . |
| 17 | Something colourful hovered in front of me . |
| 18 | Something strange happened in town today . |
| 19 | gracious spirits heavenly dowsed with life and comfort from the . |
| 20 | The concept of objectification provides the basis for examining such an assumption , and any critique of the notion of society as the privileged signified over culture may be extended to consider the nature of the sign in general . |
| 21 | Long before there was any conscious thought of unity , there was shared experience . |
| 22 | Only a mysterious , mounting , electric tightness in her stomach and her groin , a build-up of sensation so extraordinary that she clung to his hard back as he moved rhythmically , fiercely claiming possession ; she dug in her nails without conscious thought of injury , heard herself cry out in astonished delight . |
| 23 | It seems indeed that the social categories Emily Faithfull had in mind as " compositoresses " were the educated daughters of respectable tradesmen : the only ones whose origin is known for sure , and who were ideal for the experiment , were the daughters of master printers ( rather different from the daughters of journeymen ) . |
| 24 | Others worried that riveting led to cancer of the breast . |
| 25 | But on the other hand , when the great came into contact with the king , when he held his councils and parliaments , when he decided that a mighty subject had stepped out of line , or had acquired too much power and wealth for himself , as happened to James V 's former favourite Sir James Hamilton of Finnart , executed in 1540 : then there was a high level of direct interventionist rule , very tough and irresistibly powerful . |
| 26 | Harry Chiltern cackled with laughter and subsided into silence as the nurse at last arrived to draw the curtains . |
| 27 | She supposed that she wrongly still thought of pub meals in terms of bread and cheese or pasties . |
| 28 | Dr Obelkevich in a detailed study of rural Lincolnshire has shown that the " religious realm " of the rural poor reached beyond Christianity to " encompass an abundance of pagan magic and superstition " which was integrated with a Christian doctrine itself not left unchanged as it passed from church to cottage . |
| 29 | High seriousness mingled with amiable Bohemianism , provincial spoke to cosmopolitan , Fabian joked with hedonist , and teachers of mathematics admired the hats of potters from Cornwall . |
| 30 | Mobs burned tyres in the streets , and the prudent stayed at home while soldiers drove around firing their weapons . |