Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This became for me a serious piece of policy . |
| 2 | The fall , identified for so long with a sweet , sad nostalgia , a magnificence of gold and crimson under startling blue skies , became for us a nightmare . |
| 3 | I remember little of my stay in the intensive care unit , but I am told they cared for me every second of the night and day . |
| 4 | That 's right : someone rang up and asked for him the other day . |
| 5 | Well hardly out of the blue , they asked for it a week ago . |
| 6 | When Liam managed to get a word with her alone , she said the less fuss they made about it the sooner Nellie would get over it . |
| 7 | He made for himself a special balance with which he could measure the exact proportions of two metals in a mixture or alloy . |
| 8 | He provided for us the necessities of life — food , shelter , clothing . |
| 9 | It posed for them the question , ‘ Are we still the people of God ? ’ |
| 10 | I think that 's a load of shit , half of his stuff , I mean they 're , they 're good reproductions , tin of Heinz Bake Beans but any monkey can fucking do that charge fifty grand for it or whatever they charged for it The ones I 've always liked is erm , I du n no if you 've ever seen any , Ed , Edward Lanzear used to paint a lot of er Queen Victoria used to do er animal paintings . |
| 11 | There was disagreement between the two companies as to whose responsibility would be the making of this towpath , so that in the end they built between them a new bridge just beyond the bottom lock . |
| 12 | Informative and amiable as he seemed , he yet possessed a cold inhumanity that seeped through his every witty remark . |
| 13 | Lord Burlington also employed the services of an architect named Campbell , who built for him a beautiful temple , based on the Temple of Romulus in Rome . |
| 14 | He built for himself a house ( Larkscliff ) on the cliffs at Birchington , Kent ( 1906 ) . |
| 15 | No one was within earshot , they were miles from anywhere , it seemed , and even if she jumped in the river and swam for it the chance that she would outmanoeuvre him in the water was slim . |
| 16 | This year he found for us a first edition of an early play by Samuel Beckett , an important book about China , and the original German text of theopera DerFreischütz , as well as other lovely things . |
| 17 | Because one did not know how accurately the clock had been ticking during the processes of weighing , one could not know precisely the times at which the movements of the shutter occurred between which the radiation was released . |
| 18 | Ruth sat on her bed and drew towards her the unfinished drawing of lions apparently devouring people — Christians probably , from the school 's Religious Knowledge . |
| 19 | But the shed at the side of the road had been unlocked , and when he peered into it the outline of the covered carriage he had been able to make out in the darkness promised adequate protection and a degree of comfort . |
| 20 | Whatever Coleridge 's precise setting during those few days , the autumn landscape of Culbone drew from him an immediate poetic response . |
| 21 | While Biedermann and Baur were in accord with Hegel 's aim to combine Christianity and speculative philosophy , others drew from him the material for frontal attacks on Christian belief , notably Strauss , Feuerbach and Marx . |
| 22 | Thanks to deft chairmanship and bluntness , he drew from it a respectable report that won praise for its forthrightness . |
| 23 | He drew from it the photograph of Elsie McAndrew that he had shown to Mrs Wilson in London . |
| 24 | They created in him a sense of desire and longing . |
| 25 | He demonstrated to me an Ergoline 35-tube sunbed in which a man lies full length . |
| 26 | So while his real need for me had something to do with prac-ticalities , he reinforced in me the sense that his need had something to do with his sister 's death . |
| 27 | It cast in him a fear so deep that he could say nothing , only stare . |
| 28 | Rushing over to the open suitcase standing on a side table , she snatched from it the long paper-cutter she had brought back for Harold from New York . |
| 29 | Yet he also found in him a warning . |
| 30 | They remind us that this gentle southerner , who gave so much to Yorkshire , also found in it a sustaining strength and beauty . |