Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SEEDY : Rumpled bed and empty bottles in the borrowed Fulham flat where Mellor and Antonia met for their steamy love sessions |
| 2 | But when the Assembly met for its first session on 5 January 1918 it immediately became clear that a majority of the deputies were hostile to the government and the Assembly was forcibly disbanded . |
| 3 | Figure 6.5 Ants follow pheromone trails by balancing the concentrations smelled through its two antennae . |
| 4 | There are the end-of-tether diaries published as My Sister and Myself by his literary executor , Francis King , and any number of references in the voluminous literature that has grown up around the figure of E M Forster , whose acolyte Ackerley became between their first meeting in 1922 and his death , aged 71 , in 1967 . |
| 5 | They were either bought in by Don Bennett himself , and there were very few of those that got through my fine mesh , or those who were somehow or other forced on us by agencies over which we had no control . |
| 6 | Doubtless even the Vikings ( after sailing , raping and pillaging all summer ) got about their own snowy land on useful planks of wood . |
| 7 | Ropati pounced for his 13th try of the season nine minutes later and second rower Sonny Nickle scored in the 79th minute to ensure Saints share the League lead with Wigan . |
| 8 | Slaven pounced for his 14th goal of the season , his first since his knee operation , in front of Boro 's jubilant fans . |
| 9 | These people cared deeply about the success of the venture because they cared about their own livelihoods , the future of their children and the very breath of their dying community . |
| 10 | Scottish rider Niall Mackenzie retired after five laps when his Yamaha developed engine trouble , and mechanical problems also forced out Londoner Peter Graves , who qualified for his first grand prix , and Irishman Eddie Laycock . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Butch Reynolds qualified for his first major international competition since serving a two-year suspension for steroid use at the US world indoor trials in Boston . |
| 12 | Sir Anthony 's lips slid over his small teeth in what passed for his public smile , and he accepted , without waiting for their answer . |
| 13 | They sold off their small tools division where we sold some bearings to them . |
| 14 | When the state sold off its industrial interests or sponsored new ventures in the 1880s , it favoured the zaibatsu who tended to accumulate specialized industrial holdings , rather like the more recent French strategy of creating large firms as sector leaders . |
| 15 | It was I who cared for her murdered child through his last days . ’ |
| 16 | Their only appeal to Clara lay in their austerity , which sometimes reached a point where it bordered on the dangerously extreme ; there was one sad tale , for instance , of a little girl who cared for her cruel stepmother with unfailing devotion , and who died of pneumonia after running out in her nightgown to look for her stepmother 's cat . |
| 17 | A wife 's vivid account of how she cared for her declining husband . |
| 18 | I have met wonderful doctors who really cared for their old patients , but sometimes the doctors were dismissive and rude , believing that there was little point in wasting valuable resources on the elderly as they were going to die soon anyway . |
| 19 | A DEVOTED son who cared for his paralysed father until he died has received a prestigious European Child of Achievement award at a ceremony in France . |
| 20 | Marjorie ( Joanna Lumley ) , for instance , whom Shirley envied for her academic prospects , ends up with only the freedom of high-class prostitution . |
| 21 | They knew the names of certain French dishes and gave orders to Jarveys in high pitched provincial voices , which pierced through their skin-tight accents . |
| 22 | Her judgement of Alan Jones was both admiring and shrewd , and he asked about her own education , becoming aware that at least four other men were listening with great interest and that Catherine Crane was so used to this that she was unconscious of it . |
| 23 | The Koons work in question is ‘ String of Puppies ’ , which the artist commissioned for his 1988 ‘ Banality ’ show at the Sonnabend Gallery , which is named as co-defendant in the suit . |
| 24 | Fifty or sixty perfect , pointed teeth gleamed between his parted lips . |
| 25 | He read through his first paragraph — after years of novel-writing he found it easier to put it all in the third person . |
| 26 | I froze when they first said that in the town where we lived for his firm job . |
| 27 | IT WAS a full year before he made the break — but eventually , on August 21 , 1984 , he went over to one of the more independent local magazines , Cauce , and asked for its leading journalist Monica Gonzalez . |
| 28 | The Committee asked for their good wishes to be sent to her . |
| 29 | I asked for my ham-and-tomato sandwich . |
| 30 | ‘ Ground Reconnaissance From Public Transport ’ is the title of the pamphlet he produced for our last AGM . |