Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark rose from his chair fully aware that politicians believed themselves to be the best informed people in the world , which made them a very sceptical audience for any speaker . |
| 2 | This drug duo may have been singled out because their penchant for fine racehorses and private zoos , not to mention murder on a massive scale , made them the most public of the mafia bosses . |
| 3 | The popularity of Hollywood films made them the most obvious indicator of the general shift in world trade . |
| 4 | A possible Trojan link was claimed by William of Jumièges for William the Conqueror as soon as he became king ; a late eleventh-century genealogy of the counts of Boulogne produced a similar conceit ; and Genealogy IV of the Counts of Flanders , written about 1120 , made them the most important non-royal family to trace its ancestry back to Priam . |
| 5 | When I was playing rugby and I hurt my thumb she actually lent me a very expensive Jaeger coat to keep me warm . |
| 6 | The personality thing concerned me a little — for a club is all its members . |
| 7 | The thing that made me a little envious was this girl — she 's his assistant on this particular film — ringing up , and there was a slight chance they would be going to Switzerland that day , and suddenly I was in there again and I thought how exciting it all was and how nice it would be to go off filming again . |
| 8 | Reading a lot made me a little odd but no one bothered much what I read . |
| 9 | It made me a little uneasy . |
| 10 | He made me a much better player and he must go down as one of Dalglish 's best signings . ’ |
| 11 | Main made me the most incredible clothes . |
| 12 | No such state emerged , however , and 1945 found them no farther along the road than they had been in 1918 . |
| 13 | I was with the South African team throughout their travels in Australia and New Zealand and found them an exceptionally nice group ; agonized with them on the eve of the referendum on reforms back in South Africa when there were last-minute scare reports of a major swing to the right wing ; rejoiced with them when the vote when 68% for sanity , a far greater margin than any of us had dared hope for ; and generally enjoyed with them their victories and their considerable achievement in reaching the semi-final stage . |
| 14 | Probably the fat bastard helped me a little . |
| 15 | He moved him a little and saw from his face that it was someone else . |
| 16 | ‘ Whatever her failings may or may not be , I found her a most agreeable and willing chambermaid — very attractive for that occupation — far more attractive than the common run of girls , did n't you find ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ And I 'm sure you found her a very biddable little girl ? ’ |
| 18 | Meryl wrote to tell us of Lena 's general kindness , saying she found her the most helpful and patient person she knew . |
| 19 | I really ca n't answer for David because in all the years that I 've known him , I always actually found him a rather cold person , even when I was 14 and he was 16 , even as boy and girlfriend . |
| 20 | I found him a most agreeable man and we seemed to get along well from the start . |
| 21 | I found him a most agreeable man , a sharp observer , and the possessor of intellectual attainments of no mean order . |
| 22 | I found him a somewhat erratic personality and an occasional pain in the ass . ’ |
| 23 | Albert Spanswick came from the old school of trade union leaders and I found him a more persuasive advocate for health service workers than Rodney Bickerstaffe . |
| 24 | He regarded her a little more closely . |
| 25 | ‘ Bad cooks — and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen — have delayed human development longest and impaired it the most ’ . |
| 26 | She drummed her fingers and each beat whiplashed it a little further back , snarling , but at bay . |
| 27 | Well , having actually been to Nashville and found it a singularly ugly and inhumane property developer 's hell , I never really thought the city was downhome . |
| 28 | Whether Hardy 's slightly impulsive way with phrasing is quite what this music demands ( all three works are in their different ways Classical in behaviour ) will be a matter of personal taste , but , given the highly personalised response , I found it a most pleasingly seductive recital . |
| 29 | I found it a rather disgusting product of a self-admitted drug damaged brain . |
| 30 | Sandison found it a little difficult to figure out exactly what Maidstone did . |