Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The liberal ideas of this group , and the fact that several of its members were known or alleged to belong to the secretive Catholic brotherhood , Opus Dei , made them anathema to the " old shirt " Falangists and the Catholic integrists . |
| 2 | Was there a secret reason that made them hanker for a new life in a new world ? |
| 3 | Frankie 's very success made them part of the pop family . |
| 4 | For Clarke , football hooliganism developed at the intersection of these trends : the fans have now taken the traditional values of toughness , masculinity , local identity , collective action and partisanship and made them part of the game 's new , more spectacularised style . |
| 5 | We met them face to face and he gave his full backing . |
| 6 | Timothy Gedge was as ordinary as anyone else , but the ill fortune of circumstances or nature made ordinary people eccentric and lent them colour in the greyness . |
| 7 | She and her accupuncturist partner , Richard Spindler , are now in serious debt , they say , because Lloyds lent them money without proper advice and called in the loan after overcharging them . |
| 8 | ‘ Spewed me ring up all night , then I went and rode me bike into that mooring rope over there , ’ he indicated further up the dock . |
| 9 | Then Heathcliff asked me question after question about Catherine 's illness . |
| 10 | Liese made me dinner in the Chinese style : miso soup , stir-fried vegetables , sweetsap for dessert . |
| 11 | Its ringing , double-noted call haunted me night after night — a call the least experienced birdwatcher would recognise instantly . |
| 12 | In his important paper , Perring ( 1953 ) extracted these records and listed them island by island . |
| 13 | ‘ I went round and rehearsed them night after night at the various clubs , ’ he recalls . |
| 14 | What drew me south at last I can not say . |
| 15 | It caught me smack in the forehead and knocked me back three feet . |
| 16 | He might well have made some bargain with the Plantagenet — after all , this Edward owed something , for it was here , to Dunbar Castle , that his father , Edward the Second , had fled for refuge after the disaster of Bannockburn when Patrick , as a young man , had received him kindly and provided him passage by sea to England . |
| 17 | Whilst he was in France , Edward II left his friend , Gaveston , as Regent , and created him Earl of Cornwall . |
| 18 | Coucy soon rose high in favour at court : in 1363 Edward granted him lands in north Lancashire , Cumberland and Westmorland to which he had some claim by inheritance ; two years later he married Isabella , and in 1366 the king created him Earl of Bedford with an endowment of 1,000 marks a year . |
| 19 | Born about 1182 in Normandy , the son of a German father ( Henry the Lion ) and an Aquitanian mother , he had been much in the company of his uncle , King Richard I , who created him count of Poitou at the age of fourteen . |
| 20 | Mid-season found him second in the national averages , and following match figures of 7 for 61 against Warwickshire , team-mate John Morris wondered whether Bishop could ever have bowled with more controlled hostility than in his first spell in the first innings . |
| 21 | Found him shelter for the night . |
| 22 | And somebody was following , a colleague was following , saw it happen , stopped and helped him sort of do what you 've got to do to get the man 's address and this sort of thing , make sure the car was alright , and took him into the office . |
| 23 | In that year , also , L'Estrange 's ineptitude cost him control of the official news-books and Muddiman regained it because of the regard he had won from both secretaries of state . |
| 24 | And , as time melted the sunbeam and dripped it moment by moment from the desk to the floor , Chesarynth had only her dubious belief in Friend to sustain her . |
| 25 | The even grander Cape to Cairo dream came nearer to realization , but only when victorious British arms took the railway to Khartoum in 1899 , and the copper of Northern Rhodesia ( Zambia ) and the Belgian Congo ( Zaire ) lured it north from the Zambezi in the early years of this century . |
| 26 | and er , I think the younger people quite enjoyed it but the older ones , of course , found it bit of a bind , er particularly after erm the sort of patriotic fervour |
| 27 | Evenings too found us bumper to bumper |
| 28 | Fossil evidence reveals that these giants occupied the woodlands and mountain forests of southern China until the ice ages drove them south into what are now the islands of Sumatra and Borneo . |
| 29 | I told me mum about it and she said we ca n't be having that and got on the phone to the doctor , but he would n't even come out and he took me off the [ practice 's ] list . |
| 30 | In July 1878 , though , the Bureau of Indian Affairs assumed responsibility for the Nez Perce , and transferred them south to the parched 7000-acre Quapaw Reservation in Kansas Territory . |