Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flaubert , who visited the island in 1847 , got lost in these deserted , deceptively placid fields , of which he wrote : ‘ One would have said that all those who owned them profited from them but did not like them . ’ |
| 2 | Their nimble dexterity even made them preferred in the manufacture of buttons and in lacquering and japanning , although it did not bring them the wages of skilled male artisans . |
| 3 | Part of the impetus had been the growing frustration felt by women in the voluntary work committees that they and the issues which concerned them tended to be elbowed aside by men . |
| 4 | The nun who admitted them appeared to be covered from head to foot apart from her eyes , nose , and mouth , for after she had bolted the gate behind them she tucked her bare hands into her sleeves , then led the way up a gravel path , on either side of which a lawn extended as far as a further high , stone wall , its top also embedded with glass . |
| 5 | ‘ One morning they woke me up , told me to wash my face , and led me blindfolded into a room with a TV camera . |
| 6 | It also got me banned from our playschool , for life . |
| 7 | When they were bulging-full , he stitched them closed with a curved needle and woollen thread and laid them ready in a pile . |
| 8 | We did the Christmassy stuff and the old New Orleans favourites and , with Trippy playing the top of the truck cab with a pair of spare drum sticks , I got them organized into a version of Masekela 's Do n't Go Lose It which lasted one and a half circuits . |
| 9 | ‘ When I got here , ’ he said expressionlessly , ‘ I realised I needed to be in love with more than just a city . |
| 10 | What made I wanted to be a policeman ? |
| 11 | When Maggie returned she found them locked in the strained silence . |
| 12 | The Pittagora women did not yet swim , and airless midsummer found them sequestered in their shuttered , marble-floored apartment in Rupe , emerging only before the sun gathered strength to go to market or to Mass , or after its heat had dimmed in the evening to stroll under the acacia trees with the rest of the town 's gentry , while their servants sat in doorways on wooden chairs , commenting aloud . |
| 13 | On the other hand , for all his ferocity in matters of principle , the archbishop was an aged and a sick man who had suffered too many humiliations and had offended too many of his fellow prelates in the 1290s and since to command strong support from them ; he was still unsure of papal backing for his measures , and indeed found them countermanded by Clement . |
| 14 | An hour and a half later found me flopped on the floor of the turret in a serious state — my vaunted practicality in utter disarray . |
| 15 | And onto ou round Australia and that and I mentioned I started in New Foundland , yes . |
| 16 | ‘ I found I had to be very firm with her , or she 'd have run rings around me , and how would she learn ? |
| 17 | From the studios and shows I visited I spoke to women artists , all of whom graduated in the last 10 years about their work , their experiences with galleries , residencies , organising shows and lecturing , in an attempt to assess current directions in women 's work and gauge their position within the art world . |
| 18 | I remember how he described the messages Mme Guérigny maintained she received from Montaine . |
| 19 | Rachel found she had to almost bite her tongue to prevent herself making some comment . |
| 20 | Offered such a vast platform on which to air her philosophy of life , she found she warmed to her theme and lost any remaining traces of shyness . |
| 21 | A post-mortem examination on Dr Magdalene Weld , aged 52 , found she died on Wednesday from bronchial pneumonia brought on by influenza . |
| 22 | An inquest into Beverley 's death found she died of natural causes but had slipped through the net of caring representatives like her GP and social worker . |
| 23 | As the train stopped she rushed to the window , though she dared not open it . |
| 24 | He kissed you and it felt as if time had stood still and when he stopped you felt as if the bottom had dropped out of your world . |
| 25 | When we approached she took to the steep places where we could not follow , and so we left her . ’ |
| 26 | I 'd hardly gone into the room when there was a cry as a woman found you slumped in a seat . ’ |
| 27 | But of course how much better he knew her now , and how changed she looked with her smart dresses and her well-cut hair . |
| 28 | A future director of the National Theatre who admired Leavis 's lectures at Cambridge has since remarked that ‘ all we students pretended we sped to his lectures to imbibe his humanism , ’ whereas in fact they were enjoying his character-assassinations : ‘ Strange that a great moralist should be so destructive about creative artists . ’ |
| 29 | As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job . |
| 30 | Quite often we found we went to places where there was n't such a thing ’ . |