Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Before the hurricane we had rainforest everywhere , ’ Anne said . |
| 2 | After the cinema he had tea , walked the streets for an hour , had a couple of Guinnesses in a pub to keep out the sharp evening air , and ate a biriani . |
| 3 | Commenting on the sentence He saw flight to be impossible , Cotte observes ( p. 71 ) : Ici , pas de perception physique , mais un jugement sur flight , posé avant be impossible , qui lui est attribué au terme d'une réflexion ; to s'impose car la deuxième prédication n'est pas un donné perçu globalement et existant indépendamment de see , mais une construction do nt l'actualité n'est posée qu'en guise de conclusion . |
| 4 | At lunchtime they pulled into a lay-by for a picnic ; and later in the afternoon they had tea in a transport café where three lorry drivers stared at them , whispered to one another and laughed . |
| 5 | In the afternoon we had tea in a house full of the most beautiful women . |
| 6 | In the kitchen she found Ling busily filling the two food hampers , but when she offered to help his refusal was firm but polite . |
| 7 | Back in the kitchen he poured coffee , adding sweetened condensed milk for instant energy . |
| 8 | The court stated : We were unanimously satisfied that the oral evidence , together with the documentation , established clearly that from the date on which ( the settlor ) purported to constitute the settlement he exercised dominion and control over the trustee in the management and administration of the settlement , including distributions of capital to himself or to others as gifts or loans , and the making and disposition of investments . |
| 9 | He looked at her searchingly , then stopped and led the way across the rabbit-nibbled turf to a point where she could look down on the inlet he called Seal Haven . |
| 10 | The instant she set foot on the land she must set off , all uphill , to the point . |
| 11 | For the first time since I had come to the college I had access to student political material because my boyfriend was reading the posters , leaflets and student newspapers to me . |
| 12 | To the high command they conveyed aggression , but to the enemy they conveyed peace . ’ |
| 13 | A Polynesian folktale tells of Rata , who travelled across the ocean and ingeniously outwitted a hungry whale by jamming open its jaws with a broken oar ; venturing in through the mouth he came face to face with his parents who had been gulped down before him . |
| 14 | After the break he resumed work and continued until two-thirty in the afternoon when it was the end of the day as far as the horses were concerned . |
| 15 | As he walked behind the plough he had time to think of the easy relationship that had gradually built up between them . |
| 16 | A few weeks before the investiture I contracted chicken pox from my grandchildren and , unfortunately , in the way that these childish ailments have with older persons , it affected me very badly . |
| 17 | A high powered Sierra was careering down a steep hill in Wotton under Edge.When the driver reached the bottom he lost control and ploughed into the women who 'd just got out of their parked cars . |
| 18 | For example , in the fourth edition of The Origin he introduced evidence of group marriages occurring among the Australian Aborigines . |
| 19 | The love of Leonora 's life was sailing , and during the summer months she spent her Sundays on the water at the local reservoir , weeknights at the tennis club or the cinema , and in the winter she took part in as many activities as possible in the small town where she 'd lived all her life . |
| 20 | When Hazel and Fiver reached the floor of the hollow they found Blackberry waiting for them , crouching on the peat arid nibbling at a few brown stalks of sedge-grass . |
| 21 | When she reached the plateau she remained standing , watching for Joss Barnet , waiting for the moment when she would see him riding towards her . |
| 22 | I hope these so-called mothers never wonder why the child they gave birth to , grows up to be a stranger to them . |
| 23 | To make them easier to serve , we 've firmed up the mixture with a few fine cake crumbs so that they do n't melt the moment they hit room temperature . |
| 24 | Conversely , managers ( quite reasonably ) insist that it would be equally unjust if their rights to commission on projects which they have initiated were to cease the moment they parted company from the artist . |
| 25 | I knew you were special the moment I recovered consciousness and saw your face swimming before my eyes . ’ |
| 26 | At the moment I got access to two cars . |
| 27 | But finally deciding it was time to move off , and doing his best to ignore the rooks , which began to mob him again the moment he took flight , he flew three hundred yards to another oak which he had been looking at with some care . |
| 28 | In his Sunday dress of jeans and a fresh white shirt , he looked as if he 'd get mugged the moment he set foot in a town with more cars than horses . |
| 29 | He 's been gloriously happy from the moment he set foot in Genoa to a generous welcome from his new colleagues . |
| 30 | Harriet stiffened , totally taken by surprise and annoyed with herself for not realising the moment he mentioned insurance the reason why he was here . |