Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The glass before them became like a mirror for the briefest time but it was a distorting , ghost-train mirror , more shadow than substance-with his mind adding hallucinatory details to the little that he could see . |
| 2 | Most of them arose as a result of an all-Russian phenomenon in 1922 — the lack of co-ordination and exchange of information between the centre and the localities , together with nonchalant neglect of provincial problems so long as they did not affect central political issues . |
| 3 | It is a wonderful fact that I should be affected , and thus deeply and powerfully , more than by aught else in all my experience — that this fruit should be borne in me sprung from a seed finer than the spores of fungi , floated from other atmospheres ! finer than the dust caught in the sails of vessels a thousand miles from land ! |
| 4 | The most interesting show out of London is Miro : Sculpture , which has opened at the Southampton City Art Gallery ; 37 bronzes are on show , each one of them made by a Catalan , anarchist , sex-mad Santa Claus |
| 5 | As soon as the song finished she grabbed her cousin and the two of them sank into a heap on the floor , hiding their faces and giggling . |
| 6 | In A.D. 318 , the then Bishop of Rome ( now known as Pope Sylvester ) is said to have met personally with eight Desposyni leaders — each of whom presided over a branch of the Church — at the Lateran Palace . |
| 7 | J. F. Campbell tells of sticks with sharpened ends which had been burnt and hardened in a fire and said he had seen one of them found in a moss , and writes " They used to throw them from them , and could aim exceedingly with them , and they could drive through a man . |
| 8 | Old Stevenson would go spare if he knew , and I 'm not certain whether he 'd try and get me moved as a danger to junior staff , or you moved as a wicked woman . |
| 9 | Those things do n't sound fearsome — till you see them used on a man 's body . ’ |
| 10 | actually it 's a bit boring down there now but they , they had to put my , my explanation of the price of petrol er down , there 's nowhere to thing , cos th the last time I was down there I asked for a pint of bitter and this guy bought it me and said and I wanted two pound thirty or something . |
| 11 | I asked for a bowl , there was an embarrassed silence when no one moved to my aid ( thinking I felt sick ! ) — and my waters soaked the kitchen floor . |
| 12 | They looked at me apprehensively when I asked for a drink of cider or wine . |
| 13 | Fortunately we had an alternative target so I asked for a course . |
| 14 | Eventually I asked for a transfer , but could n't get one , so I stayed and now I 'm glad I did . ’ |
| 15 | I figured that if I asked for a transfer I 'd either get a rise or would be able to work out a better deal for myself if I went elsewhere . |
| 16 | I asked for a cigarette . |
| 17 | The last time I preached on the New Age before writing this chapter , I asked for a show of hands from those who had heard of it . |
| 18 | If the code is kept under review , is there any intention to issue an updated version with any alterations to the 1987 edition which is the one that was supplied to me when I asked for a copy ? |
| 19 | I asked for a report on this tragic case this morning . |
| 20 | Each time a guard arrived , either with food or to let me out to the lavatory , I asked for a book , and each time he said ‘ Yes ’ and did n't bring one . |
| 21 | I asked for a priest . |
| 22 | ‘ I asked for a biography of a dead scientist , not a list of missile sites . ’ |
| 23 | I asked on a hunch . |
| 24 | I asked after a pause . |
| 25 | I asked after a silence . |
| 26 | I asked after a moment . |
| 27 | I applied for a job at Anglia as a news reporter . |
| 28 | I applied for a job on Query and got it . |
| 29 | I applied for a job and three people turned |
| 30 | I applied for a research fellowship at Gonville and Caius College ( pronounced Keys ) . |