Example sentences of "[pron] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vases in the Marine Style , including rhytons , bridge-spouted jugs and three-handled amphoras , are decorated with triton shells , argonauts , octopuses , starfish , rocks and seaweed — all of them treated in a free and fluid way . |
| 2 | For a few hours each day the HCI Captain keeps them occupied like a regular Mary Poppins with games excursions and rehearsals for junior showtime . |
| 3 | There are a few places in the States , but there 's no federal policy to get them organised on a big-money basis and all the little local pressure groups keep them harassed and staying small . |
| 4 | But someone committed to a thorough-going naturalism is no more prepared to allow to the mind mysterious properties than he is prepared to allow them to matter : for the thorough-going naturalist , after all , mind is no more than a manifestation of matter . |
| 5 | We did n't see him , but we had a superb seafood meal in a trattoria on a hill and found ourselves adopted by a shaggy island dog , another hazard of Mediterranean voyaging . |
| 6 | Just as it was our duty , we felt , to shower two or three times a day and keep ourselves wrapped in a permanent cloud of Charlie perfume , so , it seemed , it was the male imperative to cultivate mossy teeth and socks that could stand up on their own . |
| 7 | THE LAST thing likely to cross the mind of someone woken by a yapping dog in the middle of the night is the question why do dogs bark when wolves rarely do . |
| 8 | However , we can restore the corners without disturbing the edges , and once the corners are correct , we can not find ourselves left with a single pair of edges to exchange ( as we shall see later ) . |
| 9 | And also of course i you ca n't always f em put in a big roundabout because there might be buildings there , there might be erm erm services there that they ca n't remove etcetera . |
| 10 | Hearing that Jesus became amazed and said to those following him , I tell you the truth but no one in Israel have I faced to a greater face so that 's quite some statement that Jesus has made |
| 11 | A few complex cases are recorded with mixed or joined symbols ( e.g. , those of Nurgle and Tzeentch for someone killed by a disfiguring disease which caused the victim to be burnt as a mutant ) . |
| 12 | Only on a bigger scale , they had them made on a bigger scale you see . |
| 13 | The acquisition of grave-clothes did not need to wait until death , and many a young bride-to-be , especially in the more remote country areas , included such items in their trousseaus , either buying them ready-made from one of the known outlets , or having them made by a local seamstress , or producing them herself . |
| 14 | We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels . |
| 15 | The defendants , through their employee Mr. Cottrell , recognised that the price that had been agreed originally with the plaintiff was less than what Mr. Cottrell himself regarded as a reasonable price . |
| 16 | Their horses were fresher , and gradually closed on Sharpe who , to spare the mare 's strength , tried to avoid the worst hills , but he eventually found himself trapped in a long valley and was forced to put the mare at a steep grass slope which led to a bare skyline . |
| 17 | The legionnaire sees himself caught in a never-ending cycle of darkness and despair , until the day when he will be liberated through atonement of his past crimes . |
| 18 | The mechanic says that on that year the truck the part was handcrafted in Zogmolia near Flelzonia and not only is it double reverse threaded but that its made from a rare alloy rendered from toxic wastes in New Jersey ; however , he has assured me while trying to hold back a laugh and spraying spittle all over me he knows a junk yard on Mars where he can get the part soon . |
| 19 | What seemed a formality on Wednesday looked less certain 24 hours later , and he himself hinted at a possible obstacle when he said he would have to get the permission of his employers , the brewers John Smith . |
| 20 | What seemed a formality on Wednesday looked less certain 24 hours later , and he himself hinted at a possible obstacle when he said he would have to get the permission of his employers , the brewers John Smith . |
| 21 | Its got , its got er one the downward thrust , one for an angled thrust and one for level thrust , and its got a , they reckon its got about a twenty minute range if it takes off vertically |
| 22 | The king had himself portrayed on the last coinage of his reign , issued c. 1485 , wearing the closed crown of the emperor , at much the same time as Henry VII introduced the style into England ; but James went one better by having himself shown in a realistic three-quarters face portrait , thereby producing what the numismatist Ian Stewart has described as ‘ probably the earliest Renaissance coin portrait outside Italy ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ GREGOR SAMSA awoke one morning from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect . ’ |
| 24 | Citilend Ltd v Stuart Craggs provides an example of a case in which a haulier finds himself sued for a commercial misdemeanour — hire purchase default — in the Queen 's Bench Division . |
| 25 | He got himself invited to a large formal dinner party at which one man served the wine and another served all the food , and was tired and irritable , like a wife ; Boy observed all of this very closely . |
| 26 | I asked Stephen — one of the two hapless fathers and himself reduced to a mulberry-eyed basket case — if he still had enough marbles to drive me to the station at Orvieto . |
| 27 | He makes himself known with a tiny , metallic clink-clink-clink from within the bushes . |
| 28 | In his wanderings through India , Miguel Serrano found himself arrested by a grotesque sight in the streets of Delhi : |
| 29 | Drama , however , is powerfully engendered in The Sacrifice of Isaac where chiaroscuro successfully poses Abraham as a tall and threatening silhouette drawn in pen , brown ink and brown wash , lightened with white in a drawing by Baciccio , a protege of Gianlorenzo Bernini — himself represented by a precise Design for the Tombstone of Cardinal Carlo Emanuele Pio da Carpi . |
| 30 | To a publisher or bookseller working hard to make a living in a very chancy occupation time spent answering questions from a researcher who has never himself worked in a commercial business may seem to be time wasted . |