Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dorinda only knows herself by the mirror : it has literally and figuratively provided her with a self-image . |
| 2 | The rebuilding of the town of Warwick after the fire presumably provided him with an initial opportunity , and he was later responsible for a further group of churches and other public buildings ; but the predominant element in his practice was the building of country houses for the midlands gentry . |
| 3 | We eventually found it on a road off the A35 east of Bridport . |
| 4 | Shoreditch eventually found it in a dictionary of American slang : ‘ A horse who wins a race by prearrangement ; a person , team , candidate , etc , who will or did win easily . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ What happened , Fabia ? ’ he relentlessly pursued her for an answer . |
| 6 | She was a somewhat intense woman who probably rather enjoyed such gatherings , but I 've often wondered if she secretly used them as a ruse to get her husband home to mind the little one while she nipped out for a breather . |
| 7 | And whereas Picasso had been forced to reintroduce clues , small fragments of legibility , into his work to render it more accessible to the spectator , Braque , even at his most abstract , instinctively retained them as a link with reality . |
| 8 | Mr Clay went on to tell of his visits to a bone-setter , who successfully healed him after an accident . |
| 9 | But there were plenty of beautiful and recognisable faces to be seen amongst the anonymous , but none-the-less powerful , fashion editors , still enough buying power in this room alone to rock empires , even if no house made a profit from the couture but rather used it for a loss-leading advertisement and a mark of prestige . |
| 10 | Just as Debbie was about to wind up the window , he suddenly asked her for a lift , saying he only lived 5 minutes down the road and could she drop him on her way ? |
| 11 | She only fought him for a moment or two . |
| 12 | It alone provided him with an ideal of peace . |
| 13 | As he sipped his wine in the bright , busy square , he thought that although the language was certainly a problem and one that he would have to continue to struggle with , it only provided him with an excuse , really , an excuse for why he had not been able to get down to the job of looking for Elsie . |
| 14 | Of course I am not advocating a return to the kind of education that so wounded me as a child . |
| 15 | I used to watch him sleep , wondering what bloody crimes lay in his past , and knowing that I alone protected him from a horrible death . |
| 16 | And Burrows senselessly followed him after a late challenge on Khlestov . |
| 17 | On 18 December 1689 the anniversary of William 's first entrance into London was cele-brated with a huge procession through the City , as crowds carried effigies of James 's chief ministers through the streets to Temple Bar , where they ritualistically hanged them at a " triple galloes " set up next to a great bonfire . |
| 18 | Temple was sincere in his desire to preserve native society from too sudden change : he enjoyed its idiosyncrasies , respected its vitality , and greatly loved it as an unkempt garden in which the product of a more ordered civilization might find repose . |
| 19 | Terror suddenly hit her like an iron arrow in the breastbone and her throat seized up and she choked . |
| 20 | Although marketed as a bass by Fender , Leo personally viewed it as a baritone guitar , thus creating a confusion in the minds of the company and ultimately the guitar-buying public , a confusion which was to dog the instrument throughout its career . |
| 21 | He only classed it as a nightmare because of the head , and even that had more farce to it than terror . |
| 22 | ‘ Does n't matter , I only brought them as a diversion anyway . |
| 23 | I only saw him for a moment , but my blood seemed to freeze . |
| 24 | To the distress of his family he rejected the Unitarian name in later life but not the ministerial title , though others , as he admits , ‘ only saw him as a Unitarian minister ’ . |
| 25 | I only saw her for a day or two . ’ |
| 26 | On the other hand , you know all there is to be known about me : born Bigley Road , Grays , in Essex , twenty-six years old , wife Alice … who says if she had met you afore me I would n't have had a look-in — and she only saw you from a distance . ’ |
| 27 | It looked tall but I only saw it for a moment . ’ |
| 28 | Blyth Tait says that the last time he won the top spot from Mary he only kept it for a week and is hoping to hang onto it for longer this time . |
| 29 | This , remember , was said only a few months after Battiston of France suffered a serious neck injury when Schumacher , the West German goalkeeper , brutally bodychecked him in a World Cup semi-final . |
| 30 | She only did it as a temporary measures just |