Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alison met him in the same bar . |
| 2 | Father Devlin clapped him on the shoulder with a large heavy hand . |
| 3 | Devlin clapped him on the shoulder . |
| 4 | Keller 's Zurich upbringing made him into a skiier and sculler , and he raced for the Grasshopper club . |
| 5 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 6 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
| 7 | Data could pop up in boxes around the screen , and in due course graphics , mice and icons led us into the wimps era ( window , icon , menu , pointer ) . |
| 8 | However , the prior hypothesis led us to the finding in the rural high oil worker category ( table II , both for all ages and the 0–4 age group . |
| 9 | There is little evidence that peasant faith declined , but the authority of village priests was progressively undermined : in terms of culture and way of life they differed too little from the ordinary villagers to inspire much respect , and the miserly provision made them by the State resulted in constant friction over money matters between priest and parishioner . |
| 10 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
| 11 | But after three disappointing Five Nations games , Ciaran Fitzgerald drafted him into the side — as well as making him captain — for the game in Paris . |
| 12 | All I can remember is having a pickled onion and my sister stabbed it with a fork and the middle shot across the room . |
| 13 | He more than filled the gap left by Alex ; his presence animated her with a mysterious excitement . |
| 14 | Bernie Scholtz passed her on the iron stairs as she was hurrying out . |
| 15 | Harvey led me to a room which he unlocked with a key . |
| 16 | MacDonald read it to the members of the Cabinet ( imposing further conditions before a loan would be given ) . |
| 17 | Influenced by these dreams , beautiful mornings seemed to mock her waking despair , but once she had shaken herself free from their shades , sun , sky , trees and birds enveloped her like a benediction . |
| 18 | The web tangled and clung mawkishly around her reasoning as Fernando lowered her to the bed . |
| 19 | The 28-year-old cab driver attacked her in a clearing after she went to join Queen 's Club in west London , Mark Dennis , prosecuting , told the Old Bailey . |
| 20 | His talents , his wealth , and the changing times raised him to the court of assistants of the Levant Company from 1644 to 1648 , and in 1645 Parliament appointed him to the Goldsmiths ' Hall committee , through which Royalists redeemed their sequestrated estates by paying compositions . |
| 21 | Sotheby 's , determined to protect Irises ’ ‘ most expensive ’ tag , repossessed it , and in March sold it to the Getty museum , probably for $40 to $45 million . |
| 22 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 23 | Trent met it with a slight movement of the tiller bar , and the big catamaran lifted smoothly . |
| 24 | She confessed that the bitter jibes and over-exposure led her to the precipice . |
| 25 | Later in my life — ça sera pour un autre jour — birds led me into a very unusual experience . |
| 26 | Peregrine interrupted her with a languid chortle and was properly admonished . |
| 27 | George Best , a thin teenager from Belfast , whose dribbling skills made him into a star with Manchester United and the darling of the sports and gossip columns epitomized the new era . |
| 28 | At noon , the exhausted Pack gathered together and Brown Owl led them to a shady area . |
| 29 | Bridhe and Seamus Ban consulted him about the amount of drink that would be needed , and were told to double it . |
| 30 | Giffen led us into a room on the left . |