Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the stories I 'd read about him and heard about him from other caddies were true ! |
| 2 | Their words fluttered between them like lubricious little doves . |
| 3 | Wherever we travelled amongst the islands we would collect rare and exotic shells which became for us like fragile clues in a paper-chase of changing life-forms as we moved across historical as well as zoographical boundaries . |
| 4 | Most of them went through the ritual of gazing about them with curious eyes in search of a familiar face among the crowds . |
| 5 | That 's torn it , thought Lydia , swallowing the smile , extinguishing the sexuality which she knew she had caused to flicker about her like burning brandy round the Christmas pudding , and adopting instead a workmanlike , country-walking air . |
| 6 | The place gave Johnson another whiff of anthropology : here he stood as if in Africa or Arabia , greeting wild natives in their habitat : these Macraes might have been Xhosa tribesmen , or Tuaregs : ‘ The villagers gathered about us in considerable numbers , I believe without any evil intention , but with a very savage wildness of aspect and manner . ’ |
| 7 | Should the current tide turn , we will think about it with great pleasure and renewed confidence . |
| 8 | Gassendi adopted it enthusiastically and argued for it at great length . |
| 9 | Heaps of sand lie scattered about it like soft pyramids . |
| 10 | I 've got two young sons as well , erm they two got took off me into foster care , and that was when I really had to decide it was the either the drugs or the children . |
| 11 | They are just as much a product of the youth system as any youngster from the FA School of excellence though — so I reckon were OK to gloat about them in future years : - ) ) |
| 12 | Inspector Finch looks for it in various places . |
| 13 | He brought me down here to work for him under false pretences . |
| 14 | I shouted after them in hoarse astonishment . |
| 15 | And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator . |
| 16 | And neither of the other ships changed position as we fled past them towards deep space . |
| 17 | Shock made her cry out , and he closed the door and moved towards her in quick strides , putting his hand across her mouth to stop-her scream . |
| 18 | She was naked , completely naked , and she could hear his harshly muttered words of desire ; they excited her beyond belief , her body twisting against his in mindless fever , all flesh and blood and pulse . |
| 19 | Andrew 's mother Janice , 23 , who was walking with them in nearby Haxby , said : ‘ The first thing I heard was Carol scream , then a bang . |
| 20 | Andrew 's mother Janice , 23 , who was walking with them in nearby Haxby , said : ‘ The first thing I heard was Carol scream , then a bang . |
| 21 | Even though hooded by shadow , Blanche sensed Urquhart 's eyes narrow and bore into her like hungry grubs . |
| 22 | The lids were wrinkled above them like old venetian blinds . |
| 23 | We shall make the necessary arrangements to meet with you in due course . |
| 24 | So we agreed to compromise with him on certain things , in return for him keeping his nose out of my business . ’ |
| 25 | There are dozens of ministers , some highly qualified , who have been purged from the leadership by Mr Ceausescu , usually because they disagreed with him on particular issues or because their superior intelligence made him insecure . |
| 26 | ‘ I thoroughly disagreed with him on numerous issues , ’ said Teller , ‘ to this extent I would like to see the vital interests of this country in hands which I understand better and therefore trust more . ’ |
| 27 | You can buy from him in complete confidence . |
| 28 | But then she looked into his eyes , which dwelt upon her in huge solemnity , and knew that he was burningly sincere . |
| 29 | Hiding out in the forest , Eustace duped and humiliated Renaud in a series of daring escapades , appearing before him in numerous disguises , ambushing him and his men , and time and again making off with his horses . |
| 30 | In recent years , after an earlier period of reaction , most of the leading German theologians have been post-Barthian in the sense that while they have departed from him in various ways , they have nevertheless taken a basic orientation from him . |