Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet this contrasted oddly with his sloppy clothes , his bare knees and hairy legs , for he seemed to see nothing peculiar about a doctor who behaved like a gentleman but who looked like a beachcomber . |
| 2 | During the eighth and ninth centuries the Christian church effected nothing short of a revolution in the forms of Western politics . |
| 3 | When they were bulging-full , he stitched them closed with a curved needle and woollen thread and laid them ready in a pile . |
| 4 | But that would make them vulnerable to a surprise attack . |
| 5 | The announcement of the proposed merger ( unless shut-outs can be achieved — see para 8.2 below ) will bring both companies " into play " and make them vulnerable to a hostile bid . |
| 6 | Their tiny eyes , rubbery sucking mouths and writhing bodies scarcely make them attractive from a human point of view . |
| 7 | Afterwards he washed the tin out in the stream , splashed water over his face and hands and wiped them dry on a handkerchief . |
| 8 | I expect nothing short of a bloodbath . |
| 9 | So I mean perhaps they 'd be better off dead , just keeping them alive in a state of sickness or in coma or something of this sort — there was a great discussion about this and that erm you see not even life is the ultimate good in a sense , you see , at some point death is better . |
| 10 | But magistrates found them guilty on a lesser charge of causing the animal to be terrified . |
| 11 | He knew so little of women that he felt as though he had woken up to find himself halfway across a vast mountain in a blizzard without map or rope or compass . |
| 12 | Norman also got up and down from another bunker for a 69 and 277 , spending the next 30 minutes waiting , watching and keeping himself loose with a few twists and turns for the play-off that never happened . |
| 13 | If Mr Kinnock found himself head of a minority government and decided to ‘ soldier on ’ he might find that Sir Richard Attenborough , that grand old trouper in ‘ Luvvies for Labour ’ , could turn out to be an embarrassment . |
| 14 | He pulled her into his arms , pressing her close as a long , shuddering sigh rippled through her body . |
| 15 | Now she caught a glimpse of his face again as he drew the straps down from her shoulders and found her unencumbered by a bra . |
| 16 | A schoolboy found her dead in a pool of blood on her driveway . |
| 17 | During most of April , von Zwehl 's VII Reserve Corps found itself preoccupied in a see-saw battle for one small feature , the stone quarries at Haudromont . |
| 18 | After the British general election of 1987 the Alliance would no doubt have been gratified to find itself under-represented to a degree no greater than that . |
| 19 | Successful litigants who are vindictive , or excessively conscientious , or who fear that they will be liable to litigation themselves if they fail to extract everything possible from a claim , might well pursue the individual partners for their assets . |
| 20 | He said this as if it were obvious , as if he were explaining something self-evident to a small child . |
| 21 | I 'll have to find something nice for a wedding present . ’ |
| 22 | If you have a group of parents who want something particular from a school and are going to organise themselves into a group to pressurise that school , they 'll do it whether there 's a P T A there or not . |
| 23 | ‘ I can only do it when we 're in the middle of a conversation and you look at me speculatively and then say something anodyne in a voice that is so deliberately empty of judgment I can practically feel the strength of will you are exerting to keep it so , ’ said David with the hint of a laugh in his deep voice . |
| 24 | She found herself capable of a courage that startled her . |
| 25 | She 's so grown up that she shouted herself hoarse through a bloody pantomime not two hours ago . |
| 26 | Thus , it is contrary to natural justice to inform an individual of only one complaint against him if there are two , or to find him guilty of a different offence from the one he was actually charged with . |
| 27 | The jury found him guilty on a reduced charge of assaulting the youth by knocking him to the ground . |
| 28 | Then one night he drank very heavily and ran wildly out of the house , and in the morning we found him dead in a river . |
| 29 | She found him alone for a moment . |
| 30 | Later , when I returned to the old man , I found him alone with a few boys and the American film . |