Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | After all this high-profile imagery I had fully expected the Serenade to hit me with a physical force akin to Karajan 's classic BPO digital remake ( DG ) . |
2 | The governor himself stood waiting to greet them beneath a large , gilt-framed portrait of the Emperor Napoleon . |
3 | He pointed out that as the three former impressions had sold out and as there had lately been a new edition of the main Dictionary , ( the sixth , 1752 ) , with many alterations , he judged it proper to include them in a new abridgement . |
4 | Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund . |
5 | The shaft of the arrow protruding from my back occasionally knocked against something , bringing me to a gasping halt . |
6 | In this sense , it is best to see them as a modern phenomenon and as part of a Bowing movement to find significance and variety in the landscape . |
7 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
8 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
9 | By that time , the Scottish team had gone through three practice sessions , while the Aussies from Queensland expect their post-season training to see them to a successful defence of the tournament , which starts today . |
10 | Touching , stroking not her but the jewels — touching them with an awful tenderness . |
11 | She could lie in bed at night and in imagination move confidently around the cottage touching them in a happy exploration of shared memories and reassurance . |
12 | Pot up one or two strawberry plants for a special treat : bring them into a cool greenhouse or conservatory , watering sparingly . |
13 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
14 | They wanted to kill me in a horrific way , to frighten those who work in defence of human rights . |
15 | A commitment to East European art seems to be prominent ; so too African and broadly Third-World developments , with an implied attempt to transcend the barriers which isolate them from a self-defining ‘ First World ’ ; historical figures whose critical recuperation is overdue ; promising younger artists , whom the remainder of the British art world traditionally shun . |
16 | In the late 1980s the Cubans manipulated them into a needless confrontation in Angola , which lasted much longer than it should have done because , this time , the Washington team was clumsier . |
17 | If you did , if you failed them on a regular basis , you would n't be here , right ? |
18 | Finally , I read yesterday that some managers , most noticably the two Scots that were in Wembley at the weekend , are talking about banning transfers after the season start and only allowing them for a limited period over Christmas . |
19 | Once a bank purchases such bills it can hold the bills to maturity or sell them in a secondary market to any other bank(s) . |
20 | The idea took off and now Dunkin' Donuts , who sell them in an amazing 31 flavours , say ‘ holes ’ are one of their most popular lines . |
21 | She met me with a friendly smile , shook my hand and introduced me to the class : ‘ This is Wanda , our new pupil who has come to live in our village . |
22 | you met me with an exalted smile |
23 | Made from the latest in Polymer technology Asics Gel has the unique ability to absorb vertical impact forces and disperse them on a horizontal plane . |
24 | The girl swung round as a silent invitation to follow , and led them past a tangled bunch of bicycles and a wall of political posters to hopeless causes . |
25 | He led them down a small corridor , paused by a door , took out a huge bunch of keys , slowly , and deliberately , unlocked the door , and then , with a dramatic , indeed melodramatic , flourish , flung it open . |
26 | She led them down a narrow corridor and into a comfortable lounge . |
27 | He led them at a smart pace along the path where the railway had been and though they grumbled about the branches scratching their legs his sister and his brothers followed him . |
28 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
29 | Flunkeys led them into a private part of La Noblesse where they were warmly greeted by an expansive Grunte , who presented the ladies with a flower and with grave courtesy showed each to her seat . |
30 | He led them into a small , more comfortable room behind the great hall where a fire burnt in the canopied hearth ; it was cosier and not so forbidding , with its wood-panelled walls and high-backed chairs arranged in a semi-circle around the hearth . |