Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That led them to a Kamalian whose secretions matched the saliva found at the scene of the crime . ’ |
| 2 | This led him into a series of acrimonious exchanges , both private and public , with several notable scientists of the day , but mainly with Carpenter and Thomson , whom he also accused of plagiarizing his results , particularly those dealing with the biology of the foraminiferans . |
| 3 | The English used it as a convenient base for raids into the Scots East and Middle Marches , and as a permanent threat , its strong position on the rocky spine at the junction of the two rivers making it a very difficult nut to crack . |
| 4 | This helped them as a creative unit — in 1967 they came up with arguably their greatest single Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever and with the album Sergeant Pepper 's Lonely Hearts ' Club Band which , though it has n't aged particularly well , was certainly a quantum leap forward for popular music at the time . |
| 5 | This committed him to a punishing schedule for the next eight months , from the time the play went into rehearsal until it closed on 26 April 1969 after 161 consecutive performances . |
| 6 | This turned him into a hero of the silent majority . |
| 7 | Some criticised his method of combating Bodyline by stepping away to cut the ball to the off , but Bradman claimed that this exposed him to a greater risk of injury than the orthodox type of batting . |
| 8 | Sinatra went through the worst period of his career when Universal signed him to a contract , put him in a disaster — Meet Danny Wilson ( 1952 ) — and then dropped him . |
| 9 | Some ascribed it to a plot by ‘ the men in grey suits ’ ( a catch-phrase often used to describe a fairly ill-defined set of senior party officials , government business managers and elder statesmen ) . |
| 10 | The man half carried , half pulled her into a nearby pub , where he propped her in a Windsor chair and went to fetch water from the bar . |
| 11 | This hit them like a communal heart-attack . |
| 12 | This decided us on a bold move to facilitate loading . |
| 13 | Some took it as a great laugh ; others as a brave attempt to champion a little-known music ; and others just hated it . |
| 14 | Some took it as a satire on Minton 's sex life and the tutor Colin Hayes was so angered by it he ordered it to be torn off the wall . |
| 15 | Some saw him as a prophet , a Welsh Kossuth or Mazzini , a ‘ lost leader ’ . |
| 16 | Some saw it as a policy platform for the conclave that could not long be delayed . |
| 17 | Whilst most recognized the coffin as a means of transporting the dead to an authorized place of disposal , some viewed it as a receptacle for a precious relic — so precious that the very thought of earth or elements contributing to its destruction should be avoided at all cost . |
| 18 | This took me in a gentle curve round the flanks of Great Coum towards the Barbondale road , Combe House , the track past Tofts , and back to my home for tea and crumpets . |
| 19 | This put him in a quandary . |
| 20 | The farm owners were n't working class , so the ways this put them at a disadvantage is irrelevant . |
| 21 | They were made of metal and this presented him with a major problem . |
| 22 | This presented us with a problem . |
| 23 | This reminded her of a stately home . |
| 24 | " Obedience was number one priority , " Joyce recollects , " and the respect and love we had for our parents and for one another forced us into a very successful household . " |
| 25 | I had taken no interest in Egyptian politics , but this struck me as a novel view . |
| 26 | This left me in a situation where I had to decide if I could afford to finance the aircraft on my own . |
| 27 | This left her with a severe form of amnesia that reduced her memory span to 20 minutes or less . |
| 28 | Some had him with a moustache , others clean-shaven . |
| 29 | The martyrdom of his father in 203 left him with a cold antipathy to the pagan establishment , whether in government or in high culture . |
| 30 | They are old enough to remember the early days of independence , when the departing British pushed them towards a pan-Caribbean federation of English-speakers ; but the people of Jamaica , the largest potential member ( with 2.5m people now ) , killed that by voting against it in a referendum . |