Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His political inclinations got him into trouble again in 1940 , however . |
| 2 | Many of Richard Gough 's contemporaries provided him with information about a wide range of cousins and about ancestors going back several generations . |
| 3 | On arriving at Southwell , Charles handed himself over to the Scottish commissioners in expectation of their support , but negotiations between them collapsed , and the Scots sold him to Parliament for £400,000 . |
| 4 | Benedict 's eyes met hers in triumph as she turned a fierce look of venom upon him . |
| 5 | Because they worked for large , modern firms , the state was closely involved with their employers , which meant their industrial grievances led them into conflict with the state . |
| 6 | She could n't help the tinge of pink that flooded her cheeks at his expression as those blue eyes studied her with contempt . |
| 7 | She came home to Oxford at weekends , and she and Eleanor and Anna spent Saturdays together , and often the husbands joined them for supper . |
| 8 | Runways were constructed and a squadron of jet fighters pounded them to destruction . |
| 9 | The words flooded him with self-pity . |
| 10 | Jack 's eyes followed her in admiration . |
| 11 | It was Smarties that made the coloured hand prints on the wall ; with Smarty ‘ buns ’ she would charm all the grown-ups , and with Smarty ‘ prezzies ’ they would encourage her performances and tricks ; with Smarties she would entertain her invisible friends ; Smarties bribed her to bed , to bath , to the toilet . |
| 12 | The strange openness of his deeply blue eyes took her by surprise . |
| 13 | Even so , the first words took him by surprise . |
| 14 | Portuguese missionaries brought them to East Africa from South America in the 15th century . |
| 15 | England battled hard to get back into contention throughout the second half , but the Scots kept them at arm 's length and ran out worthy winners . |
| 16 | Her friends and supporters showered her with mail . |
| 17 | The urge to preserve these rural communities led him from examination of dying primitive societies to sympathy with developing regionalism as a political force to preserve cultural values under threat . |
| 18 | Dire Straits and discos filled him with horror . |
| 19 | The north American Indians hunted it for food and used the feather to decorate their headdresses , but the Mexican Aztecs were responsible for domesticating it . |
| 20 | In addition , those rivalries enabled him in peacetime to go on playing his wartime role of common denominator ; the arbiter who remained detached from conflicts of particular interests ; the provider of unity . |
| 21 | The Khmers Rouges accused them of spying " in order to help the Vietnamese and Phnom Penh forces " . |
| 22 | I enjoyed conversation classes , I enjoyed doing more advanced work with what was known as the Philologic Sixth , a small group of eighteen-year-old duds who were doing languages only because they were hopeless at science , but the endless business of ‘ drilling ’ the beginners bored me into stone . |
| 23 | During the Second World War , trainee fighter pilots used them for target practice , and as recently as 1968 , they were still being hunted for sport . |
| 24 | ‘ … I became fretful , & timorous , & a tell-tale — & the School-boys drove me from play , & were always tormenting me — & hence I took no pleasure in boyish sports . ’ |
| 25 | Her daughter , Gemma , had been left money for her school dinners and an elderly neighbour took her in for several days before social workers took her into care last week . |
| 26 | Dr Reid said : ‘ I think what the children have suffered since social workers took them into care in November 1990 has been a lot worse than they had from their father . ’ |
| 27 | His personal troubles sent him in search of analysts for both himself and his wife , sometimes with disastrous consequences . |
| 28 | However , the research on crinoids brought him into conflict with George Cumberland ; it is also clear from comments by H. Jelly and J. B. Pentland [ q.v. ] that this work was not held in universal high regard . |
| 29 | So popular were these annotated flower-pieces , engraved by Henry Fletcher [ q.v. ] , that they were frequently copied at the time , and later reprints kept them in circulation . |
| 30 | At least 43 Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement guerrillas were killed when army troops took them by surprise in the central Peruvian province of Oxapampa , a military spokesman said yesterday . |