Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the handling of the union 's finances , Wilson 's enemies attacked him with equal vituperation . |
| 2 | His evidence was to help place Mrs Dyer on the scaffold , as was his wife Polly 's , who testified that her mother had at times visited her with various small children who seemed to disappear overnight . |
| 3 | The eyes lanced hers with swift rage and her pulses raced . |
| 4 | Words failed me at this last find … but not so my companions ! |
| 5 | The hooded eyes surveyed her with frank appreciation mingled with amusement . |
| 6 | My history books told me about those wicked aristocrats of the nineteenth century , they used their position as landlords to force their tenants to , to vote in a certain way , to force their tenants in other words to take up a particular position on a matter of controversy . |
| 7 | I come from a fanatically rugby-conscious Welsh miner 's family ; five of my six brothers played it with some distinction . |
| 8 | The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives . |
| 9 | Nationalist protestors from Kurdzhali arrived in Sofia ( the capital ) on Jan. 3 to petition the National Assembly , their numbers swelling on the following day to around 10,000 as supporters joined them from several parts of the country . |
| 10 | His words surprised her at first , then anger took over — an anger so intense that she was prepared to walk out of her marriage and do irreparable damage to the Royal Family . |
| 11 | Much as their fans loved them for all their quirks , the aesthetics and comfort of a ground did not cross the mind of many football directors . |
| 12 | His words hit her like small , sharp knives and Jenna raised her hands to claw at him , hurting inside and wanting to hurt back . |
| 13 | At Stackpoole Junction the two railwaymen put her on another train and sent her home . |
| 14 | Forest fans gave it to that slag Clough and in the long run they got a bitter reward . |
| 15 | His eyes searched hers with fierce intensity , and his lips hovered over her own . |
| 16 | No eyes beheld them for any of its windows ; no one beat a carpet or scraped a cauldron or swilled out their slops . |
| 17 | Although his groups , ‘ Tiddlers ’ , ‘ Ritz ’ , and ‘ Boys ’ , reflected increasing involvement in delinquent activities , they served the same function of enabling young people to achieve the sort of reputations and images denied them in mainstream society . |
| 18 | In their turn the Norwegians accepted him as one of themselves ; it was they who named him the ‘ father of Norwegian mountaineering ’ . |
| 19 | My parents sold it in 1985 , when my father was very ill ( he died in 1986 ) . |
| 20 | Each of these companies provided us with detailed information of their purchases , which provided the basis for our estimate of ‘ indirect ’ employment described in Section 3 . |
| 21 | Strains developed over the migration of the ‘ vyezzhye belye Kalmyki ’ to Russian territory , since the prince of the Teleuts regarded them as traitorous subjects and demanded their return . |
| 22 | In my case , my parents used it with devastating overkill . |
| 23 | Be wary of some people in high places whose duties involved them in prolific correspondence . |
| 24 | Dillons passed the cheque onto Childline after its parent Pentos received it from Legal & General Property as a token of thanks after it moved quickly to open branches of Claude Gill Bargain Bookshop and Athena in the Buttermarket Shopping Centre , Ipswich , in time for the centre 's first day of trading on 1st October . |
| 25 | I guess Joe Walsh started it , but the two drummers heard it in opposite senses — you can see we 're all laughing . |
| 26 | Thick hedgerows surrounded it on three sides . |
| 27 | Nails watched it with horrified fascination , and saw it start to slide towards him . |
| 28 | His rounds took him to most parts of the building and Rain was eagerly accepting that it must have been Stan on the second floor making her jumpy when he mentioned that since the murder he did not go into MacQuillan 's room or those next to it because the police were usually there . |
| 29 | Impatience with her own see-saw emotions robbed her of any desire for sleep . |
| 30 | Prince charles presented them with three accolades — including his special patron 's award — at the National Training Awards organised by the Department of Employment . |