Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father and mother perhaps saw in him the son they would have liked to have , not the peculiar failure they had produced in me . |
| 2 | The policy they embraced was however anathema to many Conservatives , who rightly saw in it the beginning of the end of British rule in India . |
| 3 | It merely appeared to him a paradox worth someone 's attention : how a man such as Thorkel described could inspire what Thorkel undoubtedly felt for him . |
| 4 | There was a discrepancy somewhere and perhaps the less said about it the better . |
| 5 | Tantalisingly , teasing , with feather-light touches of his tongue , he gently forced from her a response , and she was lost . |
| 6 | " During one of these fits , " he later recalled , " while again considering the problem of the origin of species there suddenly flashed upon me the idea of the survival of the fittest . " |
| 7 | She sought out Alix , to tell her of her plans to remarry , and they spent a long evening , over spaghetti and Hirondelle , talking of what already seemed to them the distant past . |
| 8 | I thereupon obtained from him the name of the solicitor instructed by Randolph , telephoned him and said that my own firm would accept service of the writ . |
| 9 | The invention of printing in Europe in the sixteenth century soon brought with it a number of books offering dream-interpretations for ordinary people . |
| 10 | But civil strife and political violence , the quick and easy expedients of the gun and the bomb , already had for him a romantic and almost Byronic aura . |
| 11 | I usually read to them a bit , but there 's no need for you to . |
| 12 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |
| 13 | Going out to tea always seemed to her a waste of time , but to refuse might have seemed churlish , and she knew that in the country one ought to be friends with one 's neighbours . |
| 14 | After the ornateness of The Towers , the simple lines of the Hall always seemed to her a little ordinary , but nice . |
| 15 | His doctor constantly suggested to him the benefits of sun and sea air ( not that he needed any encouragement to visit the sea , since it still evoked for him the happiest memories ) , and in July they travelled , with Eliot 's sister who had come from America , to the Isle of Wight for two weeks . |
| 16 | His feelings for her as his sister were still the same , because although he was across the world he still thought about her every day . |
| 17 | And long after Dana had left me , I still thought of him every day , and from time to time wrote poems about him , like this one which came to me after several viewings of a film that greatly disturbed and fascinated me , Pasolini 's Teorema : |
| 18 | At the same time he also passed to us a folder containing photographs of the crashed aircraft . |
| 19 | Norman Bowler witnessed the vagaries of Minton 's existence at this time , but the older man also revealed to him a tender side which his performance in public obscured . |
| 20 | Yet he also found in him a warning . |
| 21 | They remind us that this gentle southerner , who gave so much to Yorkshire , also found in it a sustaining strength and beauty . |
| 22 | The expansion of business and industry in all the main ports and towns of Scotland also brought with it an influx of work-hungry ‘ inlanders ’ , as well as islanders , adding even more to the tensions . |
| 23 | It not only dared to enter the domain of philosophy by offering a critique of epistemology but also brought with it the heresy of relativism . |
| 24 | He also took with him a letter of introduction to the Emperor of China . |
| 25 | I also took with me a bottle of Aquacryl Medium . |
| 26 | It clearly represented for him a literary turning-point since it not only swept aside all mystifying attempts to separate the literary activity from the contemporary socio-political context , but also injected a coherent set of political arguments squarely into the literary debate : anti-fascism , anti-colonialism , anti-capitalism , arguments that were beginning to find much grass-roots and intellectual support in France . |
| 27 | Somehow John forced or persuaded her to achieve what she had found impossible before and , more important , he also won from her a performance of quietly expressive lyricism . |
| 28 | But the French also left behind them a nation which was still dominated , both constitutionally and fatally , by the Christian Maronites . |
| 29 | They met General Morandi , a soldier of fortune who had fought at Missolonghi , and who indignantly denied to them the calumny put about by the British aristocracy that Byron had deteriorated morally while in Greece : ‘ He was magnificent , ’ the General told them . |
| 30 | We also had with us an immensely heavy steel strongbox which contained enormous quantities of devalued lire . |