Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He acted the fool , losing at first to whet their appetites , but in an hour emptied his three victims ' purses . |
| 2 | Melissa was horrified when the bounder made his own designs clear as she modelled a £700 Prince of Wales check trouser suit in a London park . |
| 3 | This is one student talking about how modern physics affirmed his Christian beliefs : |
| 4 | Robert Thornber of The Guardian described its three writers as authors of ‘ national stature ’ . |
| 5 | Were , I wonder , those same cries heard in the West Country back in 1969 when a 13-year-old made his Minor Counties debut for Somerset IIs ? |
| 6 | The Countess clapped her gloved hands . |
| 7 | Suddenly her face relaxed and a new twinkle animated her brown eyes . |
| 8 | Spears of light made his pale features glow . |
| 9 | All three main parties had reconstruction committees working on postwar plans by 1941 , while professional groups such as the BMA and the Town and Country Planning Association provided their own schemes . |
| 10 | There was n't any time to repulse him either with words or actions as his seeking mouth found her tender lips . |
| 11 | He was still looking into her eyes and his mouth found her parted lips . |
| 12 | His mouth found her parted lips with a sudden impatient roughness , and even in her drowning state of mindless arousal she thought she detected a flicker of surprise in his eyes as he felt her shudder against him . |
| 13 | Labour scored its biggest successes in London , where it gained a dozen seats on an above-average swing of 3.4 per cent . |
| 14 | Sorrel busied herself fetching glasses while she yelled the introductions . |
| 15 | One passage , when Edward was a scholar at Battersea Grammar School , sums up the general atmosphere of 61 Shelgate Road , as the poet recalled it twenty years later : |
| 16 | His mouth explored her eager breasts and she arched up towards him , her responses instinctive , untutored , yet driving him wild with her undisguised need . |
| 17 | The dryad turned her green eyes on him . |
| 18 | I was therefore instructed to discontinue the action on the basis that each side paid their own costs , although the Guardian had suffered a continuous reverse in their attempts to maintain the right to press freedom and to maintain secrecy about their informant . |
| 19 | An employee cooked its program-trading books to defraud six clients in 1987 . |
| 20 | In his first memorandum as Minister of Internal Affairs he argued that nobles were justified in saying that the emancipation threatened their economic interests . |
| 21 | In the evening , lit by parchment-shaded and gold-pillared lamps , the main salon lost its cold angularities and became a place to linger in . |
| 22 | By a respondent 's notice dated 20 February 1991 the plaintiffs gave notice of their intention to contend that the judgment should be affirmed on the additional grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) leave to appeal from the order of 4 November 1988 should have been refused ; ( 2 ) there was no ground for interfering with the judge 's finding that the first defendant was not the agent of the plaintiffs ; ( 3 ) there was no evidence that the second defendant was at any material time under the influence of or dominated by the first defendant so as to be prevented from exercising independent judgment ; ( 4 ) in so far as the first defendant repeated his over-optimistic expectations to the second defendant it was not a misrepresentation , fraudulent or otherwise ; and ( 5 ) as to whether there was manifest disadvantage , the charge was required as a condition of further increased overdraft facility to Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. , without which that company , whose success would have been of benefit to the second defendant , would have been in financial difficulties . |
| 23 | Shimmered — the wind carved its many names |
| 24 | Students of the College called themselves veterinary surgeons , and in time this became an accepted designation . |
| 25 | The members of the Caterham partnership went their different ways , but Mr Nearn stayed on . |
| 26 | The brusque command brought her widening eyes up to his . |
| 27 | He wrapped me in a warm coat and placing me in the car took me several miles over the moor . |
| 28 | The job search took him seven years , and by that time he was ripe for retirement . |
| 29 | Eventually , though , they got their man , and the wait was worth it because the greatest vocal stylist in rock gave us two hours of inspired Gaelic mumbo-jumbo that was tough , joyful , sometimes sad , but ultimately fluid , festive and free , a celebration , a party for 1,800 delighted fans . |
| 30 | Then the association presented its annual awards for distinction in art history , art , and criticism . |