Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keller 's Zurich upbringing made him into a skiier and sculler , and he raced for the Grasshopper club . |
| 2 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
| 3 | However , the prior hypothesis led us to the finding in the rural high oil worker category ( table II , both for all ages and the 0–4 age group . |
| 4 | There is little evidence that peasant faith declined , but the authority of village priests was progressively undermined : in terms of culture and way of life they differed too little from the ordinary villagers to inspire much respect , and the miserly provision made them by the State resulted in constant friction over money matters between priest and parishioner . |
| 5 | All I can remember is having a pickled onion and my sister stabbed it with a fork and the middle shot across the room . |
| 6 | He more than filled the gap left by Alex ; his presence animated her with a mysterious excitement . |
| 7 | The 28-year-old cab driver attacked her in a clearing after she went to join Queen 's Club in west London , Mark Dennis , prosecuting , told the Old Bailey . |
| 8 | His talents , his wealth , and the changing times raised him to the court of assistants of the Levant Company from 1644 to 1648 , and in 1645 Parliament appointed him to the Goldsmiths ' Hall committee , through which Royalists redeemed their sequestrated estates by paying compositions . |
| 9 | A twenty-five-foot wave flung itself at the canoe from an unexpected angle and before the crew could turn to absorb the blow , the Hokule'a rose up the face of the wave at forty-five degrees , and was capsized as it flew off the peak . |
| 10 | She confessed that the bitter jibes and over-exposure led her to the precipice . |
| 11 | At noon , the exhausted Pack gathered together and Brown Owl led them to a shady area . |
| 12 | Bridhe and Seamus Ban consulted him about the amount of drink that would be needed , and were told to double it . |
| 13 | But ideologically , nationalisation became something of an irrelevance since both major political parties accepted that some form of state control and assistance was essential for coal , rail transport , electricity , gas , civil aviation , cable and wireless , and the Bank of England . |
| 14 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 15 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 16 | I believe that it was , or had some connection with , a species of agoraphobia , which in his case manifested itself as an acute fear of heights . |
| 17 | Windows opened ; grocers ran to the doors of their shops ; customers stopped discussing bacon and turned ; our teachers wobbled on their bicycles as the noise buffeted them like a violent squall ; and boys sprinted to the school gates as they came out of the building , though many others , cool boys , shrugged or turned away in disgust , gobbing , cursing and scuffling their feet . |
| 18 | The blow caught her on the cheek and she fell against Gilbert . |
| 19 | The blow caught her on the right side of her face , high on the cheek bone , beneath the eye . |
| 20 | But she could do nothing , while Sylvie 's presence drew everyone like a charm . |
| 21 | Lady Constance visited some suffragettes imprisoned in Holloway gaol , and this experience transformed her into a public figure with a single-minded burning cause . |
| 22 | Coun Bob Brady , committee chairman described it as an exciting project which would be part of the town 's City Challenge programme . |
| 23 | Spice drew us round the world , showed us it was round , and led us to confront ourselves again . |
| 24 | This week , the ageing lothario was horrified when a cloth-capped pensioner pursued him down a street , wreathed in smiles and waving an autograph book , The Rolling Stone coldly ignored him , appalled at being associated with a gummy grandad and perhaps being all too forcibly reminded of his own advancing years . |
| 25 | ‘ The middle sister found her by the pool in their garden . |
| 26 | The gang assaulted him during the drive to Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire , then threw him out of the car . |
| 27 | THIS OPPORTUNITY PROVIDED ME WITH A WELCOME BREAK FROM THE PURELY BOTANICAL WORK TO WHICH I WAS ACCUSTOMED . |
| 28 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 29 | Her GP referred her to a hospital in Watford , North London , where she underwent laser treatment to try and prevent the damage from getting any worse — but it did n't help . |
| 30 | ‘ There would need to be an awful lot of call-offs before the five players untried at this level found themselves on the field at the same time , though , ’ said the coach . |