Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes … ! ’ he said deeply , and then his mouth closed over hers , burningly sensual as his hands moved slowly up to tunnel into her thick black hair , and as her mouth opened beneath his the hunger swept them both again , their breathing quickening as the kiss took fire and his mouth was fierce , hot , demanding , his hands moving over her body as she heard his heart thudding violently at his chest , and she knew she was in danger of losing her mind with the sweet , hot rush of excitement . |
| 2 | Fincara cried , and light flared over them the woman 's laughing face , and Adam 's burning blindness . |
| 3 | When the vote went against them the Poles simply marched in and took by force the areas they considered rightfully theirs . |
| 4 | But the secular mind looked to them a starved mind , desolate of passion because robbed of faith , and it never occurred to them to doubt that religion possesses and monopolises the spiritual life . |
| 5 | The basement cattery seemed to her a sinister place , though she knew that the animals were most lovingly tended by Miss Pettigrew . |
| 6 | The law seemed to him a mountainous cloud , compacted of these rank and ever increasing hyphae , sprawling over the buildings in which her exigences were met , pouring herself into every drawer , lying on every shelf , saturating every ledger , every record with her must , coating all like a mould and growing by eating that on which it grows . |
| 7 | This courting dance seemed to them a grotesque parody . |
| 8 | He was going home , and home meant to him no more and no less than the room where his mother was dying . |
| 9 | The deputy judge had before him a probate action in which the first defendant , Mr. Clive Smith , sought to obtain probate of a manuscript document bearing the date 18 April 1986 , and said to be a testamentary disposition made by the deceased , Mr. Percy Winterbone . |
| 10 | The judge had before him an application by a father made under the provisions of the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction which comprise Schedule 1 to the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 . |
| 11 | Rain murmured to her an unconvincing : ‘ It 's all right . ’ |
| 12 | Anchovy-paste sandwiches , scones and Dundee cake seemed to me an ample repast , particularly as I had a nervous , irrational distaste for eating the food of Syl 's mother in her house . |
| 13 | The joke turned against me a few days later as we were preparing to go alongside a ship at Baltic Wharf on the river Crouch . |
| 14 | Second , she contended that her husband misrepresented to her the effect of the legal charge . |
| 15 | It was a rough crossing , and most people were rather quiet , and a few were vomiting over the railings and indeed all over the upper-deck , but Clara had never felt better , and the rough lurching seemed to her an added attraction . |
| 16 | Northam Station seemed to her a peculiarly lovely spot for such an embarkation . |
| 17 | Even her timidity seemed to him a sham . |
| 18 | Colour came later , even in the glass of the great east window ; first there was only the shape of comparative light , then gradually the lattice-work of the lead cames , a filigree of shapes that had no meaning until the warmth of approaching dawn conjured into them cloudy reds and blues and greens , and with every minute breathed into them a purer brightness and a sharper clarity . |
| 19 | Last year 's assembly remitted to us the task of working out the consequences for the service known as confirmation if children are admitted to the sacrament of the lord 's supper . |
| 20 | I believe that day implanted in me a life-long craving for barbaric splendour , for savagery and colour and the throb of drums , and that it gave me a lasting veneration for long-established custom and ritual , from which would derive later a deep-seated resentment of Western innovations in other lands , and a distaste for the drab uniformity of the modern world . |
| 21 | The family proceedings court had before it an application by the local authority for a care order with respect to a child , L. , who is now nearly four years old . |
| 22 | One person said to me a year or two ago : ‘ I 'm scared of dying . |
| 23 | As he set off to return to the dairy and Tess , his father rode with him a little way . |
| 24 | The short process of giving birth to a baby seemed to her a triviality compared to the long haul of rearing it that lay ahead . |
| 25 | A month later , on 15 July , the Cabinet had before it a further memorandum from the Home Secretary which ventilated some alternative strategies : |
| 26 | By the 1930s Carlism had behind it a century 's experience of political and military struggle against Spanish liberalism . |
| 27 | And I used to load the boot up and bring them and load home like in the boot of my car my Sales Manager said to me the other day , how the hell did you get bright red dust in your boot ? |
| 28 | Soon after coming of age , his ‘ hard conscience ’ towards his tenantry drew on him a judicial rebuke from the lord chancellor Thomas Egerton , Baron Ellesmere [ q.v. ] , and he steadily enlarged his estate by buying out minor gentry families in the vicinity . |
| 29 | The instinctive warning came to him a few minutes after he had cleared a small brook in an easy leap , and resumed the even rhythm of his distance-eating stride . |
| 30 | The man with his ar his hands up in the air walked towards us a few paces and then P C ordered him to go down onto his knees slowly and then consequently end up on his chest with his arms outstretched . |