Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the decision made she felt a kind of temporary peace . |
| 2 | The first hint that Hills might be interested in a group pensions plan came when the company 's Board asked him to arrange a formal briefing . |
| 3 | Naturally he encountered no opposition based on nationalism , but his fervent support of Islam led him to abandon the tolerant policy his predecessors had adopted towards the Hindu majority , and this probably intensified resistance to his advance . |
| 4 | The accent made it sound a strange new game . |
| 5 | His only son had been killed in a car accident so Mum expected us to make a fuss of him . |
| 6 | Like legislators , doctors set themselves up as women 's protectors and the preoccupation with women 's reproductive systems as the source of their illness and weakness led them to assume the role of moral guardian . |
| 7 | As he took her on a guided tour of the eight-bedroomed mansion , the Prince asked her to organize the interior decoration . |
| 8 | It seems that the main annalist 's fondness for tales of woe in this case led him to distort the facts , or that he was misled by sources which did so . |
| 9 | This broad sketch helped me to explore the crayon 's versatility without using the final painting as a trial piece , it also helped keep the whole composition in mind as I concentrated on a specific detail in the finished painting . |
| 10 | The sour taste in her mouth made her retch a couple of times , and after a moment , she got up and walked out of her office to the coffee machine . |
| 11 | Teaching practice made me feel a lot less dispirited . |
| 12 | Lady Augusta xenophobically added : ‘ … a sort of national prejudice made me attribute the grace and dignity of the scene , for what there was of either came from her , to the blood of Kirkpatrick ! ! ! ’ , a reference to Eugénie 's Scottish grandfather |
| 13 | The hon. Member for Newham , North-East asked us to consider a policy of full employment . |
| 14 | Peach had an intuitive genius for discerning geological structures : what he saw on a mountainside led him to visualize the arrangement of the rocks below . |
| 15 | Dot realized she meant the bombs not the blackberries . |
| 16 | Yet if Richard Armstrong was writing according to a tried formula , concrete detail and well-conceived plots and the firm line of his character drawing helped him to achieve a special , moderate , even low- keyed reality in his books . |
| 17 | An Anglo-Catholic priest helped me accept the desert experiences of prayer — no-one had ever told me , after an experience of personal renewal , to expect the stripping and refining that was not a falling from grace but a growth in it . |
| 18 | Making their way through the extensive 4th floor they were stopped when a massive explosive caused them to hit the floor . |
| 19 | The voice of command roused him to make an effort . |
| 20 | The man who 'd taken a photograph of the bus asked if he might photograph the old people also , and the bus-driver told him to wait a minute . |
| 21 | As morning light came I saw a much happier man leave the main gate . |
| 22 | Peter Snyman at Random Century says that a third South African lawyer telephoned him offering the autobiography ( he also says that his company never signed a contract with Ayob , though they did try to work out a deal ) . |
| 23 | As soon as the off-licence opened I bought a dozen cans of Norseman lager , hefting the packs under my arm as I went off to find a quiet corner of the station where I could guzzle them in peace . |
| 24 | When the bacon arrived she tucked the greaseproof package down the side and gave the bag to the child . |
| 25 | As the light faded she left the office and returned to her room , where she changed into a more attractive dress and attended to her make-up . |
| 26 | She rushed to obey , fumbling about hopelessly until her dazed mind ordered her to put the light on . |
| 27 | At the end of May 1792 the College decided it had no further occasion for the service of Blaine , who had been assisting Vial as demonstrator in anatomy . |
| 28 | Yeah , Stuart 's card did you get a card off ? |
| 29 | The association said it had no choice but to shoot hundreds more emaciated Merino sheep among a flock of 72,000 kept on land capable of sustaining only 17,000 sheep . |
| 30 | Supporting CCETSW 's anti-racist guidelines , the association said it deplored the actions of those ‘ seeking to destabilise the process . ’ |