Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Brown is parading this tacit Jackson support in an effort to draw blacks away from Mr Bill Clinton , the Democrats ' front-runner whose solid black support helped him to big victories in the South and Mid-West . |
| 2 | Beatrice was married now , with a family of her own , and because times were hard her sister helped her with surreptitious gifts of money ; and with clothes , toys , and treats for the children . |
| 3 | We thought all was well until the Battlebus passed us at full speed in the opposite direction . |
| 4 | His mouth met hers with bruising force , and the clamour inside her head rose to a deafening crescendo , the world twisted and turned , tossing her adrift with the turbulence of a whirlwind . |
| 5 | The Mayor rebuked him in warm terms , whereupon the elegant creature said , hotly : ‘ Who are you to talk to me like that ? ’ |
| 6 | It has now been decided to write to Rangers asking for their views on statements attributed to the three men since Ferguson 's club dropped him for disciplinary reasons , after which it came to light that Murray had spoken to United 's manager/chairman , Jim Mclean , about buying the Scotland internationalist . |
| 7 | I put on my coat and we went out to where the wind welcomed us with savage glee . |
| 8 | His apprenticeship took him through various parts of the motor car division until the outbreak of war , when he was transferred to the aviation side to make crankshafts and camshafts for Merlin engines . |
| 9 | But Christine , 37 , insisted on going home for a snack before an ambulance took her to Royal Hallamshire hospital . |
| 10 | Plans for their future brought them into political contact with enemies of the ninth electorate which led first to the secret murder of Königsmarck in 1694 , with the connivance of Ernst August , and later to Sophia Dorothea 's confinement in her father 's keeping at the palace of Ahlden , following her divorce from Georg Ludwig in 1694 , which carried the rider that she could not remarry . |
| 11 | Almost a year after his ‘ There 's Nothing Like This ’ hit single and reactivated album put him on first-name terms with the British public , Omar Lye-Kook is still based in north London , operating out of his father 's tiny Kongo Dance offices and recording down the road in Willesden . |
| 12 | His great horse earned it with apparent ease — but lost 29lb in the process and came home to Ballydoyle more exhausted than after any of his previous races . |
| 13 | What gave rise to the protest of the intelligentsia , and what lay behind the revolutionary protest of its extreme wing , was the lack of opportunity afforded them by tsarist society . |
| 14 | This decision filled her with profound gloom ; not only because her home had been so special and so very much loved , but also because the selling of Rose Cottage could do nothing but plunge her into financial disaster . |
| 15 | A thin disdainful blonde girl led me up narrow stairs to a room filled completely by a single bed . |
| 16 | His gaze pierced her like cold steel . |
| 17 | As so often in the past , Our Lady blessed us with fine weather so that were able to hold our group procession on Wednesday morning , carrying her statue along the holy mile to the Shrine , singing hymns and reciting the Rosary . |
| 18 | But the last unspoken question consumed her with fresh guilt . |
| 19 | The youngster addressed him with condescending friendliness , and got a morose answer . |
| 20 | The guard examined it in close detail , checking off the listed physical peculiarities . |
| 21 | ‘ Some ghastly little girl accused her of lesbian advances . ’ |
| 22 | The exchange put him in excellent mood for his breakfast . |
| 23 | As events unrolled they sensed that the noisy disarray presented them with new opportunities . |
| 24 | On the positive side , his inheritance freed him from financial constraints and so he decided to settle in England , setting up house in London at Carlton Terrace , an event which led Disraeli to write somewhat mockingly : ‘ … |
| 25 | The tranquillity and gentleness of the scene reminded her of Japanese paintings . |
| 26 | The triumph of the Ulster Workers ' Council left it with huge prestige during the remainder of the summer . |
| 27 | His observation of the way in which after 1942 Churchill took on the role of Roosevelt 's faithful second left him with long-lasting suspicions of Britain 's priorities . |
| 28 | Her hard work and determination set her in good stead for the confrontation she had had with the Johnson representative , Albert Buller . |
| 29 | The girl held them in approved BHS fashion . |
| 30 | Failure led him to mass manipulation and an attempt to revolutionize British politics from outside the system . |