Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Singh worried about him a great deal , and was often very angry at his apparent lack of progress . |
| 2 | Jean looked at her a moment too long , then forced himself to gaze over her shoulder to the well-tailored figures among the candelabra . |
| 3 | Dr Jaffery had with him a proof of the new translation of Inayat Khan 's Shah Jehan Nama while I had brought a leather-bound copy of Bernier 's Travels . |
| 4 | As I questioned her during the session , Maxine described to me a life as Martha , a fisherman 's wife in a small seaport in the late eighteenth century . |
| 5 | His recent return to England brought with it a 120-day qualification ban and he admitted : ‘ This game will be crucial because I need the extra edge . |
| 6 | The jury at Bristol Crown Court was told that Mantack took with him a tape he had made of a woman 's voice crying for help . |
| 7 | Dr Renger brought with it a coating for compact discs , which Morton has introduced to US manufacturers . |
| 8 | DeVore looked at him a moment , then nodded . |
| 9 | ‘ Mr O'Hare came to me a number of times complaining that he was being pestered . |
| 10 | Every shrill cadence of the birds ' song , every soft utterance of Dr Tariq poured into him the high exhilaration of fear . |
| 11 | Er we set up on a regional basis er er Robert talked to you a couple of months ago about the initiatives that he 's taking from our and that again is a very much of a cross practice initiative er which is drawing on all the skills that we 've got within the with within the office penetrate the middle market sector and we are going to er specifically use er our grounds expertise and er computer audit expertise as a product which we saw would be attractive to these er these sort of companies . |
| 12 | The assignment in Wiltshire proved for me an extremely full and busy one . |
| 13 | Considering this inexperience , plus Verity Lambert 's dearth of knowledge of TV technology and internal BBC procedures , Donald Wilson bestowed upon her a guardian in the guise of Mervyn Pinfield , who would be Doctor Who 's technical adviser under a job title of Associate Producer . |
| 14 | But so many people all her life had told her how wrong it was to hurt others , so Jezrael penned inside her the rage that crushed its poison outwards through the walls of her veins , not knowing the harm she would do herself , knowing only that if she killed Zulei she would be as bad as Zulei was . |
| 15 | Mr Dixon could hardly believe his ears as Hank poured into them the story of the book and its apparent success . |
| 16 | Ika delivered to me an ‘ express letter ’ invitation to a party , by means of the Pneumatique — a strange device , comparable , I supposed , to that which sent cash round department stores . |
| 17 | Fran stared at him a puzzled frown marring her smooth brow . |
| 18 | Fourteen points put Master James eighth in the championship and Hesketh made of him a public figure , a British hope at a time when Graham Hill , Mike Hailwood and others were fading from the scene and Jackie Stewart was about to retire . |
| 19 | Whatever Coleridge 's precise setting during those few days , the autumn landscape of Culbone drew from him an immediate poetic response . |
| 20 | Johnson extracted from him the English meaning of the Gaelic place-name ; it signified a place of , or near , water , conforming , claimed McQueen , to ‘ all the descriptions of the temples of that goddess , which were situated near rivers that there might be water to wash the statue ’ . |
| 21 | Her dear sweet silky head was a breath from Jay 's lips , but Jay sensed in her a wild creature that scares easily , and held her tongue , her lips , her sanctified body , in check . |
| 22 | Along the way Brian talked to us the whole time , not in a loud voice or a whisper , but in a low confident tone , the kind every good falconer adopts when he 's in the presence of birds of prey . |
| 23 | Sara stared at him a little blankly . |
| 24 | Billy looked at him a bit old fashioned . |
| 25 | Without the existence of the SCCs the JAC would have been forced to create its own committee system at the level of the school ; as it was , the SCCs brought with them a network of contacts , an established structure , and a large number of volunteers , amounting to some 5,000 by 1914 . |
| 26 | It is almost certainly from a Roman source — an autobiographical letter by Scipio Nasica — that Plutarch derived his picture of Aemilius Paulus , the father of Scipio Aemilianus , receiving King Perseus as a prisoner : " Aemilius saw in him a great man whose fall was due to the resentment of the gods and his own evil fortune , and rose up and came to meet him , accompanies by his friends and with tears in his eyes " ( Aem . |
| 27 | Jess edged towards him a fraction , sniffing ; wanting to find out what her nose would tell her . |
| 28 | Kuusinen quoted to them the obligations imposed by the Whitsun Conference decision : We propose that the following questions be raised for discussion in all the organisations of the ILP. ( l ) What concrete mass actions on the basis of the united front of the C.P.G.B. and the ILP can and must be carried out in the near future with the aim of a successful struggle for a 10% wage increase , against the Means Test , and other similar partial demands advanced by the C.P.G.B. and the ILP ? ( 2 ) Is it desirable for the ILP to join the Communist International as a Party sympathising with Communism with the right to a consultative vote … ? |
| 29 | Suddenly the woman seemed to relax and Jack warmed to them a little more . |
| 30 | Raymond said to me the other day , I asked him was there any lemonade ? |