Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frau Nordern gazed at him for an icy moment then stalked into the bedroom . |
| 2 | The QDMs passed to you by the DF operator are now your track to the station . |
| 3 | Alexandra gazed about her with delight , folding the Burrows , the Pemberleys , the Chamberlins , the village , everyone , into the warm embrace of her grateful glance , and sang and sang . |
| 4 | Mr Hobbs gazed at me as if fascinated . |
| 5 | Peggy gazed at her in dismay . |
| 6 | Gatting , back after serving three years of a five-year ban for his part in the rebel tour of South Africa , has unselfishly not forgotten how Gower fought for him to be his understudy in the sub-continent . |
| 7 | And Roger laid about him with his whip , and left the print of it on two of the rogues before they downed him and used the thong to bind him . |
| 8 | Iron Josh beckoned him down , and Denis knelt beside him in the cart . |
| 9 | The light from outside , and the light from the sitting-room shone through to her room as Ven moved with her to her bed and sat down there with her . |
| 10 | In some circumstances as the cases show , Mr. Lawson referred to them in his skeleton argument , prejudice will be presumed from substantial delay . |
| 11 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
| 12 | Heidi gazed at him in astonishment . |
| 13 | Having met Hermione Farthingale , David lived with her for a year . |
| 14 | Not till later was it diagnosed that the mental breakdown which destroyed Hoskyns crept upon him for a year or more before he died . |
| 15 | Manville toyed with it for a few moments , imagining the corridors of the Pentagon and White House alive with zooming figures , grey-flannel covered asses farting tongues of flame . |
| 16 | Sylvie gazed at him in momentary confusion . |
| 17 | Sylvie moved towards them at once . |
| 18 | Before long , Knocknarea towered over me in escarpments of sheer rock , with grassland visible high in the sky . |
| 19 | Bella peered at her through the dark . |
| 20 | When Pat came to me in the autumn of 1989 she was suffering from osteoarthritis of the neck and spine with accompanying raised blood pressure . |
| 21 | George Kidner came to me in a great state of mind because he has been asked to appear before a committee consisting of C. Bathurst , Peto & C. Mills & sitting at Central Office . |
| 22 | A chubby young man called Laird Cregar appealed to me as a suspect , if only because he had the habit of being seen loitering around places where beautiful women had just been strangled . |
| 23 | Shiona frowned at him with irritation . |
| 24 | He stabbed a man scrambling up the bulwarks beside him , and cheered as Hector 's galleys swept up to the shore and another horde of Macleans poured from them to the rescue of their clansmen . |
| 25 | Lucifer turned on them with such ferocity that some actually fell backwards off their benches . |
| 26 | Frere turned towards her in concern . |
| 27 | Edward glanced at her with reproach . |
| 28 | Soon after our conversation was interrupted by my flailing attempts to follow Grond while Pat scampered after me on what appeared to be a completely different route . |
| 29 | ‘ HE HAS nursed Northern Ireland like a marginal constituency , ’ the Duke of Abercorn remarked to me of Richard Needham in the early hours of Friday morning . |
| 30 | Erica grinned at me like a witch , saying , ‘ You 're much too physical for the literati . ’ |