Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nour drew me as an English Miss : Ingleesy , prim , uneducated , unsophisticated . |
| 2 | Straightening up , Roman regarded her with an unreadable expression . |
| 3 | His appointment was dismissed by the ANC as a " sham " , although in a seemingly contradictory statement ANC president Nelson Mandela described it as an " encouraging step " . |
| 4 | Branson bought them at an auction which inflated the group 's price far beyond its true value . |
| 5 | Stok quoted it with an excellent Highland accent , ‘ Robert Burns , ’ pronounced Stok , ’ ‘ To a Mouse ’ . ’ |
| 6 | The next tunnel forked , turned left , turned right again , and other tunnels led off from it ; and Fand led them at an even pace along a course that seemed to have no sense . |
| 7 | Ruth interrupted him with an embittered laugh . |
| 8 | The Sandfords provided us with an elderly Amhara called Habta Mariam as cook . |
| 9 | Wheeler motioned him to an easy chair and made to put away the handsome leatherbound notebook in which he had been writing . |
| 10 | His title " Button " stuck even when Harvard shifted him into an administrative role ; he was obviously too intelligent to remain a runner . |
| 11 | It was once a country remedy for rheumatism , using the fresh green tops made into a tea , and Culpeper recommended it as an excellent medicine for the " quinsy … to gargle it , when boiled with figs " . |
| 12 | ‘ And there you are wrong , ’ Alain assured her in an amused voice . |
| 13 | Dieter guided her to an empty chair ; she was trembling violently and he called for brandy . |
| 14 | After a cup of cocoa Willie brushed his teeth over an aluminium bowl and then dashed out into the garden to the little wooden outhouse , wearing his mackintosh and a new pair of gumboots while Tom sheltered him with an umbrella . |
| 15 | Five neighbours of Darlington man Ray Hubbard alerted him to an article in the newspaper appealing for him to contact the pal he last saw in 1953 . |
| 16 | Kevin MacDonald settled it with an even better one , drilled in from handsome distance . |
| 17 | It was a revelation after the pain of trotting and Nails was cross when Nutty brought it to an end . |
| 18 | Christina led them under an arched stone portico and through a labyrinth of white-stucco passageways opening onto vine-covered courtyards where tiny humming-birds fluttered through tall bamboo , and antique urns overflowed with red and pink angelica . |
| 19 | The US and Britain used it as an ‘ initiator ’ to start the chain reaction at the heart of their first atomic bombs , according to an official history by Margaret Gowing . |
| 20 | Having finished writing his answers , Uncle Albert popped them into an envelope . |
| 21 | The GMC called me as an expert witness . |
| 22 | An artificial log glowed in the manorial fireplace and I wondered whether she was admitting that it was n't really very nice now , and how often Syl felt it as an obligation to take his mother for drives around the countryside . |
| 23 | On the way back across the lake I dragged my ankle in the cold water and back at camp kept it elevated with cold cloths , then Kaz wrapped it in an ice bandage . |
| 24 | The Old Gang Smelting Mills reminded me of an old deserted coal pit I played around as a child . |
| 25 | The dress proved such a hit that the London company who made the original for Diana turned it into an off-the-peg line . |
| 26 | Lloyd George defended them by an aggressive verbal attack on the privileges of landowners : |
| 27 | Brannen , now working in Stoke and competing for the city 's athletics club , agreed to represent his new home county in the pole vault and high jump before team manager Bill McGuirk contacted him with an invitation to be the NorthEast 's 110 metres hurdler . |
| 28 | Upon his return Abbot Suger employed him as an ambassador to the court of Matilda and her son , Henry . |
| 29 | Rochford did it with an almost perfunctory efficiency . |
| 30 | On the day of Mussolini 's arrival in the city Il Piccolo greeted him with an enigmatic front-page headline : ‘ Duce , Duce , Duce ! |