Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went up to see Ivan and found him asleep . |
| 2 | I am thinking in particular of the spirit that came upon Saul and drove him mad ( 1 Sam 16:14–23 ) . |
| 3 | The pool that had been so jarringly empty when I took my premeditated dive into it with Terry , I fell into with Toby and found it full of champagne . |
| 4 | Peach retired in 1905 after 43 years service in a career which had taken him into nearly every part of Scotland and brought him world-wide recognition as an outstanding field geologist . |
| 5 | But he had also read the life of Bishop Charles Gore and found it inspiring , so it was not always sickening to work as a bishop . |
| 6 | She was a lady of unearthly beauty who married a Count of Anjou and bore him four children . |
| 7 | From his alpaca coat he whipped a medicine bottle of colourless fluid , flourished it significantly at Dr McNab and drank it all off . |
| 8 | By 1887 , however , he had tried the existing Sunderland Union and found it wanting . |
| 9 | A squad of armed and masked men had broken into MacCurtain 's home one night in March and shot him dead in front of his wife and children . |
| 10 | Eranio 's superbly struck 31st-minute goal gave them victory over Portuguese champions Porto and made it four triumphs out of four in semi-final group B. |
| 11 | She 'd been to South Africa and showed us some lovely diamonds . |
| 12 | He had only recently joined QP and considered it important that he should serve the Church and enjoy worshipping the Lord in the place that God had put him . |
| 13 | The slower tester ran just below 70 per cent of MHR and found it uncomfortable to push any harder for 10 minutes , let alone 20 . |
| 14 | It all went wrong when they discovered something up a gum-tree in Malaysia and called it gutta-percha . |
| 15 | Stalin 's death and the first limited signs of de/tente and disengagement in Europe ( notably the Austrian State Treaty of 1955 ) heightened the importance of national sensibilities in Eastern Europe and made it advantageous to erect a multilateral fig leaf of collective security over the USSR 's continued domination of her neighbours . |
| 16 | Somebody told me we were halfway to Maun and gave me some water which I was too thirsty to sterilise . |
| 17 | The radio keeps telling you that the eye of the hurricane is here or there , getting near anyway , and you try to figure whether to leave the windows open a crack or tape them and you remember that the highest point of Key West is only 16 feet above sea level , and how the great hurricane of 1936 caught a train half way up the Keys filled with refugees from Key West and drowned them all , and you can get nervous . |
| 18 | She rang up her friend Kate and told her all about it and Kate agreed that telling the police would be going too far . |
| 19 | But as the painting was not yet dry he kept it in his room , and when a buyer came unexpectedly to see Modigliani and offered him ten francs for her portrait he took the money . |
| 20 | They breakfasted , then picked up the autobahn at Leipzig and followed it all the way to Dresden . |
| 21 | Then , just before that gig , I went over to Central School of Art in Holborn and swung us another gig there . |
| 22 | Fenella looked at Floy and remembered about the Robemaker and the way he had captured Nuadu and rendered them all helpless , and about the exiled Court and the sidh and the Tree Spirits that Miach had almost awoken , and which might turn out not to be friends , but enemies . |
| 23 | He 'd seen it in a junk-shop in Edinburgh and brought it all the way down . |
| 24 | This has been realized for a long time , and it is on record that John Dalton analysed the water supply for the firm of Sykes & Co. at Stockport and declared it suitable for the purpose . |
| 25 | Even in Britain in the last years of the nineteenth century a high foreign office official had fairly frequent interviews , on the instructions of Lord Salisbury , the prime minister and foreign secretary , with Reuter 's agent in London and gave him selected information considered helpful to British policy . |
| 26 | so Spark looked up at Tony and said you sure you 're a fucking fitter . |
| 27 | Baldwin confirmed it twenty years later , when he wrote to Tom Jones front the depths of his retirement : ‘ I spent a lot of my holiday in 1923 walking in the hills around Aix and thought it all out by myself . |