Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's right : someone rang up and asked for him the other day . |
| 2 | No one was within earshot , they were miles from anywhere , it seemed , and even if she jumped in the river and swam for it the chance that she would outmanoeuvre him in the water was slim . |
| 3 | Ruth sat on her bed and drew towards her the unfinished drawing of lions apparently devouring people — Christians probably , from the school 's Religious Knowledge . |
| 4 | All these came together and seemed to us a clear call , which we shared with the church . |
| 5 | Representatives from the recently formed Forum for the Defence of Human Rights met on Feb. 12 with the then Interior Minister Hekuran Isai , and received from him a list of 108 political prisoners who had been released unannounced since Jan. 6 , according to a Forum statement issued on Feb. 18 . |
| 6 | I took it regularly and pored over it every week for two months , but search and phone as I might , I could n't find a decent barn owl . |
| 7 | Federal Treasurer Paul Keating retained his post and added to it the title of Deputy Prime Minister , thereby increasing speculation that he would succeed Hawke as Prime Minister [ see above ] . |
| 8 | To counteract that feeling , and while he propped her ‘ injured ’ foot on a stool and attended to her bruising , she opened her bag and extracted from it the envelope with Cara had handed over to her . |
| 9 | She nodded and looked at him a little wickedly . |
| 10 | She rested her head back on the pillows and looked at him a bit desperately . |
| 11 | She walked across to Georg and looked at him the way she looked at Gesner . |
| 12 | If people were making demands on him for what he owed them , he should assemble them and lay before them a fair statement of his past transactions , of his present condition and his future prospects . |
| 13 | The visitor came from Surrey and brought with him a bat , which was duly presented to me — my first cricket bat ! |
| 14 | The months passed and there came a week when the purple flowers of the heather took over the moorland slopes and brought with it the sense at last of autumn , a time he loved . |
| 15 | And and went to it every time . |
| 16 | Startled , she looked up at him , met his eyes , and saw in them a searching expression that made her heart jerk in astonishment . |
| 17 | Through his work as a teacher , he became fond of the race of Men and saw in it the possibility and the threat that in time it might far exceed the declining race of Elves . |
| 18 | Meredith craned her neck and saw behind her an even older notice announcing a trio of public hangings , two of them for offences which in some circumstances would not even have warranted a custodial sentence today . |
| 19 | This trinity of faculties constituted the image of God and enabled in him a wisdom based on the knowledge of the reality of the love of God revealed at the Incarnation . |
| 20 | He picked up his pipe and blew on it a descending series of shrill notes that scarred the tepid surface of the afternoon . |
| 21 | And when the snow thawed and took with it the paint they had daubed it with , he was out there picking off the remaining flakes of paint , and cursing with disappointment . |
| 22 | Carefully Dalziel reached into his inside pocket and took from it a large envelope . |
| 23 | Fabia watched as , dropping the dog lead on to a large kitchen table , the dark man addressed a few remarks to the woman who then went to a drawer and took from it a large tin box and brought it to him . |
| 24 | When the doctor had gone , he opened the top drawer of his desk and took from it the contents of Charlie Hatton 's pockets . |
| 25 | He opened the suitcase and took from it the carrier-bag with the Union Jack on it . |
| 26 | They stood and stared at me the man with a vague anger , it seemed , the girl expressionlessly . |
| 27 | Berdichev stopped and stared at him a moment . |
| 28 | He returned from a pained abstraction , and smiled at me a little ruefully . |
| 29 | Came the day when a robed elder Inquisitor activated a palm-tattoo that Jaq had never seen before , and spoke to him the words : |
| 30 | ‘ Another man-witch , who was sentenced to the galleys for life , said that he had such a pity for the horses which the postillion galloped along the road that he did something to prevent it , which was that he took vervain and said over it the Pater Noster five times and the Ave Maria five times , and then put it on the road so that the horses should cease to run . ’ |