Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The look that passed between them showed a certain amount of respect but a little mistrust as well . |
| 2 | Greta Burkill did not confine herself to looking after his education , but fought for him to spend a summer with his parents in Venezuela — a country not keen to grant visitors ' visas to Jews at that time . |
| 3 | She moved towards it to take a better look , glad of the chance to withdraw a little from his disturbing presence . |
| 4 | He gestured for her to take a seat . |
| 5 | We played in Guernsey and this man came after us waving a stick and shouting that we were heretics and ‘ Thou shalt not be a false Messiah ’ . |
| 6 | Two removal men came past him carrying a huge painting shrouded in a blanket . |
| 7 | The last time I came up to town for the LIBF , the colleague who came with me showed a great talent for tracking down free wine . |
| 8 | he wer a big fan of Real Madrid tha knows , that s where all white strip came from I wer a ball boy at Elland Road between 1972–74 ( its when they were building the kop to replace the mound a muck that used to be the Gelderd end ) . |
| 9 | Perhaps I have been over enthusiastic about this project , but there was something about the schools I visited , and I am no stranger to African primary schools , which seemed to me to provide a recipe for steady progress . |
| 10 | With its egalitarian tradition of periodic redistribution of the land it seemed to them to provide a basis on which Russia could bypass capitalism and make a direct transition to socialism . |
| 11 | Murray seemed to him to have a laziness of spirit and a lack of character ; Richard , on the other hand , gave the impression of a great potential traduced by charm . |
| 12 | The Cabinet seemed to him to have a reputation of worthiness verging on the dull . |
| 13 | This seemed to us to have a very high priority but it ca n't continue to have a high priority if we 're pushing against a closed door . |
| 14 | Everything came at you like a meteor , blasting out sound and colour and light . |
| 15 | After making unsignalled turns and abrupt lane changes through Chevy Chase , and Bethesda , she blasted to a highly illegal speed south on the Beltway , ducked off it rejoined a few miles along and finally came down to a leisurely cruise through the Virginia countryside . |
| 16 | It was old Mr. Stavanger who paid for me to have a good secretarial course , and when I 'd qualified he gave me a job in the shipping office . |
| 17 | They approved of her becoming a nurse and going to France , but they told her she should have done it sooner . |
| 18 | The glide of his hands was leisured and sure , and the wild sensations it evoked in her brought a hectic flush to her cheeks , startled a choked cry from her lips . |
| 19 | Oi Tammy , what happened to you having a little dinner party over the holidays ? |
| 20 | He arranged for them to adopt a dark-haired boy at birth . |
| 21 | And when they would offer to no no they would n't they would have their own way of drying it in in their bags they would have another clean or or you would say clothes to put on but we never ever heard of them doing a washing . |
| 22 | " I 'm sorry I yelled at you like a fish wife . |
| 23 | ‘ Those pitiless Goblin scum , ’ sobbed Gambo as a Wolf Rider bound towards him brandishing a spear and grinning broadly in anticipation of an easy kill . |
| 24 | Mns Romero called upon us to join a community and share the lives of the poor . |
| 25 | When at last Tamar and Stephen decided that they really must leave , Victoria pleaded for them to stay a little longer . |
| 26 | When Stox went under it became a laughing stock . |
| 27 | Robyn struggled with her breathing a moment , hesitated and then gave a little groan . |
| 28 | Summoned to Lord Beaverbrook 's presence on her departure for the US she listened to him develop a one-sided Scottish conversation which included the listing of many ancestors and their places of burial . |
| 29 | They questioned whether air traffic controllers should have over-ruled Captain Fuchs and insisted on him using a remote runway . |
| 30 | Supposing the audience laughed at her playing a soubrette role . |