Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They argued about it for the rest of the afternoon , he becoming sullen and sorry , she remaining dispassionate , untouched-She was impressed by his sudden remorse . |
| 2 | She got through it without a mistake . |
| 3 | But we got through it in the end and their happy , and I 'm happy ! |
| 4 | When the post of Missioner at Warrington became vacant , he applied for it at the age of 38 , and he remained at Warrington until his retirement thirty years later . |
| 5 | Who cared about him to the depths of her soul , even though he was , in his own mind , completely underserving of her love . |
| 6 | Mother cared for him with a gentleness born out of genuine relief at still having him to care for . |
| 7 | She knew he cared , he showed it , but he would n't say the things she wanted to hear — that he cared for her to the exclusion of all others , and wanted her in his life to the exclusion of all others . |
| 8 | When we saw a doctor , the doctor , having read our notes , asked about us as a person . |
| 9 | His touch lanced through her like a lightning bolt , clenching every muscle and tightening every nerve before filling her with liquid heat . |
| 10 | I asked for it at the suggestion of my cousin Sarah , who was slightly older than me and whom I greatly admired . |
| 11 | The report on the projected sales for the next quarter , he asked for it at the last meeting , it 's okay . |
| 12 | So far I 'd managed to avoid giving him the exact address , but now he asked for it with a determined note in his voice — " Just in case I 'm down that way " and I was forced to invent one , praying that he 'd never check up on it . |
| 13 | Well , perhaps I asked for it in a way , ’ Felicity admitted reluctantly . |
| 14 | Or the poster I produced for you of the doves of peace made with human hands . |
| 15 | It means living with the perspective that we are in touch with the Lord Whose Son died so that we might enjoy the sort of life that He planned for us at the beginning of Genesis , and living with that perspective and privilege . |
| 16 | She paused , surprised by the wave of pain and nostalgia that passed through her at the mention of the name , leaving her weak and trembling ; as if the sights , sounds , smells , tastes , feelings , sufferings of years could be experienced again in a single spasm of sickening intensity : the cold cubicle , the rustle of habits and the squeaking of boots as the nuns filed into the chapel , the stink of stew in the refectory ; her first lesson , the children shaking their up-stretched hands , eager to please the new sister ; Hilda , dew-fresh in her white blouse and neatly-pressed gym-slip , shy and ardent in the back row ; Hilda and herself together in the copse , in the chapel , in the cloisters , praying , talking , joking , sharing secrets , confidences … |
| 17 | After the overthrow of Avitus in 456 Majorian had to use force to bring the Visigoths into line , but thereafter they fought for him against the Sueves in Spain . |
| 18 | Anselm fought for it with a tenacity which is only explicable if the whole scene which we have briefly surveyed is borne in mind : the primacy was the brightest of the dreams which the monks of Canterbury had inherited from their largely silent , ever-beckoning past , and on this question Anselm fell under the spell of the awe-inspiring tradition which he had helped to preserve . |
| 19 | Something made for him in the darkness and struck him a violent blow just under the knee . |
| 20 | My first bike was a Hercules , which Grandma got for me from a niece of hers . |
| 21 | She crept through it like a cat , keeping to the shadows , avoiding anybody who might ask what her business was in this place . |
| 22 | Why did you let me read about it in the papers ? |
| 23 | ‘ 2.4 million people done those Italians last weekend , I just read about it in the Daily Mirror . |
| 24 | I read about it in the paper today |
| 25 | Jay drifted through the dazzle to hold her , kissed her agonisingly soft hair , breathed her perfume , kissed her closed wet eyes with a tenderness that stabbed through her with a sword of fire . |
| 26 | Now and then she lifted an eyeglass up and peered through it for a moment , and , evidently finding it useless at this distance , let it fall again , shaking her head in a frustrated way . |
| 27 | He constructed his own refined version of the newly-invented telescope and peered through it from the top of St Mark 's tower in Venice . |
| 28 | Her body bounced between them in the light gravity . |
| 29 | It beat about them on the wind as men shook their fists and shouted , faces shining . |
| 30 | Henry II 's mistress , is told by CD in A Child 's History of England : ‘ It relates how the King doted on fair Rosamond … and how he had a beautiful Bower built for her in a Park at Woodstock ; and how it was erected in a labyrinth , and could only be found by a clue of silk . |