Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She got through it without a mistake . |
| 2 | Mother cared for him with a gentleness born out of genuine relief at still having him to care for . |
| 3 | When we saw a doctor , the doctor , having read our notes , asked about us as a person . |
| 4 | His touch lanced through her like a lightning bolt , clenching every muscle and tightening every nerve before filling her with liquid heat . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Well , perhaps I asked for it in a way , ’ Felicity admitted reluctantly . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | My first bike was a Hercules , which Grandma got for me from a niece of hers . |
| 9 | She crept through it like a cat , keeping to the shadows , avoiding anybody who might ask what her business was in this place . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He waded through it with a non-stop grin and managed to turn it to political advantage . |
| 14 | When she returned to New York , she bumped against them with a vengeance . |
| 15 | They rallied behind him despite an interview at the weekend in which he suggested he had considered the possibility of a contest for the leadership after this year . |
| 16 | He stood up , and he towered above her like a golden figure in one of the hospital 's many paintings . |
| 17 | He joked with them like a cheerful , older brother and sang one or two shockingly rude Army songs that made them both giggle . |
| 18 | Then she was giving him her mouth again so that he might swallow the choked cries of pleasure rising from her throat as the frenzy claimed her once more , and a little later she was thrashing against him , pleading hoarsely for his possession , until Luke held her down and sank into her with a harsh groan . |
| 19 | This was their initiation into the NSC world of secrecy , and they entered into it with a will . |
| 20 | The Ranters were a group of extreme religious libertarians who believed that God dwelt inside them as an inner light . |
| 21 | Excitement flickered inside her like a random spark that found itself landing in a pile of dry autumn leaves as she hardly dared consider the possibilities and what they might mean for her . |
| 22 | Jack thought of his mother 's anguish and his stepfather 's injuries and anger rose in him like a demon . |
| 23 | Suddenly in that tremulous silence the French voices had left , a fragment of the buried past rose in her like a wave of nausea . |
| 24 | but dabbled in it in a a younger age ? |
| 25 | Reluctantly she made her way back to the house , then gave a gasp of dismay as Penry erupted from it like a rocket . |
| 26 | She told herself not to let negative thoughts take over , but , night after night , her will-power dissolved into helplessness , and when at last she slept , her past life rose before her like a grotesque apparition . |
| 27 | The images of death she was powerless to shut out swam before her in a swirl of blood , dissolved , reformed , and then dissolved again , but always in blood . |
| 28 | And as she pushed open the west door Miss Danziger was met by the scent of fennel , the six-foot stems of which towered over her from a huge stoneware pot , very different from the musty scent of piety that greeted her in English country churches . |
| 29 | He knelt over her for a moment , tough and handsome in the candlelight , his eyes triumphant with the knowledge of desire on the verge of fulfilment , possessing her as only he could , then he was bending , lifting her into his arms , carrying her across the room , and she felt the sudden chill as the door opened and , wedging it awkwardly with his foot , he bundled her through it . |
| 30 | Yeah he mentioned to me about a month ago well I think it was at Christmas , it was probably at Christmas time |