Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Obliquely flattering his readers by introducing them to boys near their own age involved in surprising and exciting events , he also invited them to wishful thinking , if not to identification , by emphasising the youth of his heroes and underplaying the responsibility and enforced maturity belonging to midshipmen in the early and mid-teens in reality . |
| 32 | The Mayan peasants worked the plantations as debt slaves , until Mexico 's revolution transformed them into collective farmers . |
| 33 | Subsequently , European partners were bought out and Arab banks transformed them into international banking subsidiaries . |
| 34 | ‘ My baggage did n't arrive on Tuesday , either , but the airline provided me with red shorts and a red tee shirt . |
| 35 | Their most recent tour , in June of last year , involved them in joint performances of music by Haydn , Elgar , Dvorak and Beethoven in Munich . |
| 36 | Be wary of some people in high places whose duties involved them in prolific correspondence . |
| 37 | The local people caught them in vast numbers for food , eating them fresh or drying them in the sun , and until recently they made up 80 per cent or more of the total catch . |
| 38 | ‘ He beat me at New Marske and he was a target for me in this one . ’ |
| 39 | That left seven , easily outnumbered by Boscawen 's 15 , plus frigates , and he used his superiority to crushing effect in an action which began around 1.30 pm and continued next day , when the last four French ships were driven into Lagos Bay , about 19 miles [ 30 km ] east of Cape St Vincent , on the coast of Portugal , where Boscawen pursued them into Portuguese waters . |
| 40 | He trained them to regular confession , and whenever any one of them was dying would prepare them for death , and be thankful when they died in penitence , peace and hope . |
| 41 | Emily regarded them with cynical appraisal . |
| 42 | Strains developed over the migration of the ‘ vyezzhye belye Kalmyki ’ to Russian territory , since the prince of the Teleuts regarded them as traitorous subjects and demanded their return . |
| 43 | Perhaps the Minoans regarded them as fearful intermediaries — essential but frightening go-betweens . |
| 44 | This idea inspired knights from France to flock to the assistance of the struggling Christian kingdoms in northern Spain ; but there was clearly a nice distinction between the attitude of men north of the Pyrenees , who regarded the Muslim as the wicked infidel , as cattle for the slaughter , and the Christians who had lived among them in Spain and who regarded them as misguided fellow-humans . |
| 45 | In this new environment women were more frequently allowed to inherit property than they had been earlier , though inevitably the more they were heiresses the more those men who had power over them — uncles or guardians — regarded them as marketable assets . |
| 46 | He blinked and regarded me with confused surprise . |
| 47 | A family of brothers , fathers and uncles on the front table took an instant dislike to me and , slamming their pints on the table , sat back with arms crossed and regarded me in stony-faced silence . |
| 48 | His comments brought an angry response from the executive director of Scottish Financial Enterprise , James Scott , who described them as confused nonsense . |
| 49 | He knew that these societies of Gaul and Spain had their own rules and virtues , and he described them with obvious sympathy . |
| 50 | Anyway this woman , the problematic one , stopped me in full view of everyone and handed me this folded piece of paper . |
| 51 | He was a man of profound education , but having acquired it himself he treasured words and used them with unique skill and often with a strange individuality . |
| 52 | Gestures of this kind were part of the vocabulary of politics ; an astute politician like Philip used them to great effect . |
| 53 | ‘ MI5 approached me on Spanish holiday ’ |
| 54 | Finally my hostess , Mrs Knelle , and a theatre-going friend , Mrs Molloy , approached me with friendly smiles . |
| 55 | Sadly , it was not confined to writers and artists , for though it may be unfair to blame Nietzsche for his appropriation by Nazi ideologues , there is no question but that his doctrine of the superman and his apparent anti-semitism provided them with fertile soil . |
| 56 | Specialising in the financial sector has given Russell Reynolds class and style , and provided them with prestigious contacts reminiscent of the British old-boy network , but has also been the cause of its major problems . |
| 57 | Several respondents commented that both foster parents and children had enjoyed participating in an exercise which provided them with concrete proof of achievements and which sought to monitor progress systematically . |
| 58 | However , if we took our present population of farm animals and provided them with free-range conditions , this would have a severe effect on conservation in Britain . |
| 59 | Just as the first Venetians found that the water-logged islands of their lagoon , far from merely affording them protection from their enemies on land , also provided them with ideal access to the sea and with it immense possibilities of wealth and naval power , so it emerged in the course of human social evolution that the psychological mechanisms which had been necessary in socializing man also proved serviceable for many other enterprises and in time produced the great flowering of human culture which we see around us today . |
| 60 | The Minoans built cisterns or water tanks and lined them with water-resistant plaster . |