Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In breaks in our work Edward entertained me with curious stories of the old alchemists . |
| 2 | In America small town-dumps have been closed , or sold by the cities that owned them to private operators . |
| 3 | A good friend of mine , in the same set for physics and chemistry , grew so disturbed that he took some scissors and cut all round the stiff white collars , which we have to wear on Sundays , and made them into little points . " |
| 4 | At the junction of the Welford branch , a boat from Welford met them with ample supplies of refreshments to fortify them against the passage of Bosworth tunnel . |
| 5 | She sighed and relaxed and when his lips sought hers again she met them with matching urgency . |
| 6 | The local police had had a busy evening with an exceptional number of hoax calls that led them to non-existent road accidents drunken brawls and even — a touch that showed a nice appreciation of British susceptibilities — a rabid dog on the loose . |
| 7 | Captaining Jamaica for the second successive season , he not only led them to Red Stripe Cup triumph ( their third in five years ) , but , with the ball , he broke the tournament record with 36 wickets at 11.30 . |
| 8 | Simon the Trapper led them by devious paths to the lakeside hut . |
| 9 | Avoiding Richard , who got to his feet as soon as he saw something to be carried , she kicked open the top of the Arctic and flung them in golden handfuls onto the glowing bed of fuel . |
| 10 | A decade ago , Kung Fu martial arts films were banned by Zambian cinemas after Kaunda attacked them for encouraging violence amongst youths . |
| 11 | The last of these was the excavation at Alexandrov led by Academician Boris Rybakov , which unearthed nothing but ancient foundations . |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman asked me about future numbers . |
| 13 | I mean you asked me about formal education , and immediately we 're talking about nursery education . |
| 14 | I mean you asked me about formal education and immediately we 're talking about nursery education . |
| 15 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow also asked me about competitive tendering and the tendering process . |
| 16 | In a psychoanalytic study of the Amazons Bernice Schultz Engle points out that according to tradition they ‘ cared nothing for womanly arts , spent ten months of the year farming , pasturing cattle , and especially in training horses . |
| 17 | My new project led me into unexplored realms of psychology which I might otherwise have ignored . |
| 18 | A thin disdainful blonde girl led me up narrow stairs to a room filled completely by a single bed . |
| 19 | In the time I was there she did pencil out a few passages , and got me to red ink a lot more . |
| 20 | And last night it got me into hot water . |
| 21 | Whereas if he had , if he sold them as separate houses he 'd probably get forty thousand apiece . |
| 22 | Thus it might be that the old English case of Woodhouse v Brotherhood 1972 ] ICR 186 would be decided the same way under the Directive , because the facts , as found in that case , were that the transferee employer used the factory and the machines to produce different products from those made by the transferor and sold them in different markets . |
| 23 | The rule devised was that if a man 's goods could be valued at £1 , but less than £2 , or alternatively if he owned nothing but received wages of £1 a year , he should pay 4d . |
| 24 | In their wisdom ( or because of the lack of it ) they appointed me as working group chairman . |
| 25 | Madame raised her crackling voice from the large brown desk where she presided in the hall beyond , and asked them with unusual largesse if they would like some refreshment . |
| 26 | I do n't see the resemblance of Stu and Paul Young though , perhaps I expected someone with Spiky hair & black leather trousers . |
| 27 | Archaeologists from Newcastle University have already made a number of test excavations at the site of the extension and found nothing of historical value . |
| 28 | In the mid 1970s , for example , the police fell out with a number of crime reporters and charged them in separate proceedings with a variety of criminal offences . |
| 29 | To begin with Gyggle tried me on sensory deprivation . |
| 30 | She received random bits of memory , tried them in different patterns , hoping to make sense . |