Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [art] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Mark rose from his chair fully aware that politicians believed themselves to be the best informed people in the world , which made them a very sceptical audience for any speaker . |
2 | This drug duo may have been singled out because their penchant for fine racehorses and private zoos , not to mention murder on a massive scale , made them the most public of the mafia bosses . |
3 | The popularity of Hollywood films made them the most obvious indicator of the general shift in world trade . |
4 | A possible Trojan link was claimed by William of Jumièges for William the Conqueror as soon as he became king ; a late eleventh-century genealogy of the counts of Boulogne produced a similar conceit ; and Genealogy IV of the Counts of Flanders , written about 1120 , made them the most important non-royal family to trace its ancestry back to Priam . |
5 | When I was playing rugby and I hurt my thumb she actually lent me a very expensive Jaeger coat to keep me warm . |
6 | It made me a little uneasy . |
7 | Reading a lot made me a little odd but no one bothered much what I read . |
8 | The thing that made me a little envious was this girl — she 's his assistant on this particular film — ringing up , and there was a slight chance they would be going to Switzerland that day , and suddenly I was in there again and I thought how exciting it all was and how nice it would be to go off filming again . |
9 | He made me a much better player and he must go down as one of Dalglish 's best signings . ’ |
10 | Main made me the most incredible clothes . |
11 | I was with the South African team throughout their travels in Australia and New Zealand and found them an exceptionally nice group ; agonized with them on the eve of the referendum on reforms back in South Africa when there were last-minute scare reports of a major swing to the right wing ; rejoiced with them when the vote when 68% for sanity , a far greater margin than any of us had dared hope for ; and generally enjoyed with them their victories and their considerable achievement in reaching the semi-final stage . |
12 | Denis found himself a little abashed , and rose to cover his embarrassment . |
13 | After the war ended he found himself a completely free agent , suddenly removed from the safety of neutral Switzerland ; he was shaken , disturbed ; his true self was born . |
14 | From being just another kid with nits in his head , the smallest in his class and the only one in the whole school whose skin was a swarthy brown , he suddenly found himself the most popular boy around . |
15 | ‘ Whatever her failings may or may not be , I found her a most agreeable and willing chambermaid — very attractive for that occupation — far more attractive than the common run of girls , did n't you find ? ’ |
16 | ‘ And I 'm sure you found her a very biddable little girl ? ’ |
17 | Meryl wrote to tell us of Lena 's general kindness , saying she found her the most helpful and patient person she knew . |
18 | I really ca n't answer for David because in all the years that I 've known him , I always actually found him a rather cold person , even when I was 14 and he was 16 , even as boy and girlfriend . |
19 | I found him a most agreeable man and we seemed to get along well from the start . |
20 | I found him a most agreeable man , a sharp observer , and the possessor of intellectual attainments of no mean order . |
21 | I found him a somewhat erratic personality and an occasional pain in the ass . ’ |
22 | Albert Spanswick came from the old school of trade union leaders and I found him a more persuasive advocate for health service workers than Rodney Bickerstaffe . |
23 | Well , having actually been to Nashville and found it a singularly ugly and inhumane property developer 's hell , I never really thought the city was downhome . |
24 | I found it a rather disgusting product of a self-admitted drug damaged brain . |
25 | Reasonable flavour , although some found it a little bland . |
26 | And I found it a little strange they were suggesting that an alternative approach may be suitable here , particularly when th the evidence has n't been put forw or gone through the public consultation process . |
27 | Sandison found it a little difficult to figure out exactly what Maidstone did . |
28 | At the Guildford DSS office , staff found it a little difficult to grasp the nature of their new client . |
29 | And Gregory : ‘ I found it a tremendously exciting challenge to depict the past as convincingly as I could for the mass-market audience of today . ’ |
30 | I found it a very compassionate account of the unrewarding role filled by many in today 's ever-divorcing society . |