Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their words fluttered between them like lubricious little doves . |
| 2 | Wherever we travelled amongst the islands we would collect rare and exotic shells which became for us like fragile clues in a paper-chase of changing life-forms as we moved across historical as well as zoographical boundaries . |
| 3 | Next morning Davis laid about himself for 77 , his highest first-class score , Botham again bowling poorly and being punished for it . |
| 4 | Muted sounds , and , once , a cry of pain , came from behind the closed doors that led off it on either side . |
| 5 | They divided between them about one-fourteenth of the land surface of the globe ( if we exclude Asiatic Russia ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Now I know what passed between you over that cup of coffee . ’ |
| 7 | What passed between you on that occasion ? ’ |
| 8 | Gassendi adopted it enthusiastically and argued for it at great length . |
| 9 | But Beatriz Lavandera has adopted this approach to syntactic variation in a much more radical form , and argued for it in some detail . |
| 10 | He really lusted after me in those days … |
| 11 | I shouted after them in hoarse astonishment . |
| 12 | And neither of the other ships changed position as we fled past them towards deep space . |
| 13 | Shock made her cry out , and he closed the door and moved towards her in quick strides , putting his hand across her mouth to stop-her scream . |
| 14 | I used to think he behaved like someone with constant PMT — irrational and unpredictable to an alarming degree . |
| 15 | A similar incident occurred with me in 1983 between Australia and Argentina from even further out from the goal-line , and on that occasion I felt Australia would definitely have scored a try but for a deliberate knock-on by the defenders and awarded a penalty try . |
| 16 | Even though hooded by shadow , Blanche sensed Urquhart 's eyes narrow and bore into her like hungry grubs . |
| 17 | It was a foolish thing to do , she knew that a fraction of a second too late ; he cannoned into her with such force that she fell heavily to the ground . |
| 18 | There are dozens of ministers , some highly qualified , who have been purged from the leadership by Mr Ceausescu , usually because they disagreed with him on particular issues or because their superior intelligence made him insecure . |
| 19 | ‘ I thoroughly disagreed with him on numerous issues , ’ said Teller , ‘ to this extent I would like to see the vital interests of this country in hands which I understand better and therefore trust more . ’ |
| 20 | So , for example , in the national survey of retirement conducted in 1977 , between the age groups of 50–9 and 60–73 , the proportion of women in junior and intermediate non-manual socio-economic groups fell from nearly half to nearly one-third , while the proportion in the unskilled group rose from one in ten to nearly one in four ( S. Parker , 1980 ) . |
| 21 | Designs ranged from one to six . |
| 22 | the number of students recruited by any one employer ranged from one to five ; just over one half of the students in employment were working in education , as lecturers/teachers or in research ; |
| 23 | Overall it would appear to have accounted for less than a tenth of the income of spiritualities ; in seven Norfolk parishes in 1658 the glebe varied from one-eighth to two-thirds of the living , though the average scarcely exceeded a quarter ; acreages ranged from one to fifty-two with a median of twenty-four in these and three other parishes . |
| 24 | The number of vehicles recorded at a junction ranged from none to 105 , mean 10.4 . |
| 25 | As they moved from one to another , they collected meals of pollen and paid for them by becoming covered in excess pollen which they involuntarily delivered to the next flower they visited . |
| 26 | No longer does he cling on to the status that he wrested from him with such arrogance and cruelty . |
| 27 | But then she looked into his eyes , which dwelt upon her in huge solemnity , and knew that he was burningly sincere . |
| 28 | Sometimes we find things like the Moan Lisa , which have been denigrated and used in lots of different ways , but some people when they see it are still overpowered by the beauty of the object . |
| 29 | Rose bent over him with pure attention . |
| 30 | I would never have dreamed of doing what Brian demonstrated to us with broken or damaged feathers . |