Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you are ready , gently come back to the room and write down what the exercise revealed about your way-of-seeing the world . |
| 2 | I made during my year a number of lasting friendships , some of which have actually turned into professional assistance in different parts of the country , and the fact that people genuinely enjoy meeting each other is shown by the annual reunions which take place , entirely at the personal expense of the individuals , which demonstrate the bond of friendship which our Institute can bring about . |
| 3 | For , proving that he cared for his family every bit as much as it had seemed , he said , ‘ Hello , Travis , come in . |
| 4 | To do this he sent me to another sort of specialist who inserted through my neck a needle containing blue dye , guided it with the help of a television screen into the top of my spinal cord and then watched its progress as it trickled down . |
| 5 | When , in the 1590s , Essex failed to get the Attorneyship for Francis Bacon , he sought for his protege the vacant post of Solicitor . |
| 6 | Isi , a vizier of the late Fifth and early Sixth Dynasties , became after his retirement the nomarch or provincial governor at Edfu . |
| 7 | Maybe they provided Wulfstan , who used as his pseudonym the name Lupus , the Wolf , with ready sources of illustration . |
| 8 | I commute from Dunfermline to Edinburgh to work for an enlightened firm of architects which designed into its office a shower facility , which allows me to cycle in all weathers . |
| 9 | Returning to Falmouth Street in his new acquisition — and already encountering some resistance to engaging first gear — Harry listed in his mind the excellent reasons for buying a car . |
| 10 | Rincewind stood up as slowly as he dared , and drew from his belt the short sword he had taken from the guard a few hours and a hundred years ago . |
| 11 | As the train was approaching the director 's station , he rose to his feet and drew from his pocket a visiting card bearing the name Dwerringhouse which he gave to his fellow traveller . |
| 12 | As they were parting , the priest drew from his pocket a small black amulet , worn smooth over many centuries . |
| 13 | He smiled and drew from his pocket a silver hip-flask . |
| 14 | The cenotaph provides a fitting frontispiece to the chapel and here the memorial garden , cared for by members of the Keyingham Royal British Legion , now houses the remains of the ancient village cross , moved from its site a few yards away where it would have caused an obstruction to modern traffic flow . |
| 15 | He found in its nature the means by which he could impart freshness , immediacy , spontaneity , imagination to his own vision as a writer . |
| 16 | After she died in Eastertide 1980 at the age of seventy-eight , I found in her desk a handwritten letter to our three children , which she put together in Jerusalem at the repeated request of Rachel , our elder daughter . |
| 17 | The only curious thing was that I found in my room a handbill from a Frenchman trying to solicit backers to export parchment to France and import wine into England . |
| 18 | He drew to our attention the views of the academic writers in which the point is raised and discussed ; thus in Professor Griew 's book The Theft Acts 1968 and 1978 , 6th ed. ( 1990 ) , p. 186 , para. 10.15 , the author suggests that the use of the word ‘ employment ’ may limit the operation of the subsection to : |
| 19 | She scribbled on her napkin the words , ‘ For God 's sake say something ’ , and , having folded it carefully , passed it up through the guests to the Prime Minister himself . |
| 20 | Not long afterwards , Æthelred introduced his short-lived Agnus Dei penny , which replaced the royal portrait with a depiction of the Lamb of God , and bore on its reverse a dove . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's no weight to isolated acts of self-aggrandizing heroism in a decaying society , ’ said a man who was generally nice , and who bore on his forehead the triangular scar of a marble paperweight that had been thrown at him by his best friend , a Tory , for a sentence like that . |
| 22 | When doing this last summer , I found to my amazement a whole langoustine who sadly had not been trained to crawl backwards . |
| 23 | When Chamberlain returned from his post-war African tour to a hero 's welcome in March 1903 , he found to his hand a request from the Dominions themselves which , though it had nothing to do with Imperial unity , and indeed was rather symptomatic of growing independence , he seized upon and elevated into the first step towards ‘ consolidation of the Empire ’ . |
| 24 | When David came back to Hawkers a week or so later , he found on his desk a very large can of tomato juice . |
| 25 | I found on my desk a little sticker which states ’ Vote for the Arts ’ , issued by the National Campaign for the Arts . |
| 26 | In 1932 , he invited to his office a representative of the London Electric Railway to discuss the Piccadilly Line Underground station opposite the north end of the ground . |
| 27 | The cellist took up his bow , and drew across his instrument a few subdued notes of Bach . |
| 28 | A knife-point poked into his back every few seconds , so he knew that the mestizo was close behind him . |
| 29 | As Paige hastened into her shirt the drone changed to the recognisable beat of helicopter blades . |
| 30 | And on the thought there came into her mind the picture of the thin-faced man . |