Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Muted sounds , and , once , a cry of pain , came from behind the closed doors that led off it on either side . |
| 2 | ‘ Now I know what passed between you over that cup of coffee . ’ |
| 3 | What passed between you on that occasion ? ’ |
| 4 | But Beatriz Lavandera has adopted this approach to syntactic variation in a much more radical form , and argued for it in some detail . |
| 5 | He really lusted after me in those days … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | No longer does he cling on to the status that he wrested from him with such arrogance and cruelty . |
| 8 | We always referred to them as those ladies of the stage . |
| 9 | So , there 's something given , that entitles feedback I was giving you then , some people referred to it as this . |
| 10 | It never occurred to me at all . |
| 11 | ‘ To tell you the truth it never occurred to me until this minute . |
| 12 | He peered at her with little beady eyes , as though trying to guess from her expression how much she and her companion had heard . |
| 13 | He narrowly avoided collisions with two cars as he drove onto the western bypass and forced the pursuing police car to take evasive action when he drove towards it on another road . |
| 14 | Radical sects like the Quakers , the Shakers and the Methodists all encouraged the faithful to feel the divine in tangible forms ; some Pentecostal sects would speak in tongues , hear voices or experience powerful feelings which came upon them with such force that they were believed to come from God . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ I 've got a soft spot for the league , because I played in it for many years . ’ |
| 16 | In verse 27 we read ‘ And beginning at Moses and all the prophets , he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself . ’ |
| 17 | He appealed to her in several languages , including German . |
| 18 | Contemporary audiences would have understood that the film appealed to them on that level but were also aware that the tragedy of the film consisted of an ordinary innocent American being hounded by external events and being forced into failure and crime . |
| 19 | The attempt in the Treaty to reorganize the Balkans as a stable structure of national states appealed to them for this reason . |
| 20 | Later that afternoon he came to me with some of my translations from the index cards . |
| 21 | And long after Dana had left me , I still thought of him every day , and from time to time wrote poems about him , like this one which came to me after several viewings of a film that greatly disturbed and fascinated me , Pasolini 's Teorema : |
| 22 | And if somebody came to you with those sorts of things , you 'd think to yourself , it ca n't just go on , and gradually just build up and build up . |
| 23 | Say it was appalling that they spied on us like that ? ’ |
| 24 | Hywel seemed to her like some hapless creature in a story , spellbound by despair , made powerless by circumstance , trapped by a ruthless magic without even the faery consolation of glamour , the illusion of delight . |
| 25 | How on earth could he tell ? she wondered , hunched against the banshee howling that came at her from all directions , hurling rain against her skin with such force it stung like grit . |
| 26 | Quigley gave what I can only describe as an eldritch screech and came at me with both arms , legs and the front bit of his head . |
| 27 | I tried to drive on , but he came at me with some story of having run out of petrol . |
| 28 | And then they came at us from both sides . ’ |
| 29 | Erm the northern region audit preceded er the national audit er and has been presented by er Mr and its erm data collection differed from it in that erm all notes were reviewed at three months er by using a standard pro forma independently by two clinical coordinators and so would not be |
| 30 | I thought he had been right , and that what happened to me on that oily beach was all I was fit for . |