Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fall , identified for so long with a sweet , sad nostalgia , a magnificence of gold and crimson under startling blue skies , became for us a nightmare . |
| 2 | I remember little of my stay in the intensive care unit , but I am told they cared for me every second of the night and day . |
| 3 | Well hardly out of the blue , they asked for it a week ago . |
| 4 | He provided for us the necessities of life — food , shelter , clothing . |
| 5 | It posed for them the question , ‘ Are we still the people of God ? ’ |
| 6 | I think that 's a load of shit , half of his stuff , I mean they 're , they 're good reproductions , tin of Heinz Bake Beans but any monkey can fucking do that charge fifty grand for it or whatever they charged for it The ones I 've always liked is erm , I du n no if you 've ever seen any , Ed , Edward Lanzear used to paint a lot of er Queen Victoria used to do er animal paintings . |
| 7 | No one was within earshot , they were miles from anywhere , it seemed , and even if she jumped in the river and swam for it the chance that she would outmanoeuvre him in the water was slim . |
| 8 | But the shed at the side of the road had been unlocked , and when he peered into it the outline of the covered carriage he had been able to make out in the darkness promised adequate protection and a degree of comfort . |
| 9 | While Biedermann and Baur were in accord with Hegel 's aim to combine Christianity and speculative philosophy , others drew from him the material for frontal attacks on Christian belief , notably Strauss , Feuerbach and Marx . |
| 10 | He drew from it the photograph of Elsie McAndrew that he had shown to Mrs Wilson in London . |
| 11 | They created in him a sense of desire and longing . |
| 12 | So while his real need for me had something to do with prac-ticalities , he reinforced in me the sense that his need had something to do with his sister 's death . |
| 13 | It cast in him a fear so deep that he could say nothing , only stare . |
| 14 | Yet he also found in him a warning . |
| 15 | Hence planning was not a uniquely left- or right-wing cause between the wars , it was a response from progressive capitalists , professional people , academics , centrist politicians and socialists who found in it a means of advance over a wide range of social and economic problems . |
| 16 | Different as his experience was from that of the curia , he found in it an ally far more than had Paul with his long curial background . |
| 17 | He demonstrated to me an Ergoline 35-tube sunbed in which a man lies full length . |
| 18 | ‘ Erin pronounced on me the Draoicht Tinneas Siorai . |
| 19 | As I questioned her during the session , Maxine described to me a life as Martha , a fisherman 's wife in a small seaport in the late eighteenth century . |
| 20 | He described to me a life of violence and hatred in which he lost no opportunity to vent his anger upon those around him — and , what is more , he actually enjoyed doing so . |
| 21 | He described to me the glen in a storm — the darkness that mantles it , the springing into life of untold hosts of runlets , the careering in mad fury of the burns as they break through and tower above the channel wherein they are wont to flow ; the showers , the careering of the clouds , the thunderings and the lightning-flashings , and the artillery of the winds , as the air-gusts meet the peaks and explode in the hollows of the darksome corries . |
| 22 | Jones had then worked closely with the docks employer , Lord Aldington , in getting a new wages agreement for the docks including a settlement for the problem of casual labour which drew on him the fire of many militant shop stewards amongst the stevedores . |
| 23 | Last year , I reported to you a deficit of three hundred and thirty thousand . |
| 24 | One of these whipped back at him and as he caught at it a thorn drove into the fleshy pad of his finger . |
| 25 | ‘ You told me you learnt about it a couple of weeks before Nicola was murdered . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ We learnt of it a fortnight since , ’ said Aranyos , ‘ but I was only told last week . |
| 27 | A series of Land Acts shook the confidence of the landlords as they recognised in them a forewarning of the change in the ownership of Irish land . |
| 28 | ‘ He instilled in me a sense of pride in my country , the need to preserve our heritage and culture . |
| 29 | If she even fried an egg , she directed upon it the beam of her concentration , almost praying it would not break . |
| 30 | There was a game she played with me when I was a very little girl which roused in me a discomfort I identify now as irritation . |