Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] a [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 | Well hardly out of the blue , they asked for it a week ago . |
| 3 | They created in him a sense of desire and longing . |
| 4 | It cast in him a fear so deep that he could say nothing , only stare . |
| 5 | Yet he also found in him a warning . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He demonstrated to me an Ergoline 35-tube sunbed in which a man lies full length . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Last year , I reported to you a deficit of three hundred and thirty thousand . |
| 12 | One of these whipped back at him and as he caught at it a thorn drove into the fleshy pad of his finger . |
| 13 | ‘ You told me you learnt about it a couple of weeks before Nicola was murdered . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We learnt of it a fortnight since , ’ said Aranyos , ‘ but I was only told last week . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ He instilled in me a sense of pride in my country , the need to preserve our heritage and culture . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There came from him a smell , half-musty , half disagreeably sweet , of old clothes and incense , overlaid with stale sweat , a smell which was a pitiable amalgam of failure and fear . |
| 19 | Representatives from the recently formed Forum for the Defence of Human Rights met on Feb. 12 with the then Interior Minister Hekuran Isai , and received from him a list of 108 political prisoners who had been released unannounced since Jan. 6 , according to a Forum statement issued on Feb. 18 . |
| 20 | Constable Laurie gave evidence that on 5th August he entered at the back door of 149 Chatham Street , that he received from her 1/9d. , and that she received from him a betting slip . |
| 21 | In The Silmarillion Tolkien played through once more the drama of ‘ paradise lost ’ ; but he added to it a hint of ‘ paradise well lost ’ ( for many of the elves preferred Middle-earth even to immortal life , like Arwen ) ; and through the story there runs a delight in mutability , as languages change and treasures pass from hand to hand ; the deepest fable is of beauty forged , stolen , and lost forever in recovery . |
| 22 | When all else failed , or it simply appealed to her a woman could always turn to the ranks for employment . |
| 23 | Again there came to him a sense of how small a town of some eighty-five thousand people really was . |
| 24 | ‘ Mr O'Hare came to me a number of times complaining that he was being pestered . |
| 25 | It seemed to me a duty to pay homage to those Jews who , in desperate conditions , had found the courage and the skill to resist . |
| 26 | And there seemed to me a safety , a kind of warmth in such numbers . |
| 27 | It seemed to me an absurdity . |
| 28 | As she read on , day after day , often by candlelight , through St Matthew and St Mark and on to St Luke and St John it seemed to her a message was reaching her and that message was that she must face her own wickedness . |
| 29 | Staring through the streaming window , Nell gritted her teeth every time the bows pushed out over the top of a big wave , only to hang in space before dropping away into the sixty-odd feet of the following trough that seemed to her a mile deep . |
| 30 | The short process of giving birth to a baby seemed to her a triviality compared to the long haul of rearing it that lay ahead . |