Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There it was again : that feeling of being mesmerised as obediently she met the ice-blue gaze which devoured her . |
| 2 | WHAT a moving picture ( right ) of Kerry Needham when she met the blond boy who was not her son . |
| 3 | On death row in San Quentin , California , Maureen Timmins for the first time met the convicted murderer she 's convinced is innocent . |
| 4 | She never met any men until she met the young man whom I can not think of as my father . |
| 5 | " After we ran away from you we travelled as far as Quang Nam — that 's where we met the French recruiter who arrived here tonight with your truck , " said Dong hesitantly . |
| 6 | I only stopped working frenziedly hour after hour after I met the English boy I 'd just thrown water over moments before . |
| 7 | We met the little boy who believes that all the inhabitants of an Arab village should be exterminated . |
| 8 | Helen Cam once suggested that parliamentary petitions may have sprung from the already practised art of the clergy in drafting lists of gravamina , or grievances , which at intervals since 1237 they had submitted to the king for redress ; but G. O. Sayles traces the origin more directly to the legal procedure of bills of complaint submitted to the king 's itinerant justices , and certainly the character of the early parliamentary petitions seems to bear this out : clerical gravamina were corporate complaints directed against general practices rather than particular people and they lacked the specific quality which individual parliamentary petitions naturally displayed . |
| 9 | But he lacked the intellectual force which his mother and grandfather had , and which he needed if he was to fulfil his ambition to drag India ‘ into the 21st century ’ . |
| 10 | She unlocked the next room which had stood empty for months . |
| 11 | His head bent slowly down to her , his eyes burned deeper and , held immovable , she endured the first kiss she had ever received . |
| 12 | The decline of the West Indian sugar economy , and the near-complete ability of the US cotton economy to supply its own black labour through the reproduction of its gender-balanced slave population , lessened the vested interest which might otherwise have held off the evangelical/humanitarian reformers rather longer . |
| 13 | I flung the sporting pistol I had looted on to the back seat , relieved to think I would never have to defend myself with it . |
| 14 | As she passed the new couple her beach bag caught the Factor 15 and knocked it off the table . |
| 15 | As she passed the back door she noticed that the lid had fallen off the dustbin and the fresh spring wind was playing havoc with the bits of paper and odds and ends that lay strewn on the tiled path . |
| 16 | They also shared the deep satisfaction which running brings , often more in preparation than in the race itself . |
| 17 | A MUM today hugged the new-born baby she feared might might have been injured in a hit and run car crash when she was eight and a half months pregnant . |
| 18 | Section 40(1) permits the court only to award compensation on an application made by the employee which inter alia establishes that the latter made the patented invention which is of outstanding benefit to the employer and that ‘ by reason of those facts it is just that the employee should be awarded compensation ’ . |
| 19 | Rory made the best attempt she could at a dismissive laugh . |
| 20 | The Times made the suggested link their front-page headline — Porn videos turned ‘ Fox ’ into rapist — while the Daily Mail used this theme in their editorial of the day , as part of their continuing campaign against porn videos . |
| 21 | Dissatisfied as he was , it was while Bishop of Bristol that he made the moral stand which guaranteed that his name would be heard for three centuries whenever Cornish men were gathered together . |
| 22 | The fact that this was credible only if the youth was retarded made the moral crux which followed rather pointless . |
| 23 | Mark you , until they made the ghastly mistake which led to Raith 's first goal — ‘ an absolutely diabolical goal for a team of professionals to lose , ’ was Scott 's verdict — Dunfermline had Raith 's measure . |
| 24 | Nearly a thousand years ago the first settlers made the Glemmtal valley their home , and ever since they 've made a point of extending a warm welcome to all-comers . |
| 25 | On 12 May 1992 Waite J. made the following order whose terms had been formulated by leading counsel then appearing for J. 's mother : |
| 26 | Although Burn showed both originality and ingenuity in his initial designs for the Edinburgh Academy , giving a two-storey building a single-storey façade and an unfluted portico to save on façading costs , others made the Greek revival their own : Thomas Hamilton who developed the basic arrangement of the final design of Burn 's Academy into the Royal High School , and William Henry Playfair , Burn 's contemporary at Smirke 's , whose work showed awareness of the latest developments in Germany . |
| 27 | But even as she made the token protest she knew a longing almost painful in its intensity to feel the possession of his mouth all over again . |
| 28 | I just let out a giggle of disbelief which made the old gecko who ran the class flutter his ruff at me in disapproval ; I calmed him with a quip and continued the negotiations with my round and financially tenacious new chum . |
| 29 | Of course if he made the wrong decision he could pay for it by loss of his command , as we have seen , or even with his life , as happened to Timagoras , the ambassador who accepted humiliating terms at a peace conference in 367 ( Xen . |
| 30 | He flung open a pair of doors she had not even noticed in the gloom and revealed the largest room she had ever seen , endlessly high , and filled with the grey light of the sea . |