Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It broke the concentration of my players and led them into serious defensive errors . |
| 2 | Andy Roxburgh , who knows he has to face the Brazilians in next summer 's World Cup , and Bobby Robson , who knows he might , were reminded of Brazilian flair but were left to take Brazilian finishing on trust until Careca , the Napoli striker , headed them in front early in the second half . |
| 3 | It also conveniently provided me with straight edged divisions of the remaining space . |
| 4 | She dropped to her knees , and unbuttoned him with quick busy fingers . |
| 5 | The touch of Asuryan was no longer so strong in his mind , and the Sword of Khaine no longer provided him with near limitless strength . |
| 6 | His evidence was to help place Mrs Dyer on the scaffold , as was his wife Polly 's , who testified that her mother had at times visited her with various small children who seemed to disappear overnight . |
| 7 | Newton spent more time and energy on alchemical speculations than on the scientific discoveries which galvanised the Western world : Storr reconstructs the neurotic drive which impelled him to heroic intellectual feats . |
| 8 | Squeezing her fist together she crumbled it into fine powdery dust . |
| 9 | Nicholas Blake , the poet C. Day Lewis , once told me with remembered acute dismay how that had happened to him . |
| 10 | When he divorced a wife he would set her up in a house of her own with her children ; and as his twenty-seven sons came to maturity he directed them into various different occupations , to ensure a spread of enterprise which would be useful to all of them . |
| 11 | He studied her with hooded blue eyes . |
| 12 | They trapped him in corners , caught him and drove him into small dark spaces that rattled terrifyingly . |
| 13 | He placed a little white enamel cup before each of them and filled it with strong black tea . |
| 14 | Dr Theo Angelov , President of the Baptist Union of Bulgaria , addressed the Wednesday evening rally on ‘ People to People in Europe ’ , when he told us of faithful Christian witness over a period of 40 years by many in his country living through extreme conditions and hardships under Communist rule . |
| 15 | They rushed in , caught up the babies from student nurse Bridget 's and Kitty 's arms and handed them to young male nurses . |
| 16 | He took nasty live people , and turned them into nice dead ones . |
| 17 | Linking the Midlands manufacturers to London by canal undoubtedly assisted the sending of goods to the capital , but conversely the canals which linked them to other major ports sometimes removed their need to send as many goods through London . |
| 18 | On 2 October 1991 Jordanian security forces arrested Muhammad al-Fasi , a Saudi Arabian businessman , and reportedly handed him to Saudi Arabian authorities at the al-Haditha crossing point on the Saudi/Jordanian frontier . |
| 19 | She watched as Roman poured it into small white cups . |
| 20 | His supple skin had no lines to speak of ; he preserved it with various expensive creams and face masks . |
| 21 | They retained their existing , geographically-based , local structures but supplemented them with official plant-based groupings , and union plant representatives became recognised . |
| 22 | They retained their existing , geographically-based , local structures but supplemented them with official plant-based groupings , and union plant representatives became recognised . |
| 23 | But Ader Tajan is dogged by a debt of FFr30 million owed them by Japanese real estate investor Narita . |
| 24 | The Irish cattle-dealers who shipped the cattle and followed them over employed local drovers to receive the cattle at Norwich . |
| 25 | But it was n't easy to lose puppy fat when Mum fed her on stodgy good home cooking — stews with dumplings and meat pies with pastry crusts and steamed sponge puddings , and there was no money to spare for proper hairdressing salons . |
| 26 | He 's been the manager for 18 months , and in that time has bought their first £1m player , followed it with other seven-figure signings , and taken the club into Europe . |
| 27 | The Fabians inherited both the positive scientific spirit and a conception that progress follows natural laws from the evolutionists , but they adapted it to French sociological positivism based on the principle of social solidarity . |
| 28 | TWO men accused of starting a brawl at an Indian restaurant were cleared yesterday when a jury heard how staff blitzed them with red hot curry powder . |
| 29 | Streat congratulated MacArthur on his ‘ momentous ’ achievements and then warned him against encouraging Japanese competition to the point where strong antagonism was aroused in western and eastern countries . |
| 30 | She watched him with angry green eyes . |