Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sighed and relaxed and when his lips sought hers again she met them with matching urgency . |
| 2 | The local police had had a busy evening with an exceptional number of hoax calls that led them to non-existent road accidents drunken brawls and even — a touch that showed a nice appreciation of British susceptibilities — a rabid dog on the loose . |
| 3 | Captaining Jamaica for the second successive season , he not only led them to Red Stripe Cup triumph ( their third in five years ) , but , with the ball , he broke the tournament record with 36 wickets at 11.30 . |
| 4 | A decade ago , Kung Fu martial arts films were banned by Zambian cinemas after Kaunda attacked them for encouraging violence amongst youths . |
| 5 | I mean you asked me about formal education , and immediately we 're talking about nursery education . |
| 6 | I mean you asked me about formal education and immediately we 're talking about nursery education . |
| 7 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow also asked me about competitive tendering and the tendering process . |
| 8 | In the time I was there she did pencil out a few passages , and got me to red ink a lot more . |
| 9 | And last night it got me into hot water . |
| 10 | In their wisdom ( or because of the lack of it ) they appointed me as working group chairman . |
| 11 | Madame raised her crackling voice from the large brown desk where she presided in the hall beyond , and asked them with unusual largesse if they would like some refreshment . |
| 12 | To begin with Gyggle tried me on sensory deprivation . |
| 13 | Obliquely flattering his readers by introducing them to boys near their own age involved in surprising and exciting events , he also invited them to wishful thinking , if not to identification , by emphasising the youth of his heroes and underplaying the responsibility and enforced maturity belonging to midshipmen in the early and mid-teens in reality . |
| 14 | Subsequently , European partners were bought out and Arab banks transformed them into international banking subsidiaries . |
| 15 | Be wary of some people in high places whose duties involved them in prolific correspondence . |
| 16 | He trained them to regular confession , and whenever any one of them was dying would prepare them for death , and be thankful when they died in penitence , peace and hope . |
| 17 | Emily regarded them with cynical appraisal . |
| 18 | He blinked and regarded me with confused surprise . |
| 19 | A family of brothers , fathers and uncles on the front table took an instant dislike to me and , slamming their pints on the table , sat back with arms crossed and regarded me in stony-faced silence . |
| 20 | His comments brought an angry response from the executive director of Scottish Financial Enterprise , James Scott , who described them as confused nonsense . |
| 21 | He knew that these societies of Gaul and Spain had their own rules and virtues , and he described them with obvious sympathy . |
| 22 | Anyway this woman , the problematic one , stopped me in full view of everyone and handed me this folded piece of paper . |
| 23 | He was a man of profound education , but having acquired it himself he treasured words and used them with unique skill and often with a strange individuality . |
| 24 | Gestures of this kind were part of the vocabulary of politics ; an astute politician like Philip used them to great effect . |
| 25 | ‘ MI5 approached me on Spanish holiday ’ |
| 26 | Sadly , it was not confined to writers and artists , for though it may be unfair to blame Nietzsche for his appropriation by Nazi ideologues , there is no question but that his doctrine of the superman and his apparent anti-semitism provided them with fertile soil . |
| 27 | Several respondents commented that both foster parents and children had enjoyed participating in an exercise which provided them with concrete proof of achievements and which sought to monitor progress systematically . |
| 28 | Just as the first Venetians found that the water-logged islands of their lagoon , far from merely affording them protection from their enemies on land , also provided them with ideal access to the sea and with it immense possibilities of wealth and naval power , so it emerged in the course of human social evolution that the psychological mechanisms which had been necessary in socializing man also proved serviceable for many other enterprises and in time produced the great flowering of human culture which we see around us today . |
| 29 | The Minoans built cisterns or water tanks and lined them with water-resistant plaster . |
| 30 | The internal structures and emotional attitudes of the party at this time coincided exactly with his own mental state , and provided him with intellectual strength and emotional security . |