Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other sketchbooks contain swift pencil notations which correspond to oil paintings , although it is not entirely clear what function they served and whether Monet consulted them at any later stage in the evolution of his compositions . |
| 2 | Words failed me at this last find … but not so my companions ! |
| 3 | As they moved from one high-ceilinged panelled room to the next , signs of disorder and decay met them at each open door . |
| 4 | Langton led them through two more doors , finally coming to a small room with a desk and two chairs . |
| 5 | It broke the concentration of my players and led them into serious defensive errors . |
| 6 | Thrill-seeking impulses led them to many momentary and immediate adventures , and it was this period of his life he referred to when he said he had never been in an orgy of more than three people , although he tried ineffectively to promote it a time or two . |
| 7 | They even got the transparency of the house the wrong way round in their ‘ Country Homes ’ magazine , but their name and reputation insulated them against such elementary errors . |
| 8 | I dreamt of making an Olympic team when I was in high school , a rather far-fetched dream for a 4:36 miler , but that dream was part of what got me through all those hard times during the years that I was losing race after race in college . |
| 9 | ‘ What are they looking for ? ’ he asked them without any preliminary greeting . |
| 10 | My dad probably got them for fifty each , if he said a hundred . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It certainly sustained me during that dreadful time . |
| 13 | Even when he scolded them for some minor wrongdoing , he would cite the great orators like Cicero or Burke , as if he was taking part in a parliamentary debate , instead of addressing two small boys . |
| 14 | He understood a little of my behaviour as he was a photographer , who also provided me with many useful photographs . |
| 15 | It also conveniently provided me with straight edged divisions of the remaining space . |
| 16 | Well we dredged them from nineteen twenty five to nineteen thirty two . |
| 17 | It put its head on one side and fixed them with one evil black eye . |
| 18 | But we have consciously searched for the poor in spirit , and found them in many different situations . |
| 19 | Cigarettes , so cheap and in such large numbers , were snapped up even by non-smokers , who regarded them as some new kind of currency ; and the little bottles , so exquisitely miniature , ‘ twee ’ , as Sister Dew put it , could have nothing wicked about them even for teetotallers . |
| 20 | He overtook me after three tantrum-filled games ( mine , not his ) . |
| 21 | I used them on many rainy days , and never once suffered from wet feet . |
| 22 | Although Norman horsemen used stirrups , a major invention and development in terms of medieval warfare , it is not certain if the warriors of Charlemagne used them to any great extent . |
| 23 | So a catastrophic drop to 5 per cent of its pre-deluge invertebrate quantities still provided them with three square meals a day . |
| 24 | She dropped to her knees , and unbuttoned him with quick busy fingers . |
| 25 | A few hours earlier Mrs Valerie Williams was robbed of her firm 's wages on a quite road in South Wales when masked men overtook her in this stolen car and forced her to stop and then rammed her vehicle from behind with another car . |
| 26 | And his librettist , Alessandro Striggio , son of the composer , provided him with many more opportunities than Rinuccini to break up the recitative with musically attractive relief : extended madrigalian choruses and strophic solos such as Orfeo 's lilting ‘ Vi ricordo ’ in Act II ( accompanied only by continuo instruments , but with ritornelli played by five viole da braccio , a contrabass , two harpsichords , and three chitarroni ) , his display piece ‘ Possente spirto ’ in Act III ( accompanied by organo di legno and a chitarrone , but in the four stanzas competing with brilliant concertante parts for two violini , then two cornetti , a double-harp , and finally a string trio ) , and his swinging ‘ Qual honor ’ in Act IV ( varied strophes for the voice over an ostinato bass ) . |
| 27 | This footslogging — and often freezing — circuit of Ireland , during which he relied entirely on motorists ' charity , provided him with much diverting material . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The fisherman 's wife , however , chastised him for this simple request and returned to the shore , there to harangue the Golden Fish with her demands for jewels , wealth and status . |