Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they moved from one high-ceilinged panelled room to the next , signs of disorder and decay met them at each open door . |
| 2 | It broke the concentration of my players and led them into serious defensive errors . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ What are they looking for ? ’ he asked them without any preliminary greeting . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It certainly sustained me during that dreadful time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He understood a little of my behaviour as he was a photographer , who also provided me with many useful photographs . |
| 10 | It also conveniently provided me with straight edged divisions of the remaining space . |
| 11 | It put its head on one side and fixed them with one evil black eye . |
| 12 | But we have consciously searched for the poor in spirit , and found them in many different situations . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He overtook me after three tantrum-filled games ( mine , not his ) . |
| 15 | I used them on many rainy days , and never once suffered from wet feet . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | So a catastrophic drop to 5 per cent of its pre-deluge invertebrate quantities still provided them with three square meals a day . |
| 18 | She dropped to her knees , and unbuttoned him with quick busy fingers . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This footslogging — and often freezing — circuit of Ireland , during which he relied entirely on motorists ' charity , provided him with much diverting material . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Her head turned slightly towards him and she fixed him with that blind , unthinking stare . |
| 25 | I played one lad and beat him in three successive frames . |
| 26 | Her voice and the rattle of pots faded away into the house , and he heard , close to , Annie 's uncontrolled chortle as she approached him with some wicked intent . |
| 27 | Roger approached her with another tall , fair man . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | On 13 October , the Leader of the Opposition described it in three different ways — which is typical of him . |
| 30 | He clasped the royal hand and plastered it with three lingering kisses . |