Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the railways levelled them with their black cousins on the other side of the 49th parallel . |
| 2 | As he led them into his large and sunny sitting-room , his scalp gleamed in the light . |
| 3 | In the interview they asked me about my future plans . |
| 4 | He then asked me about my sexual habits , to which I replied that I was heterosexual . |
| 5 | He stopped himself from looking at any of them and stuffed them into his waste-paper basket . |
| 6 | Well it , it , not yesterday , the day before , I got them under my right shoulder blade , |
| 7 | Lovely face , Jo has , despite the lines and paleness , dark hair and blue eyes , says she got them from her wild Irish grandmother . |
| 8 | ‘ Not to say meet , but Matthew Choak passed me in his old van . ’ |
| 9 | When I think of love or beauty or gardens , the images that moved me in my everyday life appear again and I feel the same sensations as when I first found them . |
| 10 | Not only was it their first victory since early December but it moved them above their vanquished opponents at the foot of the table . |
| 11 | During my last two years at Eton , and my years at Oxford , Guy Rogers invited me to his covert shoots . |
| 12 | " My life was formed only by means of the public library which provided me with my only uncensored access to books . |
| 13 | ‘ He caught me on my right thigh , my left foot came down and I did the splits . |
| 14 | It was conceivable that , as the area chairmen feared , higher prices in domestic tariffs would not only have discouraged undesirable loads such as peak space heating , but also the ones such as water heating and cooking which helped them in their overall commercial strategy and were largely off-peak . |
| 15 | She writes : ‘ My time spent ‘ at the University of Oxford ’ broadened my outlook in many respects and this helped me with my academic studies and writing from then on' . |
| 16 | It helped me in my desperate attempt to respect his judgement . |
| 17 | He conceded that his knowledge of the language was slight ; that is why he referred me to his young assistant . ’ |
| 18 | It is thought that the Christians of the early Church valued such phrases which had been spoken by Jesus and used them in their original Aramaic form . |
| 19 | It was , in fact , the professional warrener , the man who became each estate 's killing machine , who perfected the various sporting methods that exist today and who honed them to their maximum effectiveness . |
| 20 | So when I approached them with my intricate scheme for escaping the greedy jaws of Mr Kinnock and his pals via the strategic disappearance of Punch , they saw the beauty of it straightaway . |
| 21 | Also , the process of writing often brings fresh insights to mind , and helps to ground them in your everyday life — as anyone who keeps a dream diary will know . |
| 22 | His estranged wife Danielle and their three children spurned him at his sick bed when he announced plans to wed the former Bond girl . |
| 23 | Style director Hamish Bowles , a lifelong fan , visited her at her magnificent home , Templeton , on Long Island and spent a day talking to and photographing her in some her favourite clothes ( see page 220 ) : ‘ It 's a ravishing and evocative home , C.Z. is a scintillating hostess and brings a contemporary touch to a house that is almost Edwardian in its management and battalions of staff . ’ |
| 24 | A few years later , when a Japanese professor on holiday in England visited her in our other house in Bath , Hill House in Sion Road , he said to her , in the usual Japanese joky way : ‘ I 'm sure your son will be marrying some nice Japanese lady , Mrs Kirkup . ’ |
| 25 | Players who visited him during his final days in the Walton Centre gave him an Everton shirt which was later buried with him . |
| 26 | When Callahan and I visited him at his large house on Sunset Beach , it was like walking around a graveyard : every board was a headstone with memories buried beneath it . |
| 27 | After Mary de Rachewiltz , Ezra Pound 's daughter , visited him in his gloomy study in Carlyle Mansions she wrote , " I had met a great man , and Loneliness " and one friend has remarked that " I knew he was intensely — even wretchedly — lonely " . |
| 28 | Anthony Honoré , retiring Oxford Regius Professor of Civil Law , had just been canvassed by the appointments secretary when I visited him in his panelled rooms at All Souls . |
| 29 | I was so affected by his discovery that I pursued his future career with the Museum Service and later visited him in his cardboard box . |
| 30 | Would she ? she wondered as he drew her into his special world of sensuality . |