Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worrall gave it , then disallowed it for offside but the linesman changed his mind after Pickering made a long appeal and Worrall then allowed the goal . |
| 2 | Dillons passed the cheque onto Childline after its parent Pentos received it from Legal & General Property as a token of thanks after it moved quickly to open branches of Claude Gill Bargain Bookshop and Athena in the Buttermarket Shopping Centre , Ipswich , in time for the centre 's first day of trading on 1st October . |
| 3 | So I used a large plastic storage box , and filled it with rooted but loose watercress and placed it in the main pool fed by the return flow from a gravity-fed filter . |
| 4 | She rented the Duchess of Norfolk 's mansion in St James 's Square and filled it with red and white roses for a party . |
| 5 | ‘ After a while the sun beat down upon the mist and filled it with light and warmth , and a wind blew and the mist thinned and cleared . |
| 6 | She opened it at random and placed it on Matilda 's desk . |
| 7 | This was not only because , in Walton 's words , his poems ‘ had comforted and raised many disjected and discomposed souls and charmed them into sweet and quiet thoughts ’ ; he was honoured too for his loyalty to the middle way between the excesses of Rome and the austerities of the Puritans , which he expressed with such affection in his poem ‘ The British Church ’ : |
| 8 | They brushed her like strengthless and accusing hands . |
| 9 | Boston did not ignite the recombinant-DNA controversy but it vigorously seized the torch and raised it to national and worldwide visibility . |
| 10 | This time they rested on her shoulders , then pulled her with gentle and insistent strength into the wall of his chest . |
| 11 | In fact , knew it for certain when , ‘ Since you 're not going anywhere for a while , perhaps you 'd like to take a seat now , ’ he suggested . |
| 12 | Our first steps off the Spyway road took us through green and pleasant farmland where playful sheep frolicked alongside and a lone tractor droningly went about its work . |
| 13 | Two years later , he sold it to Scottish & Newcastle , netting a cool £70 million in shares . |
| 14 | I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford |
| 15 | ‘ My father left me in sole and total charge , ’ she said slowly , battling to retain control of her emotions . |
| 16 | and I had it on right and he came in right , and I was going , he was going , a long conversation all about little Harmony and everything and really going onto it , and I went to play it back and it had n't recorded anything . |
| 17 | They also argued that their place in the world economy entitled them to special and separate treatment from the continental states . |
| 18 | In the Nicaraguan setting all motivations became elemental , and their very primitiveness — together with their drama — perhaps commended them to dramatic and imperfectly democratic Americans . |
| 19 | On his arrival Francis Peck , a fellow antiquarian , showered him with romantic and mythical titles which pleased Stukeley greatly : |
| 20 | They supported the fanatically anti-Communist Prime Minister of South Vietnam , Ngo Dinh Diem , and supplied him with military and economic aid . |
| 21 | The Home Secretary again referred the matter to the Court of Appeal who considered it in private and then rejected it . |