Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked to her right once again , savoured Manhattan outlined against the afternoon sky . |
| 2 | He found Isabel crouched by the fire , staring into the flames . |
| 3 | He found Carrie seated by the bedside , but was distressed to find that Anna would not talk to him . |
| 4 | There was no reply , and when she returned to the living-room she found Vitor sprawled in the armchair , fast asleep . |
| 5 | I found Sally clasped in the arms of some character with a loud taste in shoes . |
| 6 | In the sanctuary we found Damien sprawled over the prie-dieu . |
| 7 | Many of the would-be hotshots who entered Birmingham competed in the super division ( E5+ leaders ) , while many less experienced and often very young climbers had their first taste of competition or even indoor leading in division one ( E2-E4 ) and division two ( E2 and below ) . |
| 8 | He found Miriam crouched against the fire , her arms crossed over her breasts , each hand gripping a shoulder . |
| 9 | George Kiejman became Minister-Delegate attached to the Ministry of Justice , and Bruno Durieux , a member of the Centre of Social Democrats ( CDS ) , became Minister-Delegate for Health attached to the Ministry for Solidarity and Social Protection . |
| 10 | She noticed Kattina sat on the low sofa beside her , and sat unnecessarily close . |
| 11 | One battered Land-Rover stood outside the post office , and leaning against the schoolhouse wall were a couple of bicycles . |
| 12 | Anne asked her to check on Egremont Street but before Mrs Bennet returned Sarah appeared on the cellar steps . |
| 13 | The court heard Lee preyed on the ‘ gullible ’ while he was bankrupt . |
| 14 | In the long silence that followed Paige concentrated on the tangles in her hair . |
| 15 | Hung Feng-Chan danced round the front of the horse , trying to grab the halter , but Li Yuan shouted at him angrily and would have waved him away were he not clinging on dearly with both hands . |
| 16 | He alleged Wood fell into the second category and was at the heart of the conspiracy . |
| 17 | For the first few days after the story broke Creed lived in the car . |
| 18 | One example was at London Zoo when a polar bear called Brumas died at the age of nine because he ate something which had been thrown into his enclosure . |
| 19 | The judges who decided McLoughlin worried about the most accurate description of the principles underlying the precedent cases cited to them , although they knew that nothing in the explicit extension of any convention settled what these principles were or what weight they should be given . |
| 20 | She waved to well-wishers at Sadler 's Wells in London where she watched Carmen performed by the British Youth Opera of which she is patron . |
| 21 | Now although the only known brother of Æthelred named Edmund died in the early 970s , when Thietmar of Merseburg describes events in England in 1016 he tells how , after a battle in which Edmund was killed , the Danes fled from before London because they had heard that help was on the way from Edmund 's brother Æthelstan and the Britannis . |
| 22 | The doctor who attended Sarah went into the forces and the elderly man who took his place discharged her as fit for work . |
| 23 | I thought Harvey played in the WC finals in 1974 ( ? ) . |
| 24 | ‘ Everyone thought David broke off the engagement , but the truth of the matter was it was me who ended it . ’ |
| 25 | An extrapolation of this responsibility saw Hermes designated as the conductor of the souls of the dead to HADES , as well as being a god of sleep and dreams . |
| 26 | He turned his head and saw Hrun crouched by the pit , his sword a blur as it hacked at the tentacles racing out towards him . |
| 27 | Once Tam darted a terrified glance over his shoulder and saw Kim sprawled across the writing-table ; white faced and trembling from head to toe , he had his eyes closed and his fists were clenched tight as he summoned up every last ounce of courage in his eleven-year-old body to endure his father 's beating without weeping or crying out . |
| 28 | He turned and saw Tock bent over the handle . |
| 29 | I kept Davey informed on the phone . |
| 30 | The four weeks preceding Christmas 1984 saw Britain locked in the desperate late stages of a long , cold and bitter conflict . |