Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adj] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sketchily covered breasts that had embarrassed her earlier in the evening were now taut and tingling , and when Tom 's hands came up to cup them through the thin fabric of her blouse she wanted to arch her back and drink in the new sensation with cries of pleasure . |
| 2 | Friendships have been sundered , mothers have heckled one other in the street and schoolfriends have been separated in the row which has involved the withdrawal of scores of children from the Lady Jane Grey School in Groby , a commuter village near Leicester . |
| 3 | Indeed , Mr Wolski rarely looked anyone full in the face , seeming meek and quiet as if in a strong wind he might almost have been blown away . |
| 4 | He and Ford had a cannon on the roof loaded with everything that they had been able to lay their hands on : stones , penknives , pieces of lightning-conductor , chains , nails , the embossed silver cutlery from the dining-room , and even some ivory false teeth , picked up by Ford who had seen them gleaming in the undergrowth ; but the greater part of the improvised canister was filled with fragments of marble chipped from The Spirit of Science Conquers Ignorance and Prejudice . |
| 5 | Irritated by Viola 's habit of slipping into cliches from the West End plays of her youth every time feeling was called for , Greg said : ‘ You 'd seen her earlier in the evening , had n't you ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 've turned her loose in the hotel boutique , ’ Roman murmured , ‘ so she wo n't want either of us for some time . ’ |
| 7 | Then the goat had made itself evident in the warm air . |
| 8 | The development of science and education has done something similar in the development of mankind , and is more successful than religions in providing real gains in the external world , because its image of the external world is more accurate than those which are based on religious notions . |
| 9 | Whisky had made him heavy in the torso and puffed up his face so that the true features were blurred , as if permanently in shadow . |
| 10 | " I do n't want you to think that we eat like this every night , " said the sultan with a smile ; indeed , we had seen him earlier in the day wearing well-cut Western clothes . |
| 11 | So I wished I 'd done it all in the first place , now I 've got to do it . |
| 12 | Not Fat Paul — Fat Paul , with his full-breasted bulk , his impassive sloped slab of a face , his parched pub rug , and the cruel blond eyebrows which give the eyes themselves the glint of a veteran ferret who has seen it all in the hare-traps and rat-pits . |
| 13 | So the debonair Simon had made it big in the financial world . |
| 14 | I have repeatedly made it clear in the House and beyond that I am working to seek an agreement at Maastricht that will be acceptable to the House and this country . |
| 15 | I 've never seen anything suspicious in the club . ’ |
| 16 | I had n't noticed anything untoward in the animal 's behaviour , but I believed what Lili said . |
| 17 | Have you noticed anything untoward in the village ? ’ |
| 18 | If you 'd told me this in the make-up room when you came to have your hair cut , you 'd have saved yourself a needless journey . |
| 19 | We toyed with the idea of having one on the twenty first of this month , but if we did , but now that we 've got someone interested in the house |
| 20 | After 1787 the graveyard was no longer used and the Jewish community buried its dead in the cemetery in the Žižkov quarter . |
| 21 | I could have told you that in the first place . |
| 22 | I 've got one free in the afternoon so |
| 23 | Oh ma'am if only I had shown myself strong in the face of temptation ! |
| 24 | He longed to ask her if she 'd had anything nice in the post , but did n't quite dare . |
| 25 | Cos if you 've got anything heavy in the bag , the bike falls over . |
| 26 | You 've got your own in the front . |
| 27 | In a 3000m race at Stellenbosch in February , the new-look Zola , now markedly more adult in build than in her ill-fated days as a British international , won with a world-class 8:42.26 — a time which would have ranked her third in the the world in 1990 . |
| 28 | School officials in Pasadena , Texas have detected something satanic in the peace symbol : they see it as an upside-down broken cross that signifies the defeat of Christianity . |
| 29 | Called us all in the lounge and gave us a |
| 30 | Money had proved itself flimsy in the face of those imponderables . |