Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drawings were purchased by the museum from William Proby , whose family had owned them from an early date , for £310,000 with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund , the National Art Collections Fund and other benefactors . |
| 2 | ‘ First , my miserable Yankee friend , the good Brigadeführer Farber has recommended you for an immediate Iron Cross First Class which , from what he says , you deserve . ’ |
| 3 | This morning Luke seemed even less human than he had at the interview when obviously she had caught him in an off moment . |
| 4 | This has committed it to an inevitable struggle with the Palestinians for control of policy on the Palestine question and , by extension , for control of Jordan itself . |
| 5 | For Liverpool , this season 's troubles have seen them in an unfamiliar battle to avoid being sucked into the relegation fight but Souness admitted : ‘ It was a good game for us to win . |
| 6 | My cousins , & his wife , , sailed from Victoria , via Vancouver to spend a day with us in Seattle ( we had already met them at an all-family-reunion wedding in Cheltenham in August . ) . |
| 7 | Chamberlain had seen it as an ideal way of combining the efficient running of Birmingham with improving its water supplies , housing and city centre . |
| 8 | I was not so much gratified with the interior of the country as I had anticipated but the people tell me I have seen it in an unfavorable season , in consequence of no rain having fallen for 3 months . |
| 9 | Had n't she finally made it as an integrated human being without the help of her father ? |
| 10 | They have presented us with an extraordinary melange of figures which are hugely contradictory . |
| 11 | ‘ Madam , I must tell you , ’ I replied , ‘ that since he found me , my master has used me as an easy way of making money for himself . |
| 12 | Suppose someone you know has recently accused you of an uncaring hypocritical attitude . |
| 13 | But if Urquhart were speaking the truth at last — and she wondered whether yet another web of deception was being woven about her — he had forged her into an unwitting tool of the Soviet Union . |
| 14 | Billy 's been brilliant because we 've had him on an album-by-album deal , and he could have jumped ship , but he 's been really loyal . ’ |
| 15 | Fashion editors had used it as an exotic background to collections of fabulous clothes . |
| 16 | After its discovery in 1873 , the Tongue had found its way into the hands of a treasure-hunter , who had kept quiet about it and sold it to a London dealer , who in turn had sold it to an American collector , who had lent it to an exhibition in Philadelphia in 1922 — which latter appearance had provided the clues , sixty-five years later , for a detective-story-like investigation on the part of Theodore Kemp of the Ashmolean Museum — a man who now lay dead in the mortuary at the Radcliffe Infirmary . |
| 17 | Mr Kronenburg 's lawyers accepted that the defamation was accidental , four-figure damages were paid , and Chatto & Windus , having first withdrawn the book , has reissued it with an elaborate disclaimer slip . |
| 18 | I suppose that because she had n't really known me from an early age , she made a tremendous effort to get to know me later . |
| 19 | I have provided him with an adjustable heartbeat of around 100 . ’ |
| 20 | At one level Jamaica had provided him with an intense visual experience . |
| 21 | The headmistressy tone should have reduced him to an ill-behaved schoolboy . |
| 22 | That book portrayed her as an insecure child , who had overcome her unhappiness at the time of her mother 's elopement by zealously nursing her younger brother . |
| 23 | And yet the reluctance of the villagers to discuss Rose 's unexplained death had lured him like an irresistible hint of treasure . |
| 24 | You can also recover all SMP paid in previous months in the same tax year if you have not recovered it in an earlier month . |
| 25 | Cynthia Iliffe shared with the Board a feeling that it could be rather ‘ a hybrid sort of degree course at first ’ , but Pocock and the Board really believed in it , understood that the Crick model of a discipline-based degree had provided it with an academic foundation , but even then ‘ we talked a lot about integration ’ . |
| 26 | I learned the next song from my four-year-old son Russell whose teacher had adapted it from an older song to help with subtraction . |
| 27 | Cumbernauld Theatre have duly translated it into an enjoyable and amusing production . |
| 28 | Mr Brown 's trip to Harlem has brought us into an urban landscape known to tabloid headline writers as Beirut-on-Hudson , an advance on their earlier versions of , first , Naples-on-Hudson , and then Calcutta-on-Hudson . |
| 29 | If nothing else , he has provided us with an excellent description of coffin-making , coffin furniture and grave clothes of the mid seventeenth century . |
| 30 | I could n't have stopped him with an anti-tank gun . |