Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] beautiful " in BNC.
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| 1 | We went from one corner of the country to another and we stayed in palaces and magnificent hotels and played in beautiful little theatres , and then two weeks later , we 'd be in a dark bungalow with cockroaches and snakes in the loo , where they had desks tied together with string for a stage . |
| 2 | ‘ No , it is a matter of business , ’ he replied with beautiful but serious enunciation . |
| 3 | It is large and grey and chilly but surrounded by beautiful land . |
| 4 | If you grow up surrounded by beautiful things , beautiful sounds and beautiful buildings you become a different kind of person . |
| 5 | He lived in beautiful houses , travelled the world in the greatest of comfort , and wanted for nothing . |
| 6 | He used to go out in the air raids and watch the anti aircraft shells bursting in the sky because he said they looked like beautiful flowers . |
| 7 | In the central regions the Mohammedan and Mujédar example was stronger and resulted in beautiful construction and decoration in brick , while in Catalonia , with its Mediterranean mercantile trade , the Lombard ideas percolated most strongly . |
| 8 | At the great Adam , Eve and Immaculate Conception church near the river , I stood with others in the marble hallway and listened to beautiful female solos soaring praises up to Heaven . |
| 9 | The combination of the words and the music of this hymn could unfailingly elevate her to a state of rapt and ferocious ambition and desire ; she pictured , even at a most tender age , not the pearly gates and crystal walls and golden towers of some heavenly city , but some truly terrestrial paradise , where beautiful people in beautiful houses spoke of beautiful things . |