Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun] and [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Tamar sank back into her seat , Tempy took out a bottle of smelling salts and held them under her nose . |
| 2 | They defined fire as a means of warmth and used it to heat their dwellings ; as a means of defence and used it to ward off wild animals ; and as a means of transforming substances and employed it for cooking and hardening the points of wooden spears . |
| 3 | With Allen 's help she bathed it with wine from the last of the Friar 's bottles and then made a pad of cooling leaves and re-bandaged it . |
| 4 | His foot slipped and he grasped at a piece of jutting tile and dragged himself back to safety . |
| 5 | She took the proffered tiny scrap of blotting paper and wiped it on to her tongue . |
| 6 | When we explained that the underwater housing was to enable us to take portraits of the fishes underwater , they dissolved into disbelieving laughter and ushered us into the country . |
| 7 | She pulled it out of the pad with shaking fingers and tore it across and across again until it was a pile of tiny white flakes all over her bed . |
| 8 | In Themis she stressed the need for group rather than individual values in conducting life and saw them as the foundation of religion . |
| 9 | We then looked at the remarkable record of capitalism in creating wealth and contrasted it with the present malaise which now seems to infect most economies of the Western world . |
| 10 | We looked at the remarkable record of capitalism in creating wealth and contrasted it with the present malaise which now seems to infect most economies of the Western world . |
| 11 | She took it in shaking fingers and pulled it on , immediately feeling very closed in by the visor . |
| 12 | Two years after they separated , Ted travelled to Northern Ireland without telling Joan and persuaded her to leave . |
| 13 | It was on Stephen Leacock 's advice that I tried my hand at writing humour and found it very arduous work ; writing ordinary prose was hard enough , but trying to make it funny was even harder . |
| 14 | The boy threw out his arm at astounding speed and touched her face . |