Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you rather I thrashed him within an inch of his life ? |
| 2 | Faced with this united German front , Napoleon III realized that for him nothing of substance was likely to emerge from the meeting and so he turned it into an exercise in public relations . |
| 3 | When he saw the state the girl was in he sat her in an armchair and sent his adjutant to get her something to drink . |
| 4 | Carolyn knew that he was angry with her , for some reason which she could n't fathom , and that the more she pressed him for an explanation the more he clammed up over it . |
| 5 | He stood no taller than his daughter , probably she exceeded him by an inch or two , but he had the shoulders of a bull , and a great head of brindled brown hair laced with grey , like his short , square beard . |
| 6 | but then you left him for an American carpenter . |
| 7 | Then they accompanied us to an eating house . |
| 8 | Perhaps then they heated it in an oven , or on a hot griddle ? ) |
| 9 | They may not have made him the finest British light comedian since his hero David Niven , but at least they rescued him from an uncertain future in Britain where he may have ended up as a cross between Roy Castle and Ronnie Corbett . |
| 10 | That is why I took him for an agent . |
| 11 | Because she turned unexpectedly she surprised him in an unguarded moment of frank sexual appraisal , but his dark , unsmiling gaze continued to hold hers steadily until she looked away again . |
| 12 | But you are speaking of an occasion some days ago , when we recovered him after an attempt at escape . |
| 13 | He had said and done nothing that was not polite , yet he left them with an inexplicably awkward feeling , as though something unpleasant had taken place . |
| 14 | Davide had turned up a coin , one afternoon , when he was mooning around ; it was a common enough type , the professor told him in the museum at Riba , where he took it for an opinion . |
| 15 | In that too I saw him as an obvious heir to the boys of the old Paris suburbs ’ ( p. 143 ) . |