Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deliberate mockery had faded from his eyes , and the raw darkness she saw there made her stomach clench in anguish . |
| 2 | And for all he knew , pro-Syrian elements , the Lebanese Forces and other narco-terrorist groups were also still looking to revenge themselves for the damage that he and the Asmar cell had done to their drugs , arms and hostage-taking operations in Beirut . |
| 3 | And now that Wang Sau-leyan had come to his senses they would be strong again . |
| 4 | After some years of struggling anxiously with the knotty complexities of Catholic devotion before the reforms of the Second Vatican Council , I found The Cloud of Unknowing 's stark insistence on the one thing necessary deeply liberating and felt that a weight had fallen from my shoulders . |
| 5 | There was a short pause , during which Juliet felt as if an incredible weight had lifted from her shoulders . |
| 6 | In May 1559 , Mary of Guise had hurled at her opponents the accusation that they ‘ meant no religion , but a plain rebellion ’ . |
| 7 | A new spaciousness had entered into his considerations . |
| 8 | Once the President had retired to his quarters for the short flight , the DDI opened the envelope he 'd been handed when he arrived at the airport . |
| 9 | Cuntona got a 4-match suspension , and scum got fined for their fans ’ behaviour . |
| 10 | The starlight became entangled in her lashes as her eyes closed … |
| 11 | And a strange sight it was , this tiny dark-hared person sitting there with her feet nowhere near touching the floor , totally absorbed in the wonderful adventures of Pip and old Miss Havisham and her cobwebbed house and by the spell of magic that Dickens the great story-teller had woven with his words . |
| 12 | It was like a trap-door had opened at her feet . |
| 13 | Haymo receiving news of this and hearing the commotion sent word to the Archbishop for further news , but found that the worthy Primate had left with his attendants and was well on the road to Kent . |
| 14 | He seemed to have grown older , more mature — as if his brother 's burden of kingship had fallen on his shoulders also . |
| 15 | I used to arrive early in the morning before the household had left on their rounds . |
| 16 | In the viewing gallery overlooking the arena , the Controller had leapt to his feet , his face contorted with fury . |
| 17 | Some people were waking up and seeing through the disguise humanity had constructed around its deities . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll 'av to tell yew girls to gaou , ’ wailed Mrs Sugden , and Wendy and I felt a frisson of mirth , quickly and ashamedly suppressed , at the way fate had played into our hands . |
| 19 | The vagueness had gone from her eyes , though she seemed a little startled . |
| 20 | On her way to the boathouse that dawn — before the rain began and too early for her father to rise in protest — thin panes of ice had snapped beneath her feet . |
| 21 | The lack of murder weapon had preyed on their minds . |
| 22 | Twenty years after that holiday I read in the Scotsman one morning that a St Abbs fisherman had hauled in his nets and landed a complete suit of sixteenth-century armour . |
| 23 | Drained and empty , she sat until the redness had faded from her eyes . |
| 24 | After the foolish lad had died of his fevers — unable to pull through illness like me with my superior physique — his spirit had been powerless to escape . |
| 25 | Her heart had accelerated alarmingly and that same hot electrical charge had raced across her nerve-endings . |
| 26 | But this throws into high relief Leonard 's ( or at least Breavman 's ! ) denial of spiritual responsibility : if the onus had passed to his uncles , and thereby to his cousins , why should he care ? |
| 27 | Eventually she took some goods her husband had left at her lodgings to the Police Station . |
| 28 | ‘ You like it and I like it , ’ he said , his voice muffled now as his head became buried between her legs . |
| 29 | A smile had formed on his lips , and it seemed to Jessica to be a rueful one . |
| 30 | The smile had died from his eyes , and he tightened his arms round her so hard that she thought her ribs might crack . |