Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [adv] [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cult of classicism and the ancient world is , of course , central to an understanding of Lorenzo , but far from remaining a theoretical and private interest , as was generally thought until recently , prestigious architectural commissions were part of his clearly defined political programme . |
| 2 | Then she had the severest strain put on the control of her newly awakened ear-boxing predilection when his mouth twitched at the corners and it seemed , for a moment , that her sarcasm had amused him . |
| 3 | Henry Hamilton claims , in his well managed English Brass and Copper Industries to 1800 , that " most of the German miners were killed , " but this is certainly not so ; nor is there any premiss conferring authenticity upon his statement that " the works at Keswick … were destroyed . " |
| 4 | The experts have only to accept that the joint sessions also used groups of models kitted-out for each occasion by Rembrandt from his well stocked theatrical wardrobe and used them for painting as well as for drawing , to come to realize that their efforts over the last seventy years have been largely misdirected . |
| 5 | Lady Henrietta knew what was right : everything about her was right , from her tightly bound dark hair to her dark-blue satin slippers . |
| 6 | Second prize ( £50 ) goes to Sue Grout of Kirkcudbright for her well constructed fictional article Mountain Monster . |
| 7 | At one stage Dave Sprott the northern dentist had suggested they hire a black charabanc and people in Maple Drive , used now to his carefully preserved northern humour , had managed deliberately weak smiles of the kind they managed when Sprott backed them into a corner at someone 's Christmas party . |
| 8 | I tried to keep my eyes off his muscular thighs in their tight blue jeans , but as we bent over the café table it was easy to cast occasional surreptitious glances at his powerfully outlined sexual equipment under the much-rubbed fly , which seemed to be almost bursting at the seams . |
| 9 | Most people are amazed at our continuing friendship , but no malice is intended : even her nephew , Crawford , good-humouredly looked up at her recently purchased Venetian chandelier and asked , ‘ Aunt Margaret , is that plastic ? ’ |