Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half an hour later , walking slowly along the road into Haslemere through the mild grey morning , Harry described in his mind another circuit of all the barely linked half-chances that persuaded him Cunningham was right and concluded , not for the first time , that logic and probability were irrelevant . |
| 2 | It would seem you have every intention of continuing the personal attacks on John Richardson that first surfaced in your paper some weeks before the Willington by-election . |
| 3 | ‘ Do you know what I found in his trunk some time ago , right at the bottom ? |
| 4 | One of the reasons why my partner and I disposed of our practice some years ago was the fact that the new legislation , particularly relating to investment business and the proposed audit regulations which were to come into force , was making practices less profitable , as it was impossible to pass all these extra costs on to the client . |
| 5 | Sheridan muttered under his breath several times , making the people he was sitting with uncomfortable . |
| 6 | She hardly ever stopped thinking about Alain Lemarchand and each time he came into her mind this guilt came too . |
| 7 | The evil thing that came into my house that night — as Jekyll told me — was known by the name of Hyde , and was wanted by the police for the murder of Sir Danvers Carew . |
| 8 | Mrs Webster said that she came into my bedroom several times , fearing I might be in a coma ! |
| 9 | Those people who innocently came to my house this evening , expecting a pleasant dinner , good wine , enjoyable conversation — and instead were treated to a vulgar display ? ’ |
| 10 | But one came to our attention this week from a Pest Control company : ENTOMOLOGICALLY YOURS … |
| 11 | When Ruth climbed into her bed that night Miss Beard was packing for her next day 's departure and she was far more talkative than usual , regaling Ruth with the names and pedigrees of notables with whom she might be privileged to breathe the same air . |
| 12 | In my heart I can not put down what happened to our family that day to anything else . |
| 13 | Mr Brandreth said : ‘ Mr Hanley only arrived at his desk this week , but I have asked to see him as a matter of urgency because I want him to reconsider the whole question of the location of the Army 's pay and personnel centre . |
| 14 | The name meant nothing to me , of course , but I recognized him as soon as he walked into my room this morning . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'll never guess who knocked on our door this morning . |
| 16 | Tommy returned to his platoon that afternoon , his left hand bandaged . |
| 17 | He discovered to his astonishment that Frank now professed atheism . |
| 18 | She included in her discontent each miscarriage of her own generosity , but nothing was so bad as what she had seen in the farmyard . |
| 19 | I think we 're getting into very difficult or er waters when we start talking about the relative comparison with other routes which I have n't er myself included in my statement any reference to . |
| 20 | Foreign exchange worked to our advantage this year , the dollar was at one seventy two on average . |
| 21 | Well , was n't that what she had wanted — to let him see that she had known all along what lay behind his invitation this evening ? |
| 22 | of writes : WITH the recent Californian earthquakes in mind I was wondering if you knew in what year most earthquakes had occurred . |
| 23 | So she forbore to do so altogether , even to Cedric , and as she lay in her bed that day , her arm now beginning to give her some considerable pain , she would willingly ( she knew ) have cracked two of her ribs rather than chipped a couple of her teeth . |
| 24 | Charlie lay in his tent that night wondering why Captain Trentham was so determined to be rid of Tommy . |
| 25 | As I lay in me bed each night , I heard an eerie , moaning sound from overhead . |
| 26 | And I went to my mate this morning who 's a boxer and he said that it 's now maybe , maybe a groin strain |
| 27 | Another stool lay on its side some distance away . |
| 28 | I looked at your face that night and thought — Jesu ! |
| 29 | As she crept from her room and edged slowly down the stairs — avoiding the most creaky — she put from her mind any thought that Wakelate might follow her . |
| 30 | ‘ I spoke to your husband this morning . |