Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun sg] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She always wore a flowered cotton overall and her thin gingery hair framed a face that made me think of a martyr in search of grace . |
| 2 | When Pina saw Modigliani he drew a revolver and pointed it at him . |
| 3 | The customs officers were very understanding and found a mirror and propped it up on the customs bench for her . |
| 4 | She found a nurse and sent her for it , and then held the cup and dabbed his lips with a swab dipped in the water . |
| 5 | Eventually , I found a rope and threw it to my pal and they made it fast . |
| 6 | John found a torch and shone it at the engine cowling . |
| 7 | He found a chair and pulled it beside the sofa . |
| 8 | So we were better being turned down until we found a deal that suited us better . ’ |
| 9 | He would leave them soon — as soon as he found a place that pleased him and set up home , or found work at his own mystery of painting , dyeing and carpentry . |
| 10 | Then Diane found a switch and threw it , and a weak pool of illumination washed down a white screen on the back wall . |
| 11 | Despite having one wing afire and disintegrating , he managed to get his crew away but only after his flight engineer , FS Colgan , found a parachute and attached it , and had gone to the aid of the wounded tail gunner . |
| 12 | He was thrown out of Chicago and fled to New York where he built a palace and filled it with Old Masters . |
| 13 | Paraphrasing Tacitus and Byron , the Visitors ' Centre has the last word on Bloody Cumberland : ‘ he created a desert and called it peace . ’ |
| 14 | No , not some fanatical carp angler frightened of someone looking in his bait box , but carp that mouthed a bait and spat it out before the angler could strike — if he 'd seen the bite , that is . |
| 15 | In Darlington , Robert visited an agency that told him it was unable to help him find accommodation in Newton Aycliffe . |
| 16 | He reached Haslemere in early afternoon , hired a taxi and discharged it fifteen minutes later on the other side of the road from the Skein of Geese Hotel and Restaurant a few miles south-east of the town . |
| 17 | The Victorian doll filled a teapot and covered it with an egg cosy . |
| 18 | When the brandy arrived , he filled a glass and tossed it off , in a gesture of childish defiance . |
| 19 | The spies were about and a Dominican in some way unknown secured a copy and sent it to the Inquisition at Rome . |
| 20 | Once upon a time ( I said , and he stared bitterly bitterly at the floor ) there was a very ugly monster who captured a princess and put her in a dungeon in his castle . |
| 21 | Yeah I 'm like that but we had a erm conifer type tree it was only so big but and then I and when we we was unloading off the van , this come off and I dug a hole and stuck it in the garden , in the front garden just by the pathways right that 's that but I was washing the car one day , a nice hot day got my shirt off when I come in course I 'd brushed past it I 'd got patterns of the leaves on my on my back . |
| 22 | The third servant made no attempt to use the gold but dug a hole and kept it safe for his master 's return . |
| 23 | She remembered how , side by side , they had hacked and burned the underbrush , borrowed a plough and pulled it themselves , working feverishly to get a little harvest to last them through the first arctic-cold winter . |
| 24 | He poured a drink and pushed it towards her . |
| 25 | He poured a brandy and handed it to Craig before helping himself to a good measure . |
| 26 | Middlesbrough showed a resilience that emphasised they are no longer a soft touch on their travels . |
| 27 | They turned through lanes , and joined a motorway and left it . |
| 28 | She opened a gate and held it for Meredith . |
| 29 | Suddenly , all the lights came on in the hospital and they eventually opened a side-door and let her in . |
| 30 | After she was found dead and there were so-many questions and Mena told so much , she said to Constanza — oh , I can give you the very words , I shall never forget them — Mena said , ‘ One day many many years ago , when the old principessa was still alive , she opened a door and saw them , the prince and the Marchesa Giulia , in the long room at Castelfonte . ’ |