Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [prep] [verb] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It amazed her that she 'd ever believed herself in love with him , that she 'd deluded herself into seeing his arrogance and his egotism as positive qualities . |
| 2 | Poor Stephen — she should n't have teased him by exaggerating her friendship with Martin the way she had . |
| 3 | various men seem to have caught it from changing their nappies . |
| 4 | MITI disciplined it by limiting its allocation of imported coking coal . |
| 5 | While large firms have continued to increase their capital/labour ratios thus widening the productivity gap with smaller firms , this has certainly not prevented them from persuading their suppliers to improve the quality of their equipment . |
| 6 | The installer had come highly recommended , but that had n't prevented him from installing our boiler without one ! |
| 7 | I have been a personal friend for many years , but that has never prevented him from criticising my colleagues and myself whenever he felt it necessary to do so . |
| 8 | They 'd suspected him of rigging her escape , and now their suspicions were confirmed . |
| 9 | While Mrs Drubb , with no more explanation than that she was a woman now and had better keep well away from men , had then scolded her for upsetting her mother . |
| 10 | He 'd done it by making her question herself , she realised . |
| 11 | He had done it by convening his kin and friends and other nobles in his support . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've got letters from people recently with big crosses on them , people who 've accused me of using my lyrics to subvert people . |
| 13 | He felt confused beneath Cornelius 's unwavering stare , unsure whether he had not betrayed himself by patting his pocket to check if the photographs were still there . |
| 14 | Nutty had once accused him of giving his mare extra feed at night because she was fatter than all the others , but it was true : he did give her extra . |
| 15 | She 'd already virtually accused him of killing her brother . |
| 16 | Imagine , she 'd thanked him for telling her Rob was missing ! |
| 17 | But Marwood refuses to take issue with Bassett and , instead , has thanked him for furthering his management ambitions . |
| 18 | The President began the meeting as usual , with a review of the scientific advances of the previous year , naming experts who had helped him in making his list . |
| 19 | Luke 's arms came round her as if she had summoned him by saying his name , and she could n't continue . |
| 20 | The misspelling may be because the child has not previously seen the word written down , but more likely because he has seen it in the context of his reading , without paying much attention to anything more than its contour — that is , he has recognised the word without having to decode it , and has understood it without giving its spelling structure close attention . |
| 21 | He had never forgiven her for reporting his indiscretion in front of her husband . |
| 22 | Of relics of ‘ Our Henry 's ’ birth , the chateau of Pau keeps a single , peculiar example : the large turtle-shell supposed to have served him for a cradle , once his grandfather had christened him by rubbing his lips with a clove of garlic and a dab of Jurançon wine . |
| 23 | Contrary to Cissie 's opinion , she herself was glad that David had stopped her from opening her heart to this impressionable young girl . |
| 24 | The meeting with Picasso , which probably took place around the time this picture was being painted or soon after , must have encouraged him in turning his back completely on Fauvism . |
| 25 | Now they 're blaming the government , saying it should have warned them against transferring their pensions into Maxwell 's hands . |
| 26 | The other is the note in Appendix F , which says that some hobbit-names have been retained by Tolkien without translation , ‘ though I have usually anglicized them by altering their endings , since in Hobbit-names a was a masculine ending , and o and e were feminine . ’ |
| 27 | She would n't have upset him by taking his dog for a walk , that was for sure . |
| 28 | Pride always restrained her from describing her mother 's attitudes in too much detail , and she tended rather to laugh them off , but nevertheless her friends had some shrewd notion of the situation . |
| 29 | An effective way of dealing with this situation is to make the dog lie down , having first scruffed it by shaking its neck . |