Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 2 | Data could pop up in boxes around the screen , and in due course graphics , mice and icons led us into the wimps era ( window , icon , menu , pointer ) . |
| 3 | On the handling of the union 's finances , Wilson 's enemies attacked him with equal vituperation . |
| 4 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
| 5 | When eventually its report , Lead and Health , was published in 1980 , various environmental groups damned it for being too meek . |
| 6 | His political inclinations got him into trouble again in 1940 , however . |
| 7 | Influenced by these dreams , beautiful mornings seemed to mock her waking despair , but once she had shaken herself free from their shades , sun , sky , trees and birds enveloped her like a benediction . |
| 8 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 9 | Later in my life — ça sera pour un autre jour — birds led me into a very unusual experience . |
| 10 | George Best , a thin teenager from Belfast , whose dribbling skills made him into a star with Manchester United and the darling of the sports and gossip columns epitomized the new era . |
| 11 | The coronet is shown in loving detail as it embodies the moment when this family of merchants made it to the princely ranks . |
| 12 | ‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award . |
| 13 | Many of Richard Gough 's contemporaries provided him with information about a wide range of cousins and about ancestors going back several generations . |
| 14 | For as long as it took me to get out of range , several birds used me for bombing practice , coming so close on occasions that ducking was a necessity rather than a flamboyant gesture . |
| 15 | In the course of dealing with those who demanded excessively high wages or who broke their contracts , the courts provided us with a great deal of evidence about wage rates , and continuity and frequency of employment . |
| 16 | The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished . |
| 17 | His contemporaries reported him as a master of geological field-mapping techniques and his original maps of many parts of Scotland confirm his observational skills and his ability to locate himself in the wilderness with an accuracy that can not be improved upon with aerial photographs . |
| 18 | The sharp hiss of an angry breath drawn through clenched teeth stopped him in his tracks . |
| 19 | Her investments provided her with an annual income of well over a million dollars , in addition to the trusts and investments left to her directly by her husband . |
| 20 | The Germans evacuated him to Athens then to Salonika . |
| 21 | ‘ The authorities traced you to Frankfurt , sir , ’ interjected Adam . |
| 22 | His evidence was to help place Mrs Dyer on the scaffold , as was his wife Polly 's , who testified that her mother had at times visited her with various small children who seemed to disappear overnight . |
| 23 | Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) . |
| 24 | Inevitably , his steps led him in the end to the Corso , where the evening promenade was in progress . |
| 25 | The proposals were given a cautious welcome by politicians on the left , but the right-wing parties decried them as an attempt to distract from the President 's and the government 's current unpopularity . |
| 26 | Originally it had no towers and was aisleless , but extensive additions in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries made it into a three-aisled church with a tall tower . |
| 27 | His large square face with small prune-coloured eyes scanned her without wavering . |
| 28 | Suddenly he looked tired , and there were deep furrows in his brow as his eyes scanned her for an instant . |
| 29 | The eyes lanced hers with swift rage and her pulses raced . |
| 30 | Lucenzo 's golden hair streaked back in the wind , emphasising the high purity of his cheekbones , and briefly his eyes lanced hers with a calculating look . |