Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb past] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them had seen her at meetings or heard of her in connection with the ICO . |
| 2 | She was very quick ; she caught the glance that swept over her from head to foot , and laughed . |
| 3 | I looked at Lily She seemed to me to be perceptibly hurt ; and just as another wild idea was beginning to run through my mind , that she really was an amnesiac , some beautiful amnesiac he had , somehow , literally and metaphorically laid his hands on , she gave me what was beyond any doubt a contemporary look , a look out of role — a quick , questioning glance that flicked from me to Conchis 's averted head and back again . |
| 4 | Inside the confines of the car the atmosphere pulsed to the same demented rhythm that thrummed in her veins . |
| 5 | The axeman wore the first beard of a boy and had big ears that stuck through his hair . |
| 6 | These latter ( Ornithischians ) include some animals that walked on their hind legs like Tyrannosaurus , but with vegetarian habits ( Iguanodon , the first dinosaur to be discovered ) ; the group also includes various types of vegetarian armoured and plated dinosaurs , often shown in pitched battle with their carnivorous contemporaries . |
| 7 | She began to scream , high , sharp screams that tore at her chest and hurt her throat . |
| 8 | No : amor matris , a force that stopped for nothing . |
| 9 | Despite the almost annoying quality of their persistence , the words had a certain romantic ring that appealed to her . |
| 10 | It was probably this inability to recognize defeat that led to his continuing attacks on the Somme and to the prolonged bloodbath at Passchendaele . |
| 11 | She glanced away quickly and stared down into her cognac , fighting the sudden strange charge of emotion that shot through her . |
| 12 | As Lisa looked back at him , heart racing , eyes barely focusing , she was aware of the intensity of emotion that sprang from him . |
| 13 | ‘ Now I open tonight 's reading from the master 's great Oliver Twist , the famous scene chosen by Dickens for his own readings and which led to his early death , from the violent emotion that swept over him each time he read this passage . ’ |
| 14 | And as she pressed against him and felt his passion stirring , and saw the depth of emotion that shone from his eyes , Shiona knew beyond a doubt that his promise was true . |
| 15 | She heard the indrawn breath hiss sharply through his teeth , and felt the wave of emotion that washed over him . |
| 16 | However , it was not only household cutlery that fell under his all-powerful , all-twisting spell . |
| 17 | And every time I told him I could n't hear voices , you should have seen the look of disappointment that came into his face . |
| 18 | Folly bit back the feeling of disappointment that crept over her , and summoned Lisa for a council of war . |
| 19 | And , with a gasp , she freed herself , stumbling backwards , her head bent as she struggled against the hunger and disappointment that clamoured inside her . |
| 20 | When he finally walked past her room to go to his she was ashamed and shocked at the disappointment that raced through her . |
| 21 | In the end , after much hesitation — all Agnese 's stuff looked so expensive ! — Ronni selected a blue silk jersey dress the colour of her eyes that clung to her in all the right places and looked sensational , and a pair of matching blue sandals that , miraculously , fitted . |
| 22 | He had a broad , high-cheekboned face , a straight beak of a nose , and dark eyes that stared at us without expression . |
| 23 | I turned away , no longer able to face the eyes that looked at me so coldly in the gleam of the dashboard light . |
| 24 | The eyes that burned through her seemed to hold her like rivets . |
| 25 | The dark eyes that swept over her were shadowed by heavily mascara-darkened lashes which contrasted with the white teeth gleaming from behind brilliantly red lips which were too thin for real beauty . |
| 26 | The eyes that dwelt upon her had opened wide in surprise , perhaps even in amusement ; but the mind behind them was held and deeply exercised . |
| 27 | Sweetheart appeared oblivious to their stares , but Frankie knew she was aware of all the eyes that turned in her direction as she sat with her legs crossed and her head lifted proudly . |
| 28 | No movie that ran in his head had ever worked out as this one did . |
| 29 | It would soothe away the worries that ached in his head , even on this hazy gold morning of early September , with a fine harvest coming and plenty of work for the young men in the new town . |
| 30 | And it was that habit of speaking his mind that led to his downfall . |