Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Writing of the work of Chardin , whose most profoundly moving paintings are revelations of how trivial , homely , everyday scenes and objects are transformed for us when we see them through the eyes of a great painter , Proust says , " Chardin has taught us that a pear is as living as a woman , a kitchen crock as beautiful as an emerald . " |
| 2 | Psychoanalysis has made unfamiliar with the intimate connection between the father-complex and belief in God ; it has shown us that a personal God is psychologically nothing other than an exalted father , and it brings us evidence every day of how young people lose their religious beliefs as soon as their father 's authority breaks down . |
| 3 | Someone has told me that a new carb would help , someone else reckons the distributor would be best changed . |
| 4 | Yes , United should have seen it and a third strike would have killed Charlton off , but Oxford began to lose fire power . |
| 5 | The real problem is that Televisa 's experience in Mexico may have convinced it that a strategy which worked well in a market where the company was protected by the government is one that will succeed in the face of intense competition . |
| 6 | She 'd surely have told me if a rich relative had left him somethin' — I 'm sure she would . |
| 7 | It would have bothered me though a few years ago . |
| 8 | I conceded that it might have been wiser , and indeed more seemly , to have consulted her before a decision was reached ; but I did not add that I had advised the Prime Minister to agree to a meeting over her head because I was convinced that she would never accept a challenge to her authority . |
| 9 | The Nuremberg Trials lifted the scales from the eyes of many Germans , and later OMGUS surveys reported that only one in eight ( 12 per cent ) of those questioned in the American Zone recalled trusting Hitler as Leader up to the end of the war , while 35 per cent claimed never to have trusted him and a further ( 6 per cent to have kept faith in him only until the outbreak of war . |
| 10 | New copper washers under the dome fixing nuts appears to have cured them but a new ‘ 0 ’ ring on the breather seat still allows the oil to pass through and over the engine . |
| 11 | The reputation of the new drugs had preceded them and a ripple of optimism ran through the sanatorium , though Doctor Staples had been careful to stress that they were still in the experimental stage . |
| 12 | I mean , they do n't mean nothing when you 've got them because a lot of these people that have all these qualifications ca n't do naff all in any case ! |
| 13 | Smallfry had told him that a body had recently been dumped at the tunnel entrance where the beck came into view for several yards before vanishing again into the darkness below ground . |
| 14 | Sapt had told them that a friend of the King 's was a prisoner in the Castle of Zenda and that the King needed their help . |
| 15 | I remembered what Agrippa had told me and a faint suspicion stirred . |
| 16 | Dotty was n't at all sure the poor woman should n't have been left in the telephone box until the ambulance arrived , rather than carried by George across the square in a fireman 's lift under an old blanket , but Rose had convinced her that a scandal must be avoided at all costs . |
| 17 | As an adult , this woman came to understand that the fairy tale had helped her greatly in throwing off her dependence on her brother , as it had convinced her that an early dependence on him need not interfere with her later ascendancy . |
| 18 | An estimate of numbers was impossible in the few seconds available at the pause , but on the return journey , about an hour later , something had awakened them and a most spectacular aerial display was in progress — the two species had reacted differently to whatever had disturbed their siesta — the lapwing wheeling erratically just above ground level , but the ‘ goldies ’ in ever-changing smoke-like clouds high above , performing quick-change evolutions reminiscent of starlings going to roost . |
| 19 | You 've known me but a short time . ’ |
| 20 | Throughout his evidence , Price implicated the applicant ( whom he identified from a photograph ) in those dealings as the man who had informed him of the consignment of cannabis in Sweden , and had asked him and a man named Ryan ( who had also been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment ) to deliver it to customers in Sweden . |
| 21 | These were the dead whose stink had touched her when a child . |
| 22 | The house agent had assured me that a bathroom and lavatory had been installed upstairs above the scullery ; looking at those nettles , I hoped he had told the truth . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's put me and a lot of other people through hell and anguish in the last few weeks . |