Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brother Eadred rode with us for a while , two or three miles from the abbey gates . |
| 2 | Some referred to him as the Furie ; some as Zach or Zacho or Mr Zee ; others called him Gentle , which was the name she knew him by , of course ; still others John the Divine . |
| 3 | This weighed on him like an inactive dreadnought suit of combat armour , imprisoning him ; and he sought his enhanced clarity , as it were , to restore power to that suit . |
| 4 | This seemed to me to be one of the most perceptive remarks in the essay , about which some elaboration on his part would be of considerable interest . |
| 5 | This seemed to me to be a pretty fair definition of hell , but I tried to look like a man who enjoyed such occasions . |
| 6 | Very few came to him with a complete understanding of who he was and what he had come to do , so their faith was correspondingly weak . |
| 7 | At once , it fascinated him : a country and a city that were so French , and so Arab , in which two cultures very different from one another seemed to him at first to blend triumphantly . |
| 8 | This happened to me on the Seven Mile Straight at recently , a lorry coming in the opposite direction in spite of road signs . |
| 9 | This happened to me in Clumber Park , the National Trust Country Park in Nottinghamshire . |
| 10 | This happened to me in May this year when I walked into ‘ Pluggers ’ shop ( Wet Pet of Detroit ) and saw the most beautiful pair of Ornate Birchirs ( Polypterus ornatipinnis ) I had ever seen for sale . |
| 11 | 1991 has seen many changes both external and internal ; some placed upon us by legislative bodies and the fluctuating state of the economy , others initiated from within in order to improve the working environment for all employees . |
| 12 | ‘ This worked against us in many areas of the country and we had a lot of losses . |
| 13 | The girl turned her head and half smiled at him behind her glasses . |
| 14 | He worked his passage home as a steward and fetched up at Tilbury with £30 wages , which was soon augmented by £46 10s left to him in his absence by his grandfather . |
| 15 | Marion decided finally that she 'd start with " Dearest Pete " and work up gradually to " Pete , my darling " because that seemed to her to be the most loving , the most tender , the most romantic : the one with the sound of real love echoing round the saying of it when it was spoken . |
| 16 | That seemed to me to be a perfectly proper use of what the company had to offer . |
| 17 | That seemed to me to be a nice balance — good for our shareholders , good for our company and good for the country , as I saw it . |
| 18 | That seemed to me to be taken for granted and perfectly possible . |
| 19 | That seemed to me to be a specific and different group , although many of them were older women , but that is a different point . |
| 20 | That seemed to me to be daft , bordering on snobbery . |
| 21 | That seemed to me to be quite all right , since I was quite sure that I was better than the average man . |
| 22 | That seemed to me to be a fairly convincing argument , and I was too tired to put up much of a fight . |
| 23 | That seemed to me to be a very good read , a serious book . |
| 24 | When the Second World War broke out in Europe , it was difficult to get supplies of helpful books , and when the Japanese came into it after the disaster of Pearl Harbour , I myself , as well as the clergy and students for whom I had a pastoral responsibility , felt the need of prayers to meet the threatening danger , as well as the provision of prayers which would express a Christ-like spirit about war , enemies in war , dangers in war and sufferers in war . |
| 25 | Sabine looked at it for a long moment , aware of a faint stirring in her consciousness , some elusive memory , fleetingly brought to life . |
| 26 | Sabine looked round her with eager curiosity , her gaze lingering on one large central tapestry . |
| 27 | But these six descended on them like the Dynamos on a loose ball , flattened them into the floorboards , and trussed them in sash-cord in twenty seconds . |
| 28 | But it all came to her from a distance . |
| 29 | And we all nodded at him : the man of finance , the man of accounts , the man of law , we all nodded at him over the polished table that like a still sheet of brown water reflected our faces , lined , wrinkled ; our faces marked by toil , by deceptions , by success , by love ; our weary eyes looking still , looking always , looking anxiously for something out of life , that while it is expected is already gone — has passed unseen , in a sigh , in a flash — together with the youth , with the strength , with the romance of illusions . |
| 30 | They all turned against him in the end did n't they ? |