Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , her heart in her mouth , she went into the pub , located the public call box in the lobby and dialled the number the porter had given her . |
| 2 | They were glad to see it , as they had packed some food in one of the suitcases , and directly the porter had gone they set about preparing a meal . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , the porter agreed to take us there , ’ Corbett lied . |
| 4 | The Treeman had kept them safe in the deepest wildwoods while war raged . |
| 5 | The prince had asked him to take over a small present ; Simon had stuck it in a pocket and thought no more about it , only when he saw Constanza he decided to deliver it in person . |
| 6 | Indeed , the French envoy de Craon knew more , claiming the Prince had told him about Lady Eleanor 's death long before the porter had even reached Woodstock . |
| 7 | If you had not , and the prince had consigned me again to that man 's house , I should hardly have known what to do , or where to turn . |
| 8 | Item — the Prince had claimed he had no involvement in Lady Eleanor 's death but both he and his favourite appeared nervous . |
| 9 | As they approached , the prince had found it almost impossible to tell the one from the other . |
| 10 | The French pursued him , however , and although it is doubtful whether the prince intended to force them to fight it became clear that a battle could not be avoided . |
| 11 | But , in changing direction , the hurricane had given them ten minutes of further respite . |
| 12 | On a recent visit to WACC in London , he explained how his release from 17 months of brutal imprisonment under the dictator Duvalier in the mid-1970s had led him to devote his life to the struggle for justice and democracy in Haiti . |
| 13 | Now he was into jazz because he 'd heard that the Yuppies had hijacked it after Clint Eastwood 's film on Charlie Parker , and had moved back a decade to the late ‘ forties . |
| 14 | And presumably whatever it was the GP had give him has had tha , upset that thrombosis again . |
| 15 | She began to wonder if the woman who had sent the box-message had tricked her here into this dead-end room . |
| 16 | It was a brief letter from an address in Chelsea , telling him that the writer had heard he was looking for a sibling , affirming that the writer of the letter was probably that person , and suggesting a meeting . |
| 17 | She was reported as saying that the trial had taught her one important lesson as a barrister — how the victim feels — and called for changes in the law which would give greater protection to victims . |
| 18 | A slight wisp of smoke came from the back of the man 's hair where the flames had scorched him . |
| 19 | He glanced at Colebrooke and realised the lieutenant had told them little of his own movements . |
| 20 | Miller wanted the former Aberdeen striker to stay , but the board declined to back him . |
| 21 | In both cases the creditor had left it to the debtor husband to deal with the surety , his wife , and had done nothing to satisfy itself that she understood what she was doing or to protect her from abuse by the debtor of the influence and reliance that would be likely to be present . |
| 22 | Out of the kindness of their enormous hearts , the giants had lifted her out of her icy misery and carefully put her down in the warmer waters where she was to be found today . |
| 23 | The force of the tide threatened to snatch it away from him . |
| 24 | The tide had lifted her . |
| 25 | Life as the artists had known it only a few weeks earlier no longer existed . |
| 26 | Greenwich had begun producing a return on the money spent to launch it as an astronomical and nautical centre well before that : in the early eighteenth century French charts were still better than any others , but the table of wind movements , trade winds , and monsoons that Halley published in 1686 was a great help to navigation . |
| 27 | Her Majstey 's the Patron of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund , which raised the money needed to build it . |
| 28 | Later , after returning home , in bed with his wife , the merchant taxes her about not having told him the monk had given her the money ; she claims that she thought the money the monk gave her was gift , and that she has already used it to buy clothing ; she will pay , she says , her debts to her husband in bed . |
| 29 | Momentarily Jaq imagined that the majordomo had led them , in error of mischief , to a soothsayer . |
| 30 | He then announced that the courts had found me innocent and therefore I would shortly be released . |