Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun sg] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They met through work and had an affair for five months until Mike , who was divorced , suggested Marianne should leave her husband . |
| 2 | RUSSIA 'S leaders vacillated between confrontation and compromise yesterday as President Boris Yeltsin softened his claim to special powers and parliament called an emergency session of the Congress of People 's Deputies to try to oust him . |
| 3 | Leontyne Price sang ‘ Visse d'Arte , ’ from ‘ Tosca ’ : ‘ I lived for art and love … |
| 4 | Mr Johns said he knew nothing of this but the next day Grugel again asked for money and became aggressive . |
| 5 | Mr Johns said he knew nothing of this but the next day Grugel again asked for money and became aggressive . |
| 6 | Bauthumley fought for Parliament and rose to be quartermaster in Colonel Cox 's regiment . |
| 7 | After a few more games we stopped for lunch and went over the morning 's action . |
| 8 | They returned to the front room and , after a light tea of eggs and toast , Willie changed for bed and positioned himself by the armchair , next to Tom . |
| 9 | In their second year , Robyn and Charles moved off campus and set up house in a small flat in Brighton , commuting to the University by local train . |
| 10 | While men like Thomas Howard , Duke of Norfolk , and Stephen Gardiner , Bishop of Winchester , were prepared to accept the royal supremacy , they baulked at these evangelical reforms , which in their view smacked of heresy and threatened to lead England into the Lutheran camp . |
| 11 | Her foot slipped on the smooth tiles and a frightened little cry left her lips about one second before Mitch moved like lightning and caught her , his arms tightly around her , holding her close . |
| 12 | Much thanks to John and many others in the R Y A who helped with training and preparing er that er expedition and then in the World Disabled Championships in Barcelona , Kevin who has one of our Challenger catamarans , in which he 's been national champion seven times . |
| 13 | He jerked with pain and anger as if I 'd laid a whip on him , " It is " he shouted . |
| 14 | However , although several lengths behind , Clydal Pal soon moved into overdrive and picked up the leader in the home straight to win going away . |
| 15 | It jerked into life and moved away . |
| 16 | Brian Smith , 31 , of Thames Way , Darlington , appeared before town magistrates yesterday charged with theft and handling stolen goods . |
| 17 | He winced with pain and made to grab at her . |
| 18 | Khrushchev rose with dignity and asked his audience to stop reducing the life and death of whole peoples to a joke . |
| 19 | The proportion of responders achieving independence from parents rose with age and suggests that independence is delayed rather than prevented by the presence of cystic fibrosis . |
| 20 | June 18 : Taylorcraft B N37611 crashed into lake and sank at Kakhonak , Alaska , during flight with unlicensed pilot . |
| 21 | I thank your ladyship for the information concerning the Methodist preaching ; their doctrines are most repulsive , and strongly tinctured with impertinence and disrespect towards their superiors , in perpetually endeavouring to level all ranks and to do away with all distinctions , as it is monstrous to be told that you have a heart as sinful as the common wretches that crawl on the earth . |
| 22 | Grom , having overcome his initial surprise , howled with pain and anger before he was overcome by the fumes . |
| 23 | Outside the Waste flickered into brilliance and died in darkness as the lightning played over it . |
| 24 | To judge from the numerous clay copies of human skulls , plastered with clay and having cowrie shells in place of eyes , from the Sepik River , a similar practice obtained in New Guinea in recent times . |
| 25 | Dauntless dismounted from Contralto and led the horse forward . |
| 26 | We ran outside and made an astonishing variety of small bestial gasping noises at the sight of Beinn Alligin and Liathach blanketed in white and framed by azure blue sky . |
| 27 | It overtook in significance and ended the sixty-year domination of the treaty of Brétigny . |
| 28 | Within the convent he faced a group of unruly , ill-disciplined monks ; his tenants at Sandwich were ousted from their houses , and at one point the citizens of Canterbury rose in revolt and threatened to blockade the monks . |
| 29 | Mr Copley , robed in cassock and billowing surplice , was impatiently pacing the back lawn seeming oblivious to their presence . |
| 30 | He stopped in mid-flow and turned to see Nigel Steen standing in the doorway . |