Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had to face the handicaps of severe diabetes but , true to Greek ideals , she endured them with stoicism ; only on four occasions in 30 years did she break down under these cruel burdens . |
| 2 | My Lord let me speak plainly , I introduced the topic of when he was recaptured , I asked nothing about what was . |
| 3 | He asked nothing but justice of Heaven , and of man he asked only a fair field ; and his father seeing of how good heart he was , gave him his sword and his blessing . |
| 4 | On one occasion Clara 's class purchased a pound of sausages , took them in with them , and roasted them on one of the burners , and ate them , in full scent and in fairly good view ; Mrs Hill appeared not to notice , and talked quietly on of Boyle 's law . |
| 5 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 6 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
| 7 | He lowered me into a chair at the foot of the stairs and stood above me critically . |
| 8 | Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund . |
| 9 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 10 | The most intriguing matter supplied by Gaitskell was when he consulted me about the constant leakage of the party 's National Executive minutes to the Manchester Guardian . |
| 11 | Other sketchbooks contain swift pencil notations which correspond to oil paintings , although it is not entirely clear what function they served and whether Monet consulted them at any later stage in the evolution of his compositions . |
| 12 | On the other hand , my journeys in Wiltshire had made me a familiar figure to the police , and I consulted them about evacuating from London a distinguished man , of whose name , I need hardly say , they had never heard . |
| 13 | We really felt that this was a book to push on , and so we talked to the trade very early on , consulted them on the jacket and so on . |
| 14 | During the Falklands War , Mrs Thatcher was punctilious about keeping full Cabinet informed about major developments , and consulted them before implementing the bigger decisions . |
| 15 | She leaned in and pecked me on the lips . |
| 16 | In breaks in our work Edward entertained me with curious stories of the old alchemists . |
| 17 | ‘ The referee took me aside and penalised me for ‘ over-robust ’ play , not foul play . ’ |
| 18 | Dr. Welch recommended them to the committee , who noted the report but took no further action . |
| 19 | A COUPLE told yesterday of their terror when two escaped convicts kidnapped them at gunpoint . |
| 20 | In America small town-dumps have been closed , or sold by the cities that owned them to private operators . |
| 21 | In the Middle Ages , when the French adjudged them to be alien , difficult and heathen , they were held to have descended from Scotsmen transported to Spain by Julius Caesar . |
| 22 | When the Philadelphia — now remember this name — when the Philadelphia put into Stornoway in Lewis , and gleaned young boys from the beach , and stowed them in the hold like trade-goods , what constable or what factor raised his arm or his stick to stop the slavers ? |
| 23 | He gave them some thought , then extracted two and stowed them in his hip pocket . |
| 24 | She stripped the bed and put Ruth 's treasures , carefully wrapping the glass , her books and the bear into two cardboard boxes from the supermarket , and stowed them in the bottom of the wardrobe . |
| 25 | She folded his discarded jeans and shirt and stowed them in a locker , then turned his sleeping-bag inside out and shook it . |
| 26 | He interrupted me with , ‘ Oh , we know you — you 're the chocolate mouse from Lancashire ! ’ |
| 27 | The two men have different versions of the meeting which followed , and there were no witnesses except for a waiter who interrupted them in the middle of the shouting match and asked if they wanted any sandwiches . |
| 28 | The high prices of industrial consumer goods deterred the peasants from buying , and the low prices offered by the state for agricultural produce deterred them from selling or even sowing . |
| 29 | Without taking hold of me , she forced me to stand in one spot of my own will , while she whipped me on all sides . |
| 30 | Now the railways levelled them with their black cousins on the other side of the 49th parallel . |