Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They used to talk to him endlessly about it , he said , so he grew up hearing about ‘ this enchanted world ’ which became for him rather like fairy stories for other people . |
| 2 | It moved with her silently from room to room , breathing softly against the back of her neck . |
| 3 | Oh I have really , not , what I 've done is I 've taped one , one whole side and then I taped over it again by mistake |
| 4 | Meanwhile , having appealed to Leavis , we received from him almost by return a literary essay , and we set to work to write our own pieces . |
| 5 | Any idea that the bout of despair was over was quickly dispelled as the old horror came over me again in waves . |
| 6 | ‘ Surely Felipe argued with him too at times ? ’ |
| 7 | Bert Howe was a consistent , reliable and determined full-back , who signed for us just after Christmas 1958 and first appeared for the Palace in the dark days of the 4th Division , but who proceeded to help us secure a place in Division Two . |
| 8 | He glanced over her slowly from head to foot , taking in the sleeveless green cotton dress with its tight bodice and full skirt that had seemed so modest when she had put it on . |
| 9 | THE FFESTINIOG Railway wants to see the scenic Welsh Highland Railway ( WHR ) reopened in its entirely from Porthmadog across Snowdonia to Dinas and with an entirely new section running from there right up to the walls of Caernarfon Castle . |
| 10 | His hands swept over her and she curled against him willingly in spite of her fears , bringing back that same quickening of his breath . |
| 11 | The actor William Squire , who worked with him often in films and on the stage , speaks of his ‘ lack of craft , his lack of tricks and knowledge of the trade . |
| 12 | I mean erm , Anglia talked er , talked to me anyway as Chairman of B Sky B erm , before they , before they did the write off and it 's , it 's just tax driven . |
| 13 | And now , lying in the dunes , seeing the sky through the rigid stalks of marram grasses , he thought about it almost with terror . |
| 14 | I went into it straight from school . |
| 15 | Both stared at it almost in horror for a moment , listened to the somehow insistent , angry ringing . |
| 16 | I looked at him curiously for Master Benjamin and Doctor Agrippa had told me about him on our journey to the castle . |
| 17 | The others looked at him almost in disbelief , but I could see that he had been thinking very carefully . |
| 18 | He was smoking a cigarette — something he rarely did outside his office — and he looked at it almost with distaste . |
| 19 | " Or if you spoke about it now in English . " |
| 20 | Erm I lighted on it almost by accident , and er it was very interesting in that erm the Great Crested Newt was featured , as a result of the action of the Secretary of State in refusing an application by British Coal for open-cast coal mine . |
| 21 | ‘ Piss off , will you ? ’ one of them hissed at me once on Wimbledon Common . |
| 22 | It could have been that he was overcome with shyness , for he gazed at her almost with awe and stumbled over his words . |
| 23 | Ruth searched through it desperately for Adam . |
| 24 | A ball was flicked on by Deane and Strach ran onto it close to Sheffs left midfield/ left back area . |
| 25 | You can find out about world events if you read a good newspaper , somebody said to me yesterday in class well we do n't get the news about these places , you do , you just do n't get it on the T V , it 's there in the Guardian every day , it 's there in the Independent every day , quite a lot of it gets reported in the Telegraph , but it 's no good if you 're reading the Mirror , you wo n't get it in there , you wo n't get it in the Mail or any other of those newspapers , the tabloids , but these things are happening , why would we be interested ? |
| 26 | Several undergraduates who knew him from his Trinity days often came to see him and wrote to him especially at Christmas . |
| 27 | A friend of mine , who ministered to her late in life , gained the impression , from one or two things she let drop , that , contrary to what has been stated , Eliot did indeed go to Northumberland House , the nursing home where Vivien was looked after . |
| 28 | Noreen stayed by her just in case and she clung especially to Michael whom she seemed to adore . |