Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jack must have caught him and locked him in there . ’ |
| 2 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 3 | And why should the palm be so thickly clotted , almost as if another 's hand had lifted it and smeared it into the blood at the throat ? |
| 4 | He had skirted it and approached them from behind . |
| 5 | Which brought her back to the sack and to the Friar who had carried it and left it in their care . |
| 6 | It was he actually whom Simon had asked to be the co-respondent — bogus co-respondent — when they were concocting their divorce , it was about him that the judge had scolded her and given me to Anna . |
| 7 | The vicar says that a young Larusa , Masai after all , has stabbed him and beaten him with a stick and the whole town is talking about it . |
| 8 | Now here , lying on her bed while St Margaret held his dragon power in check , Maggie knew she had indulged Fenna too long , that she had fed him and petted him into overweening size and pride . |
| 9 | Her sister had been to see her and made her very tired and various strangers had moved her and pummelled her in a familiar manner that made her angry . |
| 10 | The sweat that had begun in anticipation of what she might encounter in the street now ran in fear of her mother 's rage ; Nunzia 's eyes had gone hard and wrinkled like black olive pips when Rosa had produced the plover , and she had clucked impatiently with her tongue when Rosa lied and said her grandfather had shot it and presented it to her . |
| 11 | His agent , Peter Müller , had prepared it and left it in one of the embassy ‘ letter boxes ’ for collection . |
| 12 | The philosophy of LMS was rehearsed in the Coopers & Lybrand Report ( 1988 ) and the government has now adopted it and enshrined it in legislation . |
| 13 | However , shortly before the List 's publication , I received a visit from Harold Evans , then the editor of the Sunday Times , who came to breakfast and rather slyly asked if I had seen it ; to which I replied that I had not seen it and knew nothing of its contents . |
| 14 | And Hilderbridge lay in the sunshine , its slate roofs all turned to planes of silver , its spires sharp needles , as if a silversmith had made it and dropped it in the valley between the meadows and the moor . |
| 15 | They have accepted us and used us for the furthering of the Kingdom here in Taquaral . |
| 16 | AB still appears shorter than BC even after I have measured them and found them to be equal . |
| 17 | All these years he had had it and kept it for safety and secrecy 's sake inside a boring medical book . |
| 18 | Its huge success grated even more , especially as it had been a Labour paper until Murdoch had bought it and turned it into a cornerstone of his international media empire . |
| 19 | Aye it was bought it and presented it to the island . |
| 20 | They will offer us Mozart 's music as he would have played it and heard it in his own day . |
| 21 | Whenever there has been a whiff of financial scandal in the past , the Opposition , very much to their credit , have raised it and brought it before the public , and there has been a great hue and cry about it . |
| 22 | Rather than dropping his company 's commission bearing charge completely , he would have preferred to have reduced it and moved it from the front to the back end of his unit trusts — that is , charging investors as they leave the fund rather than as they enter . |
| 23 | He made coffee , then found the piece of paper Roxborough had given him and took it to the phone . |
| 24 | For a moment she was taken aback , realising for the first time that she had n't explained herself very well , then , gathering her wits together , she retorted briskly , ‘ If you had n't assaulted me and accused me of being a burglar I would have told you that the Svend I 'm looking for is a student who met my sister at the Roskilde music festival and afterwards entertained her and her friends here in this apartment for several nights . ’ |
| 25 | Rather , she must have inherited it or bought it at a jumble sale for the sake of something to cover herself as a rest from her everlasting black or perhaps ( most likely ) found it in a drawer of her newly married bedroom , chosen for her by Uncle Philip as suitable for his wife to wear on Sundays . |
| 26 | One or two books were missing from the study shelves ; perhaps guests had simply borrowed them and taken them to their rooms . |
| 27 | Finally , she snatched up the envelope from the table where she 'd left it and carried it to the one window that might , if she were lucky , catch a vagrant breeze from the river a block away . |
| 28 | Ludens folded it and put it in his pocket . |
| 29 | ‘ I suppose he could have folded it and used it as a spill to get a light from the pilot on the gas water heater . ’ |
| 30 | It happens that what we 've done is we 've taken it and hung it on the starlight , the magic of starlight — how wonderful it is , how much you can tell from just looking at a star through a telescope and measuring the light that comes out of it , and this takes us into realms of why a star shines ; what do you mean by time when you go back millions of years into the universe lifetime ; what do you mean , why do stars shine with different colours . |