Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had known this district all his life , had come back to it as a young police detective for his first major case , and its vitality and capacity for change amazed him . |
| 2 | There was logic in this distinction ; for if the duties of a vassal were such as Fulbert defined them , then in fulfilling them the fidelis whose estates were close to those of his lord would have to make many sacrifices , while for one who lived several days ' journey away , not making a nuisance of himself would be a relatively painless matter . |
| 3 | Only watching the sea for hours calmed her . |
| 4 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 5 | Working for ICI enabled him to join their club at Norton Hall where a single croquet lawn has been in existence and played on at least since the end of the 1939–45 War . |
| 6 | His commitment to the reform of secondary education was unrelenting ; his position as Archbishop placed him at the heart of the religious problem ; his alliance with Butler — for whom he was ‘ all bulge and brain ’ — eventually tamed the opposition of the Churches . |
| 7 | Well not only have you got a bit missing , you had n't had anything to eat for ages did you ? |
| 8 | Even talking about Friedrich made her catch her breath , swallow , bring the shutter down in her head . |
| 9 | That small part of the Doctor 's character that allowed for scepticism reminded him of all the times such naivety had landed him in trouble before . |
| 10 | A great longing for Toby seized me . |
| 11 | If she did as Emelda wanted she could free Linda but would be snared herself . |
| 12 | So right enough Richard was pleased for Richard thought it was gon na be ten pound a week |
| 13 | BRIGITTE Bardot 's love for animals drove her to attempt suicide after an horrific cruelty case near her home , friends fear . |
| 14 | A crash during practice shook him up and badly damaged his car . |
| 15 | Schools , shut on April 9 after rioting rendered them unmanageable [ see p. 38135 ] , were ordered to reopen on May 6 but , in Lomé ( the capital ) at least , pupils boycotted classes . |
| 16 | JOHN MAJOR today headed for a tough showdown with his predecessor Baroness Thatcher after MPs gave him the go-ahead to ratify the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 17 | The day after doctors gave him their cautious opinion Roy gave away prizes for yet another cancer research fund-raising effort . |
| 18 | TWO escaped prisoners were back behind bars yesterday after police re-arrested them in an early morning swoop . |
| 19 | But it will take years , not months , to catch up on decades of neglect , brought about by a regime which year after year spent it 's money on barbed wire and secret police . |
| 20 | The nurse who had been looking after Julie escorted her to theatre and stayed with her until she had been introduced to the theatre nurse . |
| 21 | Almost immediately Philip , realising what an opportunity such an appeal for help gave him , declared that he would make no lasting settlement with England unless the Scots were included in it . |
| 22 | A Hollywoood spokesman for Kidman said she could not be contacted . |
| 23 | But the plump little white ducks and the fresh St-Marcellin cheeses from the Isère , the exquisite black and green olives from Nyons which we bought for lunch tempted us to drive north or south-east of Valence instead of directly south . |
| 24 | Modigliani 's penetrating artistic judgement and his talent for graphology made him ‘ a sort of magician ’ . |
| 25 | Pat Nevin 's fifth goal for Rovers earned them three crucial points at Leicester City . |
| 26 | ‘ She had a great zest for life.I loved her dearly , ’ says Alfred . |
| 27 | Thinking about cardigans reminded me how many knitters ask me about buttonholes , so I thought a few words about bands and buttonholes might not come amiss . |
| 28 | He was cursing still as Cornelius bandaged him up . |
| 29 | The row about Catholicism got her out of the house and carried her through two euphoric days , during which she thought about the Trinity , existed on lollipops and stared at the Celebration of the Mass from the back of Westminster Cathedral . |
| 30 | All this talk about scum reminded me that over here ( Montreal ) scum is an acronym for a um er feminist group called the Society for Cutting Up Men … they are a nice bunch of girls and would probably be Man U fans if they watched football . |