Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alison met him in the same bar . |
| 2 | Father Devlin clapped him on the shoulder with a large heavy hand . |
| 3 | Devlin clapped him on the shoulder . |
| 4 | ‘ Monsieur Gaston concerned himself with other things . ’ |
| 5 | He took charge of his third club in almost as many months after Alex Ferguson recommended him to St Mirren . |
| 6 | Mona and Sheila met her at Dublin Airport and the three sisters drove to Great Meadow in Mona 's car . |
| 7 | Patrick flung himself on the mattress which Sarah was to use , and jumped up and down on his knees , full of boyish energy . |
| 8 | Acheson , as acting Secretary of State , may not have gone so far ; although just before the war began , when it looked as if Moffat was going to meet Ho in Hanoi , Acheson asked him to ‘ keep in mind Ho 's clear record as agent international communism , absence evidence recantation Moscow affiliations … and support Ho receiving [ from ] French Communist Party . ’ |
| 9 | Malengin Fole led them through several apartments , all of them apparently abandoned . |
| 10 | Robins has so far scored seven goals after Ferguson sold him to Norwich for a cut-price £800,000 on the eve of the season . |
| 11 | At the junction of the Welford branch , a boat from Welford met them with ample supplies of refreshments to fortify them against the passage of Bosworth tunnel . |
| 12 | But after three disappointing Five Nations games , Ciaran Fitzgerald drafted him into the side — as well as making him captain — for the game in Paris . |
| 13 | Pollensa and Alcudia were in the north of the island and Fernando owned nothing in that region . |
| 14 | Trent seated himself on the taffrail . |
| 15 | Pepys met him in 1665 . |
| 16 | Bernie Scholtz passed her on the iron stairs as she was hurrying out . |
| 17 | Harvey led me to a room which he unlocked with a key . |
| 18 | MacDonald read it to the members of the Cabinet ( imposing further conditions before a loan would be given ) . |
| 19 | Hauser prided himself on his ability to manipulate human beings . |
| 20 | Bernard enveloped her in his arms . |
| 21 | The web tangled and clung mawkishly around her reasoning as Fernando lowered her to the bed . |
| 22 | Sergeant Henley prided herself on her power to prise out information by a mixture of persuasion and light bullying like the icing on a cake , and although this had never worked particularly well with Roxie in the past , this was no reason not to try it now . |
| 23 | Sotheby 's , determined to protect Irises ’ ‘ most expensive ’ tag , repossessed it , and in March sold it to the Getty museum , probably for $40 to $45 million . |
| 24 | Trent met it with a slight movement of the tiller bar , and the big catamaran lifted smoothly . |
| 25 | William met him at university . ’ |
| 26 | Peregrine interrupted her with a languid chortle and was properly admonished . |
| 27 | Le Gall translated it by forme , thus by the choice of two words remoulding the whole Neo-Confucian cosmology after the analogy of Aristotelian form and matter . |
| 28 | But Marcus got himself into trouble , silly boy . |
| 29 | She 'd have to take off her thick blue jersey soon , and she could n't remember how many buttons had come off the shirt underneath , and it was sleeveless , and she had n't shaved her armpits since Philippa asked her to supper last week . |
| 30 | Giffen led us into a room on the left . |