Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His seeking for single solutions coarsened his thinking and sank into abstraction . |
| 2 | Nanny 's mother was of French stock and lived in Calais , and her father came from Bishop 's Waltham , a village in Hampshire . |
| 3 | Duncan Smith , prosecuting , said the two men were unhappy with the business deal and went to Mr Hawthorne 's home with a crowbar and a handgun . |
| 4 | One of his villain mates , Morrie Dubedat , set up the deal and vouched for dad 's punt … |
| 5 | At eighteen , in love with love , she 'd accepted his ring and walked on air until common sense had brought her down to earth and made her realise that marriage to him would be a total disaster . |
| 6 | A distant voice chiselled its way into my consciousness and fell in fragments : |
| 7 | He never regained consciousness and died in Southampton General Hospital of a fractured skull hours later . ’ |
| 8 | Neighbours in Emlyn Road , Mayhill , Swansea , persuaded her to jump into their arms after she ran to a front bedroom and screamed for help . |
| 9 | Captain Faulknor was still concerned about the ship 's speed and said to Jenking , ‘ that it would be better to stand out to sea for the night . ’ |
| 10 | Therefore , an individual can be guilty of theft even though he had £1,000 in his purse and said on arrest that he would pay for the items shoplifted . |
| 11 | One of the grown-ups from along the street noticed the brooch and said to Gloria , ‘ You 're in luck ! |
| 12 | MARCUS DALY-FERRIERA , 27 , is a Royal Engineers corporal and came to pentathlon through the Army Triathlon in 1987 . |
| 13 | Matlock was convicted of murder and died in prison . |
| 14 | So that was most popular , very busy person and er , since then more and more shops er have been bought by the Asians and now I think er we cater for , for every need and there are some pubs as well which have been bought by the Asian and The last straw I think is the Conservative club and bought by Mr and two of his er partners . |
| 15 | Thanking him for giving me a lift , I sat down in the passenger seat and waited for Chapman to get moving . |
| 16 | The woman paused before getting into the driving seat and said to Ward in near-perfect English , ‘ I think you 're a bloody fool , but if you 're determined to press on , I suggest you have a word with Alberto Fernandez when you get to Tolambo . |
| 17 | He climbed into the back seat and looked towards Annie 's cabin , making little attempt to conceal himself or keep low . |
| 18 | ‘ Hold on to that bloody cider , ’ Billy yelled Yanto twisted around on his seat and looked at Billy . |
| 19 | To have won the best single play award was a major coup , due not just to the craft of the makers but at least partly to the strength of the story of the Trawsfynydd shepherd bard who became a reluctant soldier and died in battle before knowing he had achieved his life 's ambition of winning the National Eisteddfod chair at the Birkenhead festival in 1917 . |
| 20 | The police and ambulancemen arrived on the scene minutes earlier than the fire brigade and swung into action when they learned that an unconscious woman was trapped in the house . |
| 21 | I was brought up in liberal Anglicanism and lapsed into unbelief and active opposition before being converted in an evangelical Anglican church at the age of twenty-four . |
| 22 | I was going to open it myself but changed my mind and went for Colebrooke . ’ |
| 23 | But after a further month 's reflection she changed her mind and wrote to Moira that it was up to her to do something about ‘ the incompetence of your staff at Harriet Street [ which ] is now causing BA and myself sleepless nights ’ . |
| 24 | It has already been used twice for the circulation of internal mail and resealed by means of staples and Sellotape . |
| 25 | Devlin rammed the muzzle of the Walther into his neck and reached inside Berger 's coat , removing the Mauser which he tossed on to the bar . |
| 26 | Pebbles stretched out her neck and responded to Eddery 's exhortations with the utmost gameness to go a length up . |
| 27 | The crowds , eventually numbering in the thousands , evolved into a spontaneous anti-war demonstration and headed across town , disrupting traffic while shouting ‘ No blood for oil ’ and finally rallying at the United Nations building . |
| 28 | The man looked half mad with fear and spoke with difficulty . |
| 29 | Catching sight of herself in a wall mirror , Loretta closed her mouth and waited for Bridget to go on . |
| 30 | After a while , the Caterpillar took the pipe out of its mouth and said to Alice in a slow , sleepy voice , ‘ Who are you ? ’ |