Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pos pn] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her judgement of Alan Jones was both admiring and shrewd , and he asked about her own education , becoming aware that at least four other men were listening with great interest and that Catherine Crane was so used to this that she was unconscious of it . |
| 2 | However he remains unseen because Sauron can not pierce the shadows he made for his own defence . |
| 3 | The banister of the back staircase has the same pattern as the glazing bars of a glass-fronted cabinet Lutyens designed for his own house . |
| 4 | The first house he built for his own occupation was a stopgap , put up to live in until something more suitable was acquired . |
| 5 | Gagarin , in 1721 ) , the tsar 's ‘ Siberian satraps ’ enjoyed almost plenipotentiary powers in what they regarded as their own freedom , which they exercised with all the arbitrary and unbridled ruthlessness of a military dictatorship and the methods of a police state . |
| 6 | Eadberht abdicated of his own accord in 758 , handing the kingdom over to his son , Oswulf , and becoming a cleric at York ( where he died in 768 ) , but Oswulf was killed within the year by his own household in 759 near the unidentified settlement of Methel Wongtun and replaced by Aethelwald Moll , who is likely to have been associated with those who were responsible for Oswulf 's murder ; nor did Eadberht 's descendants recover royal power for twenty years . |
| 7 | She moved towards her own car , parked a few yards away . |
| 8 | On their way to the top the Gunners , in their new red and white shirts , had given the crowd plenty of thrills , including a classic contest at Villa Park where they were beaten 5–3 after twice being in the lead , and a 3–3 draw at home to Derby in which Roberts twice headed into his own net . |
| 9 | Cautiously she ventured into her own bedroom first . |
| 10 | Elizabeth and Helen moved into their own basement flat in an inner-city suburb in 1987. they are middle-aged and spent nearly thirty years together at the same mental handicap hospital but lived separately for the two years before the move into the community because Helen was transferred to a smaller institution . |
| 11 | Helen 's main problems since she moved into her own home have been a period of illness , which caused her much discomfort , and a spate of difficulties in accepting personal care from temporary staff . |
| 12 | Quickly he moved into his own room , grabbed his pyjama top and returned . |
| 13 | But it was pointless trying to compare or liken these mountains to others , they had individual stature and grace , they rose with their own majesty from valleys I could only dream about . |
| 14 | He was therefore scowling as he bumped into his own wife , who was coming out of the Russell Inn just as he was entering . |
| 15 | They had not realized that Dr Dunstaple had the support of the Royal College of Physicians … and felt distinctly aggrieved that they had not been told that such an august body disagreed with their own man . |
| 16 | Benedict rose from his own chair so hastily that it almost tipped over . |
| 17 | When I moved from my own place er in Walmgate to here I still underestimated how much furniture I 'd got . |
| 18 | The words ‘ Rarefied atmosphere , yes ? ’ spoken in her own voice , returned to bother her . |
| 19 | If they moved within their own country , this raised no novel problems of technique . |
| 20 | Perhaps , once again , a local bank may supply free literature on the exact procedures ( and controls ) used in your own country . |
| 21 | But though the stream rose on his own land , he had not obtained the proper extraction licence and so got the water free . |
| 22 | Nigel always worked best when he drew on his own life . |
| 23 | Relying on the Bible , Roman law , and the classics to explain what ought to be , John also drew on his own experience to describe the contemporary scene . |
| 24 | Harthacnut chose to remain there , presumably because he was exercised by the threat which Magnus posed to his own position , and this left Harold Harefoot , Cnut 's other son by Ælfgifu of Northampton , to dispute the English throne with his half-brother 's supporters , headed by Queen Emma and Earl Godwin . |
| 25 | He demanded the removal of the permanent secretary to the Treasury , Sir Robert ( later Baron ) Chalmers [ q.v. ] , and he countermanded on his own authority a Treasury request for the transfer of gold from Canada . |
| 26 | Keith shouted to his own man . |
| 27 | We were originally going to do weekly measurements , but I found on my own monitoring that you wo n't get much variation . |
| 28 | She referred to her own family : parents , brother and sisters who all spoke English at home . |
| 29 | Turner concentrated on his own task . |
| 30 | The proctologist hooted at his own wit before asking which of my father 's famous wives was my mother . |