Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Minister of the Crown told me once of being present at a Cabinet committee meeting when she disagreed with her then chancellor , Nigel Lawson , and sensed that the rest of those present were also against her . |
| 2 | But although Gaunt 's defence of the royal prerogative , and particularly the royal right to choose ministers freely , was vigorous and effective , he drew upon himself much unpopularity . |
| 3 | Here the Pacific Plate , bowed , stretched and strained by its westward movement , is moving away from its neighbour — in this case a relatively small fragment of lithosphere known as the Nazca plate . |
| 4 | And when he looked at her in mystification , as well he might , she realised , she went on , ‘ I 'd no idea until this morning that the same Naylor who came for you yesterday morning is my new boss ! ’ |
| 5 | And if either of these things happened to her then Odette and Liam would be separated and taken away to the work-house , Odette with her heart in pieces and her nerves in tatters , Liam retreating so far into that anxious silence of his that nothing would ever bring him out again . |
| 6 | ‘ They talked to him yesterday afternoon , that was all . |
| 7 | Iain Guest talked to him there Portrait of a torturer . |
| 8 | We ask this in the name of him who lived and died for us even Jesus Christ our Lord . |
| 9 | One of the accusations used and levelled against er against Christianity against the , the evangelical message , against things like the , the mission of Graham and , and others is that it , it does n't meet the needs the , the material needs of people but if you deal with the persons spiritual needs , if their sins are forgiven , those problems that are causing the material problem , it 's amazing how there are dealt with as well , the best way to sober up a person , the best way to deal with a person who 's an alcoholic , the best way to deal with a person who is a drug addict , the best way to deal with a person who , who commits adultery is not by telling them the wrongs of those things , it 's not by trying to , to , to do , to , to , you know , to , to counsel them it 's presenting the gospel allowing Jesus Christ to come into their lives and to forgive them , that will make the person sober quicker than all the counselling in the world and Paul says I brought you the most important the fundamental thing , that Christ died for our sins Paul again when he 's writing to the Romans in chapter five and verse eight he says but God demonstrates his own love towards us , in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us so God did in Jesus Christ what we could n't do for ourselves , so all of you have sin , so all of my sin , and he came and he died on the cross and as he was dying there was that transmit there , for he was n't dying for his own sin buy he was dying for your sin and for mine , it was all piled on him and so when we except what Christ has done , when we come to that place and yes I believe that you died for me , |
| 10 | Cinema-going , as described by A. J. P. Taylor , was ‘ the essential social habit of the age ’ , although he also warns that ‘ highly educated people saw in it only vulgarity and the end of Old England ’ . |
| 11 | I think most fundamentally she transmitted her inner core of pride and I acquired from him both doggedness of purpose and the confidence to decide what was just and unjust in the world as I met it . |
| 12 | I went to him alright Tom ? |
| 13 | That Harald who won for himself all Denmark and Norway and made the Danes Christian " . |
| 14 | What precisely he did with himself all day long she never could fathom , but he was not in her company above two hours or so each day . |
| 15 | I spoke to them yesterday afternoon after we broke . |
| 16 | We waited for him all Saturday . |
| 17 | As a result , at least off the track and in business , he had about him only sycophants . |
| 18 | St Helens won both age groups last year and two of the girls who starred for them then Sue Smith and Rebecca Smith will be returning with that borough 's under-14 side . |
| 19 | He had before him also Erasmus 's translation into Latin and that of Luther in German . |