Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [det] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Avignon 's captain , strolling down from the bridge in a crisp , freshly starched uniform , smiled on hearing their banter and approached to greet them both with a formal French handshake . |
| 2 | ‘ We , ’ he proclaimed , encompassing them all with a theatrical gesture , ‘ are Contraband . ’ |
| 3 | In any one place , the two species gain by resembling each other , because predators will treat them both as the same kind of prey ; but few predators move far enough for there to be any advantage to the Heliconius in looking the same in distant places . |
| 4 | Taking a step back , he flung the blanket aside , cursing aloud as the movement wrenched his arm , and lowered them both to the hard bench . |
| 5 | But if neither confesses , all the DA can do is nail them both on a lesser offence , for which the maximum sentence is one year . |
| 6 | She got them both with a single burst , and sprinted away , zig-zagging down a side-street . |
| 7 | Villagers arrived and helped them both to a local hospital — ‘ a filthy hospital with no sanitation — we begged them to use a clean needle . |
| 8 | I wo n't bore you all with the technical details ; suffice it to say that the alloy truss rod previously fitted to Warwick basses just is n't man enough for the job — a classic case of a nice design let down by choice of materials . |
| 9 | But this does n't win her enough of the meaty character roles she 'd love to play . |
| 10 | It is available now , but has not had the take up that Windows has enjoyed — one cynical comment has it that of the less than half million copies actually in use , the better part were given away — and yet it is a very capable operating system with some excellent features . |
| 11 | And you can enjoy it all for the special inclusive tariff of just £199 for two . |
| 12 | It 's like trying to turn beef steak rawk into a New Age lentilburger , not by changing the ingredients but simply enveloping it all in a laser-fried wholemeal bun and hoping that nobody will notice the difference . |
| 13 | Look , I 've booked us all into the Italian place round the corner . |
| 14 | When we arrived at the hotel I found that he 'd booked us both into the same double room . |
| 15 | We would have preferred to choose them all as the German Rose of Tralee , ’ |
| 16 | Waddle may give them this on the left , but it would surely have done no harm to start the match with Dorigo 's dash instead of the perennial , peripheral Pearce . |
| 17 | We show them some of the dirty ticks , but it 's pretty elementary because none of those boys are likely to be used in any sort of field work . |
| 18 | I think he 's passing them both on the same time . |
| 19 | The Prince rose and waved him round the table to the chair next to his before serving them both with the best wine the clerk had tasted in months . |
| 20 | Indeed on the nineteenth of January the Noble Earl Lord told me that of the three hundred and sixty letters which had been received from a wide variety of organisations representing people of totally different political opinions and that following the publication of the White Paper . |
| 21 | When I was getting better , he told me some of the local news . |
| 22 | and he was saying , told me some of the different names , you know , other than pine , I suppose their name for whatever these pines were , the timber there was beautiful |
| 23 | " To a pint of cream put a pound of double-refined sugar , the juice of seven lemons , grate the rinds of two lemons into a pint of white wine , add half a pint of sack , then put them all into a deep pot , and whisk them for half an hour , put it into glasses the night before you want it : it is better for standing two or three days , but it will keep a week if required . " |
| 24 | I put them all in a large bag with some heavy stones . |
| 25 | I put them all in the deep freeze . |
| 26 | Cattle and pigs , sheep and deer , fowl of all kinds both tame and wild were roasted by the dozen to feed them all with a generous hand , as Maclean honour required . |
| 27 | I did n't mind this ; I was happy just to be there , hoping that one day she would give me some of the pretty wool to make something for myself but she never did . |
| 28 | You can give me some of the hard ones if you like . |
| 29 | as their political and moral equals by signing an agreement which committed them all to the same values . |
| 30 | So I 'm disagreeing with what you 're saying , because you , you 're tarring them all with the same brush . |