Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have no desire to see Gerald playing the handsome patriarch . ’ |
| 2 | BELVILLE : Do n't you think Pamela writes a pretty hand , son ? |
| 3 | The failure to find trade outlets in a world dominated by the French , British , Belgian and Dutch colonial holdings led Germany to penetrate the Slav east — the Balkans in particular — but there , as in Prussia , they did no more than provoke Slav nationalism . |
| 4 | Diluted TCP makes an excellent fly repellent . |
| 5 | ROBERT Strain , bitter at seeing Glentoran lose a commanding half-time lead , admitted it was crisis time at the Oval yet again . |
| 6 | And that 's the beauty of an HCI holiday , which made Jandia Mar the perfect choice . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , Austin , Texas-based Tivoli used UniForum to announce a new version of its systems management software . |
| 8 | Aunt Margaret helped Victoria construct a high house from a greasy set of playing cards on the kitchen floor . |
| 9 | ‘ She 's a decent woman who 's had no chance to better herself , ’ he had said , on the day he invited Sarah to witness the simple ceremony before a registrar of marriages . |
| 10 | Finn , also late for dinner , came from the workroom and helped Melanie put the disordered stock away . |
| 11 | Dagobert I ( 623/9 — 39 ) was probably richer than most Merovingian monarchs , not least because he helped Sisenand seize the Visigothic throne . |
| 12 | In Britain recently to meet unionists , mainly in Sheffield and Manchester , Mr Masduki visited AIBS to discuss the Indonesian Government 's woeful record of human rights abuses of Indonesian workers . |
| 13 | Nevertheless as half-time approached Irwin struck an excellent shot from just outside the penalty area after Winterburn had headed out Marshall 's cross . |
| 14 | They invited Ramsey to give the inaugural address . |
| 15 | The truce of 1319 expired in the summer of 1322 , and after the parliament at York had been dissolved Edward prepared a new invasion of Scotland . |
| 16 | Georg Kreisel gained a Major scholarship to Trinity College from Dudley Grammar School in 1941 . |
| 17 | He looked a pale shadow of the commanding centre half who helped Denmark win the European championship , but said : ‘ I wo n't crack under the pressure . |
| 18 | Marshal Voroshilov , the man who helped Stalin cut the Soviet army to pieces in the 1930s , is described as ‘ the biggest bag of shit in the army ’ . |
| 19 | She plucked a great hank of silk thread from the girdle of her spinsterhood ; tied one end of it to the wedding ring of her virginity and , looping the two ends of the hank over either wrist , spread her hands and invited Maggie to take the other end and wind a neat ball . |
| 20 | He helped Fergus drag the small corpse down the slope to the track , where the Land Rover was parked , and accepted a lift back to the road . |
| 21 | Has Bloomsbury arranged an Arabic edition ? |
| 22 | Observers say Secrett faces a difficult task at a time of falling income for the organisation . |
| 23 | She said has Warren got a nice bum ? |
| 24 | Has Martin got a new girlfriend ? ’ |
| 25 | So far as Pitt was concerned , America came first , but he was as delighted as anyone when the English force protecting Hanover won a distinct success against France at Minden , which might have been decisive if Lord George Sackville had not disobeyed an order to charge in a way that exposed him to conspicuous , though not permanent , disgrace . |
| 26 | Mr Loyden 's constituency covers Garston docks the main supply depot for battle convoys . |
| 27 | In April 1506 Henry VII visited Cambridge to initiate the final stage of the King 's chapel ; work began in earnest two years later and the fabric was complete by 1515 . |
| 28 | It was Boyer who helped Coleridge to understand the subtle logic and ‘ fugitive causes ’ which gave the greatest poetry its power , and who taught the lesson , not immediately applied in Coleridge 's teenage work , that conventional metaphors and needless elaboration seldom made good verse : |
| 29 | ‘ Then you might like to know Tweed took a large sum of money with him . |
| 30 | Valenzuela was fascinated by Gallardo 's willpower , and as their relationship changed Gallardo established a subtle ascendancy over his young captor . |