Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Umm Jazz F M phoned me this morning . |
| 2 | SURPRISINGLY , DANNY says he does n't remember arguing about music in the office at all , save Neil Spencer telling him that Earth Wind & Fire sounded like ‘ a toothpaste advert ’ . |
| 3 | But in 1976 , when Jean Darnall gave me this advice , I knew exactly what she meant and I knew that what she recommended was exactly what I wanted to do . |
| 4 | ‘ When Miss Purdue showed us those baby clothes — the little dresses and nighties for the children of the poor fallen girls in the home on Callendar Street — they seemed so stark and plain . |
| 5 | Club members ask me all kinds of health questions . |
| 6 | A few Opposition Members told us that smoking costs the national health service £437 million a year . |
| 7 | She could hear the regretful , gentle voice of Mother Francis telling her that life was never meant to be easy and that her best course was to work very hard now and get out of this place in record time . |
| 8 | ‘ That , more or less , is what Miss Henry told me this afternoon , ’ she admitted . |
| 9 | Rollins , the ultimate ugly American , is late for a plane , all the tube trains have stopped running and the only way he can get the London Underground employees to pay him any attention is to scream ‘ THE SMITHS HAVE REFORMED ! ’ |
| 10 | He put some very special old wine on the table in front of the King and said , ‘ Duke Michael offers you this wine and asks you to drink it for love of him . ’ |
| 11 | Will curry do me any harm after this ? |
| 12 | A few quite days by F/L Newton gave me some circuits in the Oxford on the 25th . |
| 13 | I seem to remember hearing that the ‘ proper ’ fantasy leagues give you some sort of bonus points if your defenders kept a clean sheet . |
| 14 | This task was for him somewhat infra dig , but until Burden and Sergeant Martin brought him some information he had little else to do , and this way he could , at any rate , be certain it was well done . |
| 15 | And when Dr Greene examined her this morning he said the placental bleeding had completely stopped . |
| 16 | But his experiences of street life in Hackney and his boxing ventures in Bethnal Green taught him that blackness presented him with a unique set of problems . |
| 17 | It will be interesting to see at what distance trainer Tim Thomson Jones campaigns him this season . |
| 18 | Akabusi agreed to take part in the European Cup 400m hurdles after Frank Dick persuaded him that newcomer Gary Cadogan was too inexperienced . |
| 19 | Nicholson will be glad when he can remove for the last time the putty nose , hairpiece and false front tooth the make-up wizards gave him each day to make him a mirror-image of bully-boy Hoffa . |
| 20 | She could not speak the family 's language , and each evening Felix taught her some words . |
| 21 | Mrs Thatcher and Mr Lawson tell us that government policy is the last of these : Britain will become a full member of the EMS when France and Italy abolish exchange controls and when our inflation rate is similar to that of other EMS members . |
| 22 | The members walked to the ‘ handsome restaurant erected on the very summit of the Head ’ where Mr Burt gave them all lunch . |
| 23 | Andrea bought him , you know the big ja he 's g always got a pocket full any time at all ooh that jar Andrea bought him that Christmas full of toffees |
| 24 | He told Mr. Frost about Beckett 's law and Mr. Frost asked him several times whether the level of taxation that would then result — |
| 25 | Mr Blackadder tolled me this buk is ful of jokes that are abowt as funny as getting your bottom caut in a bacon slicer . |
| 26 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 27 | Will Resenence Jeopardy give me some kind of knowledge ? |
| 28 | I had invited any of the hospital staff who had cared to come , and my ‘ Dawes Road ’ friend Miss Dorrie Pierce told me that church folk had organized a little wedding tea , and my husband-to-be had ordered and paid for a wedding cake . |
| 29 | Business mythology has it that computer firms in Japan are no good at software and will never break the dominance of IBM , the world 's biggest computer company . |
| 30 | ‘ Why did ye let that oul bastard treat ye that way ? ’ |