Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Umm Jazz F M phoned me this morning . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | A few Opposition Members told us that smoking costs the national health service £437 million a year . |
| 5 | ‘ That , more or less , is what Miss Henry told me this afternoon , ’ she admitted . |
| 6 | A few quite days by F/L Newton gave me some circuits in the Oxford on the 25th . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And when Dr Greene examined her this morning he said the placental bleeding had completely stopped . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Akabusi agreed to take part in the European Cup 400m hurdles after Frank Dick persuaded him that newcomer Gary Cadogan was too inexperienced . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She could not speak the family 's language , and each evening Felix taught her some words . |
| 13 | The members walked to the ‘ handsome restaurant erected on the very summit of the Head ’ where Mr Burt gave them all lunch . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | He told Mr. Frost about Beckett 's law and Mr. Frost asked him several times whether the level of taxation that would then result — |
| 16 | Mr Blackadder tolled me this buk is ful of jokes that are abowt as funny as getting your bottom caut in a bacon slicer . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Stapleton and Sir Charles gave her some money . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ Last Monday was the first time Prince Charles joined us this year . |
| 21 | ‘ The American record company sent us this singer , which was completely the wrong thing for me . |
| 22 | The weapons systems gave him some readiness read-outs . |
| 23 | The second point i is this issue about self containment , er Mr Davis accused me this morning of using some somewhat outlandish words , I think , erm , I did obviously refer to the er my vision of what a new settlement of this size proposed would be , and I I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't expect that with the right planning that it could n't have clearly local facilities , local school , library , etcetera , but it seemed to me quite clear that the scale proposed it would not have the higher order functions which as we 've heard earlier , Greater York has been defined based on York 's planning assumptions , clearly the major shopping , educational , and social facilities will continue to be provided in the city , and it will produce what is in effect dormitory settlement . |
| 24 | A quarter of a century ago , Colin Buchanan told us that road-building , improved public transport and some limitations on the use of vehicles would not aloe solve the problem of traffic in towns . |
| 25 | This tin of Day and Martins metal polish gave me some trepidation looking at the vast areas of iron ferrous . |
| 26 | We went back to oh er my friend Nicola left her all stuff , big bag on the train . |
| 27 | One day Sapt brought me some news — he had found out where the King was . |
| 28 | Mrs Corney offered him some tea . |
| 29 | I remember Mrs Seaton gave us some mince pies and we ate them hot , sitting on the floor in front of the tree — just the two of us . |
| 30 | In the second half of the evening Vic Smith showed us some scenes at Crich , the National Tramway museum , plus a couple of shots of trams abroad . |