Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole walk from Milngavie to Fort William took us six days . ’ |
| 2 | But on my return to Salamanca Dana gave me strong support , a spiritual courage that entered our love and our poetry . |
| 3 | Londoner Dave Parris scored it 116–113 to the challenger , the Dane Torben Hansen scored it 116–112 Eubank with Ray Francis of England making it 115–115 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ David Lodge saw him last year in The Entertainer and said he was wonderful . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ That , more or less , is what Miss Henry told me this afternoon , ’ she admitted . |
| 8 | A few quite days by F/L Newton gave me some circuits in the Oxford on the 25th . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And when Dr Greene examined her this morning he said the placental bleeding had completely stopped . |
| 11 | Dr Kepepwe assured me active steps were being taken to trace those who had been intimate with me during the ten blank years : my parents , my academic colleagues . |
| 12 | Maud Bailey gave him potted shrimps , omelette and green salad , some Bleu de Bresse and a bowl of sharp apples . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I see from my files that Simon Murison-Bowie sent you two copies of the Agreement for this tape which required signing on behalf of the University of Toronto and return to us , and asked for confirmation of your tape specification requirements in his letter of 19 February . |
| 15 | Akabusi agreed to take part in the European Cup 400m hurdles after Frank Dick persuaded him that newcomer Gary Cadogan was too inexperienced . |
| 16 | Anthony Cheetham offered me complete control of the whole sales operation at the Orion Publishing Group Ltd , encompassing home and export sales for both hardbacks and mass market paperbacks , and while I have been very happy at Random House in its many incarnations , I felt it was too good an offer to miss . |
| 17 | Silkin 's Bill received an unopposed second reading in May ; for the Conservatives W.S. Morrison gave it general support . |
| 18 | Shortly after his return Gresley appointed him assistant carriage and wagon superintendent , in which capacity he introduced numerous innovations including modernized train interiors ; a completely articulated five-coach train set carried on only six bogies , in whose kitchen electric cooking was pioneered ; and also twin articulated sleeping cars . |
| 19 | My pal Pinkie Blenkinsop took me one night to ffeatherstonehaugh 's . ’ |
| 20 | She could not speak the family 's language , and each evening Felix taught her some words . |
| 21 | The members walked to the ‘ handsome restaurant erected on the very summit of the Head ’ where Mr Burt gave them all lunch . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | He told Mr. Frost about Beckett 's law and Mr. Frost asked him several times whether the level of taxation that would then result — |
| 24 | Mr Blackadder tolled me this buk is ful of jokes that are abowt as funny as getting your bottom caut in a bacon slicer . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But Mr Patten told him good government should be founded on fact , not fantasy . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , Mr Kenyon mentioned you last night . |
| 29 | Mr Henderson asked him three times if he had any idea what a kidney was for . |
| 30 | Mr Henderson asked him three times if he had any idea what a kidney was for . |