Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got to , Benguiat 's girlfriend and told her the whole story and told her to explain to Benguiat and calm him down and he had like threatened to come to Parkinson 's speech and disrupt it and scream liar and things like that at him . |
| 2 | He ripped open one of the little silver foil packets and handed her the lubricated ring of rubber . |
| 3 | And thus I was brought , by the gracious providence of God , to that place which had the chiefest of my labours and yielded me the greatest fruits of comfort . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Mr Lloyd George came … and informed me that he is able to form an administration and told me the proposed names of his colleagues , ’ the King wrote in his diary . |
| 5 | When the order came she reached down to help an older woman to her feet and passed her the well-wrapped bundle , then she turned her back on the men and was swallowed by the mass of female prisoners . |
| 6 | I unzipped the pouch round my waist and gave him the small jar of paint and the sawn-off paintbrush . |
| 7 | Any account of English book illustration would be inadequate without a tribute to Edmund Evans ( 1826–1905 ) who brought to a wonderful peak of success the revival of the art of colour printing from wood blocks and gave us the delightful colour plate books of Kate Greenaway , ’ Richard E. Doyle , Randolph Caldecott and Walter Crane . |
| 8 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
| 9 | ‘ However I wanted to race in Ireland and I was frustrated when the Lisburn club came back to me a few days after I had signed up for the French meeting and gave me the full details . |
| 10 | The People 's Provincial bus sped off , but a driver from the rival company , Red Admiral accepted Sarah 's 15p and took her the three miles home to Paulsgrove . |
| 11 | We sat them down and gave them a drink and asked them the usual stuff . |
| 12 | I gave McDunn the two names last night and told him the respective professions of their owners , then clammed up , just refused to say any more about them or about the body . |
| 13 | We made the necessary arrangements with the owner and viewed it the next day . |
| 14 | Mr Rochester lifted the curtain , opened the secret door and showed us the little room . |
| 15 | ‘ Then , before I could stop her she got my father out of bed and told him the whole thing . |
| 16 | Esther Allan dusted off the music and taught her the best songs from Sugar and Spite . |
| 17 | Shepherd poured the T'ang a fingernail 's measure of the dark liquid and handed him the ancient bowled glass . |
| 18 | By now , though , he was tired of Barbados , particularly its narrowness of spirit ; they expressed their appreciation of his runs by refusing to allow him , as a black man , to practise at Kensington Oval , and he believed there were still those who resented his success and thought him the same ‘ bighead ’ as at school . |
| 19 | I refreshed his glass and told him the terrible truth . |
| 20 | This position put its schools in the forefront and made it the leading school of Europe from the 1140s , until Paris began to take the lead in theology and philosophy ( but never in law ) in the 1180s . |
| 21 | Then they had their way and asked me the usual series of childish but charmingly eager questions about myself , about London , about England . |
| 22 | The German army itself was in theory a composite force of Prussian , Saxon , Bavarian and Württemberger troops ; this diversity meant little more than differences of name and uniform , for the Prussian staff controlled the whole apparatus as a unified system and made it the best army in the world . |
| 23 | A panel of experts decided Kate 's winning menu made the best use of French cheese and awarded her the top prize a Concorde flight to Paris for a supersonic celebration . |
| 24 | Then they brought in a couple of supporting interrogators and gave me the third degree . |
| 25 | She resented his tone but told him the real news , Pascoe 's resignation . |
| 26 | Morton crossed to the cupboard and gave her the brown-paper parcel . |
| 27 | A Corporal had given me a coathanger and a broom and showed me the Foreign Legion 's way of unblocking a difficult lavatory bowl ; it involved unbending the coathanger , jamming it down the U-bend , and working it vigorously backwards and forwards . |
| 28 | As we were turning to follow his directions , he drew up his cuff and showed us the blue tattooed cross that all Copts have on the inside of their wrists . |