Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She and her accupuncturist partner , Richard Spindler , are now in serious debt , they say , because Lloyds lent them money without proper advice and called in the loan after overcharging them . |
| 2 | Aunt Lilian sent me accounts of local political meetings cut out from the Gazette , and her own analyses of the Labour Government 's foreign policy . |
| 3 | According to the Nilson Report , a Californian publication that follows the industry , Citibank 's Visa/MasterCard and Sears ' Discover cards have roughly the same number of holders ( 20.4m and 21.6m respectively ) , but Citibank 's card brought it $600m in net revenue against Discover 's $117m last year . |
| 4 | In that same month Warcup had several meetings with the king and his ministers , Laurence Hyde , later first Earl of Rochester , and Sir Leoline Jenkins [ qq.v. ] ; and on 4 March the council ordered him £1,500 by privy seal , for his expenses . |
| 5 | The royal commission on awards to inventors awarded him £12,000 in 1948 for his work on the bridge . |
| 6 | Aelin brought them food on wooden platters . |
| 7 | Remember the carry-on after that communist fool gave them independence in nineteen forty-five ? ’ |
| 8 | Westmorland elected him MP in 1623 , twice in 1625 , and , with his son John , in 1627 ; and he kept diaries of proceedings in the Commons . |
| 9 | Walsh kept him company for 45 minutes for 27 runs , Patterson for an hour for a partnership of 62 until the second new ball was required to finish off the number eleven . |
| 10 | Even after being suspended 16 days ago , Mr Onanuga said he was certain Mr Lamont paid him £18.36 for three bottles of wine and two packets of Hamlet on the crucial Monday . |
| 11 | A serving wench brought us flagons of watered beer . |
| 12 | Second , he says that Jesus gave them power over unclean spirits , and that when they were under pressure the Spirit of their Father would speak within them ( 11:20 ) . |
| 13 | Goals from Rush and rookie Don Hutchison gave them victory after Yugoslav international Milenko Spoliaric had given the Cypriots a shock lead . |
| 14 | His blade lent him power beyond mortal reckoning ; the eternal flame gave him the strength to use it . |
| 15 | Magistrates fined him £50 for each tyre offence and £25 for leaving the car in a dangerous position . |
| 16 | Eranio 's superbly struck 31st-minute goal gave them victory over Portuguese champions Porto and made it four triumphs out of four in semi-final group B. |
| 17 | His Missouri childhood gave him access to Baptist hymns and church music , but at Harvard he was introduced to the writings of Gertrude Stein and the music of Erik Satie . |
| 18 | I also must add that as far as the war moved to its close , crews became increasingly better ; the output of the Empire Air Training Scheme gave us crews with more experience ; second and even third tours crews were returning to Operations ; and in the final phase , in daylight , the casualty rate dropped dramatically . |