Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Father Devlin clapped him on the shoulder with a large heavy hand . |
| 2 | Devlin clapped him on the shoulder . |
| 3 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 4 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
| 5 | However , the prior hypothesis led us to the finding in the rural high oil worker category ( table II , both for all ages and the 0–4 age group . |
| 6 | There is little evidence that peasant faith declined , but the authority of village priests was progressively undermined : in terms of culture and way of life they differed too little from the ordinary villagers to inspire much respect , and the miserly provision made them by the State resulted in constant friction over money matters between priest and parishioner . |
| 7 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
| 8 | But after three disappointing Five Nations games , Ciaran Fitzgerald drafted him into the side — as well as making him captain — for the game in Paris . |
| 9 | All I can remember is having a pickled onion and my sister stabbed it with a fork and the middle shot across the room . |
| 10 | Bernie Scholtz passed her on the iron stairs as she was hurrying out . |
| 11 | Harvey led me to a room which he unlocked with a key . |
| 12 | Influenced by these dreams , beautiful mornings seemed to mock her waking despair , but once she had shaken herself free from their shades , sun , sky , trees and birds enveloped her like a benediction . |
| 13 | The web tangled and clung mawkishly around her reasoning as Fernando lowered her to the bed . |
| 14 | The 28-year-old cab driver attacked her in a clearing after she went to join Queen 's Club in west London , Mark Dennis , prosecuting , told the Old Bailey . |
| 15 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 16 | She confessed that the bitter jibes and over-exposure led her to the precipice . |
| 17 | George Best , a thin teenager from Belfast , whose dribbling skills made him into a star with Manchester United and the darling of the sports and gossip columns epitomized the new era . |
| 18 | Bridhe and Seamus Ban consulted him about the amount of drink that would be needed , and were told to double it . |
| 19 | Giffen led us into a room on the left . |
| 20 | Alison led me through the hall into the kitchen , a sprawling space with a flagstone floor dominated by a huge table , a Welsh dresser and rows of large cupboards . |
| 21 | Victoria met her in the hall , saying , ‘ You look frozen . |
| 22 | Biff lowered him to the ground , and untied the rope . |
| 23 | Two months later Minton visited him in the country , pale from a pub crawl in Ipswich , and seemed to Lehmann ‘ more settled with Rickie [ sic[ off the booze ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award . |
| 25 | The blow caught her on the cheek and she fell against Gilbert . |
| 26 | The pyramids were already 2,000 years old when Herodotus visited them in the middle of the fifth century BC , but he found the Egyptians still told tales of misery about their construction , the horrors suffered by the populace . |
| 27 | In the morning , Punch brought a letter from Trelorne , whose contents Aunt Emily did not reveal , but Alexandra found her in the drawing-room after luncheon . |
| 28 | Ezra provided me with a standard ; and gingered me into an attempt to train towards it . |
| 29 | Spice drew us round the world , showed us it was round , and led us to confront ourselves again . |
| 30 | This week , the ageing lothario was horrified when a cloth-capped pensioner pursued him down a street , wreathed in smiles and waving an autograph book , The Rolling Stone coldly ignored him , appalled at being associated with a gummy grandad and perhaps being all too forcibly reminded of his own advancing years . |