Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had to make sure that she avoided him in the future and never gave him the chance to pull any more stunts like that ! |
| 2 | Whitaker , a committed and active Guild member , recognised in Coburn a considerable talent and so offered him the not insubstantial opportunity to shape a BBC drama series from grass roots , by writing its pilot . |
| 3 | A fully qualified nurse thought it was a bruise and just gave him an icepack . |
| 4 | Let her eat lunch and then give her a mild tranquilliser . |
| 5 | I 'll put on some wood and then make us a cup of tea . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It is like Nero throwing Christians to the lions and then promising them a grievance procedure , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Most people consider elimination to be a very private bodily function and therefore find it an embarrassing subject to discuss with hospital staff . |
| 8 | convert the whole thing into an ASCII and just pass you the disk . |
| 9 | Tremayne listened a bit and talked a bit and then gave me the receiver again . |
| 10 | Once Clive was in the hypnotic state on this occasion , I asked him to visualize going up to someone he knew slightly , taking a few deep breaths and then asking them a simple question — ‘ Could you please tell me the time ? ’ or ‘ Do you know the way to such-and-such a street ? ’ |
| 11 | As Granpa Charlie and I always had an apple for breakfast , the arrangement sorted out our own needs and also gave me the chance to sample what we were selling to the customers . |
| 12 | She feels that the experience of being a childminder helped her to get the job and certainly gave her the confidence to apply in the first place . |
| 13 | Well , a few years back someone else not far away opened a late-night disco and also called it the House of Music ! |
| 14 | It will arrive on a single floppy , without an installation program — you 'll have to install it manually ( creating a group and maybe assigning it an icon ) . |
| 15 | and er , she 's got two more raises at school , they 'll give him a credit and then wrote him a letter saying that he 'll probably be expelled again , of course she went busting up there |
| 16 | His family knew nothing of education and so gave him no support or encouragement , still less active aid . |
| 17 | The Abbey National was the first society to allow borrowers to see valuations and duly sent her a copy . |
| 18 | mid next week and then give you a day or so to look at it . |
| 19 | No servant should be at liberty to carry it off to a rival in trade and thus save him the expense and expertise of doing it himself " . |
| 20 | This was made explicit by Louis Agassiz , a Swiss who had in 1840 recognized marks of glaciation all over northern Europe and thus given us the idea of ice ages . |
| 21 | ‘ For de Raimes , for believing that bitch at Gloucester even for a minute , for losing my damnable temper and not giving you a chance to tell me the truth . ’ |
| 22 | There was a story that she had once been married to a hollow cheeked Indian tour guide called Willy Wither who had taken us up the river and touchingly offered me the use of his very expensive camera ( ‘ A holiday without a camera is a terrible thing . ’ ) , |
| 23 | Annunziata , who had accepted the hug , made Julia get back into bed and then told her the whole story . |
| 24 | It 's a very physically demanding business ; dancing is a wonderful way of keeping in training and also gives you a bigger scope in theatre these days . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've ruined my Gnome costume and perhaps lost me a lovely bicycle . ’ |
| 26 | The whole system was tainted with a self-destructive weakness , for in striving for absolute standardization , it rejected the individual and automatically branded him a second-class citizen . |
| 27 | ‘ If you part from a lover there is no point in saying goodbye and then seeing him every day , ’ she said . |
| 28 | Never off duty for a moment , he took her into his training school and soon gave her a booking in his spectacular , Jack and Jill . |
| 29 | You may think it is a rum thing that a chap like Tim should pay an arm and a leg to come here for a year and then teach us a thing or two but then I am perfectly happy to admit that we do n't know everything . |
| 30 | It is hoped to have another polo match here next year and perhaps make it an annual event . |