Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Van Smirren , the County Commissioner for Lincolnshire South , also came and Brown Owl gave her a phonetic alphabet worksheet . |
| 2 | There was also substantial cross-group agreement on the selection of this feature , with most groups arguing that the 'summarising " nature of this sentence made it a strong candidate for an opening to the story . |
| 3 | It was only when the high priest asked him the direct question : |
| 4 | Fucking what , I , I 'm , I think it was he 's mum or not , some old biddy gave me a right old . |
| 5 | When he was at school another boy told him the Chinese see a rabbit in the moon . |
| 6 | I was still nursing my Freddieland injuries , and the way she was looking at me with her unflinching gaze gave me a queasy feeling I 'd only narrowly avoided providing lunch . |
| 7 | The rare ability shown in the digging and publication ( 1928 ) of this site gave her a promising place in Palaeolithic studies , reinforced by her first book , The Upper Palaeolithic Age in Britain ( 1926 ) . |
| 8 | Down 's handsome appearance , high principles , and genial manner won him a powerful influence over his patients and the real affection of his colleagues . |
| 9 | WELL , WHEN I OFFERED SIR WILFRED MY RESIGNATION , THE OLD BUGGER GAVE ME A SECOND-HAND YACHT HE 'D PICKED UP AT AN AUCTION … |
| 10 | At Corbett 's bidding an old man showed them the blood-spattered piece of ground where their priest had been found . |
| 11 | Orientation operates in much the same way as the intelligence test used to … its particular value being that its apparent scientific objectivity made it an excellent means of justifying selection . |
| 12 | What is clear is that the military origins of nuclear power in this country gave it a powerful boost as an infant technology , and that the umbilical cord has not been severed . |
| 13 | Those who worked for ‘ Laura Ashley ’ at this time found it a mixed experience . |
| 14 | The Scottish Office allowed them an additional borrowing consent of £750,000 and £370,000 came from their existing financial resources . |
| 15 | The following day , a Spanish lady gave us a guided tour of Cartiera , a partly excavated Roman town only three miles from Gibraltar . |
| 16 | I 'll admit that hearing about that sermon gave me a cowardly frisson of fear . |
| 17 | Quite different from her brother , who was slim where she was rotund , and whose dark hair lent him a certain swarthy , though boyish , kind of good looks . |
| 18 | Only Father Kolbe remained alive until a bored guard gave him a fatal injection of carbolic acid . |
| 19 | In Soho , hell-bent on a good time , her tremendous vitality made her the female counterpart of Minton . |
| 20 | His role as chief mourner gave him a certain glamour . |
| 21 | Erm so we then moved back towards the doorway erm and then P C requested the persons in the bed to tell him where the light switch was , which a male voice told him the approximate area where the light switch was . |
| 22 | Riven caught Bicker 's eye as he had that afternoon , and the dark man threw him a rueful grin . |
| 23 | Yet the size of the rural community gave it a potent voice in political affairs . |
| 24 | That Emilia thought her a mere child revealed how little she understood ; but then Louisa herself had only limited comprehension of what remained dark and unspoken in this woman who studied her , almost coldly , summoning resolve . |
| 25 | He told Johnson that Warburton ( the combative English divine and man of letters , whose generally controversial national presence made him a common topic of Johnsonian conversation ) had a close relationship with an unnamed ‘ eminent printer ’ . |
| 26 | A tall thin boy with straggly hair passed her a joint and Lizzy took it from him , inhaling the fragrant mixture deeply . |
| 27 | She was n't sure if she groaned out loud , but the middle-aged lady in the opposite seat gave her a worried glance before ducking quickly back into her magazine . |
| 28 | From 1661 he sat in the Cavalier Parliament for Dorset , and was in opposition under both the administration of Edward Hyde , Earl of Clarendon [ q.v. ] and , after 1667 , the Cabal , in which his local rival , Anthony Ashley Cooper ( later first Earl of Shaftesbury , q.v. ) , held high office ; but his stalwart churchmanship brought him an honorary DCL from his old university in 1665 . |
| 29 | A certain national tabloid put it a different way today : Yanks 2 Planks 0 . |
| 30 | He wore riding-gear and a bowler , a stick tucked underneath his arm , and his air of unhurried authority gave him a matchless glamour . |