Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The porter fetches it every morning . ’ |
| 2 | The porter brought me the message . |
| 3 | I read the Blues Brothers review and the soundtrack gave me an idea : why not have a soundtrack chart in ZZAP ! ? |
| 4 | In addition , his setting out the poet 's connection with the primitive gave him the status of a societal elder , one who , lecturing in America , would pronounce on literature and society as Arnold had done less than fifty years before him . |
| 5 | But the CO vetoes me every time . ’ |
| 6 | The fact that the ordnance survey map of Ben Lawers proudly declared a Visitor Centre at the base left me no choice in the route I was to take to the top . |
| 7 | It will take a great deal of money to do it properly and I 'm only interested in doing it if I have the support to give me a chance of winning . |
| 8 | I could have done without the ‘ vote of confidence ’ the Board gave me a month ago … every football manager knows what that invariably means . |
| 9 | Sometimes , he said we used to take them motorway he said to junction whatever at Dover and they 'd be somebody waiting there with the money give us the car we 'd go back to London and they 'd just take it up the . |
| 10 | He succeeds in the game and the goldfish offers him a prize . |
| 11 | Charley rubbed her hands and the Dodger gave her a drink from the bottle he carried . |
| 12 | The midwife showed me a note that had been pinned to the baby 's jacket under the shawl . |
| 13 | Why was n't the computer telling me the answer ? |
| 14 | The computer asks you a question via a sound card and gives you a choice of options on screen , and you respond by pressing the relevant button . |
| 15 | NICRA also had a reasonable complaint that the lateness of the ban gave them no time to negotiate amy alternative date or route . |
| 16 | The clerk handed him the envelope . |
| 17 | Trying to make light of it , she added , ‘ Why , even the birds think it a joke ! |
| 18 | ‘ She always says the crossing gives her an opportunity to relax and study her scripts . ’ |
| 19 | The cyclist gave him a parting kick as he pedalled off . |
| 20 | A chance meeting with Dr Kathy Lang at a database user group and the subsequent investigation of Ventura led Tony Gamble to make the decision to give it a try . |
| 21 | Scott 's first letter had been an appalling error , and it would seem sufficient reason why Donaldson should suggest reversing the decision to award him the Gold Medal , but Scott , when drafting his Recollections in later years , looked for further motives behind Donaldson 's action as he could not ‘ reconcile it with the character and generosity which Donaldson has usually evinced ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ I came to see if there was anything in the apartment to give me a lead on who killed Mahoney , ’ I said . |
| 23 | separate reports of the views of each of the groups to give them the opportunity for further comment ; |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't particularly enjoy being a guest of Her Majesty but the experience gave me the chance to get my priorities straight , ’ he said . |
| 25 | The men times the hours gives you the man hours . |
| 26 | The Saudis give me a stretch Mercedes and a clandestine litre of Johnny Walker Black , but no girl . |
| 27 | A brief greatness was now conferred on the place , when the Popes found it an island refuge in their struggle against the Empire : Count Pierre of Melgueil bestowed the county and bishopric on SS Peter and Paul and Pop Gregory VII in 1085 , Pope Urban II graciously granted it back as a fief for a mere annual ounce of gold , and in 1096 , on a visit , astonishingly declared the church ‘ second after that of Rome ’ , with arms of the two |
| 28 | The processor sent me a cheque for the value of the two missing films . |
| 29 | Although rape and looting were technically crimes according to both armies rules of conduct , the commanders considered it a necessity to ‘ cleanse ’ their enemies of their women . |
| 30 | ‘ The recession gave us a window of opportunity , ’ he said at the time . |