Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his tour the French government , on Oct. 30 , officially reiterated its recognition of him as Haiti 's President and offered him political asylum . |
| 2 | The crisis secured his reputation as President and earned him immense popularity with the American people . |
| 3 | Still holding the old man 's shirtfront , Ellwood yanked him back to the couch and threw him full length . |
| 4 | He conceived the idea of artificial daylight and gave it practical reality by filtering the light of an Argand oil lamp through blue glass . |
| 5 | When a boy arrived at Eton he was allocated to a " classical tutor " who oversaw his work and gave him special tuition . |
| 6 | They said we 'd receive eighty cents a day for six hours work and promised us good food , good houses to live in . |
| 7 | He did n't go to Mass , but it was said that the priests came down to him once a month and heard his confession and gave him Holy Communion . |
| 8 | In 1991 , for example , Fareed Armaly and Christian Philipp Muller cloned the banal façade of the building and relocated it full scale at the edge of a forest : ‘ Fassade Galerie Nagel 1:1 ’ showed the same , faceless , empty apartment building but joined to a work belonging to Munich art dealer , Hanns Daxer and his wife ( to which ‘ Fassade ’ now also belongs ) . |
| 9 | The injury temporarily blinded one eye and gave him double vision in the other , but is now no more than a bruise , said his wife . |
| 10 | Since the Kaszubes lacked any political organisation or ambition and had no recognition for their language , hardly any literature of their own and barely any sense of a common Kaszubian identity , the Poles thought of the Kaszubians as a joke and paid them little heed . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Oracle has plucked top product designer Karl Hageman from ASK and named him chief design architect of Oracle Manufacturing . |
| 12 | Lord Justice McCowan said he found it quite impossible to hold that Mr Hurd 's political judgment — that the appearance of terrorists on programmes increased their standing and lent them political legitimacy — was one that no reasonable home secretary could make . |
| 13 | The press picked up the story the following day and gave it wide coverage . |
| 14 | The first gave him a degree of control over appointment to benefices in the Church ; the second referred certain cases to his court and gave him certain prerogative powers . |
| 15 | Recently , TCS entered into an agreement with Lotus Development Corporation that gave them exclusive distribution rights for the whole range of Recently there was uproar in India following ‘ body shopping ’ by American software firms . |
| 16 | The Authority rightly identified teachers ' classroom practice as a critical factor in children 's learning and gave it considerable prominence in documents , courses and the day-to-day work of its advisory staff in schools . |
| 17 | There was little delegation of authority , but Di Tella 's personal participation enhanced his authority and gave him considerable control . |
| 18 | He called Whittaker to his office the following Monday morning and made him chief trainer , waving aside protests of inexperience and of indignation at Hardy 's sacking . |
| 19 | The rescue helicopter still had n't arrived when we were fifteen miles from the coast and Warton gave me Blackpool 's frequency and wished me good day ’ . |
| 20 | Though the business was thriving , there was one aspect that gave him great concern and over which he was powerless to exercise any sort of control . |
| 21 | After a period spent talking about the Legion and what we thought it was going to be like , he turned to me , shook my hand and wished me good luck . |
| 22 | Nonetheless , it was British fears that began the process of creating a political group ( rather than a religious one ) , and British political tactics to safeguard their continued power that gave it national significance . |
| 23 | The only thing he seems to be good at is denigrating Labour , the party that brought him political prominence . |
| 24 | The engines whined softly as beautiful Oriental stewardesses showed them to their seats in First Class and offered them complimentary champagne , which they both refused . |
| 25 | When they returned to the centre Rachel and Nina applied light dressings to the scalds , then took the two ladies into the rest-room and gave them sweet tea to help them recover from shock . |
| 26 | Also on 13 March Fawcett received the ‘ preliminary note ’ at his editor 's office and gave it top priority . |