Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back at her place she offered him a large whisky and then said that she just had to slip into the bedroom to see to a few things . |
| 2 | Although mainly a director of low budget productions , he told me that before the war he concerned it a poor year if he did not earn six thousand pounds , quite a sum for those days . |
| 3 | Though engrossed in picking his teeth with a match he gave me a long appraising stare before addressing me in rich cockney . |
| 4 | ‘ With his left hand he snatched the gun from the Pole 's hands , and with his right he gave him a violent blow to the ear . ’ |
| 5 | On the second day they gave her a rubber ball attached on a long elastic thread to a wooden bat . |
| 6 | After a while he gave her a sidelong glance under his enviable black lashes . |
| 7 | This morning I boiled her a nice fresh egg , and she ate the lot . |
| 8 | When you went to the Ideal Home Exhibition they gave you a hot sausage on a stick to eat — with pickle , not just a picture of one to look at . |
| 9 | Mr Pumblechook seemed to agree with my sister that I should be punished as much as possible , even when eating , and so for breakfast next morning he gave me a large piece of bread with very little butter , and a cup of warm water with very little milk , and insisted on checking my learning . |
| 10 | You are very kind to have thought of him and when I gave him your kiss he gave me a hundred in return to pass on to you believing I could and indeed I wish he was correct in his supposition . |
| 11 | At the garage where he bought petrol they offered him a complimentary sherry glass because he had bought more than thirty litres . |
| 12 | Two of our greatest fans were the 1968 West Indian Cricket team and the Duke Ellington Orchestra they gave us a standsing ovation . |
| 13 | He groped his way back towards her , and Cassie laughed again as she watched his stumbling progress around the bottom of the bed he gave it a wide berth , so perhaps the nineteen forties bed , which must occupy the same position as her own , was longer or wider than hers . |
| 14 | But he would concede nothing , and in the end I gave him a dry little bow and thanked him for the tea . |
| 15 | In this box she showed him a long thick green book , a little like an accounts book , with sombre marbled endpapers : |
| 16 | Either way I thought it a nice gesture , and when I next caught his eye I smiled . |
| 17 | Big overlap on , especially on stuff like this about the dynamics erm do n't forget that sort of first sheet I gave you a long time ago about |
| 18 | With the usual peasant hospitality they offered me a little saucer of quince jam and a thimbleful of raki as well as the glass of cistern water I requested . |
| 19 | Each time I sent him a rewritten chapter , he sent back a long list of objections and questions he wanted me to clarify . |
| 20 | ‘ Your Grace , my father is but a merchant , and to marry me into this noble family he gave me a noble dowry , eight hundred marks . |
| 21 | This time he gave her a genuine smile . |