Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 M. Lévy gave me a third more for the second vase than he had given Jean-Claude for the first one .
2 Pythons and boas include the largest species known — the Reticulated Python from South-East Asia is probably the longest ( up to 10 metres ) and the Anaconda from South America follows it a close second and is certainly heavier .
3 Over a glass of wine Ladislav told me the following story : ‘ There was a Bohemian landowner called Prince Paar .
4 The Leisure 200-S offers you the best of modern design with the instant control of modern gas technology with full ignition to the hotplate , oven and grill .
5 The supply curve SS tells us the marginal value of the leisure being sacrificed in order to work another hour , the marginal social cost of extra work .
6 The demand curve DD tells us the marginal value product of labour , the extra benefit society could have from extra goods produced .
7 ‘ My sister Mary gave him the stable name ‘ Arthur ’ .
8 In life Kelly set herself the toughest challenges , and she met them head on .
9 His elegiac tempo for the largo of the Cello Sonata allows him a sustained outpouring of feeling .
10 The Local Government union NALGO calls it an infamous act of betrayal to Jamie Robertson , who helped bring in thousands of new jobs to the area following the closure of the railway works in the mid nineteen eightees .
11 In a stunning leap of logic Torino fined him a further £200 when he failed to take the field the following week against Inter-Milan .
12 That brute Cullam fetched him a fourpenny one , poor little devil .
13 We 've teamed up with Channel 4 's top show Brookside to bring you an exclusive competition that gives you the chance to be seen on screen in Merseyside 's favourite soap .
14 ‘ Madam , get your son to the telephone at once or I will have Officer Cecil give you a good poking with his over-sized weapon . ’
15 For the first time Clare learnt what a passionate woman 's kisses were like , on the lips of one she loved with all her heart and soul , as Tess loved him .
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