Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By Thursday , some journalists were reporting that a Royal aide had told them the marriage was ‘ clearly not made in heaven ’ . |
| 2 | His years in the ring had left him the legacy of being quick on his feet , and he caught Larsen some twenty yards short of the door . |
| 3 | His clemency had earned him the regard of the West and would , surely , last until Twelfth Night . |
| 4 | As Burn tried to tend him the plane exploded . |
| 5 | Genoa boasted a powerful ancient landed nobility whose surplus wealth helped to give it the capital for its commercial enterprises ; but it also needed to import food and raw materials from elsewhere , and enjoyed a powerful economic motive for becoming a centre of commerce . |
| 6 | His position within the duchy had brought him the support of men who would otherwise have been outside his sphere of influence , as well as making him the better lord for his own servants . |
| 7 | His position within the duchy had brought him the support of men who would otherwise have been outside his sphere of influence , as well as making him the better lord for his own servants . |
| 8 | Even a bare second had shown him the gauntness of her face , its pallor throwing the make-up into a strange relief , like those simulated three-dimensional photographs . |
| 9 | Clive James , whose Observer column had made him the doyen of television critics in the Seventies , wrote ; ‘ One has been kept from previous series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em by its awful title , but it is time to say what everybody is saying-that the show is a must . |
| 10 | He 'd known he would n't be putting on the act as soon as the boy had handed him the carrier . |
| 11 | We did have them , for County Hall had sent us the list of these hospitals and their separate functions . |
| 12 | Shortly after Anna was born her mother married , and a year or so ago her husband died leaving her the house and a little money . |
| 13 | Her husband had left her the year before for some Tex-Mex bitch , claiming that she was too boring to live with . |
| 14 | The Catholic Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) did not co-operate because the assembly failed to offer them the opportunity of power-sharing which they gained in 1973 . |
| 15 | My wife telephoned to give me the news which had been heard by our daughter listening to the radio . |
| 16 | THE world 's stock exchanges had a turbulent week as politics and economics conspired to give them the jitters . |
| 17 | He auditioned the song for the show and all went well , but on the night of the big gig itself , the Editor of CBS-TV Programming decided to give it the chop , fearing that the talking blues , which lampooned both the society and racism in general , might upset redneck viewers . |
| 18 | The Hochhauser Season had given her the courage to defy Georg — not to quarrel with him , she did n't want to do that — but to make it plain she was now her own woman , with her own life to lead , a life that might or might not include him . |
| 19 | His decisive , no-nonsense manner had given him the reputation of being a good doctor , and this had been only slightly dented by one or two spectacularly wrong diagnoses . |
| 20 | Vulgar speculation about his love life usually enraged Richard ; there was still a mark on the pearl damask wall where he had hurled a glass of whisky on receiving the news that People magazine had voted him the World 's Sexiest Man of 1984 . |
| 21 | ‘ My father called me Breeze , ’ she added , as he seemed interested ; and as she said that her mind went back to the hot summer 's day when her father had given her the nickname which had been adopted by everyone . |
| 22 | It seemed as though anger had given her the strength that rest in bed had failed to produce . |
| 23 | Her desperate , unreasoning terror had left her the moment Penry Vaughan hurtled through the door . |
| 24 | A year 's worth of fenced scav had brought her the treatment . |
| 25 | In addition to the damage to his integrity , the leadership challenge resulted in the immediate resignation of Keating , whose intellect and skills of debate had made him the ALP 's most formidable performer in parliament . |
| 26 | Her instructor had given her the name of a boy who was selling a sailboard and who would be here in time for the afternoon race . |
| 27 | The photographer offered to sell him the negatives for £30 at the time but he did n't have the money . |
| 28 | But once his novelty value had worn off among the blasé Viennese , his audiences declined , while jealousy and court intrigue combined to deny him the court appointments and lucrative commissions he so desperately needed . |
| 29 | Actually erm although councillor is quite correct that we 're providing a service , erm in some ways it would be nice if the government did give us the freedom to operate our business as we choose to do so . |
| 30 | ‘ My cousin did tell you the terms ? ’ |