Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so I got them , me mum got me some black ones , but they 're like , they come right down to the ankles |
| 2 | Bomber Command got it right two weeks later ! |
| 3 | His electrifying speed earned him seven international caps for Scotland as a wing three-quarter . |
| 4 | More than that , he wanted to act on the impulse to touch her and experience the thrill of holding a girl whose very presence caused him exceptional physical excitement . |
| 5 | ISABEL WOLFF BELIEVES THE NOBEL COMMITTEE GOT IT RIGHT THIS TIME … |
| 6 | John Moxen , the joint project director , said the growing pressure from European and domestic legislation and a strong green lobby made it vital that industry and commerce move towards best environmental practices . |
| 7 | Where the editor rattled her half dozen strings of large beads and remarked with a toothy grin : ‘ They say it 's the fashion — ’ Where Gerald , the art editor — who was reputed to have a fabulous house on the Chelsea Embankment full of priceless works of art — was so sensitive that he had to have a soundproof office specially built for him , while his assistant Jeremy padded along like his superior 's spaniel , and if Gerald wore a shirt of subtle pink on Monday , his minion would appear in the same shade on Tuesday . |
| 8 | But Firefly kept me busy all morning , as I told you . |
| 9 | Instead , the waiter brought us two full glasses of the ‘ green fairy ’ . |
| 10 | Well last night only three days after the shadow cabinet elections one of the women MPs who was thrown off John Smith 's core team accused her male parliamentary colleagues of a cynical plot and a stitch-up . |
| 11 | Inside , the elderly English upper-class proprietor told me that true Communism only survives in Albania . |
| 12 | A call from a trusted contact informed me that senior police officers from the Royalty and Diplomatic Protection squad had been summoned to Buckingham Palace and ordered to find who leaked the story . |
| 13 | Although Harry 's conscience kept him awake that night until the early hours , the temptation of a day alone with Madeleine dulled his feeling of guilt about borrowing Dunbar 's car to further his own pursuit of the girl they both loved . |
| 14 | Her apple-green light wool suit reminded them all that spring would one day come . |
| 15 | At the boarding school I went to Gwendoline we had a very good punishment for sneaks , all the girls in the sneak dormy gave her one good spank with the back of a hair brush . |
| 16 | Ron Anthony , the NII 's chief inspector made it clear last week that delays over settling the safety case were largely the fault of the CEGB , it was 10 months late with its PCSR and is still filling in gaps in key areas , like the integrity of steam generator tubes and the issue of fuel-clad ballooning . |
| 17 | Then she took him into a shoe shop — and Pip 's father sold her some new shoes for Anthony . |
| 18 | A mother ewe with two lambs in the field behind the house one morning demonstrated her strong maternal instincts when she successful saw off a two year old steer with a series of savage head butts . |
| 19 | A woman drew her long black hair out tight |
| 20 | The heavy door frame caused it some minor difficulty , which it overcame with a swing of its shoulders that tore the timber out and tossed it to one side . |
| 21 | Although Smith 's contemporaries held him in high regard for his remarkable administrative skill and consummate powers of conciliation , few had any understanding of his real scientific achievement until the Academy 's prize brought him posthumous international recognition . |
| 22 | While his loyalism gave him urban working-class support , it was the rural Protestants who were most receptive to his evangelical emphases and who made a seat like Bannside obviously attractive . |
| 23 | Barclay 's father gave him 9,000 Scottish merks ( £500 ) to start on a mercantile career . |
| 24 | It is doubtful whether the unfortunates impounded in the Lazzaretto had time to concern themselves with the aesthetic niceties of the building , and it can only be hoped that the church offered them some spiritual comfort . |
| 25 | The journey took them two full days . |
| 26 | Such effort rewarded Nick Baglin , whose coolness earned him several crucial points in his final against Robinson , the Yorkshireman going down 6–3 , 6–4 , a match for which both players received a standing ovation . |
| 27 | ‘ The university gave me some nice dinners and said ‘ do n't worry about coming back to work . |
| 28 | The people 's radio told us more real news , but these days we were too afraid to listen to Colonel Stephens . |
| 29 | His Oscar brought him further worthwhile film roles , often allowing him the chance to sing , as in Young at Heart and The Joker is Wild , but to turn in fine performances also . |
| 30 | The English edition sold out very quickly , and rumour had it that interested parties had bought up large numbers of copies in order to minimise its impact . |