Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " 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 | Corbett dug into his purse and handed her some coins . |
| 4 | I contacted the landowner immediately after the inquest to inform him of the result and gave him three coins , one for each of his sons . |
| 5 | At 11.30 on saturday night ward staff discovered he was missing — they began a search and found him fifteen minutes later . |
| 6 | Still holding the old man 's shirtfront , Ellwood yanked him back to the couch and threw him full length . |
| 7 | The fully-laden truck careered through traffic lights at a crossroads in St Austell , Cornwall , crushed her Vauxhall car and pushed it 100 feet , before virtually demolishing a butchery and crashing into a florist 's shop . |
| 8 | The first is nine pages of typed script and took her seventeen hours to do . |
| 9 | I picked up the chant and repeated it many times . |
| 10 | He conceived the idea of artificial daylight and gave it practical reality by filtering the light of an Argand oil lamp through blue glass . |
| 11 | Father Peter took three earthenware bowls from a small cupboard near the inglenook and served them generous portions of soup from a black bowl which hung perilously from an iron hook above the flames . |
| 12 | When a boy arrived at Eton he was allocated to a " classical tutor " who oversaw his work and gave him special tuition . |
| 13 | They said we 'd receive eighty cents a day for six hours work and promised us good food , good houses to live in . |
| 14 | The grandparents completely dominated the boy and gave him high levels of attention for his difficult behaviour . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Gradually he had started to reject food which had increased her level of anxiety and gained him more attention . |
| 17 | One of them was Edward Pease , who invited Durham to his home and asked him many questions . |
| 18 | He smoked a cigarette and looked at her stubbly hair and bought her another brandy . |
| 19 | They barricaded the building and ocupied it all night . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | He thanked the singer and gave him another sop , which he could ill afford . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Poppy had managed to gather quite a collection of workmen 's boots , so I went to the pet shop and bought her some toys , which she loved playing with . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , Oracle has plucked top product designer Karl Hageman from ASK and named him chief design architect of Oracle Manufacturing . |
| 26 | Then Greta Ross took my mother into a room and asked her more questions . |
| 27 | I gave my orders and they led me to a private room and brought me some writing paper and a pen . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | When Glen Baxter came for a signing session , we sold 80 copies of his book — a modest number perhaps for a shop of this size , but sales of his ‘ spin-off ’ goods amounted to a further 40% of the shop 's turnover that day and brought us some 16% over our sales target for that week . |
| 30 | He came back the next day and gave me another £1.2 million and told me I could spend it in any way I wanted . |