Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Van Smirren , the County Commissioner for Lincolnshire South , also came and Brown Owl gave her a phonetic alphabet worksheet . |
| 2 | It was only when the high priest asked him the direct question : |
| 3 | Fucking what , I , I 'm , I think it was he 's mum or not , some old biddy gave me a right old . |
| 4 | I was still nursing my Freddieland injuries , and the way she was looking at me with her unflinching gaze gave me a queasy feeling I 'd only narrowly avoided providing lunch . |
| 5 | Down 's handsome appearance , high principles , and genial manner won him a powerful influence over his patients and the real affection of his colleagues . |
| 6 | WELL , WHEN I OFFERED SIR WILFRED MY RESIGNATION , THE OLD BUGGER GAVE ME A SECOND-HAND YACHT HE 'D PICKED UP AT AN AUCTION … |
| 7 | At Corbett 's bidding an old man showed them the blood-spattered piece of ground where their priest had been found . |
| 8 | Orientation operates in much the same way as the intelligence test used to … its particular value being that its apparent scientific objectivity made it an excellent means of justifying selection . |
| 9 | The Scottish Office allowed them an additional borrowing consent of £750,000 and £370,000 came from their existing financial resources . |
| 10 | The following day , a Spanish lady gave us a guided tour of Cartiera , a partly excavated Roman town only three miles from Gibraltar . |
| 11 | Quite different from her brother , who was slim where she was rotund , and whose dark hair lent him a certain swarthy , though boyish , kind of good looks . |
| 12 | Only Father Kolbe remained alive until a bored guard gave him a fatal injection of carbolic acid . |
| 13 | In Soho , hell-bent on a good time , her tremendous vitality made her the female counterpart of Minton . |
| 14 | His role as chief mourner gave him a certain glamour . |
| 15 | Erm so we then moved back towards the doorway erm and then P C requested the persons in the bed to tell him where the light switch was , which a male voice told him the approximate area where the light switch was . |
| 16 | Riven caught Bicker 's eye as he had that afternoon , and the dark man threw him a rueful grin . |
| 17 | Yet the size of the rural community gave it a potent voice in political affairs . |
| 18 | He told Johnson that Warburton ( the combative English divine and man of letters , whose generally controversial national presence made him a common topic of Johnsonian conversation ) had a close relationship with an unnamed ‘ eminent printer ’ . |
| 19 | A tall thin boy with straggly hair passed her a joint and Lizzy took it from him , inhaling the fragrant mixture deeply . |
| 20 | She was n't sure if she groaned out loud , but the middle-aged lady in the opposite seat gave her a worried glance before ducking quickly back into her magazine . |
| 21 | From 1661 he sat in the Cavalier Parliament for Dorset , and was in opposition under both the administration of Edward Hyde , Earl of Clarendon [ q.v. ] and , after 1667 , the Cabal , in which his local rival , Anthony Ashley Cooper ( later first Earl of Shaftesbury , q.v. ) , held high office ; but his stalwart churchmanship brought him an honorary DCL from his old university in 1665 . |
| 22 | A certain national tabloid put it a different way today : Yanks 2 Planks 0 . |
| 23 | He wore riding-gear and a bowler , a stick tucked underneath his arm , and his air of unhurried authority gave him a matchless glamour . |
| 24 | When Mr Kinnock succeeded Michael Foot in 1983 , the early support of the ASTMS white-collar union gave him a crucial head-start . |
| 25 | His confidence that God 's existence could be demonstrated from the natural world made him a favourite target for those who felt it could only be on the basis of God 's special revelation of Himself that faith could be justified . |
| 26 | Her bruised face gave her a new look of vulnerability . |
| 27 | The scratched little screen played her a little tune and showed a phone company logo . |
| 28 | That new and unfair pain gave her a new savage thirst for proper revenge . |
| 29 | If he is n't , it does n't matter what he knows and he can go over my head any day he likes and make the Assistant Commissioner read him the whole report if he wants to . |
| 30 | He looked up , and the flickering torchlight showed him a vaulted cavern-roof innocent of tooling by men . |