Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Currie 's 19-6 win over Watsonians at Malleny Park gave them their highest finish in three seasons in Division I , but they did not have to be very good to beat a very poor visiting XV . |
| 2 | Phoebe now wondered , with an inner smile , remembering the evening when , aged about twelve , the master of her father 's college had rearranged the high table to make her his senior guest . |
| 3 | Ironically , its part-time nature gives it its greatest flexibility . |
| 4 | When he holds out his tiny arms to greet me my whole heart keels over as if a great wave has hit it . |
| 5 | There was still a good deal to be done : studying the local map , persuading a naval man to lend me his dark blue trousers , and buying a filthy cap for a hundred cigarettes from a Pole working in the washroom . |
| 6 | Raymond and Agnes , or the Castle of Lindenberg , play adapted by M. G. Lewis from his novel Ambrosio , or the Monk ; first produced in 1809 , and in other versions later ; the introduction of the character of the Bleeding Nun gave it its popular title . |
| 7 | spent a long time showing me his Dark Crystal |
| 8 | His adoptive father lent him his old Kershaw 450 bellows camera and six weeks into the job Clayton admits he fluked his first page one picture . |
| 9 | ‘ My Chinese counterpart told me his 11-month old daughter used to cry when he got home on Saturday nights because she did n't recognise him ! ’ |
| 10 | Surely Richmond is Beulah , I said to the Princess , who said it was only to be hoped no wicked Fairy envied us our pleasant lot . |
| 11 | So , perhaps we 're lucky just being able to watch our political leaders slug it our over speeches and television debates . |
| 12 | A small boy gave her his wooden sword and she brandished it the way he had shown her . |
| 13 | The home team 's comeback was complete when Ford cross to the far post and Paul Read 's low header gave him his 17th goal of the season . |
| 14 | His old course and his new job gave him his first academic publication : a grammar of the Albanian language . |
| 15 | There the Vadinamian permanent station gave us their usual , painstaking , molecular once-over . |