Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole walk from Milngavie to Fort William took us six days . ’ |
| 2 | But on my return to Salamanca Dana gave me strong support , a spiritual courage that entered our love and our poetry . |
| 3 | Londoner Dave Parris scored it 116–113 to the challenger , the Dane Torben Hansen scored it 116–112 Eubank with Ray Francis of England making it 115–115 . |
| 4 | SURPRISINGLY , DANNY says he does n't remember arguing about music in the office at all , save Neil Spencer telling him that Earth Wind & Fire sounded like ‘ a toothpaste advert ’ . |
| 5 | But in 1976 , when Jean Darnall gave me this advice , I knew exactly what she meant and I knew that what she recommended was exactly what I wanted to do . |
| 6 | ‘ David Lodge saw him last year in The Entertainer and said he was wonderful . |
| 7 | ‘ When Miss Purdue showed us those baby clothes — the little dresses and nighties for the children of the poor fallen girls in the home on Callendar Street — they seemed so stark and plain . |
| 8 | The landlord of the Dersingham Arms saw it driven past at about three-twenty pm . |
| 9 | She could hear the regretful , gentle voice of Mother Francis telling her that life was never meant to be easy and that her best course was to work very hard now and get out of this place in record time . |
| 10 | ‘ That , more or less , is what Miss Henry told me this afternoon , ’ she admitted . |
| 11 | He put some very special old wine on the table in front of the King and said , ‘ Duke Michael offers you this wine and asks you to drink it for love of him . ’ |
| 12 | Will curry do me any harm after this ? |
| 13 | A few quite days by F/L Newton gave me some circuits in the Oxford on the 25th . |
| 14 | This task was for him somewhat infra dig , but until Burden and Sergeant Martin brought him some information he had little else to do , and this way he could , at any rate , be certain it was well done . |
| 15 | And when Dr Greene examined her this morning he said the placental bleeding had completely stopped . |
| 16 | Dr Kepepwe assured me active steps were being taken to trace those who had been intimate with me during the ten blank years : my parents , my academic colleagues . |
| 17 | The line means : ‘ May God grant you peace of mind , gentlemen ’ , not : ‘ May God grant you happy chaps a rest from your revels . ’ |
| 18 | The Maastricht summit gives us great opportunities for economic , social and democratic reform . |
| 19 | Maud Bailey gave him potted shrimps , omelette and green salad , some Bleu de Bresse and a bowl of sharp apples . |
| 20 | But his experiences of street life in Hackney and his boxing ventures in Bethnal Green taught him that blackness presented him with a unique set of problems . |
| 21 | It will be interesting to see at what distance trainer Tim Thomson Jones campaigns him this season . |
| 22 | I see from my files that Simon Murison-Bowie sent you two copies of the Agreement for this tape which required signing on behalf of the University of Toronto and return to us , and asked for confirmation of your tape specification requirements in his letter of 19 February . |
| 23 | Akabusi agreed to take part in the European Cup 400m hurdles after Frank Dick persuaded him that newcomer Gary Cadogan was too inexperienced . |
| 24 | Anthony Cheetham offered me complete control of the whole sales operation at the Orion Publishing Group Ltd , encompassing home and export sales for both hardbacks and mass market paperbacks , and while I have been very happy at Random House in its many incarnations , I felt it was too good an offer to miss . |
| 25 | Silkin 's Bill received an unopposed second reading in May ; for the Conservatives W.S. Morrison gave it general support . |
| 26 | It was a goal Wednesday had threatened almost from the point when United took the lead on the hour through Adrian Littlejohn , who touched in a Brian Deane header to make it four goals in nine League games . |
| 27 | My pal Pinkie Blenkinsop took me one night to ffeatherstonehaugh 's . ’ |
| 28 | How about Phil Hilborne giving us mere mortals some tips on the twiddly bits in Jimi 's version of Like A Rolling Stone ; it loses me every time . |
| 29 | Mrs Thatcher and Mr Lawson tell us that government policy is the last of these : Britain will become a full member of the EMS when France and Italy abolish exchange controls and when our inflation rate is similar to that of other EMS members . |
| 30 | The members walked to the ‘ handsome restaurant erected on the very summit of the Head ’ where Mr Burt gave them all lunch . |