Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fred Astaire still twirls Ginger Rogers and Donald Peers croons Give me the moonlight , give me the girl and leave the rest to me . |
| 2 | York Benedictine monk Cyril Brooks has set himself a 100-mile a day challenge to cycle around Britain to raise money for a church convention . |
| 3 | Rugby has given me a life , it 's given me everything . |
| 4 | After nearly two decades of hard work , Robert Cray has earned himself a place alongside the blues aristocracy . |
| 5 | Competition could be fierce , as a young Dundee officer discovered when even the influence of the powerful David Scott failed to secure him a place for the voyage of 1801 because |
| 6 | As we ate , Dr Jaffery promised to give me a ring the following morning to confirm that the festival was going to be celebrated . |
| 7 | Corbett devoured it hungrily while the gaoler watched impassively but , when Corbett tried to ask him a question , slapped him in the mouth , grabbed the bowl and waddled out of the cell . |
| 8 | She does her weekly shopping not in a huge supermarket but in the camp 's NAAFI and in an effort to actually go out and meet people Sue has got herself a day job . |
| 9 | Mama , Millie has brought you a present ; they 're currant buns . |
| 10 | The most enjoyable four days with ‘ Jolly ’ Jean , ‘ Gentle ’ Joan and ‘ Lovely ’ Lucy combined to give us a variety of sessions with different apparatus . |
| 11 | David offered to show me the place and … ’ |
| 12 | However , Oldfield did get himself a lawyer , and after negotiation with Virgin , an amendment to his contract was signed in April 1977 , increasing his royalty rate to 8 per cent . |
| 13 | In a way , I was thinking , Gharr had done me a favour . |
| 14 | Just before he left , Creed had given him the date . |
| 15 | The fire crew had to cut free the man with his legs trapped , after Rachel and Nina had set up an intravenous infusion and David had given him a pethidine injection to help control his pain . |
| 16 | But I did n't think they would put the band back together ; David had mentioned it a couple of times but I had n't really taken him that seriously . |
| 17 | At the start of the decade the 2-Tone bands were keeping everybody up to scratch about racism , and by the end of it a member of Duran Duran had bought himself a house in South Africa . |
| 18 | Commerce graduate Terry Blamey had won himself a reputation as one of Australia 's brightest entertainment entrepreneurs with his company Pace Entertainment . |
| 19 | ( They were eventually to get another dog — a very lively golden retriever , but before that Warnie had bought himself a boat . ) |
| 20 | Eleanor had given him the opportunity he had needed . |
| 21 | By turning record-packers into talent scouts , magazine salesmen into managers , Branson had paid them the compliment of saying ‘ I trust you ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Lots of them did n't , ’ said Lee , running down the passage and into the kitchen that Philip had been in yesterday morning where Mrs Wright had given him a cup of tea . |
| 23 | Mrs Wright had given him the key to lock the door but he had n't locked it . |
| 24 | Of course , Delia Sutherland had personalised it the way women do , in her case with a trace of dog . |
| 25 | She was in some ways , a female Kenneth Williams , an eccentric who could emote facially and vocally in a way in which Ken had established himself the master . |
| 26 | Sir David continues to ask me every couple of hours if I 've done it yet . ’ |
| 27 | Chico offered Rex the kind of comforting smile Rex had offered him the night before . |
| 28 | Jean 's bought me a tin of biscuits and a tin of of tin of biscuits so there 's ample biscuits . |
| 29 | T'would have done you no harm , and been good for the |
| 30 | And then Lisabeth came to see what the noise was and he must have thought she was you for a minute — we had the curtains drawn , you see . |