Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Father Devlin clapped him on the shoulder with a large heavy hand .
2 Devlin clapped him on the shoulder .
3 Patrick flung himself on the mattress which Sarah was to use , and jumped up and down on his knees , full of boyish energy .
4 SWEET JESUS : ‘ Albino Ballerina ’ / ‘ Your Baby Loves Me ’ West Midlands-based glamour pop four-piece follow their recent UK support spots with Pop Will Eat Itself with a double A-side
5 But after three disappointing Five Nations games , Ciaran Fitzgerald drafted him into the side — as well as making him captain — for the game in Paris .
6 Trent seated himself on the taffrail .
7 Bernie Scholtz passed her on the iron stairs as she was hurrying out .
8 Harvey led me to a room which he unlocked with a key .
9 Karajan ( DG ) has often been taken to task from making an adagio meal of Shostakovich 's andante here , but Flor turns it into a snail 's banquet ( beautiful Concertgebouw wind playing notwithstanding ) .
10 The web tangled and clung mawkishly around her reasoning as Fernando lowered her to the bed .
11 Giffen led us into a room on the left .
12 Henley prides itself on the accessibility of its Faculty whose services extend well beyond the formal classroom environment .
13 Alison led me through the hall into the kitchen , a sprawling space with a flagstone floor dominated by a huge table , a Welsh dresser and rows of large cupboards .
14 Victoria met her in the hall , saying , ‘ You look frozen .
15 Biff lowered him to the ground , and untied the rope .
16 Two months later Minton visited him in the country , pale from a pub crawl in Ipswich , and seemed to Lehmann ‘ more settled with Rickie [ sic[ off the booze ’ .
17 The pyramids were already 2,000 years old when Herodotus visited them in the middle of the fifth century BC , but he found the Egyptians still told tales of misery about their construction , the horrors suffered by the populace .
18 In the morning , Punch brought a letter from Trelorne , whose contents Aunt Emily did not reveal , but Alexandra found her in the drawing-room after luncheon .
19 As you drive , this NVH manifests itself in the form of tiny vibrations fed back through the steering wheel and the gruff , uninspiring sounds from the SE-FHE engine .
20 Ezra provided me with a standard ; and gingered me into an attempt to train towards it .
21 Stewart joins us on the line now good morning Mr .
22 When Stoker approached him with a play intended for his master , Irving , taking no thought of the devotion shown by his factotum , reacted along a scale from dismissiveness to contempt .
23 Trent found them on the floor and watched the old man thread the sprung arms over his ears .
24 Bantam moved him from a Christmas slot to this summer place last year in an attempt to increase his sales , but this summer the horror leads appear more plentiful , making it a tougher market .
25 Nine months on Mr Boulton is still waiting for the two and a half thousand pounds he claims Brit-Pol owes him for the coach .
26 She took a playful swipe at his face , but Harvey caught it on the flat of his hand , then she struck at him with the palm of the other hand and they did a pat-a-cake routine .
27 Trent caught him by the forearm .
28 This particular guitar is a bit of a video star ; Dave Stewart used it in the promo for The Eurythmics ' The City Never Sleeps .
29 In traditional manner Rolle treats the gifts of the Holy Spirit listed as Wisdom , Understanding , Counsel , Might , Knowledge Piety and Fear of the Lord in Isaiah 11 in the inverted hierarchical order Counsel , Understanding , Wisdom to relate them to the process of withdrawal from the world and achievement of that inner discretion which is the ground of contemplation ; he then deals with strength , piety , knowledge and the fear of the Lord itemised as forces which stimulate man to self-knowledge and help the soul to endure against sin , all aspects of a more active spirituality .
30 Two weeks later , to my horror , Mr Taylor stopped me in the corridor and asked me if I 'd consider doing another talk — to another class .
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