Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alison met him in the same bar . |
| 2 | Are Oxford for the drop , can Swindon make it to the premier league play-offs ? |
| 3 | Trent met it with a slight movement of the tiller bar , and the big catamaran lifted smoothly . |
| 4 | Peregrine interrupted her with a languid chortle and was properly admonished . |
| 5 | I must have said that several times already because Ma fixed me with a glittering stare and exclaimed , ‘ If you say that word once more , Andrew , just once more , I 'll send you to the Science Museum again … with Annabel . ’ |
| 6 | Nour drew me as an English Miss : Ingleesy , prim , uneducated , unsophisticated . |
| 7 | Alon also experimented with the basic design , building a 130 hp Franklin-engined version and a prototype Alon A–4 with a Lycoming O–320 160 hp motor , before selling the type certificate of the Aircoupe to Mooney Aircraft , whereupon Mooney changed it to a single-tail design and manufactured it as the M–10 Cadet , producing 61 at $9,295 each before shutting the line down for good in 1970 . |
| 8 | On the day before de Macon sailed on his second voyage , the Ralembergs invited me to a formal supper . |
| 9 | When Pauline Kael reviewed him as the bloated Jake La Motta in Raging Bull , she said that what De Niro was doing was certainly something , but she 'd hesitate to call it acting . |
| 10 | Postine subdued it with a single blow to its long wrinkled neck . |
| 11 | Britain 's golden boy who lost his shine when newcomer David Grindley beat him for the final place in today 's 400 metres final is ready to take a year off from the track if it means he can beat the trouble . |
| 12 | Santerre was about to protest but Mandeville dismissed him with a curt move of his gloved hand . |
| 13 | Straightening up , Roman regarded her with an unreadable expression . |
| 14 | Mountbatten 's task was not simplified when General MacArthur saddled him with the additional responsibility of taking over Indonesia and Indo-China , previously within the American sphere . |
| 15 | When the hamlets were first included in the development area for the new city of Milton keynes in the 1960s , people of Calverton fought it in the High Court and won . |
| 16 | Linda asked her on a sudden impulse . |
| 17 | Glenn Hoddle got them to the Premier league … maybe Keith Scott can keep them there ! |
| 18 | Woolley met her in a Belgian hospital in the summer of 1916 , after he had broken both ankles in a forced landing . |
| 19 | No — she did n't want to be locked away to die , yet as she rushed across the square she escaped death by inches from a dog-cart without noticing it , the magnet that was Christie Goldsborough drawing her in a straight line , through brick walls if need be , to get at him . |
| 20 | Philpott led them to a pale-blue door at the end of the passage . |
| 21 | Israel perceived its military supremacy as essential for its safety , while Syria regarded it as a mortal threat to its own interests . |
| 22 | The Welshman kicked the ball away and referee Dangaard dismissed him for a second bookable offence . |
| 23 | But even if the note was deleted ( and Ramsey deleted it in a later edition ) , Raven could not have voted for Ramsey with enthusiasm . |
| 24 | First of all Gyggle tried me on the same sort of rudimentary exercises that I remembered performing as a child . |
| 25 | In response to some implied criticism I made of his treatment of the sub-editor , Porua regarded me in a sneering silence and then said , ‘ Why should I have regard for my fellows ? |
| 26 | A contemporary writer from Lika compared it to the Mongol invasions and the depredations of the Goths and Attila the Hun . |
| 27 | Designed to counteract poor visibility on murky winter afternoons , it had been used in Scotland and by the visiting South Africans in 1924 before Arsenal adopted it for a public trial match three years later . |
| 28 | The second man ( who appears at the left-hand side of the composition , drawing back a curtain ) in one of the earliest sketches , carries a skull , and Picasso identified him as a medical student . |
| 29 | Ramsey had moved out of the Barthian influence which via Hoskyns attracted him during the earlier 1930s . |
| 30 | Brownie Owl was very sympathetic when Penny told her about the lost budgie . |