Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middlesbrough were stronger defensively in the second half as , surprisingly , Swindon tried to upset them with a long-ball game rather , than with their usual slick passing style . |
| 2 | He felt hammer blows to his arm before Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver . |
| 3 | He felt hammer blows to his arm before Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver . |
| 4 | Without specifying whether the state would grant the Roman Catholic Church legal recognition , Salinas undertook to promote it to a " new legal position " . |
| 5 | Handed over in 1939 by Its owners In response to an advertisement in The Times , Youth Allyah decided to use it as a transit camp for refugee children who were waiting for permanent hachshara . |
| 6 | Bernice went to slap him on the back . |
| 7 | The King of Portugal offered to raise him to the title of Count Torre Bella on condition he took Portuguese nationality . |
| 8 | The same morning Mrs Singh had approached me in the school foyer , handed me a bag full of letters , and burst into tears . |
| 9 | She 'd been close to panicking when Jeff had phoned her about the Sardinia stint . |
| 10 | Man of the match Smith admitted he would not have been surprised if Hick had pipped him to the award . |
| 11 | Something Neil had told me about the island . |
| 12 | Everything about the odd relic suggested that Morthen had left it as a deliberate sign . |
| 13 | Alec Guinness introduced him to the audience after the first night , although such was his nervousness that Sherek had to push him onto the stage and , when a photographer blew a flash bulb in his face just as he was about to speak , he muttered " Oh my God " . |
| 14 | Frankie Howerd had bought it in the early Seventies . |
| 15 | Donna had helped her onto the sofa , woken her gently but then realized that she was becoming hysterical . |
| 16 | ‘ Several times more than once , ’ the Doctor said , the tone of his voice reflecting the numerous occasions on which Bernice had dragged him into the flea-pit cinema she 'd found in the TARDIS and insisted that he pay attention to the noir motifs and the semiotics of Double Indemnity . |
| 17 | Meredith had spotted him at an end of term production of You Never Can Tell at drama school . |
| 18 | My contact with David had fired me with an interest in Peru again , a desire to engage with it beyond the level of annoyance . |
| 19 | Few were tempted by credit cards , debit cards , store cards or account cards to overstretch themselves , but ‘ in several moments of madness ’ Allison Battye was able to do so at Harrods , the House of Fraser store in Knightsbridge , to the tune of £2,300 on a card which Harrods had given her on the strength of her claiming on the application form that she was in employment , which was not true . |
| 20 | Her fingers stiffened under the memory of the innumerable raps on the knuckles Sylvie had given her in the past . |
| 21 | Sylvie had told him with a dreamy insouciance that Katherine was away in Boston , staying with a charming man called Thomas Sachs . |
| 22 | Malpass had made it across the street , about eighty feet or so in front of Armstrong . |
| 23 | Doc Threadneedle had turned her into a human perpetual motion machine , like one of those dipping birds her father had bought her as a child . |
| 24 | And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home . |
| 25 | As she stared up at the height a voice spoke from behind her , and she turned to discover that Silas Wilder had followed her down the track . |
| 26 | But once Gyggle had positioned me in the tank — which crouched there like a miniature submarine , or a twenty-first-century washing machine — and swung shut the rubber-flanged door , I found it impossible to lose — and therefore as he hoped , reencounter — my self . |
| 27 | Or perhaps it was like one of those big animals Grimma had showed him in a book once . |
| 28 | G. had traced it to an ice cream works employing about six men . |
| 29 | It was very much a revenge match for White — Spijkers had beaten him for a bronze in the Seoul Olympics , though then White was injured . |
| 30 | Sue had designed it in the shape of a dove and the message read : ‘ How to give your MP the bird ’ . |