Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andy did you put any coffee in this ? |
| 2 | McKinsey said it had several programmes in place to build the information technology capability of its consulting staff , and Information Consulting could accelerate the process . |
| 3 | The UVF denied he had any connection with it . |
| 4 | The fatal disease was unromantic ( measles ) , but it almost carried off Louis-Napoleon also , and only the courage and devotion of Hortense prevented her losing both sons . |
| 5 | Her long nails were pearly pink , beautifully manicured , and Luce noticed she wore several rings , one of which looked like a wedding band . |
| 6 | Woodruffe helped him drink some Scotch and put him in Rogers 's limousine which a mechanic had brought over . |
| 7 | She said she 'd like to walk round the garden while Mrs Hope helped me to get some clothes on . ’ |
| 8 | Joy told me to find some sort of a lining , and off they went . |
| 9 | Early on within this game I th when Blackburn scored I thought this game would be taken away from 'em . |
| 10 | On the contrary , Ronni sensed he relished this clash between them . |
| 11 | Habit , Gran said dryly , when asked ; and Ruth knew she got fewer bookings every year . |
| 12 | He sold his home to get on the grid … when no-one it seems except Nigel thought he had any talent … he roared into formula one with the old Lotus team … |
| 13 | And when Mrs Knight said she had some costume jewellery in the house he followed her straight into her bedroom where he started going through her drawers . |
| 14 | Then glancing at Agnes , she said , ‘ Aggie asked me to take some towels across to the house for the people coming in tomorrow . ’ |
| 15 | At 22 , Lottie felt she had few qualifications for such a sensitive job , but after his time with the Kindertransporte Freddie was more confident . |
| 16 | How many Weetabix did you have this morning ? |
| 17 | In the later pharaonic centuries Egypt found itself sacked several times by Libyans , Ethiopians , Persians and Assyrians , before being conquered by the Greeks under Alexander in 332 BC . |
| 18 | On the question of whether the locomotive would be available to complete the double 8F' Cumbrian Mountain Express at the end of October , Mr Draper advised that the locomotive would be available if BR required it to complete this roster . |
| 19 | Mary thought she liked this boy , although he seemed so strange . |
| 20 | I said to Jay did you do any work yesterday ? |
| 21 | Breuer had himself borrowed this technique from the French psychiatrist , Charcot . |
| 22 | He does n't think Joe wanted it to end that way . |
| 23 | But when the prince reminded her — oh , so gently — of the deception practised upon his royal parents on Twelfth Night , Anne realized she had little choice . |
| 24 | In fact a Mr Boothby said he knew of 10 prospective members whilst Mr Caldecott said he knew another man who could introduce 25 members ! |
| 25 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 26 | He spoke a little stiffly , and again Jean-Paul thought he saw that flash of resentment in the eyes , there and then gone . |
| 27 | He picked her up in his car after Mrs Dean said she had some news from his ex-wife Debbie , Geoffrey Dean 's sister and a former beauty queen . |
| 28 | Lord Milligan said he had some sympathy with Sim 's predicament but he had chosen to defy the law rather than the people who were threatening him . |
| 29 | In fact since Mr Brown made his remarks some parents have rang me to lend their support . ’ |
| 30 | Nick found he disliked this idea very much . |