Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pron] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 2 | and we 'll be joining all the Irish folk at Cheltenham … do n't think Carmody 's mare will be running … but we 'll be following those that are with special reports from the festival all next week … for football fans the big one is tomorrow … at the Manor Ground its the Central South second division derby Oxford against Swindon … |
| 3 | Christina cringed as Susanna pronounced it the American way . |
| 4 | Yeah Sue told me the other day that er she wo n't come out till she 's , she 's right cold . |
| 5 | When we arrived , Helen Stoner showed us the three bedrooms . |
| 6 | Monsieur Saulnier informed me the other day that it was not usual in this part of Normandy to have so many mosquitoes . |
| 7 | That is why , when the French economy was screaming for lower interest rates , President Mitterrand increased them the other day . |
| 8 | Dennis gave me the vague smile of complicity that men exchange in lavatorial situations . |
| 9 | Liese told me the two centres of the chi — the life force — were located an inch or two above and below the navel . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's a fine idea , but Mrs. Olinton told me the other day that Mr. Olinton would n't lend any of his buildings to Scouts or Guides or Brownies or Cubs . |
| 11 | Sandison told him the whole story , the one he had told to Mrs Wilson : that he was Elsie 's brother , that he was convinced she was still alive even though she had disappeared so many years before . |
| 12 | They stamped round the sofa and did that tricky bit of acrobatics that Sid and Ethel showed us the other night . |
| 13 | People said things like for instance well females are n't intelligent enough to make choices and er which is , which is clearly pretty silly , and er there was also I think and the uncomfortable erm prospect that females could in some way or another control the evolution in males which I do n't think it appealed to the Victorians either and in fact many social Darwinists like Edward Westermark for example rejected the whole concept of sexual selection as Darwin called it the female choice , because it did n't promote survival of the fittest . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ Alan rang me the other night and told me to bring my hosepipe because he 's on fire at the moment . |
| 15 | When Walter Ash rang her the next day she would not speak to him . |
| 16 | Maggie knew what the older woman was driving at . |
| 17 | Wickham gave him the withering look of a man whose junior reads too many detective stories . |
| 18 | It was such a desultory question that Ruth gave him the filthiest look she could muster . |
| 19 | Azharuddin gave him the three-fours-in-an-over treatment , driving all three off the back foot . |
| 20 | It was said that Gertrude gave him the final result . |
| 21 | After all , days before the invasion surprised President Bush , his ambassador , presumably not speaking just for herself , told Saddam in so many words that Washington gave him the green light on Kuwait . |
| 22 | A few weeks later when it came to the 1985 Budget , Nigel set himself the same goal . |
| 23 | He was created baronet in 1837 , but Sir Robert Peel refused him the Irish peerage promised him by Melbourne . |
| 24 | The bus took a very long and roundabout route to Linby , through a dozen tiny villages and hamlets , but Cheryl thought the journey was worth it when Jessica handed her the promised signalling flags . |
| 25 | Mona asked what the dear child was burbling about , and led him to Bumface 's vacant chair by the fire . |
| 26 | ‘ I knew Faye had some complications and needed a nurse — Tom mentioned it the other day — but I had no idea you were a sort of watchdog as well . |
| 27 | Endill told him the quickest way out of the school . |
| 28 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is that Helen told me the same thing . |
| 29 | ‘ Kenny called me the other week to congratulate me the day after I broke Roger Hunt 's club scoring record at Manchester United . |
| 30 | He eventually came to Madeira where Zarco gave him the large area of fertile land around Madalena do Mar . |