Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I did wonder , after a year or more , how it was that he and Mme G expected me to use the public baths rather than offer me the convenience of the bathroom in the pavillon . |
| 2 | Their solitary life meant that they were in the forefront of the new mystical spirit of the fourteenth century , and through The Ladder of Perfection Hilton helped them to graft the new spirituality onto the old Benedictine pieties . |
| 3 | Ma Madge said she had the real flu because she ached all over and really weak . |
| 4 | Mr Clay said he saw the second article on the plane flying home . |
| 5 | Tory Bill Walker said it showed the German nation in its true colours . |
| 6 | When Dong returned he found the dead man was not heavy . |
| 7 | DeVore watched him place the sealed slide back into the padded , shocksafe case and draw another out . |
| 8 | Maggie felt she had the upper hand to some extent and this had to be talked out . |
| 9 | Only when , in April , Elizabeth made it clear that he was the one Marian exile who would not be welcomed back to England did he accept the inevitable and come to Scotland . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't forget that John Bonnard said he thought the Kamalian teams had been despatched on their missions . ’ |
| 11 | A 2pc cut in base rates coinciding with the Chancellor 's Autumn Statement next week has been widely anticipated and Mr Bootle said he believed the downward trend would continue through to next year and stabilise at 5pc . |
| 12 | Coghill allowed him to understudy the leading part , ‘ the complicated sex-driven Puritan ’ , Angelo . |
| 13 | I gave similar advice when Harold Wilson asked me to advise the Labour Party about their behaviour in the matter . |
| 14 | When Deutsche Grammophon asked me to record the Alpine Symphony , I warned them that it would be very expensive . |
| 15 | ‘ Mr Newley told me to do the RTI expense sheet this morning . ’ |
| 16 | Mr Maginess added he believed the only answer was to tighten security measures and provide a stable political situation where problems could be solved . |
| 17 | Robert thought he recognized the fat boy . |
| 18 | Jensen insisted he relished the hostile atmosphere , but joined his manager 's condemnation of Buksch , saying : ‘ The ref lost control from the very first minute . |
| 19 | Candidate Ian Cameron said he had the best chance of overturning Labour 's majority . |
| 20 | Candidate Ian Cameron said he had the best chance of overturning Labour 's majority . |
| 21 | Mr Jarrett said she saw the four defendants go for Mr Johnson , holding knives and stabbing at him uttering threat of drawing blood.It was a fatal single stab wound to the neck that caused his death . |
| 22 | The Shah said he wanted the French to keep Khomeini ; if he went to Syria or Lybia he would be even more dangerous . |
| 23 | FRENCH TRAINER Andre Fabre 's lightning visit to Newbury ensured he has the 2,000 Guineas favourite in his yard — but curiously it is not Lion Cavern , the courageous winner of the Singer & Friedlander Greenham Stakes . |
| 24 | Amanda said she loved the live show , that Sandra was n't particularly attractive but had a great body and showed what good hair and good clothes could do , and then , in an off-hand comment that she probably regretted almost immediately , declared that if she was ever to sleep with a woman , it would be Sandra . |
| 25 | In answer to charge 4 that he had treated Royan without taking a proper history or examination or consulting his general practitioner , Dr Mumby said he took the clinical history in the form of a questionnaire which patients filled out in advance but he rarely examined patients because they had usually been examined many times elsewhere and because taking a history by questionnaire was an established technique of clinical ecology . |
| 26 | Mr Richards said he approached the Independent Tribunal Appeals Services in Nottingham , and as a result residents of Kinmel Bay and Rhyl would now have their cases heard in Colwyn Bay , reducing travelling time from around 50 minutes to 15 minutes . |
| 27 | Her dark head on one of the velvet cushions , Luce watched him move the huge bowl of flowers to a side-table , before producing some kindling and logs from a metal-bound oak chest . |
| 28 | Huy watched him cross the little square in front of his house and disappear around the corner on the way back to the palace compound . |
| 29 | When they arrived at Ken 's bedside , Jack thought he looked the same as ever , but Mrs Lomax was both optimistic and decisive . |
| 30 | As the door dosed behind the routed Fiona , Celia thought she glimpsed the worried , ageing woman behind Georgina 's facade of gruff competence . |