Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , when Oliver Reed made his now famous appearance with slightly more than a little Dutch courage inside him , he suddenly took it into his head that he wanted to sing . |
| 2 | Isabel wiped her suddenly damp hands on her gown . |
| 3 | Serjeant sustained his increasingly serious illness with signal fortitude and uproarious humour . |
| 4 | While working in Public Eye Ken cemented his already strong relationship with Maggie Smith and Beverley Cross . |
| 5 | Another five-hour journey from Darwin to Brisbane left them only one training session before facing Queensland , which was hardly an ideal preparation . |
| 6 | Doogie left him about twenty yards away , then walked back to me , dusting his hands off as he came . |
| 7 | Kenneth drove me here last Sunday after helping me to load the car with clothes , shoes , video recorder , sound equipment , books , photos , kettle , mug , hot-water-bottle ( never go anywhere without it ) and all the required paraphernalia of a season away from home . |
| 8 | Harvey told me how each part of the computer was named after a section of the human brain : the Medulla , Pons and Midbrain . |
| 9 | Wickham asked her about two aspects : the whereabouts of her father 's list of computer codes and the ownership of the keys which had been loaned to Ruby Dobby . |
| 10 | A former Minister of the Republic of Ireland told me recently that sovereignty did not mean the same for the people of Ireland as it did for us . |
| 11 | Maté showed me up two flights of stairs to a windowless room where a uniformed nurse awaited us . |
| 12 | Lucenzo finished his unnervingly fast count-down and came to stand in front of her , commandeering the laces again despite her protests . |
| 13 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 14 | And still on the heron front , Ray Talbot of the Real McKoi , Garboldisham in Norfolk showed me yet another weapon in the pondkeeper 's armoury against heron visits . |
| 15 | Eddie found it out one time . |
| 16 | Stephen told them how that morning he had seen a girl out on the moor alone . |
| 17 | Elaine patted her straight blonde hair into place , wiping fuchsia lipstick off her teeth with her tongue before turning to Christina . |
| 18 | ‘ Rose woke me up several times during the night , ’ Laura explained . |
| 19 | Jennings turned his faintly blue eyes on Patrick and stared at him blandly . |
| 20 | Lindsey moistened her suddenly dry lips . |
| 21 | Our guide Sam gave us very clear instructions — he did n't need to emphasise how important it was for us to do exactly as he said . |
| 22 | Harry contemplated his highly polished shoes until she had left the room . |
| 23 | That 's what Johnny says to me and then Alison rang me up this afternoon . |
| 24 | Still , as Sidcombe stuffed us twice this season they can go to hell . |
| 25 | To remind them that their rule was derived from God himself , and that they were neither creators nor rulers by right , God forbade them only one thing : they were not to partake of the knowledge of good and evil ; such a mysterious gnosis belonged to God alone . |
| 26 | ‘ Jack told me so many things but what I remember most was him stressing that I should keep my energy and emotional levels the same throughout a round of golf . |
| 27 | He read it through , while Iago watched his always eloquent face . |
| 28 | Heathcliff brought me here last night . |
| 29 | Dowd perused his newly polished shoes . |
| 30 | GREG NORMAN brought his much publicised slump to an end when he captured the Canadian Open at Glen Abbey . |