Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always out for a laugh , I mentioned that his volumes of ‘ free verse ’ were costing me up to $2. per copy , and he promised to send me his next book . |
| 2 | Bell Resources is a crucial element in the deal , since Mr Bond planned to sell it his Australian brewing interests — including Castlemaine XXXX — and then launch a bid for the enlarged group with the backing of Lion Nathan . |
| 3 | Spookily enough , I had come full circle : I was back working for Alan Lewis , the man who 'd given me my first music press job — as his secretary at Sounds , back in ( gulp ) 1977 . |
| 4 | ‘ But I would hate to get to 40 and look back , thinking : ‘ I wish I 'd given it my best shot ’ . ’ |
| 5 | " One day a neighbour opposite came to tell me my little boa was hanging over the other side of the railings on our landing . |
| 6 | ‘ It was the biggest mistake he ever made buying me my first board . ’ |
| 7 | They all crowded close around her , and Anabelle , in quite a loud whisper , began to tell them her secret plan . |
| 8 | And when his standard-bearer went to give him his own beast , that too was slain beneath him . |
| 9 | The experience had given her her own shot of adrenalin and sleep was unthinkable . |
| 10 | I had given her my electric blanket . |
| 11 | How , more than anything , he 'd wanted to tell his family all about her , but how , because Rosemary had shrunk away from him in horror at the very idea , he had given her his solemn promise that , outside this building , her name would never leave his lips . |
| 12 | In 1934 when my grandfather died , my grandmother had given her his silver-handled walking stick , and just fifty years later , in 1984 , she gave it to me . |
| 13 | It was his battalion 's heroic defence of their positions on the Basra to Baghdad road , when the rats from Iran had swarmed in their thousands from the marshlands , that had given him his present renown . |
| 14 | And his own man in Atlanta , where his straight talking and his independence had won him his next posting . |
| 15 | Her mother and father , or the young man who had made her his easy prey ? |
| 16 | At Question Time today , the Prime Minister , in ruling out a referendum , boasted that the right hon. Lady in her speech yesterday had promised him her full support . |
| 17 | The barman at the Tomorrowman polished up his impersonations and looked forward to the day after tomorrow , when Rex had promised him his own show . |
| 18 | But a few weeks earlier he had tentatively approached his departmental head to point out that the qualification which had got him his original interview was a first-class degree in French and Spanish , and that perhaps these abilities might be harnessed to the service of the business . |
| 19 | The first Headmaster of the Bermondsey Asylum was Joseph Watson , a nephew of Thomas Braidwood , who had shown him his personal technique of teaching deaf and dumb children . |
| 20 | You were never entirely safe from prying fingers in Chinatown , but I had to give it my best shot . |
| 21 | Well aware that it was Bismarck 's victory which had brought them their independent status in the new state of Austria-Hungary , the parliamentarians at Budapest were determined resolutely to oppose any diplomatic moves which might seem to threaten Prussia . |
| 22 | He had thought that that would be the last he would hear of her , but a few days later she had sent him her first piece , and he had been so impressed by it that he had printed it and asked her to write more for him . |
| 23 | Women 's Word had sent her their latest offering : someone 's reminiscences of running a lingerie mail order catalogue . |
| 24 | He was frozen there with an appalled sense of waste , that his cohort had denied him his greatest discovery . |
| 25 | Nicholson could not now appear in the film because he was too old for the original role which had been designated for him , and anyway he wanted to give it his fullest attention as director . |
| 26 | He wanted to show me his new washing machine . |