Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , so it cost a lot to get him half way across the world , but money does n't mean much if you ca n't use it wisely . ’ |
| 2 | Looking back on that visit , as I sometimes do , I find it difficult to reconcile the warm , charming and amusing hostess who spared the time to entertain us that day with the latter-day basso profundo screecher of the House of Commons and the earnest , ingratiating gusher of numerous television interviews ( performances which make me dream wistfully of the old saw , ‘ In the ideal society politics should be as unobtrusive as drains ’ ) . |
| 3 | I placed the plastic bag of dope on top of the cigarette packet , in clear view , but made no move to roll her another joint . |
| 4 | Now it could be contended that any manager who needed a booklet to tell him this should be on the shopfloor . |
| 5 | She saw no reason to give him any information he did not already have . |
| 6 | Did the woman tell you this ? ’ |
| 7 | The opportunity to buy two outstanding adjoining properties in that location was extremely rare and the Perots had the opportunity to acquire them both as a family compound . |
| 8 | Why had the Revolution given us all so little when we had sacrificed everything for it ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Of those , at least 25,000 were at such a desperate level of starvation that they would have died had the food reached them any later . |
| 10 | panicked by the snow which he had n't been expecting , he threw everything over and he had a job finding it all on the other side . |
| 11 | Then , hammering home his point , ‘ And she had no need to tell me that . ’ |
| 12 | He had no right to treat her this way . |
| 13 | He had no reason to tell me that , naturally . |
| 14 | ‘ Dick had no business telling you that , ’ Gedanken said crossly . |
| 15 | The Rolls was to come in useful when Gabrielle had an idea to get them both working . |
| 16 | She wanted the turtle to tell her more about this Love Your Enemies scheme , and she would have asked him , but all of a sudden they heard a tremendous HAR-ROOMF ! |