Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked them to bring back news of Sigarup and to take some flour and potatoes and a small parcel of rice grains blessed by the god . |
| 2 | The Australian authorities took a commendably enlightened view of the matter , however , and allowed him to carry out research on the Trobriand Islands close to New Guinea . |
| 3 | His mother allowed him to sit out college for a year and he never went back . |
| 4 | But as her husband 's health declined she took on responsibility for maintaining the farm and orchard which was the family 's main source of income . |
| 5 | He watched them go off hand in hand , and then he wandered away across the quarry , heading for the old manager 's office . |
| 6 | He saw them lay out food on the grass beneath both trees . |
| 7 | There were two daughters of the marriage , Sophie , born in 1830 , who became the wife of Sir George Bailey , of Seal Close , in the Lincolnshire Wolds , and Christabel , born in 1825 , who lived with her parents until in 1853 a small independence , left her by a maiden aunt , Antoinette de Kercoz , enabled her to set up house in Richmond in Surrey , with a young woman friend whom she had met at a lecture of Ruskin 's . |
| 8 | This enabled him to cash out blood in the currency of hours of prolonged life . |
| 9 | The singer Elton John has taken a national newspaper to court over an article last December which claimed he was hooked on a bizarre diet which meant he spat out food without swallowing . |
| 10 | How did they did they begin in sort of in ones or twos ? |
| 11 | He said it opens up Teesside as an area for inward investment from the NorthWest and Leeds and will help expand the catchment area for the new universities . |
| 12 | He said it opens up Teesside as an area for inward investment from the North-West and Leeds and will help expand the catchment area for the new universities . |
| 13 | Deteriorating eyesight compelled him to give up painting in 1975 , but he lived to see the beginning of a major revival of his reputation . |
| 14 | When blindness compelled him to give up farming in 1966 he learned Braille and carried on with his public duties , being much in demand as a witty public speaker . |