Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they sold me The Last Boy Scout . |
| 2 | but found me an old yapp album , |
| 3 | ‘ Pete 's brother-in-law built him a massive speaker cabinet with 12 speakers in it . |
| 4 | Skipper worked nicely on the flat , so John built us a six inch cross pole to trot over . |
| 5 | It 's makers , Smithkline Beecham told them the 2 litre bottle was from a faulty batch and to empty it carefully as it could explode . |
| 6 | ‘ I told him a few home truths , but it was a waste of breath , there was nothing I could do . ’ |
| 7 | And being as usual in the mood to get things right she told her a Chinese dragon story . |
| 8 | The Scottish Office allowed them an additional borrowing consent of £750,000 and £370,000 came from their existing financial resources . |
| 9 | The fact that they reserved me a front row seat in the Big Top of their felicity did assist in throttling back the glooms . |
| 10 | She showed me a half-built kennel block . |
| 11 | On that first occasion my father took me through Craven Hill Gardens into Porchester Terrace , showed me the blank brick back of the facades and lifted me up on to the wall so that I could look down into the shaft . |
| 12 | But then Ratagan handed him a battered silver flask with a wink and he spluttered over strong barley spirit , the last of the cold burnt out of him . |
| 13 | He handed her a green silk scarf . |
| 14 | I 'll give you one , ’ and he handed her a heavy gold watch . |
| 15 | ‘ No , I 'm in a hurry , ’ he said , and handed her a brown manila envelope . |
| 16 | He reached to the back seat , and handed her a pretty carrier bag . |
| 17 | ‘ Odd , when you come to think of it ’ — he handed her a full wine glass of gin — ‘ but they say he 's like he is because his father and mother were religious . |
| 18 | The bus took a very long and roundabout route to Linby , through a dozen tiny villages and hamlets , but Cheryl thought the journey was worth it when Jessica handed her the promised signalling flags . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , Flupper showed us the deadly thorn bushes that wrap round their prey like octopuses : and then whooshed us off at savage speeds — sometimes so fast he aquaplaned over the water . |
| 20 | showed us the lovely crystal glass which she had received the previous Wednesday at Wembley Conference Centre . |
| 21 | A claret jacketed waiter served them a warmed-up airline meal with little bottles of wine . |
| 22 | A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy died in hospital after being hit by a car while his father taught him the Green Cross Code . |
| 23 | No , saw her on Friday and said force fed her a hot cross bun |
| 24 | Brasenose awarded him a senior Hulme exhibition and he obtained first classes in mathematical moderations ( 1906 ) , mathematics ( 1908 ) , and engineering science ( 1910 ) . |
| 25 | Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States . |
| 26 | And the same thing with Zeppelin — no-one ever called them a heavy metal band . |
| 27 | If ones came as in little wee pi pickups we called them the little lorry things you would sort of keep your eye very much because you did n't know they were looking for scrap and if you told them you had nothing they might go away with your iron gates or something . |
| 28 | In 1715 , in return for writing off two years of annuity payments worth something over £1 million , the government permitted it a fresh share issue which brought its capital up to £10 million , about half of the entire joint-stock capital in the country . |
| 29 | That were the same kind o' place : they called it the Six Mile House . |
| 30 | When Scrooge was premiered in Birmingham last year Gloria Honeyford called it the hottest selling ticket outside of London . |