Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Mrs Fawcett came rushing up to the hospital with the perfect solution : she lent me a battery-operated portable radio . |
| 2 | Finally , J. got tired of my everlasting complaints , took pity on me and made me a small electric fire . |
| 3 | Just drew them a whacking great circle round it and |
| 4 | Lewis beat him a further ten times , claimed Joe , who was so scared that he wet his pants . |
| 5 | The Queen kept a sharp eye on the proceedings , and found it a favourable wet-day pastime to visit the Dolls ' House . |
| 6 | Some of the nurses found it a nice little earner on top of their poor weekly pay . |
| 7 | His book was fascinating , it gave innumerable hints , told him a dozen short cuts , helped with clear diagrams for various well-known difficulties . |
| 8 | It was a sorry thing , and one which caused her a few silent tears . |
| 9 | He handed me a big brown envelope , and although he was obviously curious his training kept back any questions . |
| 10 | Duncan handed me a cracked Royal Wedding souvenir mug . |
| 11 | After take-off , a miracle I might have thought in other circumstances , the stewardess handed me a sickly sweet fruit drink and I tried to peer through the tight lattice of scratch marks on the window at the Andes , at the snow , at the jungle . |
| 12 | He threw her a final black look and proceeded to storm past her , then paused at the edge of the path that led back through the gardens . |
| 13 | He sank into a fireside chair and I poured him a small medicinal quart of Absinthe to steady his nerves . |
| 14 | A china light-switch , finger-flicked , showed her a narrow wooden staircase . |
| 15 | Tom handed him a large square bar of soap and showed him how to use it . |
| 16 | Courtesy of the UN , which paid her a handsome tax-free salary , she travelled widely , visiting exotic spots like Polynesia , Mauritius and the New Hebrides . |
| 17 | He poured her a long cool gin sling , and bade her sit . |
| 18 | He leaned forward and poured her a long cool glass of freshly squeezed orange juice . |
| 19 | Lastly an open door showed him a high square room , almost certainly set under the campanile , which was obviously both the vestry proper and the bell room . |
| 20 | He looked up , and the flickering torchlight showed him a vaulted cavern-roof innocent of tooling by men . |
| 21 | We sat and had a relaxing drink before we cooked them a typical English dinner of baked cod with new potatoes and vegetables , followed by rhubarb fool and cognac . |
| 22 | MCI Communications Corp reports that the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago awarded it a 10-year multi-million dollar contract to provide circuits for the new FedNet communications system will combine the networks of 12 Federal Reserve district banks and three new centres into one network ; FedNet will offer the banks high speed data services and is responsible for circuit installation and maintenance . |
| 23 | Well I do n't think we owe it to them we just delivered them a nice big salary and they 've got more than enough work to do . |
| 24 | She flung him a savage little smile . |
| 25 | That 's what made him a successful foreign correspondent . ’ |
| 26 | Big Mel Blyth joined the Palace from Scunthorpe in the summer of 1968 as a wing half-back , but a case could easily be made to justify dubbing him as Manager Bert Head 's most important signing , for Mel developed into a magnificent back-four man , where his stature of 6ft 1 inch and nearly 12 stones made him a natural central defender . |
| 27 | But she offered me a nice sunny room under the eaves at the back . |
| 28 | Monty looked down his glasses and offered me a few censorious words . |
| 29 | In the quarter-finals , following a goalless home draw with Real Madrid , a double from Radchenko brought them a brilliant 3-1 win in the Bernabeu . |
| 30 | I walked fast — my feet stood up to it very well , I 'd been sensible and worn my trainers not my nice stiletto wobblers , but it still took me a fair old time to get to somewhere possible . |