Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [noun] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He phoned to tell his bosses the bad news . |
| 2 | Hari knew it was mostly done to help Craig and yet Edward Morris seemed to like her work a great deal . |
| 3 | Arrangements were carefully made so that Lunia would not be compromised and Modigliani came to paint her portrait the following day in the Sunny Hotel on the Boulevard de Port-Royal , the little lodging house where Zborowski was living with his handsome and somewhat forbidding common-law wife , Anna ( Hanka ) Zborowska . |
| 4 | When the Queen came to visit her grandchild the following day her comment was typical . |
| 5 | When Carco 's concierge came to clean his room the next day , she almost fainted at the sight of the nude picture hanging over his bed . |
| 6 | The Bell Hotel Small family-run Hotel with homely atmosphere where you are assured of the comfort and good food needed to make your holiday a memorable one . |
| 7 | She passed Mr Bumble the tea-cup , and as he took it , he managed to give her hand a little stroke . |
| 8 | He longed to give his monastery a wonderful gift , to fulfil his visions and be valued and praised . |
| 9 | The man of the house told us that he had to repaint his boat every few weeks as the chemicals stripped it back to bare wood.And his wife complained of burns all up one arm from washing her clothes in contaminated water . |
| 10 | Yet before he made the astonishing leap from Paupers ' Alley with Cambridge United to Millionaires ' Row with Manchester City Dublin , 23 , had to learn his lessons the hard way . |
| 11 | After moving to England , he fought for over two years without being defeated and reckoned : ‘ Ninety per cent of the public wanted to see me win the British title . |
| 12 | But the Manchester United manager refused to say what role the controversial Frenchman will play in Sunday 's Manchester derby at Old Trafford . |
| 13 | But he refused to say what role the controversial Frenchman will play in Sunday 's Manchester derby at Old Trafford . |
| 14 | The pain increased and when he attempted to move his legs the right one went into an agonising cramp that caused his eyes and mouth to open simultaneously . |