Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He phoned to tell his bosses the bad news . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When the Queen came to visit her grandchild the following day her comment was typical . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But the Manchester United manager refused to say what role the controversial Frenchman will play in Sunday 's Manchester derby at Old Trafford . |
| 8 | But he refused to say what role the controversial Frenchman will play in Sunday 's Manchester derby at Old Trafford . |
| 9 | 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 . |