Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gave me an extra pillow , kept me supplied with boiling bottles , brought me Vichy , and my meals on a little round table , actually produced a bottle of alcool camphre & frictioned me & gave me some lime flower tea before I went to sleep . |
| 2 | However , despite being raised a Catholic , Anne had no qualms about a Jewish marriage , nor did her open-minded librarian father and schoolteacher mother . |
| 3 | The attack came as pressure also started to mount on the chairman of the BBC governors , Marmaduke Hussey , the man who appointed Mr Birt as director general of the BBC and agreed his tax-avoiding freelance contract . |
| 4 | Brown Brothers Harriman analyst William Milton has followed Dan Mandresh and downgraded his rating on IBM Corp and lowered his first quarter and full-year 1993 earnings estimates : he cut his rating to sell from neutral and lowered his first quarter forecast to a loss of $0.72 per share from a loss of $0.45 , and his full-year estimate to a loss of $1.10 from a profit of $0.35 a share ; he said he made the changes because of sharper than previously expected declines in IBM 's mainframe business and more severe than expected pricing pressures ; he also said that a noticeable deterioration in employee productivity contributed to his revised outlook — productivity has fallen given declining employee morale as IBM struggles to restructure ; ‘ There 's very little a new chief executive can do initially that 's not already being done , ’ he added . |
| 5 | Last January Rennie armed himself with an airpistol and kidnapped his ex-girlfriend Marita Brown , after she ended their relationship . |
| 6 | So last year Philips Analytical decided to refocus its attention back onto its existing strengths and expertise and sold its Cambridge-based laboratory instrument business , Unicam , to the US company ATI in April . |
| 7 | In comers landed clumsily and made their tricky way nest ward ; outgoers waddled to the edge of the rock and plunged sea wards . |
| 8 | It has sandblasted 100 years of black soot off Leeds ' fine civic buildings to reveal the pale sandstone underneath , turned much of the city centre into a traffic-free pedestrian zone and made their old manufacturing mills into museums . |
| 9 | He joined us from a Derbyshire side near his native Tibshelf and made his Southern League debut at Bristol Rovers oh 7 December — and what a debut it turned out to be ! |
| 10 | But he said nothing of this , merely noted down her address , sighed a little at it , and made his latest recruit promise to visit him once a week with her piece . |
| 11 | It was like acid , and made his whole body scream with pain . |
| 12 | Much to my surprise she agreed , on condition that we had separate rooms and made our own travel arrangements . |
| 13 | Having done my first sound broadcast in the Forties and made my first television appearance in 1952 , I can remember when Lord Reith 's belief that broadcasting 's prime function was to inform , to entertain and give all sides a chance to state their case , still reigned . |
| 14 | And those of us who could drive , collected passengers and appointed our own bus conductors . |
| 15 | The Brian Little era restored respectability to the club , and when the maestro departed for pastures new at Leicester City , the board moved quickly ‘ to provide some continuity ’ and appointed his assistant Frank Gray in his place . |
| 16 | Prime Minister Nicholas Brathwaite took over responsibility for Planning from Brizan and passed his own Information portfolio to Carlyle Glean , the Minister of Education , Culture , Youth Affairs and Sport . |
| 17 | In some places the Afro-Caribbean community has composed Mass settings and produced its own hymn books . |
| 18 | She looked up , towards the man who was striding purposefully away from her , and scuffed her expensive evening shoes moodily on the gravelled path . |
| 19 | ‘ A year after we started off , we purchased some ground and built our first accident repair centre . |
| 20 | On Hird 's death 10 years later , Cutts took over the list , and demonstrated his own publishing flair with his first best-seller , A J Russell 's For Sinners Only . |
| 21 | He blinked his small eyes and stroked his handsome silver sides . |
| 22 | At that time the party seemed to have many of the characteristics of a party which did not expect to win elections : it had changed its leadership only a few weeks before the general election was called , Lansbury having resigned and been replaced by Attlee on a temporary basis ; and it suffered from a good deal of internal factionalism , and found its major policy demand — collective security through the League of Nations — ‘ scooped ’ by Stanley Baldwin , the Prime Minister . |
| 23 | I fumbled around on the floor and found her white boiler suit and one of her high-heeled shoes . |
| 24 | At twelve Jane was taken to England to be educated and encountered her indelible railway wagon . |
| 25 | The Germans obliged but , once installed as an occupying force , dismissed the Rada and created their own puppet government . |
| 26 | Although Sleep became principal dancer of the Royal Ballet , he decided to diversify because of his height and created his own TV series The Hot Shoe Show in the early 1980s . |
| 27 | A wealthy and handsome ‘ man of many parts ’ , he owned considerable property in Funchal and designed his own town house ( the large house , with a tower , which the Madeira Wine Institute now occupies ) and his favourite country residence , Quinta do Jardim da Serra , where he built his own mausoleum and was buried . |
| 28 | He decided to make one more call — and crashed his two-seater Cessna plane into her house . |
| 29 | ‘ We made a writing-table and two whatnots and a bedhead from it , and painted them all Adam green and white . |
| 30 | I put her down on the couch and said , ‘ Just put your head back , ’ and told her some Alexander Principles . |