Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dotty was n't there to cosset him , and presently he went upstairs to the wardrobe , where Prue made him a cup of tea . |
| 2 | I walk with a frame so Karen gave me a hand and took me round and introduced me to people . ’ |
| 3 | Adam lost his spiritual purity through eating the forbidden fruit , so God gave him the opportunity to reinstate himself partially through immersion in the original water which came from Eden . |
| 4 | This one was the grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson , who was himself intended to be a lighthouse engineer like his grandfather , his father and his uncle , until circumstances made him an author instead . ) |
| 5 | If Joseph gave him an exhibition it could make a huge difference to Leary 's reputation , yet she wondered how likely it was that Joseph would help him . |
| 6 | ‘ We had found nothing until Oscar showed us the way . ’ |
| 7 | Although his eyes were red , the young man seemed calm — until Huy handed him a cup of beer . |
| 8 | Hunter-Blair took a lonely stand in British politics and until MacQuillan gave him a platform he was a nonentity . |
| 9 | What he could do , if Ritschl thought it a plan worth pursuing was put together a book of miscellaneous bits and pieces-part literary history , part " new ideas and views " ( neue Ansichten und Aussichten ) of an as yet unspecified nature , part textual criticism . |
| 10 | If Henry offered him a drink , Donald would compress his lips , lower his eyes , as if in the middle of a difficult diagnosis , and nod , slowly , responsibly , like a man burdened with some ghastly secret about the state of Henry ’ s insides . |
| 11 | Nor would he learn anything from the journal unless Meg gave him the key to it ; for the cypher was a special one , transforming itself constantly page by page as the journal progressed . |
| 12 | We remain convinced that full merger is the best way forward and the amendment will e enable the project to make progress If the Lib Dems have changed their mind Chairman and do support the forthcoming Labour amendment erm th the worst aspect for me is that I 've lost a bet because Bob bet me a year ago that the Lib Dems would not last the distance and he 's been proved right . |
| 13 | Some of that hurt must have crept into her voice , because Mandy gave her a look loaded with sympathy . |
| 14 | He 'd picked up the baby and held her while Ma gave her the medicine , and his face had the same look as when Billy had fallen in the river . |
| 15 | He listened while Gabriel told him the day 's events . |
| 16 | Her mother and her husband usually made her feel plain and failed , while Constance gave her a feeling that she was , at least , adequate . |
| 17 | She rocked him gently while Bridhe told her the story , and she felt a confusion buzzing in her head . |
| 18 | She listened while Silas gave them a talk on safety measures , reminding them that if anyone fell out he must lie on his back . |
| 19 | It is believed she claimed she was assaulted and kept captive at a friend 's flat in Chelsea after Sarfraz gave her a lift in his car . |
| 20 | They turfed him out as an 18-year-old before Cambridge gave him a lifeline trial . |
| 21 | When Middlesbrough gave him a chance , he had a nightmare debut against Oldham Reserves . |
| 22 | Genoa never really looked like overcoming the 3–2 defecit from the first leg in Italy even when Iorio gave them the lead in the 39th minute . |
| 23 | When Madeleine offered him a cigarette , he hesitated , then took one . |
| 24 | Albert as chairman asked me a number of questions to which he already knew the answers for the good reason that we had already gone over them in Fulham . |
| 25 | Mr Grover listened carefully as Paddington told him the story . |
| 26 | This figure was painted in the same syrupy pastel shades as the rest of the crucifix , but when Zen tapped it the head resounded not with the dull thud of plaster but with a light metallic ring |
| 27 | But pangenesis was not reconcilable with the cytological consensus just emerging when Darwin published it a quarter of a century later . |
| 28 | When weirdo bought us a coffee . |
| 29 | Not one to remember , as Cambridge gave them the run around . |
| 30 | When Stephen told me the name of the submarine captain , I recognized it . |