Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And one prisoner made mum a beautiful wooden ironing board ! |
| 2 | , there like what I got mum , got mum a little basket . |
| 3 | A TRAINING system introduced at Courtaulds Packaging Baricol under the intriguing name of Domino is helping present a vibrant new face to the business . |
| 4 | Having decided to attend university the next great dilemma is to choose which one . |
| 5 | The keen demand made patronage a double-edged weapon for the politician , who could find himself making enemies as readily as friends unless he proceeded with the utmost caution in everything he attempted . |
| 6 | He was treasurer of the RAS from 1831 to 1840 and became president a few years before his death in 1866 . |
| 7 | Small details , that make fishing a constant source of delight : a bank of yellow flag by a tiny burn ; where mountain everlasting grow ; secret otter greens ; where we saw a wildcat ; a peregrine 's nest ; rutting red deer ; black-throated divers . |
| 8 | It dyes wool a reddish brown colour , distinctively well known and often referred to in either language as crotal . |
| 9 | Lose weight the healthy way |
| 10 | Between the two of them , ABC and Scritti , with their widely disseminated interviews and much-parroted rhetoric , made rock an embarrassing relic , pensioned off the guitar , discredited the indie ethos , and made soul and funk de rigueur . |
| 11 | The first attempts to identify how much difficulty a person has performing a specific task while the second approach considers whether help is received in order to undertake specific tasks . |
| 12 | When we drew level the six of us did a protracted and violent Mexican wave , screaming at the tops of our lungs and behaving like the thugs we are . |
| 13 | It eliminates the possibility of inconsistencies arising between what is done and what is recorded — with all the subsequent difficulties this causes -by the simple device of reducing the two activities to a single operation through the provision of integrated letter writing . |
| 14 | Many pre-eminent people working with older people have considered reminiscence a mixed blessing , particularly for those whose past life experience seems to have lacked fulfilment and purpose . |
| 15 | That 's something Erica Ferrari has learnmt the hard way . |
| 16 | It is accepted that upon gaining independence a new State is bound by the customary international law then in existence , and that a State is bound by customary international law even though it may not have directly consented to it . |
| 17 | This episode helped spur the revolutionary action taken against the king at the Westminster Parliament which opened a week later . |
| 18 | Families with sleep-destroying babies will enjoy Beeswax The Bad 's Noisy Night by Andrew and Paula Martyr ( Hamish Hamilton , £7.99 ) . |
| 19 | These criticisms apart , I found Pro-File an impressive computer whose potential versatility puts it , quite literally , in a class of its own . |
| 20 | The proposal for a community charge — or ‘ poll tax ’ — put forward by Nicholas Ridley in 1988 ran into furious local opposition , not least among the Scots who were to be the first to pay this new imposition , After all , freeborn Englishmen , led by Wat Tyler , had revolted against a poll tax as long ago as 1381 , and its bluntness and social inequity helped fuel a considerable popular protest , including in the Conservative shires . |
| 21 | Better-than-expected trade figures and increasing optimism that UK interest rates may start to fall from their current 15 per cent level , perhaps as early as next spring , helped fuel a 23.9 point rise in the index to 2,422.7 — within four points of the year 's high of 2,426 established just before the mini-crash in October and within hailing distance of the all-time high of 2,443.4 , established on July 16 , 1987 . |
| 22 | Together , IBM and Microsoft set the technical standards that helped fuel the explosive growth of personal computers in the 1980s : ‘ IBM-compatible ’ hardware and Microsoft 's DOS operating-system software , the basic program needed to run any computer . |
| 23 | For that reason we have not considered sigmoidoscopy an essential part of the investigation , but would do it if the patient was an unreliable historian . |
| 24 | Although it remained small , its attacks — the murder of two Israeli taxi drivers in Gaza Market in October 1986 , a hand-grenade attack on troops at the Wailing Wall the same month , and the murder of IDF Captain Ron Tal in September 1987 — attracted attention . |
| 25 | It is only too evident that the scribes considered gentility the only status worth recording , and even in this they were not consistent ; civic dignity was almost invariably ignored . |
| 26 | Revelations , produced by the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council , even has furniture a solid pine roll top writing desk for £199.95 and a chaise longe sofa bed for £195 . |
| 27 | Like her heroine in Prime Suspect she found success the hard way … |
| 28 | I found Doctor an impressive witness . |
| 29 | You know has culture no therapeutic value , no medical value ? |
| 30 | I was gon na buy dad a little camel . |