Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The governess here , Miss Lambert , has kindly taught me a little . |
| 2 | ‘ It offers them an environmentally responsible means of handling sodium sulphate while providing overall economic benefits , ’ said product development manager Sarah Galbraith . |
| 3 | ‘ But seeing me a little disconcerted by his remark , he politely added , ‘ and with great propriety ’ . ’ |
| 4 | Mark rose from his chair fully aware that politicians believed themselves to be the best informed people in the world , which made them a very sceptical audience for any speaker . |
| 5 | This drug duo may have been singled out because their penchant for fine racehorses and private zoos , not to mention murder on a massive scale , made them the most public of the mafia bosses . |
| 6 | The popularity of Hollywood films made them the most obvious indicator of the general shift in world trade . |
| 7 | A possible Trojan link was claimed by William of Jumièges for William the Conqueror as soon as he became king ; a late eleventh-century genealogy of the counts of Boulogne produced a similar conceit ; and Genealogy IV of the Counts of Flanders , written about 1120 , made them the most important non-royal family to trace its ancestry back to Priam . |
| 8 | A compromise might be agreed with whaling nations who dissent from voting for moratoria by allowing them a more restricted quota than originally proposed . |
| 9 | Whereas Marxism-Leninism does not always take a wholly positive attitude towards the peasantry , identifying petit bourgeois tendencies — particularly amongst the less impoverished — which can make them a sometimes unreliable ally , Mariátegui and subsequent Latin American Marxists have pointed to a dual oppression — both economic and racial . |
| 10 | The skill , once learnt , helped make me a little more popular and outgoing at school , where there was a craze on for such things . |
| 11 | ‘ She said in her letter that she did n't think we could be happy living at Maythorpe House , that she 'd be lonely and probably would n't make me a very good wife . |
| 12 | But all this stuff does n't make me the least bit happy . |
| 13 | Right , hold on to them cos you 'll want them a little later right ? |
| 14 | When I was playing rugby and I hurt my thumb she actually lent me a very expensive Jaeger coat to keep me warm . |
| 15 | The personality thing concerned me a little — for a club is all its members . |
| 16 | ‘ Mademoiselle Rossignol , it 's very kind of you to spare me a little of your time … ’ |
| 17 | He crouched down behind the service hatch in an instinct not to be seen , and then the alcohol stirred in his veins and he was emboldened to be rebuking , lecturing them about making a noise and then , with extreme lordliness , cooking them a very bad meal at no charge . |
| 18 | The thing that made me a little envious was this girl — she 's his assistant on this particular film — ringing up , and there was a slight chance they would be going to Switzerland that day , and suddenly I was in there again and I thought how exciting it all was and how nice it would be to go off filming again . |
| 19 | Reading a lot made me a little odd but no one bothered much what I read . |
| 20 | It made me a little uneasy . |
| 21 | He made me a much better player and he must go down as one of Dalglish 's best signings . ’ |
| 22 | Main made me the most incredible clothes . |
| 23 | That experience , which has brought me to the province so often , has given me a very deep sense of admiration for the resilience and warmth of the people . ’ |
| 24 | They have n't given me a very large space . |
| 25 | The last thing I would want to do is be unkind to people who have given me an extremely successful show . |
| 26 | But , at the same time , several aspects of the Newmanites ' campaign make them a uniquely threatening phenomenon on the political scene . |
| 27 | You make me a little crazy . |
| 28 | Solitude , darkness , or the horrible crowd which one sees always in such places as this never make me the least afraid … . |
| 29 | The band has already shown it can knock out pop tunes a cover of Nancy Sinatra 's Kinky Love , for instance but the audience had to be prepared to indulge them a little . |
| 30 | The basic species of Provence and Moss roses , Rosa centifolia , forms a wide , loose , open bloom ( an influence to be seen in some modern hybrids ) , which has given them a rather derogatory name ‘ cabbage rose ’ . |