Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was also substantial cross-group agreement on the selection of this feature , with most groups arguing that the 'summarising " nature of this sentence made it a strong candidate for an opening to the story . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Faldo took his 1992 winnings to a world record £1.5m , while Norman 's only consolation was that the £190,234 runner's-up cheque made him the first player in history to breech the $10 million barrier in career earnings . |
| 4 | His dribbly nose , crooked teeth and cheeky Cockney accent made him an obvious classroom victim . |
| 5 | Quite different from her brother , who was slim where she was rotund , and whose dark hair lent him a certain swarthy , though boyish , kind of good looks . |
| 6 | He told Johnson that Warburton ( the combative English divine and man of letters , whose generally controversial national presence made him a common topic of Johnsonian conversation ) had a close relationship with an unnamed ‘ eminent printer ’ . |
| 7 | Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States . |
| 8 | A tall thin boy with straggly hair passed her a joint and Lizzy took it from him , inhaling the fragrant mixture deeply . |
| 9 | There was the lure of the big stores , though clothing coupons and shortage of money made them a feast for the eye only . |
| 10 | The Ideal had to close down , and a vandal 's brick made it the Id al , which spelled the end of an era . |
| 11 | He was never equal to Self in Citrine 's esteem , and he remained jealous of intervention by Self in matters of engineering and the development of policy on the generation side , for which his background and experience made him the natural senior voice among other engineers and managers . |
| 12 | The Times recorded that this was their sixth partnership of over 150 ; the Telegraph that it was their seventh century stand ; while the Guardian made it the eighth . |
| 13 | Its lushness and tropical variety made it a place of great beauty with winding roads and hair-pin bends giving spectacular views over the jungle . |
| 14 | His sparse blond hair was dark with sweat , and his surprised blue eyes and hangdog look made him the most unlikely royal messenger Corbett had ever seen . |
| 15 | Cos I did n't know what you know our mum got her a couple of games . |
| 16 | Geoff 's mum got me a piece of cheese last week from Superkeys . |
| 17 | my mum got me an , yeah . |
| 18 | Then her original mentor found her a machine to buy . |
| 19 | In a follow-up survey , the great majority rated it the best AIDS resource they had seen . |
| 20 | Michael 's younger sister found him a fidget in church and thought it was fidgeting to excess . |
| 21 | Densil 's mum let him a room . |
| 22 | Childline , Childline Den got us a Hovis loaf it looks than the other one . |
| 23 | The truth is that uphill the extra weight made it a little harder than walking , but the weight was not directly on my back , a fact that I appreciated . |
| 24 | ‘ A girlfriend made me a wonderful big , bright red jumper which I liked so much that I asked her to knit me another . |
| 25 | Sussex , though , are unlikely to be among the cynical chorus , not after their slip-up against the Minor Counties on a Marlow marsh made them the 14th first-class county in 55– or 6–overs play to have their colours lowered by junior opposition . |
| 26 | The city 's site on the Isthmus made her a natural centre for trade , and the aryballos seems to have been created to meet a new need : to bottle scented oils , imported from the East , for re-export east and west . |
| 27 | Round him , she was talkative in order to provoke him into replying , and the attempt made her a habitual confessor , though she would have been amazed if she had been charged with talking about herself all the time . |
| 28 | And Joanne 's seeing through his disguise made him a bit wary . |
| 29 | Landor 's want of training and his impatience to press on with all speed made him an unreliable surveyor , and there were those who impugned the veracity of his hair-raising escapes ; but in energy and resourcefulness , in courage and power of endurance , he was the equal of any of the previous generation of great explorers . |
| 30 | He was immediately dispatched to the scene , where his energy , intelligence and presence of mind made him the chief decision-taker in the first days after the explosion of reactor number four . |