Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baroness Burdett-Coutts lent them £50,000 and the princess 's mother made regular contributions . |
| 2 | Queen Victoria appointed him Inspector of Fisheries , and he took his job seriously , persuading millers to install salmon ladders over their weirs . |
| 3 | In 1880 he decided to settle in London permanently , and , also in 1880 , Queen Victoria appointed him teacher of singing to the royal family . |
| 4 | Liese made me dinner in the Chinese style : miso soup , stir-fried vegetables , sweetsap for dessert . |
| 5 | She and her accupuncturist partner , Richard Spindler , are now in serious debt , they say , because Lloyds lent them money without proper advice and called in the loan after overcharging them . |
| 6 | Yeah but Sue got it Sue got all the tried er everything I could to , to get it to tally . |
| 7 | Press reports suggest that the new DOS will include a revised boot procedure , allowing you to bypass CONFIG.SYS to process it line by line . |
| 8 | Friends of Mia , 47 , say director Woody owes her £195,000 after she agreed to appear in his movie A Manhattan Murder Mystery . |
| 9 | Beating Faldo cost me £90,000 |
| 10 | Andy told me Howie and another two locals jumped a couple of travellers who 'd been at the party as well . |
| 11 | First-time mugger Michael Watson slumped in the dock in disbelief as Judge Brian Pryor told him thugs were making Britain 's streets ‘ places of fear ’ . |
| 12 | Walter had been friendly with David in England and when he came to Scotland , David granted him lands in Ayrshire , Renfrewshire , Argyll , Bute and the Lothians . |
| 13 | Coucy soon rose high in favour at court : in 1363 Edward granted him lands in north Lancashire , Cumberland and Westmorland to which he had some claim by inheritance ; two years later he married Isabella , and in 1366 the king created him Earl of Bedford with an endowment of 1,000 marks a year . |
| 14 | We began to understand the root cause when senior process engineer Tom Alcorn showed us work done ten years previously on similar plants . |
| 15 | Freud calls it masochism . ’ |
| 16 | She thought : If only there was a Jonah calling me M'Lady and running frightful risks chasing after spies all across Europe in a great Bentley . |
| 17 | Sag & Hankamer rename them ellipses and argue that they are interpreted by ‘ copying over ’ a piece of superficial representation . |
| 18 | He accepted that some delay in the Shah 's arrival might now be needed , but he felt that the United States owed him refuge . |
| 19 | Rakovsky called him Little Father and Ivan called him son . |
| 20 | Meredith waved him goodbye from the gate , watching as he turned outside the Haynes ' cottage and until he had driven off out of sight towards Fenniwick 's garage and the B road turn . |
| 21 | Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox . |
| 22 | And Sir Alf Ramsey called them animals . |
| 23 | Later the white people who settled in Texas named them bluebonnets . |
| 24 | Raise the kids , raise the money : Ann Roberts finds US schools have demanding standards for parents |
| 25 | One Highlander was in a fix regarding his dog : he would not pay the fare for his collie ; the official threatened to take him — the dog — as a hostage ; Dugald warned him Prince would ‘ grip him ’ if he dared . |
| 26 | Aunt Lilian sent me accounts of local political meetings cut out from the Gazette , and her own analyses of the Labour Government 's foreign policy . |
| 27 | Linda brought him breakfast in bed . |
| 28 | and she said my sister spends I mean , we 're now talking about nineteen seventy my sister spends twelve and six a week on things from for the house on the hire purchase if she ever truly runs into debt she 'll save part of the cost of the thing , you know and then she knows that she 's always going to have to put twelve and six a week aside but she does that and buys things for the house and you see if you 've got if you 've got that little bit of extra coming in it 's quite well it 's like my lodgers , Brenda if I could n't if I could n't get what I need from my lodgers well Neil pays me Neil 's house rent which thirty pound a week |
| 29 | They returned to Tunbridge Wells via Cheltenham , where Lulu Harrington gave them tea and her fulsome apologies for being unable to remember the full name and address on Beatrix 's fourth letter . |
| 30 | Ewen obviously knew his way , but although Neil gave him room he made no further attempt to break free , or even to reach open water . |