Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Honey met her gaze without flinching . |
| 2 | Sophie passed her hand over her forehead , then began to unfasten the drip . |
| 3 | Heat struck through the thin soles of her sandals as , joining the straggling file of other passengers , Luce made her way across the tarmac towards the rather unprepossessing terminal building . |
| 4 | The story of how the convalescent David Stirling got his proposal into the hands of General Auchinleck was told to the journalist Virginia Cowles in 1958 , and is based on Stirling 's memory of events not too long after they occurred . |
| 5 | I sha n't care when I want to hear my Pamela read her French and Latin lessons to seek my beloved in the nursery or find her engrossed in baby offices . |
| 6 | Then , King fought his way through a mob of well-wishers eager to shake his hand or receive a nod of acknowledgement . |
| 7 | If the ropes do jam then please remember that the great Giusto Gervasutti met his death during just such a retrieval operation . |
| 8 | Sir Edmond made his will on 20th March the following year , exactly a month before his death . |
| 9 | If you sit on a cliff edge on Sea-lion Island to enjoy your pack lunch , as likely as not you will be joined by one or more of these amusing birds . |
| 10 | Doyle made his way through the crowded , smoky billiard hall , towards the bar at the end , where he could see Bodie nonchalantly sipping a coke . |
| 11 | The Union made its assistance conditional on each community creating its own managerial committee . |
| 12 | Then Yorkshire mounted a 49th-minute attack and , aided by a deflection , Robert Ward got his shot home at the second attempt . |
| 13 | and a minute later Mooney made his hat-trick … 6-1 to Southend … |
| 14 | It was Wharton-Tigar who , in the end , saved Klein 's life by shipping him out to Gibraltar when the Abwehr sought his arrest . |
| 15 | Patrick checked his watch . |
| 16 | The ‘ dig ’ carried out in 1984 brought to light what could have been the main centre of administration in Anglo-Saxon times and could well have been the site for the ancient ‘ Dic Ring ’ from which Dickering got its name . |
| 17 | On Monday , August 24 , after a meeting with the King in the morning , MacDonald met his Cabinet once more , at noon . |
| 18 | As it happens ’ — Morse consulted his watch ostentatiously — ‘ he is very shortly due to take off from Kennedy Airport to fly back to Heathrow , and he has already made a substantial confession about his part in the strange circumstances surrounding the Wolvercote Tongue and Dr Theodore Kemp . |
| 19 | As well as acting as presenter of the various scenes Richard Baker displays his talent as a pianist , singer , and even for one moment as a dancer ! |
| 20 | Towards the end of 1182 Richard was summoned from his war in the Angoumois to attend his father 's Christmas court at Caen . |
| 21 | Careful not to hook his leash , Trent made his way forward . |
| 22 | While Louis ducked into the saloon , Trent made his way forward . |
| 23 | Dr Mortimer asked our driver why the soldier was there . |
| 24 | Croatian President Franjo Tudjman made his name in the 1960s as a maverick historian who charged that only 30,000 people perished at the hands of the Ustashe fascists . |
| 25 | Shamir made his call in the light of Cabinet disagreements over a Police Ministry proposal to prevent all unmarried Palestinian men under the age of 30 from entering Israel . |
| 26 | Galerie Pels-Leusden turns its attention to painting by the mentally ill with an exhibition of large-format works in coloured pencil by Friedrich Schroder-Sonnenstern . |
| 27 | Ipswich 's next meeting is on Good Friday and Zdenek Tesar has taken the opportunity of the break to return to Czechoslovakia to see his wife and daughter and do some cross country skiing near his mountain home . |
| 28 | ‘ Tommy Taylor made his debut in the same game as me . |
| 29 | Kelly revealed his anguish over the case that sparked a fierce debate in soccer and said : ‘ Would the game 's interests have been better served by Blissett spending Christmas in jail ? ’ |
| 30 | Recognising the vital importance of persuasive speech in the day to day running of a democracy , Aristotle drafted his Rhetoric , a work which has influenced countless would be orators through the ages . |