Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A visitor once asked Connie the secret of her success with begonias . |
| 2 | In the 1960s the oil boom made Venezuela the country to emigrate to , and it was a common occurrence for the emigrant who made good to hire a large American car ( Cadillac or similar ) and to return to Madeira by ship with the car . |
| 3 | He passed Edouard a silver box in which cigarettes of kif mixed with tobacco were ready-rolled . |
| 4 | As soon as we left Florence and crossed the Tennessee River we passed from Lauderdale , a dry county , to Colbert , a wet one , and the difference was plainly visible : a sudden array of beerstands and gaudy neon nightclubs flickering past made Sheffield a sort of Baghdad next to the more prim outposts in Florence , the birthplace of W C Handy , and a bastion of respectability . |
| 5 | Coal from the valleys of south Wales made Cardiff the world 's leading coal-exporting port . |
| 6 | What made Imamu an outsider in Brooklyn is quite similar to the reason Boo is an outsider in ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ , he did not conform with his new community 's social behaviour . |
| 7 | They made Koons a multi-millionaire and one of the richest artists of the thirtysomething set . |
| 8 | He passed Rex a styrofoam carton labelled Old Shep Bar-B-Q . |
| 9 | Laura passed Rex the gun and Rex bopped him on the head with it . |
| 10 | It was he who lent Hardy the money to go to Paris : he who decided to take Hardy 's hopeful acting career under his wing and get him an audition with ‘ my father ’ down at the Cardiff studios , where Philip 's radio play gave him an entree . |
| 11 | When General Secretary Nguyen Van Linh visited Moscow a couple of months later Gorbachev praised Indo-Chinese efforts to create such a zone . |
| 12 | During a meeting held on Lake Titicaca in October 1989 , Paz Zamora was advised by President Alan García Pérez of Peru that Peru would not object if Chile granted landlocked Bolivia an outlet to the Pacific Ocean through territories formerly belonging to Peru . |
| 13 | Domesday shows that they provided Edward the Confessor with a revenue of £53 a year and the three works of the king — probably the maintenance of fortresses and bridges , and service in the army . |
| 14 | It cost Galvone a lot to say that but he knew he 'd blundered . |
| 15 | Chapot added that the company is seeing a recovery in its US Pacbase sales since Computerworld printed a test result that rated Pacbase the number one software engineering system in overall functionality and user friendliness . |
| 16 | You mentioned Scott a moment ago , and Scott is certainly a profound influence on American fiction in the erm earlier part of the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | Because/Although Mr Utterson visited Jekyll every day , Jekyll … |
| 18 | Well — Boswell and Johnson found Aberdeen a place where conversation had not proved stimulating . |
| 19 | Thomas bore England no grudge for the youth it dealt him ; on the contrary . |
| 20 | The referee at Cardiff cost Scotland a game they did not deserve to win . |
| 21 | Restormel Council leader John Horn promised Doug an apology and pledged a meeting to ‘ smooth this over ’ . |
| 22 | As we approached Rijeka the weather , like the roads , took a real downward turn . |
| 23 | I 'll I promised Mr a list but I 've had a very busy week and have n't done him a list this week and I have promised and I 've broken a promise . |
| 24 | I beat Cameron a couple of weeks later , but did n't see Frank . |
| 25 | Repeatedly , their mutual admiration surfaces , and Johnson always found Burke a challenge , always felt it necessary to raise his game in Burke 's presence . |
| 26 | I found Ika a kind and gentle young man . |
| 27 | ‘ So many people have said to me over the years that it is very sad I never bore Norman a child , that I only ever had stepchildren to love . |
| 28 | As we approached Tromsø the snow grew thicker and Nathan asked , as casually as he could manage , whether they would clear the runway . |
| 29 | SCOTTISH striker Graham Harvey promised Linfield a debut goal — and came up trumps with a 36-minute hat-trick in the 5–2 win over Larne that keeps the Blues a point clear at the top of the table . |
| 30 | Apparently the elderly Renoir bore Modigliani no malice . |