Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Chapman 's team-building made Arsenal the favourites . |
| 2 | As Dickon pushed the wheelchair all round the garden , he told Colin the names of all the plants . |
| 3 | She inspected the rooms and found them perfectly tolerable and assured Wilson the ladies would require only coffee in the morning and would otherwise dine elsewhere . |
| 4 | Yonhap quoted an official as saying North Korea had accepted a US proposal to meet again in Beijing , possibly as early as next week , and a senior Seoul government source told Reuters the talks were to be held after after a current US-South Korean military exercise , Team Spirit , ended . |
| 5 | As soon as the Trust got Brownsea the regulations about the discharge of sewage changes , they had endless trouble with the water supply , and now they 're having to find £300,000 to repair the sea wall , so I feel that , instead of being praised for being associated with getting Brownsea , I probably ought to be cursed for putting the Trust to so much expense . |
| 6 | Three hours later , with most of us starving , the head waiter knocked on the door , threw Robson the keys and asked us to lock up the restaurant when we 'd finished . ’ |
| 7 | Disaster struck for Rovers just two minutes later as a mistake by keeper Bobby Mimms handed Ipswich the points . |
| 8 | He handed Dimity the flowers with a smile and a small bow . |
| 9 | Miss Hatherby showed Constance the treasures of the house . |
| 10 | ‘ Parkin will say he lent Nicola the scissors and there was some accident . |
| 11 | So long as Hitler threatened Europe the prospects for a revival of peace politics were minimal . |
| 12 | When Mr McCormack said he did n't know anyone called James the men apologised and left . |
| 13 | She offered Simon the drawstrings round the top of the basque . |
| 14 | He tossed Thessy the keys to the storeroom . |
| 15 | Kilmarnock were unlucky in the first half when Gus McPherson hit the crossbar , but goals from Paul Harvey and Craig Flannigan after the break gave Clydebank the points . |
| 16 | The expedition was a military failure , but it led to the treaty of Brétigny of May 1360 , which gave Edward the lands ceded to him in 1358 with a ransom reduced to 3,000,000 gold crowns . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , yes , ’ Athelstan murmured and gave Parchmeiner the details of Horne 's death . |
| 18 | The soldier gave Rodriguez the thumbs-up . |
| 19 | Oh I gave Lloyd the coupons to give to Tommy , I hope he do n't bloody forget . |
| 20 | Miss Jarman looked at her — a long calculating look that gave Jess the shivers . |
| 21 | The Consumers ' Association , which last month gave Airtours the thumbs down in a Holiday Which ? report on tour operators , described the decision as ‘ baffling ’ and ‘ a severe disappointment ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm on the verge of being one meself , child , if I had the name of that person who gave Lizzy the drugs I 'd scalp the face off them . ’ |
| 23 | On the next day , 16 May , a separate grant gave Buckingham the offices of constable , steward and receiver of the duchy of Lancaster honour of Monmouth . |
| 24 | On the next day , 16 May , a separate grant gave Buckingham the offices of constable , steward and receiver of the duchy of Lancaster honour of Monmouth . |
| 25 | He gave George the details . |
| 26 | Smoothly , and swiftly , Ray Doyle gained illegal entry to the flat , gave Bodie a thumbs up , and vanished inside . |
| 27 | In those days a new house was usually constructed out of wooden hut sections of which there was a plentiful supply as most of the troops stationed here in the war lived in wooden prefabricated buildings and when they left Orkney the buildings were dismantled and then sold . |
| 28 | All the cancer patients had adenocarcinomas : two had Dukes 's stage A , eight had B , and six had C. The polyps varied in size from 0.5 cm to 1.0 cm and five showed dysplastic changes ( one mild and four moderate dysplasia ) . |
| 29 | European Community ( EC ) Finance Ministers in early October allocated Albania a balance-of-payments support grant worth ECU70,000,000 , conditional upon Albania concluding an agreement with the IMF and holding to its recommendations ( ECU1=US$1.39013 as at Oct. 5 , 1992 ) . |
| 30 | As we neared Arran the clouds became denser , and in turn cast deep shadows over the Firth and the Arran coast , or were lit up with a glow of intensely bright sunlight ; while the glory of Arran , its mountain-peaks , were lost amid the clouds that enshrouded them . |