Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The porter brought me the message . |
| 2 | I was bending my brains to think of a way of introducing Brian Harley into the conversation when the television monitor in the corner of the tent gave me the ideal opportunity . |
| 3 | I read the Blues Brothers review and the soundtrack gave me an idea : why not have a soundtrack chart in ZZAP ! ? |
| 4 | In addition , his setting out the poet 's connection with the primitive gave him the status of a societal elder , one who , lecturing in America , would pronounce on literature and society as Arnold had done less than fifty years before him . |
| 5 | The fact that the ordnance survey map of Ben Lawers proudly declared a Visitor Centre at the base left me no choice in the route I was to take to the top . |
| 6 | I could have done without the ‘ vote of confidence ’ the Board gave me a month ago … every football manager knows what that invariably means . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ The board gave me a free hand with the retained list and backed me all the way . |
| 8 | The midwife showed me a note that had been pinned to the baby 's jacket under the shawl . |
| 9 | To put it another way : when the cat is on heat ( which she has n't been since the vet gave her the unkindest cut of all ) , nevertheless when she was , she had very little time for chasing moths hanging unsubtly round the fridge or cuddling up for a neck scratch . |
| 10 | The vet gave him a strong dose of painkiller , and after waiting in vain for a while to see if the pain eased , she decided to pop back into town to fetch an x-ray machine . |
| 11 | NICRA also had a reasonable complaint that the lateness of the ban gave them no time to negotiate amy alternative date or route . |
| 12 | The referendum gave him a huge majority : 2773920 votes for and 2452 against the President . |
| 13 | The clerk handed him the envelope . |
| 14 | The cyclist gave him a parting kick as he pedalled off . |
| 15 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't particularly enjoy being a guest of Her Majesty but the experience gave me the chance to get my priorities straight , ’ he said . |
| 17 | The processor sent me a cheque for the value of the two missing films . |
| 18 | ‘ The recession gave us a window of opportunity , ’ he said at the time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It 's time , and the baker brought us a nice treat this morning . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But the driver told her the cost had risen by 1p the previous day . |
| 22 | On the aircraft the stewardess brought him a copy of the Tollemarche Advent . |
| 23 | After take-off , a miracle I might have thought in other circumstances , the stewardess handed me a sickly sweet fruit drink and I tried to peer through the tight lattice of scratch marks on the window at the Andes , at the snow , at the jungle . |
| 24 | D.C.L. degree by Oxford University and the College gave me the honour of welcoming her with flowers ’ . |
| 25 | Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have . |
| 26 | The stranger gave her a look . |
| 27 | The two crosses at either end of the roof gave her a brief moment of hope . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | As the dreamsun showed us the insubstantial outlines of the City down in the valley , we faded to white . |
| 30 | The ensemble gave her a slinky , model-like elegance and made her feel like an actress playing a part … a nightclub scene , probably … instead of her normal self . |