Example sentences of "[noun] [unc] [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any lender who displayed the Association 's symbol indicating he was a member was also publicly acknowledging adherence to the Code . |
| 2 | It was a guess , though scarcely a wild one , and Cunningham 's reaction confirmed it had hit the mark . |
| 3 | The speed of the Mamba 's ascent shook me . |
| 4 | Chris explained : ‘ James here is our scorer and Mr Marshall signalled four wides when there was a wide and the ball went to the boundary , but the other side 's scorer says you ca n't have four wides at once , only one , and the other three must count as byes . |
| 5 | How fond he had been of darling Mou-Mou … it broke Mummy 's heart to have her put down , but it was the kindest thing to do … . |
| 6 | Almost immediately , Portugal 's government said it would cease defending the escudo , and that it , too , wanted to see its currency devalued . |
| 7 | Both men looked at her , and the expression on Dr Neil 's face struck her to the heart . |
| 8 | Some treated Charles Manson as a hero , and the underground newspaper , the Los Angeles Free Press allowed Manson to write a column for them while he was in jail ; another , called Tuesday 's Child depicted him on a cross . |
| 9 | Wahono , general chair of Golkar ( the ruling Functional Group Centre or Golongan Karya Pusat ) , announced on Oct. 20 that President Suharto had agreed to Golkar 's plan to nominate him for a sixth five-year term as president . |
| 10 | Orton 's torture left him permanently ill . |
| 11 | The second case was Hall v Avon AHA [ 1980 ] 1 All ER 516 in which the Court of Appeal held that the plaintiff can not insist , as of right , upon having his own doctor present when the defendant 's doctor examines him . |
| 12 | ‘ In addition to interfering with existing contracts , ’ said Lord Reid ‘ the defendant 's action made it practically impossible for the appellants to do any new business with the barge hirers . |
| 13 | Someone came to collect it , but the defendant 's mother withheld it and contacted the police . |
| 14 | The noise was intense with carts trundling across the rutted tracks or wynds as Corbett 's guide described them . |
| 15 | Jets coach Bruce Coslet said : ‘ Dennis 's injury makes you reflect on what 's important and what 's not . ’ |
| 16 | She was going to call out to them , but something in Meredith 's face stopped her , and the next instant he had swept down the stairs with his arm about John Harbour 's shoulders and was gone . |
| 17 | I 'm sort of kneeling there , so I put my hand on Marie 's back to make her feel better , but she rolls away from me . |
| 18 | The Corporal 's face said it all . |
| 19 | Nevertheless he shot the ‘ Singapore Tiger ’ , an arrogant character who had been seen several times before and was strutting ahead of his large patrol when the Corporal 's bullet killed him . |
| 20 | John Hill 's son says he 's not been given the full facts about what went wrong . |
| 21 | Stuart Downing , editor of the club 's fanzine Fly Me To The Moon , was at Filbert Street , and said : ‘ It was his first goal and it was natural he wanted to celebrate . |
| 22 | The club 's chairman says he 's doing all in his power to persuade him to stay on . |
| 23 | St Bernards had placed a fee on this transfer should he go to a Football League club so Palace had to settle with them and with Kettering , but his eminent place in the club 's history assures us that if Palace had had to pay a dozen clubs , it would have been money well spent . |
| 24 | WEST HAM stalwart Tony Gale last night hit out at the club 's decision to place him on the transfer list . |
| 25 | Simpson says the club 's predicament left him little choice but to leave . |
| 26 | Dressed in silk and ablaze with jewellery , apparently to prove that Donna 's inheritance was no myth , Mavis Bricknell stumbled off towards the toilet room at the dome car 's entrance saying she must repair the ravages to her face , and presently she came back , screaming loudly . |
| 27 | The second lorry ran into the car 's side sandwiching him in the wreckage . |
| 28 | Angie recalls how she moved in with David 's mother to comfort her and how they eventually found Haddon Hall , a large Victorian folly in Beckenham , where ultimately she and David lived along with Tony Visconti and his girlfriend Liz . |
| 29 | Tony Visconti : ‘ I remember when David 's father died he was very solemn , as anybody would be when their father dies , and he took the responsibility of looking after his mother very seriously . |
| 30 | ‘ Now , do n't let poor David 's tragedy wear you down . |