Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their father who had started the business , although retired , was still usually to be found there , hovering in the background , his full white beard reminding me of Father Christmas . |
| 2 | When Roy Mason arrived in 1976 to take up his duties as secretary of state for Northern Ireland , the present writer met him as part of a deputation from my political party . |
| 3 | He took charge of his third club in almost as many months after Alex Ferguson recommended him to St Mirren . |
| 4 | His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter . |
| 5 | Her insistence on setting up lone stations cut off from the central missionary settlement led her into conflict with the authorities , who often thwarted her persistent applications to go further ‘ up-country ’ . |
| 6 | Mona and Sheila met her at Dublin Airport and the three sisters drove to Great Meadow in Mona 's car . |
| 7 | Yet a couple of features in the sentence push it towards Orientation : it contains an explicit temporal signal in the form of " when " and , more significantly , contains a past progressive verb phrase ( " he was sitting " ) . |
| 8 | Preferences bring us to Regan who is rightfully critical of the counter-intuitive implications of Frey 's blanket denials of beliefs , desires , perceptions , emotions , and so on to animals and is at great pains to stress their similarities of behaviour to that of human beings . |
| 9 | Robins has so far scored seven goals after Ferguson sold him to Norwich for a cut-price £800,000 on the eve of the season . |
| 10 | To avoid the album selling for ludicrous amounts on import , Rough Trade took the decision to issue it in Britain . |
| 11 | There is a chief superintendent in RUC Headquarters whose sole responsibility is community relations , and no complaints were made about the level of managerial support given them by Easton 's senior officers , something unusual for ordinary policemen and women in the RUC , and particularly so compared to community policing sections in other forces ( Grimshaw and Jefferson 1987 ) . |
| 12 | YOU recently mentioned con tricks well , I was waiting at Lime Street Station for my mother when a well-dressed man with a briefcase asked me for £1 . |
| 13 | Griffin , to exemplify this , reports a signing sequence by Patterson 's Koko : ‘ Please milk please me like drink apple bottle ’ , and one from Nim , ‘ Give orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you ’ ( 1984 : 200 ) . |
| 14 | His political inclinations got him into trouble again in 1940 , however . |
| 15 | I see no opportunity to debate it in Government time . |
| 16 | Like thousands of others , he became fixated on the actor Montgomery Clift , going several times to see him in Red River Valley and detecting , accurately , homosexual tendencies behind Clift 's portrayal of the sensitive masculine ideal . |
| 17 | For he was lost , in no one mind , in nothing but urgent , insistent needs — lusts lashing him into lunacy . |
| 18 | William met him at university . ’ |
| 19 | Between late July and early October 1936 the rebels drove home the advantage given them by Franco 's agreements with Mussolini and Hitler . |
| 20 | Le Gall translated it by forme , thus by the choice of two words remoulding the whole Neo-Confucian cosmology after the analogy of Aristotelian form and matter . |
| 21 | Could you give guidance on the important matter of confidences given us by constituents ? |
| 22 | She 'd have to take off her thick blue jersey soon , and she could n't remember how many buttons had come off the shirt underneath , and it was sleeveless , and she had n't shaved her armpits since Philippa asked her to supper last week . |
| 23 | The archbishop of Besançon was summoned through the bishop of Langres ( an intentional slight ) for allowing papal messengers to be captured ; the bishop of Speyer on the same grounds and also for sending one messenger to the gallows ; the archbishop of Tarentaise for crowning Philip ; and the bishop of Passau , who had probably been the draughtsman of the Staufen protest , had a long series of charges brought against him — he had not delivered two million marks to the king of Hungary , he had not paid back the money given him by Richard I for his release — indeed , his crimes were so great , the letter said , that he could have been punished without trial . |
| 24 | I wish that Deane was scoring 3 a match — but I have nt had the opportunity to see him in action recently . |
| 25 | Messiahs appeared , as we all know , under the procuratorships of Cuspius Fadus and Antonius Felix , and Josephus decried them as men who deceived and deluded the people by their pretence of having received from God in the wilderness the signs of liberty ( Jos . |
| 26 | Her mum got her into hospital but Sharon discharged herself . ’ |
| 27 | Mum got you into trouble all right with me , did n't she ? |
| 28 | Asked us ower fur drinks and when we got there — I mean Ah 'd had a bath , splashed on some of the Givenchy for Gentlemen that Isabel got me for ma Christmas and got into ma designer tracksuit just to be casual like … |
| 29 | Thus the term irony is used in something approaching its usual acceptance when Brooks associates it with Yeats 's appeal to the Greek sages in ‘ Sailing to That Yeats should speak of the ‘ artifice of eternity ’ evidently undermines in a sense the appearance of passion and sincerity with which he invokes the Greek sages , and thus can be said to bring about a kind of ironic reconciliation between his aspiration of a life free from Nature , and his rational awareness of his human limitations ( Brooks 1949 : 173 ) . |
| 30 | Mr Baker appointed him without interview because he had been impressed by Professor Stubbs 's publications on the importance of knowledge about language . |