Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | September ICI wins Us Environmental Protection Agency Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award for the commercial introduction of ‘ Klea ’ 32 . |
| 2 | In 1954 Sir Winston Churchill appointed him financial secretary to the Treasury under his old Marlborough friend , R. A. Butler ( later Baron Butler of Saffron Walden , q.v . ) . |
| 3 | Just take a look got me little list knocking round . |
| 4 | Their publication was a speculation which — so far as it made me known & procured me employment in Zoological drawing — answered my expectations — but in matters of money occasioned me considerable loss . |
| 5 | Asian ships did not go round the Cape of Good Hope to trade with Europe , and East Indiamen , as the Company 's ships were called , were so heavily armed and were so much safer from the risk of piracy that merchants found them useful carriers even though they did not sail as fast as local ships until the Company had its ships built of teak some decades later . |
| 6 | Mary-Lou stuffed her English grammar into the back of her desk and pulled out a French one . |
| 7 | If B is threatened with a tort it is , of course , equally true that he may bring an action for damages if the tort is committed or bring an action for a quia timet injunction first , but , especially where the threat is of violence , it is perhaps less realistic to say that these legal remedies afford him adequate protection against the consequences of resistance . |
| 8 | My glance allowed me sufficient time to register an abundance of well-washed hair , a rosy cheerful face , a loose-hanging tweed coat and heavily-patterned woollen stockings . |
| 9 | We have already pointed out that clarinets in unison with high trumpets give them increased roundness of tone and certainty of attack . |
| 10 | Home Economics ' lessons in schools teach you useful skills which will help you to become independent as you grow up . |
| 11 | Imagine the indignity of trying to learn by heart , over breakfast , a set of opinions , which you will later claim as your own , on such subjects as your party 's policy on the amateur status of Rugby Union , female circumcision and devolution of power to the regional arts boards … and all morning your party agent sending you urgent messages that your whole campaign 's falling apart . |
| 12 | The singer was following an old tradition of adapting the ceremony to give it contemporary relevance , adding to the festival 's famous ‘ four questions ’ about the meaning of Passover a new and troubling one . |
| 13 | And as students of the star signs will verify , the cuspate divisions help explain his ability to carve the characters he plays into different personality fragments to give them added depth . |
| 14 | MORE than 1,000 Maxwell pensioners and print workers yesterday staged a rally and lobby of Parliament to step up their campaign for Government action to give them long-term security for their pensions . |
| 15 | A great shudder went through the old house , as with a sickening crunch the weight hit her front wall . |
| 16 | I think youll find us fellow Leeds Fans here a nice bunch , although we do have some OLD men ( Kev ) , so if they start on about John Charles … do nt worry . |
| 17 | Apart from the counties a number of urban areas had grown up and many of these had been granted Charters of Incorporation giving them varying powers of local administration . |
| 18 | As the same study of the executive and legislative roles in the Vietnam war points out , another of the provisions of the 1949 Mutual Defense Assistance Act — approved with almost no debate — authorized the President to send US armed forces as non-combatant military advisers to any ‘ agency or nation ’ in the world . |
| 19 | By night , Kos really comes to life and boasts two of the best discos in Greece and lots of bars and tavernas to keep you happy well into the early hours of the morning . |
| 20 | These Goblin are known as Doom Divers , although it is usual for other ( saner ) Goblins to call them bat-winged loonies . |
| 21 | The doctors have a word for that misery ; they call it anhedonia , which only means an inability to feel enjoyment , and that 's what it is , but it feels like hell , like true hell , and it 's a hell you ca n't even escape from in sleep because overdosing on cocaine gives you chronic insomnia . ’ |
| 22 | Now Delia Sutherland gave him proper attention . |
| 23 | We were taken into a small chapel and some Spanish border guards gave us hot coffee and bread . |
| 24 | Two avoidable goals gave them valid concern . |
| 25 | By-employments such as basket-making , hemp-dressing and wild-fowling gave them additional security . |
| 26 | Modern technology is now so sophisticated the microprocessor-based design of the teleprinter gives it enormous power and flexibility . |
| 27 | But on my return to Salamanca Dana gave me strong support , a spiritual courage that entered our love and our poetry . |
| 28 | But , gradually , I realised that kinky underwear gives me sexual freedom . |
| 29 | A report by the National Council of Public Morals on The Cinema ( 1917 ) had also scrutinised the problem , entertaining a wide variety of evidence — on such matters as the educational potential of the cinema , censorship and licensing , the molestation of children in picture palaces , and a clouded discussion of what was somewhat eerily called ‘ the moral dangers of darkness ’ — as well as some monosyllabic evidence from children themselves on whether the moving pictures gave them bad dreams . |
| 30 | The mayor Gallery was also there and both Freddy Mayor and Charles Gimpel gave me enormous support . |