Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That meeting with Ken and his decision to make Ken 's part big made it a sort of broken-back type of play . |
| 2 | The growled admission obviously gave him no pleasure , and Gina decided it wiser not to point out that in fact he had n't recalled his generosity until she had prompted his memory ! |
| 3 | Fear of being ousted from Edward 's entourage by the king 's Poitevin half-brothers perhaps gave him a personal interest in the political upheaval of 1258 , which began with the half-brothers ' expulsion from England . |
| 4 | Its proximity to another , larger , Binns store in Middlesbrough only made it the obvious candidate for the axe . |
| 5 | ‘ He was kind enough to give me a few minutes after Evensong yesterday . ’ |
| 6 | P.S. Dr Jane was kind enough to give me a time early in the day . |
| 7 | Sir Philip Egerton having been kind enough to give me a Frank I embrace the opportunity to send you some account of Mr. Gould and his movements , presuming that as you expressed a wish to hear of him from time to time , a letter on this subject might not be devoid of interest . |
| 8 | ‘ I would really prefer to teach girls , but this school was kind enough to give me a part-time job when I wanted it , so here I am ’ . |
| 9 | He was kind enough to give me a lift home . ’ |
| 10 | Wherever it was , Roe apparently considered it an obstacle to his plans , and he indicated his intention of writing to Wilson offering that man a share , in consideration of relinquishing his rights and transferring these to the Macclesfield company . |
| 11 | Aim for a list that give the widest possible choice and price range ; whilst there will be friends and colleagues who will club together to buy you a present , others will want to buy something on their own . |
| 12 | Nevertheless its roots have evidently been shallower than in Northern Ireland , where the absence of comprehensive schools perhaps made it the more necessary . |
| 13 | Bert and I both noticed it , independently like , even though Bert only saw him the once when he were so taken up looking to Celia . |
| 14 | Although Edward apparently promised him the captaincy of Berwick in September 1319 , during the English siege of the town , and grants continued to come his way during 1320 , his allegiance was soon to be severed by the ambitions of Despenser , whose attempts in 1320–1 to enlarge his share of the Gloucester inheritance in south Wales raised the whole march against him . |
| 15 | Its mandate already gives it a prominent role in this area . ’ |
| 16 | Had a car not followed her a long way along the Bayswater Road when she was coming to meet Urquhart ? |
| 17 | Journalists just pop them a question and let them get on with it . |
| 18 | The defensive headers of the tall , red-haired Roberts soon made him a familiar figure at Highbury , and he was the first defending centre-half to earn the name ‘ policeman ’ or ‘ stopper ’ . |
| 19 | I would have understand if he 'd dived and got out their way and the wind just blew it the other end . |
| 20 | Can I ask our adviser just to give you a free phone call ? |
| 21 | Our airfield was used by the military during World War Two and aircraft from RAF Leeming still pay us a visit occasionally . |
| 22 | He felt uncomfortable , uneasy at the way the Prince and Gaveston hardly spared them a glance whilst their companions at table treated them as if they simply did not exist . |
| 23 | Bah , the professor always gives me the dirty jobs while he plays with his monster . |
| 24 | We widened the steps slightly to make them a secure and comfortable width to walk and wheel a barrow down . |
| 25 | Your NEW card also gives you the chance to collect a fantastic fortune with Vernons Pools . |
| 26 | It equally informs us that as one of the results of his ‘ innovative ’ study ‘ Gale also shows us a Darwin who relied on the help of other scholars for much of his work on species . |
| 27 | The Northumbrian regnal list gives Aldfrith a reign of twenty years and Bede correspondingly assigned him a reign from 685 to 705 ( HE IV , 26 ; V , 18 ) , but Bede also knew , perhaps from knowledge of a more precise regnal figure , that Aldfrith really reigned nineteen years ( HE V , 1 ) and died before the end o his twentieth regnal year ( HE V , 18 ) . |
| 28 | Volume IV : The Last Laugh by Michael Holroyd Chatto & Windus , £10.99 HAVING served up George Bernard Shaw in three stout volumes , Michael Holroyd now offers us a slim postscript — an account of the first 40 years of Shaw 's afterlife . |
| 29 | Eleanor simply gave me the excuse I needed . |
| 30 | I would be grateful if you could confirm your acceptance of this proposal , and I will take necessary steps here to pay you the first overseas royalty . |