Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] a " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ He was kind enough to give me a few minutes after Evensong yesterday . ’ |
| 4 | P.S. Dr Jane was kind enough to give me a time early in the day . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 7 | He was kind enough to give me a lift home . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Its mandate already gives it a prominent role in this area . ’ |
| 10 | Had a car not followed her a long way along the Bayswater Road when she was coming to meet Urquhart ? |
| 11 | Journalists just pop them a question and let them get on with it . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | Can I ask our adviser just to give you a free phone call ? |
| 14 | Our airfield was used by the military during World War Two and aircraft from RAF Leeming still pay us a visit occasionally . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We widened the steps slightly to make them a secure and comfortable width to walk and wheel a barrow down . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If you must use a light to illuminate your indicators then make it a dull , red one . |
| 21 | Your mum just bought you a packet of Smarties at shop each . |
| 22 | Her colourful opinions soon gave her a wider platform and she became a familiar face in the gossip columns . |
| 23 | The excellence of this machine eventually gave him a monopoly in refrigerated shipping . |
| 24 | ‘ My parents only told me a bit about them , ’ said Creggan , ‘ and I only saw one once when a pair came close to my homesite and my mother attacked them . |
| 25 | Normally I er put a banana and a strawberry together to give it a different taste . |
| 26 | ‘ Our manager Nigel Best told me a Celtic representative from Scotland would be watching me . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's going to have a short stay in a Home soon to give me a break . |
| 28 | Although Patrick Lundy was almost twenty , Katherine still considered him a child and treated him accordingly , and often it was easier to go along with her rather than risk an argument . |
| 29 | His work quickly gained him a high reputation . |
| 30 | Although the hotel is fairly new , it is built in the traditional chalet style and the use of wood panelling throughout gives it a mellow and warm atmosphere . |