Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Albert as chairman asked me a number of questions to which he already knew the answers for the good reason that we had already gone over them in Fulham . |
| 2 | William Temple got him an honouring invitation , as a delegate to the vast ecumenical conference at Edinburgh in 1937 . |
| 3 | There was the lure of the big stores , though clothing coupons and shortage of money made them a feast for the eye only . |
| 4 | The Ideal had to close down , and a vandal 's brick made it the Id al , which spelled the end of an era . |
| 5 | If his fragile skills made him a figure of immense vulnerability on the pitch , then off the pitch , in the press and in the corridors of football power , Jinky was hacked to bits and fullbacks were rarely to blame . |
| 6 | Its lushness and tropical variety made it a place of great beauty with winding roads and hair-pin bends giving spectacular views over the jungle . |
| 7 | Cos I did n't know what you know our mum got her a couple of games . |
| 8 | Geoff 's mum got me a piece of cheese last week from Superkeys . |
| 9 | Nicoll appointed him a fellow of the Shakespeare Institute in 1953 . |
| 10 | Then her original mentor found her a machine to buy . |
| 11 | Michael 's younger sister found him a fidget in church and thought it was fidgeting to excess . |
| 12 | Colin phoned him up , and er , it it he mentioned , how he was starting up , and he said he might be interested , anyway Colin phoned him a couple of weeks ago to see if he was still interested in . |
| 13 | A brief greatness was now conferred on the place , when the Popes found it an island refuge in their struggle against the Empire : Count Pierre of Melgueil bestowed the county and bishopric on SS Peter and Paul and Pop Gregory VII in 1085 , Pope Urban II graciously granted it back as a fief for a mere annual ounce of gold , and in 1096 , on a visit , astonishingly declared the church ‘ second after that of Rome ’ , with arms of the two |
| 14 | Densil 's mum let him a room . |
| 15 | Rebecca made me a cup of coffee ages ago |
| 16 | And Joanne 's seeing through his disguise made him a bit wary . |
| 17 | Arnold was of Tom Arnold 's circus , and his post as the vice-chairman of the party in charge of candidates made him a target of all those who were eager to stand for Parliament . |
| 18 | 'Mill Reserves made it a weekend of double celebration for Shottermill Football Club by clinching runners-up spot , thus ensuring promotion to division two . |
| 19 | The snow made her a prisoner , diminished her world , took away the pleasure and the freedom — — |
| 20 | Winner of the agility and the egg and spoon race , Mrs. Moore 's Penny made it a treble when , kitted out as a home help , she won the fancy dress title . |
| 21 | Hepzibah had cooked a cake with white icing and twelve candles and Mister Johnny made her a crown of wild flowers to put on her head . |
| 22 | Then Aunt Branwell read her a story from the Bible , and I forgot about it . |
| 23 | Despite the tears , Athelstan still wondered if her adultery made her an assassin or perhaps an accomplice to murder . |
| 24 | Actor Lloyd Bridges and wife Dot made it a family day out with his son Beau , wife Juli and children . |
| 25 | I took Sir Ralph to the top of the stairs into the North Bastion tower but the passageway was so narrow Colebrooke helped him the rest of the way . ’ |
| 26 | In the meantime , however , those long horns had become undesirable : drovers and slaughterers found them a nuisance and they compounded the drawbacks that had already become apparent in Bakewell 's breed . |
| 27 | Ewan monitored it every day . |
| 28 | Hoskyns found him the opening — sub-warden of Lincoln Theological College . |
| 29 | At the same time , Michelle also wanted to return to singing and Dennis found her a job backing Leonard Cohen . |
| 30 | But in the 1950s , with the first wave of postwar affluence , young people in transition began to have money and the adman found them a place in the consumer society . |