Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is going to disappoint an awful lot of women who flocked to see them in town a year ago . |
| 2 | When , by Thursday , Helen had heard nothing from Giles the words that rang in her head began to turn from music to mockery . |
| 3 | A group of Czech teenagers allegedly made a few hundred copies of locally-produced computer software packages and sold them for $10 a piece , after advertising them via direct mail-shots . |
| 4 | ‘ Please send me by return the length of the holes at St Andrews as I intend to lay out a course on the common next weekend , ’ wrote another . |
| 5 | I must have kept my end up successfully , though , for just before he left Dennis sought me out and invited me to dinner the following Friday . |
| 6 | ‘ He wants me to machine-gun the observers this time . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ He played tennis on a high level for two and half hours , and did n't give me time to breathe , and that caught me by surprise a little bit , ’ said Boris Becker , his prize scalp , after the German had lost . |
| 8 | In 1653 John Lilburne found himself on trial a second time . |
| 9 | SHOOTING victim Jason Ward who discharged himself from hospital a month ago has had the plaster removed from his shattered limbs . |
| 10 | Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place . |
| 11 | His green eyes pools of limpid clarity and wholly deceptive depth , but his swift grin wicked , Michele replied provocatively , ‘ I ca n't make love to a housekeeper or beat her into submission the way I could a wife , and , as I prefer my domestic arrangements to run without a hitch , I have to tread circumspectly . ’ |
| 12 | write the name of the person you 'd like to see manager on a postcard and send it to Pick the Manager … |
| 13 | write the name of the person you 'd like to see manager on a postcard and send it to Pick the Manager … |
| 14 | There 's some people send us money and say , I 've read in such and such a paper , erm somebody send it from Chesterfield the there their paper there , and they send us ten pounds or something and erm you know erm you never know how the fruits er . |
| 15 | We tried it with diesel no unleaded petrol we tried it with did n't work very well . |
| 16 | Together , every few weeks we 'd dismantle the rig and transport it in sections a few hundred miles through swamps and desert and forest . |
| 17 | ‘ I found myself in France a little more than six weeks after I enlisted . |
| 18 | I 'm gon na have to start explaining myself to people a bit more actually |
| 19 | When the Reeve likens himself to an " " open-ers " " he associates himself with Nicholas in the tale just passed , and can thus be attributed with the same wry self-reflection as the Miller shows in attaching himself to John the carpenter . |
| 20 | I suppose I half-hoped that he would zap me with extinction the way he had zapped June with orgasm the night before but his horrible middle finger was folded around a reeking cheroot and showed no sign of flexing . |
| 21 | He told them without elaboration the content of his conversation with Jahsaxa Penumbra . |
| 22 | and he told me about Thomas the Tank engine , everywhere we went |
| 23 | This afternoon to the Commons and talked to Frank Barlow , the Secretary of the PLP , who told me in detail the arrangements that had been made in the event of Harold Wilson dying . |
| 24 | and it frightens me to death the way they go out . |
| 25 | King John , they said , had granted them by charter the right to pasture their animals and to take housebote and firebote in Lonsdale Forest without payment , but they had lost the charter during the disturbances at the end of his reign . |
| 26 | We wanted to avoid all the delays that creep in if we hack them by hi-speed Busby post to Dover , put them on board a ponderous Sealink ferry and eventually consign them to the decidedly risky hands of some unknown foreign postman in the forlorn hope that they-might , with luck and a following wind , reach the Antipodes before the turn of the century . |
| 27 | She had met them in London the previous summer during their annual holiday and had agreed to travel out to Naples with them and look after their two young children . |
| 28 | Greg does n't pace himself in miles an hour … more … pints an hour … that 's the lonely life of the long distance milkman . |
| 29 | The next best compromise is a scanner which allows you to pre-scan an image and then select the part you want and its size . |
| 30 | the sack uses the company 's Tergoflex-Light system which allows you to fine-tune the hip belt and shoulder harness position . |