Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sophie had given Pascoe the bare details as they ran back from the restaurant ; now she told the rest . |
| 2 | Merleau-Ponty , who met Nizan a few weeks later at Laurent Casanova 's villa in Porto , recalls that Nizan seemed resigned to the inevitability of war , but still confident in the belief that a tripartite alliance between France , Great Britain and the USSR was a necessary and inevitable prerequisite to the defeat of fascism . |
| 3 | I was very privileged to meet her when I visited Georgia a few years ago : a remarkable and very courageous woman . |
| 4 | Naturally such a prolonged absence was a little worrying , especially in view of , well , the circumstances ; and in fact an anxious Ashenden had rung Kidlington a few minutes previously , just in case the police knew anything . |
| 5 | And she bore Arnie no hard feelings . |
| 6 | A Canadian friend who visited Junieh a few years ago said that it was an excellent and interesting place for a cruising yacht to go : cheap , with pleasant , welcoming people and without danger , provided you stay away from the trouble spots . |
| 7 | She turned round as she reached the pavement to discover Urquhart a few steps behind . |
| 8 | On the other hand , Linnaeus , who had visited Chelsea a few months earlier , came in for severe criticism : ‘ … he has demolished not only Species but Genus without the least reason for so doing but that of having his method establish 'd and made universal , which I venture to affirm will be of very short duration ’ . |
| 9 | My sister-in-law was allowed to visit Palestine a few years ago . |
| 10 | In order to reach Norway the two men took the jeep to Ostend and drove through Belgium . |
| 11 | Dumping at sea : New powers governing dumping at sea will give Britain the widest controls in Europe . |
| 12 | He 'd told Willi the plain facts . |
| 13 | Instead she chattered about the law and the law exams and found Davide 's last letter from Riba , and showed Tommaso the flourishing strokes of her brother 's handwriting , and asked him if he too wrote with such tails on his p's and g's and such loops on his l's and d's ? |
| 14 | Is the European market likely to become a genuine market which operates in the same way as the USA , and therefore give Europe the basic strengths of a vast internal demand ? |
| 15 | and dad 's been away so I 've sold Peter a few cars . |
| 16 | Give Whelan a few games and Deane something to think about while he 's on the bench . |
| 17 | As a boy living in Stockton Nigel always used to watch Middlesbrugh at Ayresome Park and consider Darlington the poor neighbours . |
| 18 | I paid Barry the fifteen dollars we had agreed on for a small , black Andean Equipment daysack to keep my new notebooks in and left him selling jewellery to his tour group . |
| 19 | It attempts to estimate PPPs every five years on the basis of a detailed comparison of prices in each country . |
| 20 | I took Gillian to see Oliver a few weeks after we met . |
| 21 | She followed Edgar a few paces across the room . |
| 22 | She married a chap called Parkes a few years back but he went off and left her . |
| 23 | All she could do was to give Adam the completed programs , and then keep as far away as possible from Lynx and the man who ran it . |
| 24 | Tell Garvey no more miracles , for my sake . ’ |
| 25 | Whittingham scored in the 65th minute to give Portsmouth the three goals they needed to rise above West Ham . |
| 26 | A brilliant last bowl removed two of Gourlay 's woods from the head to give Corsie the three shots he needed to take the set 7-6 . |
| 27 | Merseyside police have revealed that they probably killed James a few hours after they took him from the Strand shopping centre in Bootle . |
| 28 | The Revolution of 1688 lost D'Urfey the courtly connections he had developed , so that he had to turn to other means of support . |
| 29 | ‘ We can only try , ’ Elinor said , giving Otley the best biscuits . |
| 30 | They all sat around on deck drinking punch and asking Rachel the usual questions . |