Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I was very privileged to meet her when I visited Georgia a few years ago : a remarkable and very courageous woman . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ They beat Holland the same way they beat Italy , by defending tightly with a sweeper and breaking away cleverly to score . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She turned round as she reached the pavement to discover Urquhart a few steps behind . |
| 7 | He tells how the Holy Spirit fell on Cornelius , and points out that God had given Cornelius the same gift as the Jewish believers . |
| 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 | He envied it , but he feared for it , too , for when the Rabbi departed to Eretz who would show Jacob the same affection ? |
| 11 | I understand she told John the same story before she promised to marry him , then they agreed it should never be mentioned again . |
| 12 | Porfiry 's words have a heightened transpersonal effect because Svidrigailov has just told Raskolnikov the same thing . |
| 13 | and dad 's been away so I 've sold Peter a few cars . |
| 14 | Give Whelan a few games and Deane something to think about while he 's on the bench . |
| 15 | I took Gillian to see Oliver a few weeks after we met . |
| 16 | She followed Edgar a few paces across the room . |
| 17 | She married a chap called Parkes a few years back but he went off and left her . |
| 18 | The Department of Transport was then offering a 50% grant towards the cost of new one-man buses , and was persuaded to give Blackpool the same grant for converting its railcoaches to ‘ new trams ’ . |
| 19 | Tell Garvey no more miracles , for my sake . ’ |
| 20 | Merseyside police have revealed that they probably killed James a few hours after they took him from the Strand shopping centre in Bootle . |
| 21 | Malik showed willing to attack from the start , driving Mallender through the covers like a rifle-shot , and treating Munton the same way . |
| 22 | Some of Eric Le Red 's former managers in France sent Ferguson a few tips , via TODAY , on handling his fickle Frenchman . |
| 23 | It took Marie a few seconds to realize who Gary was : nobody , not even the teachers at school , called Gazzer by his real name . |
| 24 | We discussed the administration of the hospital , especially the shift times of the nurses , to allow Frank a few minutes alone with Salome . |
| 25 | They reached Darwin the same day , covering the 2,435 miles at an average speed of 188.4mph , with stops at Charleville and Cloncurry . |
| 26 | I only saw Stephen a few times before I went back to prison . |
| 27 | ‘ You know , do n't you ? ’ sobbed Sarella a few seconds later . |
| 28 | Lionel Luyt told me that it was only when he reached Europe a few years later that he realized how far ahead of his South African contemporaries John had been , doing things which he must have invented for himself because he had not had the chance to see them put into practice by others . |
| 29 | It took D'Arcy a few seconds to connect the familiar face in the unfamiliar surroundings . |
| 30 | That Aethelheard 's flight was not generally seen as discreditable is clear from Leo III 's subsequent praise of him for endangering his life against ‘ Julian the Apostate ’ , as the pope described Eadberht , but Alcuin gave Aethelheard no such credit and remained highly critical of him for allegedly neglecting his Christian duty and it is possible that in his absence the Kentish leaders were considering the election of another archbishop . |