Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the election campaign Gamsakhurdia 's opponents had concentrated on attacking what they claimed were his dictatorial tendencies ( a week before the election his ruling Round Table-Free Georgia coalition had sponsored legislation passed by the Georgian parliament making it a criminal offence , punishable by up to six years in prison , to insult the Georgian President ) . |
| 2 | Now can I have my jacket , you just dropped my bag across the bloody park give me a cigarette now Liam . |
| 3 | His tousled hair gave him an appealingly boyish appearance , and Robbie found herself aching to smooth it for him , to run her fingers over the dark stubble on his cheeks . |
| 4 | He was running short of petrol and that route offered him the chance to capture replenishments along the way . |
| 5 | The 1861 census gives us the chance to meet Benjamin and Elizabeth at yet another new location : 7 St Thomas 's Street , Islington . |
| 6 | A loving partner 's selfless support gives you the extra edge you need to succeed . |
| 7 | A loving partner 's selfless support gives you the extra edge you need to succeed . |
| 8 | Keeping her eyes on Robert as he began to talk to Dawn , she waited to see a change of expression on Dawn 's face , then , suddenly , her view was blotted out by a tall figure handing her a glass of wine . |
| 9 | The soft lines of the sweatshirt that moulded the broad shoulders gave him an air of easy , masculine power , and the blue almost exactly matched the blue of his eyes . |
| 10 | Bracing the right side gives you the only opportunity to use the left side to start the forward swing smoothly and efficiently . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | His blade lent him power beyond mortal reckoning ; the eternal flame gave him the strength to use it . |
| 13 | I think that erm the actual position er assured was that industry gave us a quotation in erm April nineteen ninety two which actually was somewhat higher than we 'd anticipated , but I 'm not sure that industry reyu viewed it as an increase because it was probably the first time they had formally quoted a price . |
| 14 | I think the shock of that recognition drove me a little crazy myself . |
| 15 | Clare 's polite words gave her a moment of hope , which died , however , when she saw his face . |
| 16 | However , by using different assessment methods , the concept has been refined to include how managers perceive their world , how they search for and select data , and how they conceptualize with that data to give it a framework and meaning . |
| 17 | Dowie is a target for the Saints boo-boys but his willing heart makes him a dressing room favourite . |
| 18 | When divergent truth claims of this kind confront us the question that arises is what independent criterion of truth can be produced to determine which claim to truth is the right one ? |
| 19 | The report says ‘ Mr Zappala 's … experience … along with his civic activities make him an ideal candidate for the US embassy ’ . |
| 20 | The old houses give you the creeps do n't they Bill ? |
| 21 | She sensed , too , that her English accent kept her a little apart , made her sound uppish . |
| 22 | Furthermore , I do not see that fastening a label from ancient philosophy upon Wordsworth — in this case to call him a ‘ Pantheist ’ — is particularly helpful ; we are simply consigning him to a museum of dead ideas . |
| 23 | Mrs Van Smirren , the County Commissioner for Lincolnshire South , also came and Brown Owl gave her a phonetic alphabet worksheet . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , Aunt , Leith has this afternoon done me the honour of agreeing to be my wife . ’ |
| 25 | The present-day breeding habits of some birds give us a reasonably good idea of how polyandry evolved . |
| 26 | As we have seen , the removal of a core-electron requires an energy characteristic primarily of the atom concerned , so this technique offers us the ability to identify the constituent atoms of any sample . |
| 27 | This technique gives you a broad view of the subject but the best books are probably in the hands of other readers . |
| 28 | British Rail tell us the London Paddington to Liverpool train service which is , is due at Oxford at six fifty-five tonight 's going to be starting from Reading instead ; that 's going to confuse a few people . |
| 29 | British Rail tell us the eighteen twenty four , Manchester to Paddington train — that 's the train that 's due in at Oxford at eighteen twenty four- is fifteen minutes late this evening , and all trains from Paddington to Oxford are about twenty minutes late . |
| 30 | It was a warm , sunny june day in Fontanellato and I was riding out into the country on my bicycle when another cyclist gave me the news . |