Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was running short of petrol and that route offered him the chance to capture replenishments along the way . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | His blade lent him power beyond mortal reckoning ; the eternal flame gave him the strength to use it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I think the shock of that recognition drove me a little crazy myself . |
| 8 | Clare 's polite words gave her a moment of hope , which died , however , when she saw his face . |
| 9 | She sensed , too , that her English accent kept her a little apart , made her sound uppish . |
| 10 | Mrs Van Smirren , the County Commissioner for Lincolnshire South , also came and Brown Owl gave her a phonetic alphabet worksheet . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Her long flaxen hair gave her an almost nordic appearance , her clear unspoilt complexion reflecting her life in the clean country air . |
| 13 | There was also substantial cross-group agreement on the selection of this feature , with most groups arguing that the 'summarising " nature of this sentence made it a strong candidate for an opening to the story . |
| 14 | The voluntary hospital , the Infirmary , was specifically designed to care for the sick , and its relative freedom from the constraints associated with spending public money gave it the advantage over the sick wards at the workhouse . |
| 15 | Haslam believes this experience taught him the need to recognise that many products follow a predictable life cycle . |
| 16 | This description gave me the idea of a soldier slipping silently through the jungle . |
| 17 | It was only when the high priest asked him the direct question : |
| 18 | Fucking what , I , I 'm , I think it was he 's mum or not , some old biddy gave me a right old . |
| 19 | ‘ Far from it ! ’ she said thickly , but her racing pulses told him a different story , and she knew her desire for him was growing stronger with each moment they spent together . |
| 20 | Elsewhere , the main instrument for this capture of control by the notables — an English diplomat called them the gentry — was the election of Juntas . |
| 21 | When he was at school another boy told him the Chinese see a rabbit in the moon . |
| 22 | Another boy wrote me a postcard saying that he wanted to marry me tomorrow ! |
| 23 | I was still nursing my Freddieland injuries , and the way she was looking at me with her unflinching gaze gave me a queasy feeling I 'd only narrowly avoided providing lunch . |
| 24 | She guessed that her weekly visits made her a regular , for the keyboard player nodded at her and the guitarist/vocalist grinned . |
| 25 | The impressive hardware , the ( rather primitive ) motion-control techniques , and the startling light effects made it the biggest single breakthrough . |
| 26 | I always remember going to , somewhere with Ken this girl gave us a lump of cheese , it must of been Cheshire . |
| 27 | The rare ability shown in the digging and publication ( 1928 ) of this site gave her a promising place in Palaeolithic studies , reinforced by her first book , The Upper Palaeolithic Age in Britain ( 1926 ) . |
| 28 | Milton Humason who worked with him for over 30 years called him a ‘ brilliant leader ’ and wrote , ‘ He was sure of himself — of what he wanted to do , and of how to do it . ’ |
| 29 | This business gave him the time and money to pursue his hobby of microscopy to a highly professional level . |
| 30 | This announcement gained her a very wry glance and she fumed more as she read his looks . |