Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made her a good decade younger than he was , but she looked it . |
| 2 | That made him the perfect fling . |
| 3 | That made it a perfect victim for the advance loans ' fraud . |
| 4 | Did that make her the same as Amelia as the others ? |
| 5 | Does n't that make it a different computer ? |
| 6 | They moved on after that , with Jessica dropping in bits about Parr as they occurred to her — although not that she was due to meet him the next day . |
| 7 | ‘ Until we 've got stable testing , that worries me a great deal . ’ |
| 8 | An extraordinarily high proportion of Milton scholars have chosen to disregard these truths about their subject , and have decided that because Milton was on the side of the regicides this made him a revolutionary and , because a revolutionary , therefore a man of the Left , perhaps even an agonized Maminst , or at least a sympathizer with the Diggers and Levellers of his own day . |
| 9 | This made him the intellectual heir of John Hunter , whose Essays and Observations he published with due filial piety in 1861 . |
| 10 | This made him the ideal choice to fly this naval fighter . |
| 11 | Some would say this made him the ideal publisher of a newspaper . |
| 12 | This made him an acceptable candidate as protector and , once he held that office , helped to ensure that he could call on the backing of the Yorkist establishment . |
| 13 | This made him an acceptable candidate as protector and , once he held that office , helped to ensure that he could call on the backing of the Yorkist establishment . |
| 14 | ‘ This made us the second most successful regional morning in the UK and one of only a handful of papers to increase annual sales . |
| 15 | This made it a no-go area for the Hong Kong police and it developed into a warren of opium dens and criminal hideouts . |
| 16 | This made it a greater challenge later on . |
| 17 | This made it an easy room to clean , no one would want to come in while she was working . |
| 18 | Peter Davis , Reed 's chief executive , said : ‘ This offers us a unique opportunity to expand our subscription-based information publishing for the legal market , which we know well and where we are under-represented in the US . ’ |
| 19 | Again , the Germans did better , 22% being prepared to trust them a great deal . |
| 20 | In some circumstances , a commercial party may be able to invoke doctrines such as economic duress , that an oppressive term was introduced into a contract without adequate notification , or that another owes it a fiduciary duty . |
| 21 | Does n't this give you a little glow ? |
| 22 | This buys them an extra round while Thadeus hesitates , in which time they must come up with something more to prevent him from attacking after this initial hesitation . |
| 23 | Ever a man for taking the particular to exhibit the general , this allowed him a global crack at the Scots : he claimed that they were not interested in doing anything unless it had natural awkwardness in it : ‘ What can not be done without some uncommon trouble or particular expedient , will not often be done at all . |
| 24 | In practice it should be easier to do it the standard way |
| 25 | He was not free to give her the untrammelled life that she deserved . |
| 26 | ‘ You can ask , but I might not be free to give you a truthful answer . ’ |
| 27 | Erm , actually on reflection , having seen the bit of disaster that occurred because erm unfortunately Freda did n't get the phone call until early Christmas day morning off her daughter , to say that instead of them coming up to here to see them that something had happened in London , could they go down to her , so she was prepared to do us a half an hour at half past one and then she was going to drive to London ! |
| 28 | While I am pleased to report that this particular source has not been replaced with high-quality material , suppliers of this and other ‘ green ’ materials should be warned that I am quite prepared to give them the widest publicity they 've ever had if they try fobbing gardeners off with sub-standard goods . |
| 29 | It was , alas , only too derivative , but given its auteur 's antecedents everyone was prepared to give him a second chance . |
| 30 | There can be little doubt as to what in the way of topics and register the Host expects in the Monk 's Tale ; he concludes his observations on Melibee with : and continues with a description of the Monk that matches with the impression " Chaucer " claims to have of the Monk in the General Prologue , of a " " manly man " " , straining at the bounds of what is allowed to a monk ( and not dissimilar to the monk of the Shipman 's Tale ) : After nearly a hundred stanzas of the Monk 's tragedies , the Host is prepared to give him a second chance , as " Chaucer " had , but feels this time he has to be more specific as to what is wanted : But as soon as the Monk speaks we have the opportunity to see , firstly , that his reaction does not suggest he is flattered or pleased by the Host 's appraisal of him , and secondly that he sounds quite different from the bold and thrusting " man 's man " that " Chaucer " and the Host would make of him : Note how the Monk 's desire to offer literature that " " sowneth into honestee " " anticipates Chaucer the prosist 's retraction of the tales " " that sownen into synne " " . |