Example sentences of "[pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | With horror I suddenly recognized one of them — it was the man in our village pub who had given me the two pound notes ! and strangely enough , during the journey I heard the prisoners talking about it . |
2 | bring me the drowsy country thing ! |
3 | I suppose on the studio engineer evolutionary scale I rate about as high as the average amoeba , which makes me the perfect test pilot for this series of videos . |
4 | Bring me the bloody cheese grater in the ! |
5 | Oh shut up woman , shut up , you give me the bloody screaming abdabs , it 's my money I threw away . |
6 | Elizabeth had sent me the hideous paper cover of the Italian translation of A Wreath of Roses , in shame marking it BURN . |
7 | He sent me the first Education sentimentale ; I was not greatly impressed , but how could I not praise it ? |
8 | In the end I got them to give me the first aid outfit and fixed myself up . |
9 | And it was she who brought me the first evening paper . |
10 | Well you bought me the new vacuum cleaner . |
11 | Elegy ( E2 5c ) on the Lower Tier of the Roaches is for me the finest slab climb on gritstone . |
12 | On that first occasion my father took me through Craven Hill Gardens into Porchester Terrace , showed me the blank brick back of the facades and lifted me up on to the wall so that I could look down into the shaft . |
13 | He said , ‘ Give me the ten Forteviot men , mounted , and the best horses you have in exchange for our worst . |
14 | Would you please tell me the high season price for one week ? ’ |
15 | ‘ Are you going to give me the macho caveman act ? |
16 | And they sold me The Last Boy Scout . |
17 | If I decide to keep them you will charge me the special offer prices only , plus a total of £1.50 towards postage and packing . |
18 | The Aldershot method because er it it sort of explained to me the most effect way of getting across whatever you want to say so that made me a feel a bit happier about that . |
19 | So to me the most point thing if you 're an interviewee is to find out the duration of the interview . |
20 | It was the part of Sabbo in Rope ; mind you , I had been offered two leading roles at other reps that could n't give me the vital Equity card — so Sabbo it was . |
21 | On my first day in the job he took me into the director 's Portakabin , put his arm around me and , showing me the empty trophy case , said ‘ Your job , Les , is to fill that cabinet before I die . ’ |
22 | ’ There was even some guy in Minnesota or Detroit or somewhere who killed a load of people and they started to call them the Lost Boy Murders , but I did n't take too much notice of it all . |
23 | Given them the negative polarity item I give a damn . |
24 | For them the critical starting date in human history was the one in 1896 when British law was changed to allow motor-cars to be driven without a man preceding them on foot carrying a red flag . |
25 | Only the line of grim cages among whose bars whined the winter wind , and above them the great plane trees that bent across the sky , their leafless branches bending in the wind like twisted hands that came down towards him from the angry sky . |
26 | He first became a player-manager at 28 and in his time the 41-year-old Buckley has won three promotions , the Bob Lord trophy with Kettering — and been sacked by Walsall after making them the highest scoring team in the four Divisions . |
27 | But that is not a view held by those who lack the imagination to enter into the hearts and minds of others , and to do to them as they would be done by ; among them the then Home Secretary and the then Lord Chief Justice . |
28 | Of the two of them the young Job Centre man looked the more hot and worried . |
29 | Mr Clarke and Mr Hunt told MPs the decision to break the law by dispensing with a 90-day consultation period was taken because of ‘ special circumstances ’ and in order to help the miners by giving them the best redundancy terms . |
30 | First , the merger of two large firms will give them the immediate monopoly power that derives from a large market share . |