Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 61 | They claimed that drinking the tea gave them an intense , trip-like experience . |
| 62 | If she has a dry mouth condition offer her a wet feed with the bit in position to teach her to move it about better . |
| 63 | Mother says I must n't grow any more till she 's collected enough wool to knit me a bigger one . |
| 64 | His regular drawing practice gave him a solid understanding of the structure of the human head and hands , and he is unique amongst 18th century British painters for his custom of making detailed preparatory drawings for his portraits . |
| 65 | So their own minister held a service at the station , and the agent gave them a good dinner cheering them on in Gaelic , at which they wept , and they went on to settle at Moosomin , where they lived happily ever afterwards . |
| 66 | But working-class discontent was fierce and the ability of the industrial proletariat to paralyse large plants and even whole areas by strike action gave them an immediate power of disruption which the peasantry lacked . |
| 67 | A demand from his bladder gave him a happy idea . |
| 68 | Her work for the Eugenics Society and the Family Planning Association gave her a keen interest in population issues . |
| 69 | The ensemble gave her a slinky , model-like elegance and made her feel like an actress playing a part … a nightclub scene , probably … instead of her normal self . |
| 70 | His sole gave him a peculiar sensation , realising that it was undone and dragging , made him laugh , in retort , but secretly , inside . |
| 71 | Defoe gives us a splendid picture of an industrial landscape in the time of Queen Anne or shortly after . |
| 72 | But I have never forgotten advice that my research adviser gave me the first time that I was pursuing a dead end : ‘ It is important to recognise when to quit . ’ |
| 73 | Apart from primates , some of the best known tool users among the mammals are the African and Asian elephants , whose prehensile trunk gives them a considerable advantage when it comes to holding and manipulating objects . |
| 74 | Planning our future gives us a greater sense of internal control and increases self-esteem . |
| 75 | Penry 's displeasure gave her a sudden , desperate longing to get back to wherever — and more importantly whoever — she belonged . |
| 76 | ‘ The brooch gave us the right clue — in fact it gave us two . |
| 77 | The statute gives him no such say . |
| 78 | He was knighted in 1945 and in 1953 the American Meteorological Association elected him an honorary member . |
| 79 | Doolin says : ‘ The result gave us a great boost . |
| 80 | So it was a stroke of luck when a friend scrapping an old Volvo car gave him a complete system to fit to his tractor . |
| 81 | The Undo command gives you a second chance when you delete a block of text in error by allowing you to replace it in the document exactly where it came from . |
| 82 | City had not won a League game at Portman Road for 30 years , and had not scored in their last seven visits , but the jinx looked to have come to an end when Gary Flitcroft 's first senior goal for the club gave them a 37th minute lead . |
| 83 | Fucking what , I , I 'm , I think it was he 's mum or not , some old biddy gave me a right old . |
| 84 | The photographer shot the usual roll of pictures ; the President gave me a firm , friendly handshake . |
| 85 | That is why , no matter what the last-minute mediators may say , there is a danger that their aim will be interpreted not as an effort to secure Mr Hussein 's compliance with demands that have somehow escaped his attention , but as an attempt to offer him an easy way out . |
| 86 | The two crosses at either end of the roof gave her a brief moment of hope . |
| 87 | Lack of sleep , food bolted too quickly , the heat and the night jogging gave him a dark-eyed expression of endurance . |
| 88 | In the last-named work he opened up lines of interpretation which , even if somewhat modified since , set firm foundations on which other scholars might build : the exuberant vigour and almost Niagara-like outpouring of scholarship gave it a memorable quality . |
| 89 | Three are commonly identified i.e. national , local and school , and in an attempt to clarify them the following paragraphs examine each in turn . |
| 90 | Housewifely talk suited them no better . |