Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The porter brought me the message . |
| 2 | I was bending my brains to think of a way of introducing Brian Harley into the conversation when the television monitor in the corner of the tent gave me the ideal opportunity . |
| 3 | I read the Blues Brothers review and the soundtrack gave me an idea : why not have a soundtrack chart in ZZAP ! ? |
| 4 | In addition , his setting out the poet 's connection with the primitive gave him the status of a societal elder , one who , lecturing in America , would pronounce on literature and society as Arnold had done less than fifty years before him . |
| 5 | The fact that the ordnance survey map of Ben Lawers proudly declared a Visitor Centre at the base left me no choice in the route I was to take to the top . |
| 6 | I could have done without the ‘ vote of confidence ’ the Board gave me a month ago … every football manager knows what that invariably means . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ The board gave me a free hand with the retained list and backed me all the way . |
| 8 | Charley rubbed her hands and the Dodger gave her a drink from the bottle he carried . |
| 9 | The midwife showed me a note that had been pinned to the baby 's jacket under the shawl . |
| 10 | To put it another way : when the cat is on heat ( which she has n't been since the vet gave her the unkindest cut of all ) , nevertheless when she was , she had very little time for chasing moths hanging unsubtly round the fridge or cuddling up for a neck scratch . |
| 11 | The vet gave him a strong dose of painkiller , and after waiting in vain for a while to see if the pain eased , she decided to pop back into town to fetch an x-ray machine . |
| 12 | NICRA also had a reasonable complaint that the lateness of the ban gave them no time to negotiate amy alternative date or route . |
| 13 | The referendum gave him a huge majority : 2773920 votes for and 2452 against the President . |
| 14 | The clerk handed him the envelope . |
| 15 | The cyclist gave him a parting kick as he pedalled off . |
| 16 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 17 | The Russians denied him the decisive pitched battle on which he had counted . |
| 18 | ‘ I did n't particularly enjoy being a guest of Her Majesty but the experience gave me the chance to get my priorities straight , ’ he said . |
| 19 | A brief greatness was now conferred on the place , when the Popes found it an island refuge in their struggle against the Empire : Count Pierre of Melgueil bestowed the county and bishopric on SS Peter and Paul and Pop Gregory VII in 1085 , Pope Urban II graciously granted it back as a fief for a mere annual ounce of gold , and in 1096 , on a visit , astonishingly declared the church ‘ second after that of Rome ’ , with arms of the two |
| 20 | The processor sent me a cheque for the value of the two missing films . |
| 21 | Although rape and looting were technically crimes according to both armies rules of conduct , the commanders considered it a necessity to ‘ cleanse ’ their enemies of their women . |
| 22 | ‘ The recession gave us a window of opportunity , ’ he said at the time . |
| 23 | The Times recorded that this was their sixth partnership of over 150 ; the Telegraph that it was their seventh century stand ; while the Guardian made it the eighth . |
| 24 | It 's time , and the baker brought us a nice treat this morning . ’ |
| 25 | There is a statue in the village to the most endearing Pyreneeist of them all , Count Henry Russell , Irish on his father 's side and Gas con on his mother 's , who climbed obsessively and made so many ascents of Vignemale — thirty in all — that in 1889 the authorities granted him a concession to it . |
| 26 | The golden touch : Australian lock John Eales — whose domination of the line-outs earned him the Man of the Series award — steals a march on Doddie Weir as Willie Ofahengaue lends him a helping hand … |
| 27 | ‘ But the driver told her the cost had risen by 1p the previous day . |
| 28 | On the aircraft the stewardess brought him a copy of the Tollemarche Advent . |
| 29 | After take-off , a miracle I might have thought in other circumstances , the stewardess handed me a sickly sweet fruit drink and I tried to peer through the tight lattice of scratch marks on the window at the Andes , at the snow , at the jungle . |
| 30 | D.C.L. degree by Oxford University and the College gave me the honour of welcoming her with flowers ’ . |