Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kolchinsky lowered him carefully to the floor then flicked on the intercom switch on the desk . |
| 2 | Manescu grasped her firmly by the arm as he asked his question . |
| 3 | CHA make it easy by providing walking guides for groups — our group consisted of a rich mix of walkers of all ages and nationalities . |
| 4 | ‘ I mean , they get these ideas and these bees in their bonnets and try and make everyone think the same way , and they change all the rules and upset everything , and Freud got it wrong in one way and Marx got it wrong in another . ’ |
| 5 | Molly moved them carefully to one end of the bar before she hung up Hugh 's clothes and her summer dresses . |
| 6 | Scott regarded him impassively for a moment . |
| 7 | This is Whitlow driving it long to Speedy . |
| 8 | Someone close to Mr Mandela described him yesterday as a chess player five moves ahead of anyone else in the game . |
| 9 | Donna regarded him blankly for a moment , then nodded . |
| 10 | Their patient was a man in his late thirties , and Kathleen recognised him immediately with a sinking heart . |
| 11 | Early on , the Quakers were the better side and had good scoring chances even before Nick Pickering blasted them ahead with a 25-yard volley in the 16th minute . |
| 12 | Balvinder Singh dropped me outside during a brief pause in the rain . |
| 13 | While Ronnie kills us softly with his song |
| 14 | Maisie kissed him lightly on the cheek . |
| 15 | Gwenellen relieved me again for my night meal at one-thirty . |
| 16 | Frankie watched her now with a mixture of awe and delight as she pranced in little pirouettes around the kitchen . |
| 17 | Two of Britain 's major motorways , the A1 and M1 , pass through Nottinghamshire linking it directly with towns and cities throughout the country . |
| 18 | The other Rex hit him hard in the stomach . |
| 19 | Saturday finds you still in the throes of sorting out a financial/ professional issue and you wo n't be able to really relax until you 've cleared up all unfinished business . |
| 20 | Is Lucy giving you more of a hard time ? |
| 21 | A murdering Fascist , ’ I cried and Richard took me gently by the shoulders and pushed me towards the door . |
| 22 | David escorted her there on her first morning and was touchingly concerned for her , insisting on taking a cushion for her to soften the hard seat on the press benches and urging her to promise to leave the stuffy , dark-panelled room if she felt faint or troubled . |
| 23 | Edward gave them only until the following morning . |
| 24 | Sylvie struck her again with greater force so that Katherine knocked her shoulder hard against the edge of the bannister . |
| 25 | Shiona eyed him challengingly over the bonnet of the car . |
| 26 | Fleischmann told me more about the background to his work with Pons . |
| 27 | Satisfied that the gun was ready for immediate use , Kirov transferred it discreetly to his jacket pocket before turning and walking towards the waiting figure of Ybreska . |
| 28 | Andrew Greeley encapsulates it well in his phrase ‘ the sacrementality of human sexuality , ’ to which is allied a concept we shall repeatedly discover in Leonard , of women as the ‘ sacraments par excellence of God 's attractive love , ’ to use another of Greeley 's telling insights . |
| 29 | So Anabelle made her home under a lilac bush in Sergeant 's garden . |
| 30 | Molby swung in the free-kick and Saunders met it perfectly with his head on the near post to score a spectacular goal . |