Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its proximity to another , larger , Binns store in Middlesbrough only made it the obvious candidate for the axe . |
| 2 | Bert and I both noticed it , independently like , even though Bert only saw him the once when he were so taken up looking to Celia . |
| 3 | Although Edward apparently promised him the captaincy of Berwick in September 1319 , during the English siege of the town , and grants continued to come his way during 1320 , his allegiance was soon to be severed by the ambitions of Despenser , whose attempts in 1320–1 to enlarge his share of the Gloucester inheritance in south Wales raised the whole march against him . |
| 4 | The defensive headers of the tall , red-haired Roberts soon made him a familiar figure at Highbury , and he was the first defending centre-half to earn the name ‘ policeman ’ or ‘ stopper ’ . |
| 5 | He felt uncomfortable , uneasy at the way the Prince and Gaveston hardly spared them a glance whilst their companions at table treated them as if they simply did not exist . |
| 6 | The Northumbrian regnal list gives Aldfrith a reign of twenty years and Bede correspondingly assigned him a reign from 685 to 705 ( HE IV , 26 ; V , 18 ) , but Bede also knew , perhaps from knowledge of a more precise regnal figure , that Aldfrith really reigned nineteen years ( HE V , 1 ) and died before the end o his twentieth regnal year ( HE V , 18 ) . |
| 7 | Eleanor simply gave me the excuse I needed . |
| 8 | Knowing my ability as a direction finder , Ann kindly left me the map and wandered off . |
| 9 | ‘ Our manager Nigel Best told me a Celtic representative from Scotland would be watching me . |
| 10 | Although Patrick Lundy was almost twenty , Katherine still considered him a child and treated him accordingly , and often it was easier to go along with her rather than risk an argument . |
| 11 | His paintings of Spain also made him an apt choice of artist for V. S. Pritchett 's The Spanish Temper ( 1954 ) and for Cedric Salter 's Introducing Spain ( 1953 ) for which he reworked an earlier drawing of Alicante . |
| 12 | Gould virtually admitted it the other day . ’ |
| 13 | The ANC then sent me a statement which , in my opinion , was n't good enough . |
| 14 | This Katherine instead reminded her a little of those refugee children she had housed during the war , ever polite , ever ready to comply , but as old as the world and never altogether of it . |
| 15 | I shall not follow the hon. Member for Newry and Armagh ( Mr. Mallon ) who spoke about Ireland , because I am not qualified to do so , except to say that Ireland recently gave us the best rugby match in the world cup . |
| 16 | And Managing Director Richard Doyle-Davidson once showed me the ceiling of his office where water was seeping in . |
| 17 | Benetton just showed us the pictures not the background to the pictures . |
| 18 | ‘ Ai nt no VietCong ever called me a nigger , ’ was his simple , but penetrating , reason for not accepting the draft for which he was stripped of his world title and forced into inactivity for three years ( only to return from adversity and carry on boxing , often successfully , for world titles until aged 38 ) . |
| 19 | Phil also played me a track he 'd recorded using the JMP-1 direct and the tones were awesome . |
| 20 | Seven years ago , while I was visiting Togo , the chief of Porto Seguro proudly showed me a walking stick presented to his ancestor by Queen Victoria to mark the emancipation of slaves in 1832 . |
| 21 | well certainly I believe Mr he , I do n't think he went into the same detail as Mr I , but Mr certainly left me the impression that some at least of the brochures were , went into more than one addition , yes |
| 22 | However , a free-kick from Nevin nearly brought them a goal immediately before Pearce should have given Forest the lead . |
| 23 | Mr Steel merely gave him a black labrador puppy . |
| 24 | Lloyd even promised us an interview with Andrew Ball but we heard nothing . |
| 25 | Whenever a favourable opportunity offered , Captain McKellar obligingly allowed me the use of a boat , and by this means enabled me to collect nearly all the species of this interesting family that we fell in with … ’ |
| 26 | Encouraged by this response , Mr Bumble immediately gave her a kiss , but at this interesting moment there was a sudden knock at the door . |
| 27 | Sara silently handed him the ingredients he wanted and found the mustard pot . |
| 28 | He also hit out about his departure from Upton Park saying : ‘ West Ham never showed me the door . |
| 29 | Jack recently told us the plot of a 1951 Jane Wyman movie called The Blue Veil and we both broke down sobbing at the same point of the story and sobbed for minutes . |
| 30 | Burton always thought it the finest thing he ever did . |