Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Houghton asked her to instruct Gregson to call him as soon as he could . |
| 2 | Corsie drew shot , but King beat it to tie things up at 6-6 , before Corsie prevailed on the next end to take the set 7-6 and force the decider . |
| 3 | Corsie drew shot , but King beat it to tie things up at 6-6 , before Corsie prevailed on the next end to take the set 7-6 and force the decider . |
| 4 | Unexpectedly , Sophie found herself defending Robert . |
| 5 | Shortly before Event finally closed , Branson made one last telephone call to Tony Elliott . |
| 6 | Richard admitted he liked fishing . |
| 7 | Dr Haritos-Fatouros found herself making friends with most of the torturers she interviewed . |
| 8 | And when Dr Neil commanded her to give Effie chloroform again while he finally manoeuvred the little body out the relief she felt was almost overwhelming , enhanced by the sudden strange joy she felt at the sight of the tiny purple baby boy . |
| 9 | Left alone , Meredith ignored her shaking legs and managed to strip off and ease herself into the heavy waist petticoats from beside the chest . |
| 10 | A month in the Muelle Deportiva at Las Palmas might seem excessive , but Eevin 's crew , brothers Trevor and Gary Marshall , David McKnight , Jude Docherty and Gary Hill busied themselves cultivating Eevin 's barnacles and partying . |
| 11 | She was a popular choice — though a reluctant nominee — and her Medau roots go back to her days of early motherhood when Dr Anni Noll encouraged her to try Medau with Molly and Peggy . |
| 12 | Ken encouraged him to do Shaw and ran over the lines with him until he felt he had got it . |
| 13 | Judge Angus Stroyan ordered him to pay £21.98 compensation for the shirts , which were bloodstained , and gave him a community service order for 60 hours . |
| 14 | Not given to making the headlines , it has recently attracted attention with the launch of the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture known to the Renaissance on a computerised database , with Getty support , and an old debate stirred up by an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung which criticised London University 's custodianship of the library and called for its return to Hamburg . |
| 15 | The doorman at the Hilton saw them driving east early . |
| 16 | However , the United States persuaded it to accept UN Security Council Resolution 242 , giving an assurance that it would ensure that the critical wording ‘ withdrawal from territories captured ’ would mean no more than minor border rectifications . |
| 17 | Aunty Ann did you see Noel 's House Party at the end when erm |
| 18 | And Bobby did you see Moira last night ? |
| 19 | ‘ But General Schellenberg gave us express instructions to … |
| 20 | Only with the retirement of Roberts did he get promotion to the new ball , whereupon he stepped up his speed and took 31 wickets against Australia in 1983–4 , although he then reduced it again . |
| 21 | Singh had himself replaced Vora as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh in February 1988 [ see p. 36027 ] . |
| 22 | An Asian man who was forced to wed a local girl in Pakistan had his arranged marriage annulled at the Court of Session in Edinburgh today . |
| 23 | Borg said he understood people who hate to have their memories of his near-invincible tennis from 1976–1980 tarnished . |
| 24 | ‘ Good morning , ’ Lucy forced herself to sound calm . |
| 25 | So , when the riding party of teenage girls returned for a late lunch , Lucy forced herself to present time with a brightly smiling face . |
| 26 | At one stage Mr Howes said he had hold of Alan 's arm … but his colleague was a dead weight , and he had to let go . |
| 27 | A measure of the difference between Mr Major 's personal standing and Mrs Thatcher 's is that , whereas a mere 19 per cent of voters on Friday and Saturday said they thought Mr Major would make the worst Prime Minister , nearly double that proportion , 34 per cent , thought the same of Mrs Thatcher five years ago . |
| 28 | NEC said it plans volume production of about 10,000 units a month in the spring of 1994 , increasing to about 30,000 a month by early 1995 . |
| 29 | NEC said it plans volume production of about 10,000 units a month in the spring of 1994 , increasing to about 30,000 a month by early 1995 . |
| 30 | The CSO cautioned it regarded comparisons of the volume figures as distorted by the impact of the dock strike on August and September returns . |