Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1954 Sir Winston Churchill appointed him financial secretary to the Treasury under his old Marlborough friend , R. A. Butler ( later Baron Butler of Saffron Walden , q.v . ) . |
| 2 | Mary-Lou stuffed her English grammar into the back of her desk and pulled out a French one . |
| 3 | Now Delia Sutherland gave him proper attention . |
| 4 | But on my return to Salamanca Dana gave me strong support , a spiritual courage that entered our love and our poetry . |
| 5 | The mayor Gallery was also there and both Freddy Mayor and Charles Gimpel gave me enormous support . |
| 6 | De Lorenzo 's move follows a decision by his Liberal party to retract earlier threats to pull out of government unless Amato gave him public support . |
| 7 | Regis and Gary Bannister were both denied at close range before MacDonald spared us extra time with a rising 25-yarder which found the top left corner of Steve Sherwood 's net . |
| 8 | But Mr Patten told him good government should be founded on fact , not fantasy . |
| 9 | When Kalchu brought it fresh hay and water and even maize porridge it remained aloof and indifferent . |
| 10 | I 'd got so cold Bri called me Blue Bean . |
| 11 | Marion asked me other day what we were saving them for , I said well we saved them oh I remember ! |
| 12 | And so the 13th of August found me waving farewell to my friends and relations at King George V Dock , London . |
| 13 | Ivor thought it odd defending champions Europe should go first because tradition , and courtesy , normally allows the visitors the honour . |
| 14 | Soon after Aoun entered the French embassy on Oct. 13 France granted him political asylum . |
| 15 | Diesel park West sent us incredible demo tapes , but I would not do a deal without seeing them perform live. , |
| 16 | Indeed Michael Blair did it full justice several times last night and who says Josef Locke was n't standing in the wings giving it an envied ear … |
| 17 | It found support in the professional and middle classes , and Treitschke gave it intellectual respectability . |
| 18 | Great brother Jim gave him fresh water and plenty of oats . |
| 19 | Shortly after his return Gresley appointed him assistant carriage and wagon superintendent , in which capacity he introduced numerous innovations including modernized train interiors ; a completely articulated five-coach train set carried on only six bogies , in whose kitchen electric cooking was pioneered ; and also twin articulated sleeping cars . |
| 20 | Emperor Frederick showed him great kindness and asked what reward he wanted for playing so well upon the bagpipes . |
| 21 | Anthony Cheetham offered me complete control of the whole sales operation at the Orion Publishing Group Ltd , encompassing home and export sales for both hardbacks and mass market paperbacks , and while I have been very happy at Random House in its many incarnations , I felt it was too good an offer to miss . |
| 22 | I had fewer than a hundred rounds for the gun which I kept solely as a deterrent for those remote places where cruising yachtsmen are seen as plump victims , ripe for pillaging , and the Webley offered me good protection for , though the gun was over seventy years old , it was massively built and frighteningly powerful . |
| 23 | Silkin 's Bill received an unopposed second reading in May ; for the Conservatives W.S. Morrison gave it general support . |
| 24 | So strategic was the city 's position that the present inhabitants claim that the dwellers were a people in their own right even by the time of the Roman conquest , and that when Julius Caesar gave them Roman citizenship they were already famed as an industrious , peaceable , practical people with a legendary ability to confront any misadventures with incredible resources of energy . |
| 25 | The loss of my daughter Suzy gave me good reason to do what I 'm doing and I have nothing to lose . |
| 26 | In Cuba the Communists ' early association with Batista did them great disservice when his second regime ( 1952–8 ) became increasingly corrupt and unpopular . |
| 27 | If Schopenhauer had given him the notion of a personal vision of life , Wagner gave him first-hand knowledge of a creative talent and the ambition to emulate its cultural achievements . |
| 28 | Rakovsky called him Little Father and Ivan called him son . |
| 29 | To help Richard carry out this task Henry gave him full control over the armed forces of Aquitaine and instructed local officials to put their revenues at his disposal . |
| 30 | The only thing you can say is that DB gave us good service and for this we should be grateful . |