Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pers pn] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He adds : ‘ In the last year , most restaurants have brought their prices down or kept them the same as last year . |
| 2 | Surely the Minister feels some embarrassment about the fact that a former Minister at his Department bought a Guyanese asset for £9.7 million and sold it a few months later for £62 million worth of shares ? |
| 3 | He held for Alice altogether a great fascination , but she steadfastly refused offers to go and see him in the nursery , and ignored him the few occasions he was on show . |
| 4 | While Sergeant Bird was in the lecture hall , Montgomery walked over to one of the other statuettes and lifted it a few inches . |
| 5 | He picked her up and threw her a few metres down the corridor . |
| 6 | Behaving like an infatuated teenager , just because he 's taken me out , and kissed me a few times ? |
| 7 | By now , though , he was tired of Barbados , particularly its narrowness of spirit ; they expressed their appreciation of his runs by refusing to allow him , as a black man , to practise at Kensington Oval , and he believed there were still those who resented his success and thought him the same ‘ bighead ’ as at school . |
| 8 | Monty looked down his glasses and offered me a few censorious words . |
| 9 | The government refused the paramilitaries the political status which they requested , and offered them the same terms as those given to surrendering drug traffickers : a reduction of prison sentences in return for confessions to crimes . |
| 10 | Crossing to the bed , she put a hand behind Lucien 's head , raised it , and offered him a few sips of water from a rough ceramic bowl . |
| 11 | Five minutes later , an Arab in a small blue van stopped and gave me a few kilos of tangerines . |
| 12 | Gould wrote , though , to prince , and gave him a few rare but welcome words of encouragement and recognition for all his trouble . |
| 13 | As soon as he entered the first field to be cut his mates up-ended him and gave him the same treatment which stopped only when he shouted ‘ Beer ! ’ . |
| 14 | And it but the erm the goats apparently were no problem today , they just stayed on and gave them a few bits and pieces you know so that was fair enough . |
| 15 | I hired a karaoke machine , went down the pub and gave 'em a few numbers ; ‘ Girl From Ipanema ’ , ‘ I Write The Songs ’ . |
| 16 | Reliability is much to , much more to do with replicability , it 's , it 's another if another researcher went in and did it the same way , would they get the same results ? |
| 17 | People walked round it , a pram wheel caught it and dragged it a little way . |
| 18 | He lifted and carried her the few necessary steps , until she felt the yielding softness of his bed beneath her back . |
| 19 | Cadfael felt it , but thought it no more than the tension of the sortes . |
| 20 | Eliot 's vision of the urbane savage was very different from Arnold 's , but gave him the same privileges as his Romantic predecessor . |
| 21 | He was then attacked by James , but gave him the same treatment . |