Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This kind of treatment caused resentment among the petty-minded officialdom which ran the British professional game , and when Boomer was chosen for the 1927 Ryder Cup team he was picked up at Cherbourg en route to America and made to wear what every Frenchman was supposed to wear — a beret . |
| 2 | The assistant headteacher agreed to see him every day , on an informal basis , to get a chance to talk to him about home , family and school and to offer support where possible . |
| 3 | You ca n't hear nothing cos the glass is too thick , so you got to guess what the people are saying . |
| 4 | Competition could be fierce , as a young Dundee officer discovered when even the influence of the powerful David Scott failed to secure him a place for the voyage of 1801 because |
| 5 | When he got to know her a bit better , he was further excited by her strength of will , her independence , her commitment to the Irish nationalist cause , and — best of all , he reckoned — her utterly straight-faced enthusiasm for his explorations of the Celtic spirit-world . |
| 6 | Surtees was a good choice , but I never got to know him the way I did Graham Hill , Jackie Stewart and Pedro Rodriguez . |
| 7 | And a performance that helped make him the Queen Mum 's favourite . |
| 8 | His pen-and-ink drawings provided Minton with unrelieved amusement , as Lyttelton has recalled : Humphrey Lyttelton 's presence at Camberwell helped make it a centre for the beginnings of ‘ trad ’ , a jazz revival which replaced ‘ the polite and effete noise which had hitherto passed for genuine jazz ’ with a new vitality and energy . |
| 9 | And when they started to shout these people out shopping , cos everybody stopped to see what the fellers screaming about . |
| 10 | As Burn tried to tend him the plane exploded . |
| 11 | I stopped to find her a name . |
| 12 | He vaguely tried to remember what the friar had told him . |
| 13 | But Yanek , the youngest grandson , tried and tried to remember what the sun-god had told him to do . |
| 14 | He tried to remember what the weather had been like in the last week and realized he had no idea ; like many city-dwellers he had moved from flat to car to office without registering any variation . |
| 15 | He tried to sell him a picture . |
| 16 | He tried to sell me a Pottz picture . |
| 17 | Thiercelin knelt to pour himself a mug of soup from the bowl in the hearth . |
| 18 | They sat down together facing each other , her face full of unaccustomed excitement , and then she rose to fetch him a dish to tickle his appetite , six pale gleaming molluscs like oysters , with wedges of lime around them , prettily , and a sprinkling of red pepper over them . |
| 19 | Masklin tried to imagine what a sea cow looked like . |
| 20 | He tried to imagine what the inside of the Conference Room would look like now , and found he all too easily could . |
| 21 | Tonight he tried to imagine what the Corsican looked like in a rage . |
| 22 | He tried to imagine what the woman with short hair would look like with it long . |
| 23 | ‘ I expect it 's Vera — she promised to give me a recipe for salmon mousse . |
| 24 | As we ate , Dr Jaffery promised to give me a ring the following morning to confirm that the festival was going to be celebrated . |
| 25 | He promised to give me a silver coin every month for doing this . |
| 26 | She 'd found her wallet of credit cards and flourished it under his nose , every fibre of her being poised to defy him if he tried to deny her the right to pay . |
| 27 | But as she bent to give her the bowl , she lowered her voice , and whispered in Rosa 's ear , ‘ Be careful , you 're not a child any more , you must n't forget that . |
| 28 | Her background was a few rungs up from the Jenkinses and that elementary social fact helped to give her a poise in the face of his ever-increasing sureness . |
| 29 | Genoa boasted a powerful ancient landed nobility whose surplus wealth helped to give it the capital for its commercial enterprises ; but it also needed to import food and raw materials from elsewhere , and enjoyed a powerful economic motive for becoming a centre of commerce . |
| 30 | Assuming he was in trouble , he stopped to give him a lift … but the attacker threatened him with an iron bar and forced him to take tablets which made him unconscious . |