Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their tactical naivety and non-dynamic ‘ donkeys-and-backs ’ approach made them no match for the super-fit ‘ new age ’ stars from Down Under . |
| 2 | The government could pick up anyone they wanted and prosecute at their leisure , if we made them a present of all those names . |
| 3 | The sums so entrusted made them a power among London houses subscribing to public loans , particularly during the wars of 1744–63 . |
| 4 | Anyway , when the ambulance men came we made them a cup of tea , cos they said they a they 'd have been that busy they have n't had a break ! |
| 5 | So we made them a cup of tea and hopefully they were going to talk her into it . |
| 6 | There was the lure of the big stores , though clothing coupons and shortage of money made them a feast for the eye only . |
| 7 | The conduct of the foresters made them a by-word for oppression and extortion . |
| 8 | There were few holidays , or trips to the famous surf of the Australian beaches , until friends of the family lent them a house by the sea in later years . |
| 9 | Lloyds was advertising its services as a small business adviser at the time , but the bank still lent them the money without any business plan and despite a survey report saying it was worth quite a lot less than the loan . |
| 10 | She lent me a couple of hundred quid because I was in financial difficulty . |
| 11 | I 'm just sorry the whole thing happened and the man who must be embarrassed about this most of all is sponsor Matt Laverty who lent me the bike on Thursday night at practice . ’ |
| 12 | He asked me a lot of questions which I did not understand . |
| 13 | And he asked me a lot of very pertinent questions which seemed to me more than idle curiosity . |
| 14 | He asked me a lot of suspicious questions , and eventually I was shown to what must have been the poorest room in his house , over the kitchen , facing a hen-run . |
| 15 | He asked me a lot of questions about myself — what I wanted to do with my life , that sort of thing … |
| 16 | Albert as chairman asked me a number of questions to which he already knew the answers for the good reason that we had already gone over them in Fulham . |
| 17 | Maxine asked me a number of the usual questions , and I answered each one in turn hoping to set her mind at rest . |
| 18 | The hon. Gentleman asked me a number of specific questions . |
| 19 | My right hon. Friend the Member for Southend , West asked me a number of specific questions . |
| 20 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 21 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 22 | Ward stirred and asked me the time in a voice heavy with sleep . |
| 23 | And that led me the think of phetam , and to wonder again if it really did confer super-powers . |
| 24 | He rang up the hospital and got me a bed for the next week . |
| 25 | As Pyke got me a half of bitter I stood there regarding the rows of inverted bottles behind the barman 's head , not looking at the other actors in the pub , who I knew were all staring at me . |
| 26 | Geoff 's mum got me a piece of cheese last week from Superkeys . |
| 27 | He got me a lot of stuff man ! |
| 28 | And he got me a house at , two shilling a week , and eightpence for coal . |
| 29 | She envied them the sense of occasion and togetherness that they had . |
| 30 | He made me a desk with a roll-top and secret drawers and a matching leather stool ; a huge Tudor doll 's house with leaded windows and roses round the door , filled with hand-carved furniture ; a bow-windowed shop with a sign saying ‘ Lynne 's Store ’ and shelves stocked with dozens of tiny tins of Heinz products — it had taken him a year to cut out all the miniature Heinz logos from magazine adverts , which he had stuck to one-inch lengths of silver-painted dowelling . |