Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It told me the figures in east London . |
| 2 | Mum told me the facts of life when I was twelve . |
| 3 | Who told you the facts of life ? |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't see what difference it makes , people 's ages , ’ he said when Carrie told him the girls in her class thought this odd . |
| 5 | From his knowledge of ‘ Romances , & Relations of Giants & Magicians , & Genii ’ , his mind was soon ‘ habituated to the Vast ’ , and when , walking home to Ottery one winter evening , his father told him the names of the stars ‘ and how Jupiter was a thousand times larger than our world — and that the other twinkling stars were Suns that had worlds rolling round them ’ , Coleridge listened with profound delight , ‘ but without the least mixture of wonder or incredulity ’ . |
| 6 | The COBRA man 's computer told him the whereabouts of every Lord-Lieutenant and Chief Constable in Great Britain . |
| 7 | Such suspicions were reinforced when he made this pampered favourite Duke of Lennox and granted him the revenues of Arbroath abbey . |
| 8 | He told us the rules of the game , just as I 've described them to you . |
| 9 | FOOTNOTE : If it 's any comfort to Mel , his medic told us the toes of windscreen pirates get crushed at the rate of ONE A WEEK on the busy A4 London to Bath road . |
| 10 | She unlocked the car herself and handed me the keys without comment . |
| 11 | Glendambo is the last petrol station for 200 kilometres , " warned the Budget car-hire girl , as she handed me the keys to a six-cylinder Holden Commodore . |
| 12 | In return for all this , Sir George handed them the deeds to Maran Hill , still unmortaged ; and he assigned his heavily mortgaged lands around Stockton . |
| 13 | As I handed them the keys to their new home it was like unlocking the door to their future happiness . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We handed them the points on a plate . |
| 15 | She showed me the marks on the back of her knuckles and her wrist where that bitch had walloped her with a rod of some sort , right from the first day . ’ |
| 16 | When I arrived , Small showed me the bodies of two lambs killed by foxes the previous night . |
| 17 | He showed me the stands of Norfolk pines which shaded the palace , and the view of the seafront , with a new sea-wall being put up by a Japanese firm . |
| 18 | And you went on to these chairs and you went through a , a scenic part which showed you the roads of the future . |
| 19 | He showed her the cases with other small flags on pins : these he used in the autumn to mark the beginning of the vintages , and the card-index where he kept the regional weather reports year before year . |
| 20 | ‘ Tante grazie , Benito , ’ Lucenzo muttered to the boatman , who handed him the keys to the ignition . |
| 21 | She handed him the keys from her jeans , careful to avoid his touch . |
| 22 | The King took him into his barge and cried , ‘ Now I know the greatest heretic in Kent ’ and showed him the letters from Canterbury . |
| 23 | I showed him the contents of the Green Box . |
| 24 | The CNAA was a marvellous learning process which … drove me into intimate contact with a wide range of higher education courses , in dance primarily , which taught me the criteria for judging dance as a higher education subject … |
| 25 | He taught me the fundamentals of the job … unsparingly … he channelled my discontent and made me want to be an actor . |
| 26 | She scoured the streets in the poorer areas looking for likely candidates and then , knowing the reality of poverty , taught them the rules of hygiene in her own way , which the Girls would imitate and laugh at behind her back . |
| 27 | He also taught them the arts of circumcision and sub-incision , used to produce the traditional tattoos sported by Aranda menfolk . |
| 28 | Politics taught him the arts of learning quickly , bluffing and knowing when to shut up . |
| 29 | Just a fortnight earlier , she 'd been on a course called Heart Start , which taught her the basics of resuscitation . |
| 30 | He taught her the words of the Angelus , the Hail Mary ; though he said that he could not quite use all the words himself literally , but he respected those who could , and he did not think there was anything in it which made Mary take the place of her Son . |