Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That meeting with Ken and his decision to make Ken 's part big made it a sort of broken-back type of play . |
| 2 | The growled admission obviously gave him no pleasure , and Gina decided it wiser not to point out that in fact he had n't recalled his generosity until she had prompted his memory ! |
| 3 | Now that they were the owners of Rafferty 's , they adjusted the rules sufficiently to allow themselves a drink after hours . |
| 4 | He was kind enough to give me a lift home . ’ |
| 5 | P.S. Dr Jane was kind enough to give me a time early in the day . |
| 6 | Wherever it was , Roe apparently considered it an obstacle to his plans , and he indicated his intention of writing to Wilson offering that man a share , in consideration of relinquishing his rights and transferring these to the Macclesfield company . |
| 7 | Aim for a list that give the widest possible choice and price range ; whilst there will be friends and colleagues who will club together to buy you a present , others will want to buy something on their own . |
| 8 | A rented suit will be collected from a hire firm on the day before the wedding so make yourself a checklist which includes , ‘ Put speech notes in jacket pocket . |
| 9 | Although Edward apparently promised him the captaincy of Berwick in September 1319 , during the English siege of the town , and grants continued to come his way during 1320 , his allegiance was soon to be severed by the ambitions of Despenser , whose attempts in 1320–1 to enlarge his share of the Gloucester inheritance in south Wales raised the whole march against him . |
| 10 | Journalists just pop them a question and let them get on with it . |
| 11 | Our airfield was used by the military during World War Two and aircraft from RAF Leeming still pay us a visit occasionally . |
| 12 | He felt uncomfortable , uneasy at the way the Prince and Gaveston hardly spared them a glance whilst their companions at table treated them as if they simply did not exist . |
| 13 | Your NEW card also gives you the chance to collect a fantastic fortune with Vernons Pools . |
| 14 | Two years earlier , in 1910 , Metzinger had written : ‘ Picasso does n't negate the object and he illuminates it with his mind and his spirit ’ , and again , ‘ Picasso openly declares himself a realist . ’ |
| 15 | The Northumbrian regnal list gives Aldfrith a reign of twenty years and Bede correspondingly assigned him a reign from 685 to 705 ( HE IV , 26 ; V , 18 ) , but Bede also knew , perhaps from knowledge of a more precise regnal figure , that Aldfrith really reigned nineteen years ( HE V , 1 ) and died before the end o his twentieth regnal year ( HE V , 18 ) . |
| 16 | Eleanor simply gave me the excuse I needed . |
| 17 | Knowing my ability as a direction finder , Ann kindly left me the map and wandered off . |
| 18 | While an angry woman in a cardigan sadly toasted herself a crumpet by the jet of a gas f ; re , he tried to shift to another topic . |
| 19 | You 'll have to go a very long way to find a series of more disparaging , gloom laden , negative reports , and this , in a season when Linfield 's performances actually won them the league ! |
| 20 | Your mum just bought you a packet of Smarties at shop each . |
| 21 | As the returns normally distinguish them the wealth of the gentry can be surveyed more generally , as shown in Table 1.3 . |
| 22 | Marlon just give me the tracksuit bottoms . |
| 23 | A number of councillors are asking for a judicial review of an RUC decision not to give them the go-ahead to get personal protection weapons . |
| 24 | The excellence of this machine eventually gave him a monopoly in refrigerated shipping . |
| 25 | Since most burials have been robbed , archaeology rarely gives us the sort of fine detail about the Minoans that we would like to have . |
| 26 | ‘ My parents only told me a bit about them , ’ said Creggan , ‘ and I only saw one once when a pair came close to my homesite and my mother attacked them . |
| 27 | We went to see a dead man laid out , and it would be a pity not to give you an account of his state . |
| 28 | ‘ He 's going to have a short stay in a Home soon to give me a break . |
| 29 | Although Patrick Lundy was almost twenty , Katherine still considered him a child and treated him accordingly , and often it was easier to go along with her rather than risk an argument . |
| 30 | The girl quickly handed her the phone . |