Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ripped a couple of ring pulls and offered me a luke-warm Fosters . |
| 2 | The first jog round the block got his heart racing and gave him an appetite . |
| 3 | Five talented misfits from Camden form a band playing the most ridiculed form of music in the world , are picked up by the chief of the record label that brought you the Manic Street Preachers — and ZAP ! country is sincerely rehabilitated . |
| 4 | The landlord went and got 'em a snack if they liked one . |
| 5 | But so far neither has shown the tremendous flair with top-spin attacking that made them a major force in the world championships in Dortmund only seven months ago . |
| 6 | Notify the press of your efforts to get a conservation area designated and send them a copy of the booklet you have prepared . |
| 7 | Or her , ’ she would add scrupulously , being among other things a feminist ) , but in practice this does n't seem to affect her behaviour very noticeably — she seems to have ordinary human feelings , ambitions , desires , to suffer anxieties , frustrations , fears , like anyone else in this imperfect world , and to have a natural inclination to try and make it a better place . |
| 8 | The man turned and gave me a friendly nod , before taking up a small piece of wood with pencil markings on it . |
| 9 | The cabin was surprisingly spacious , even if it did lack the little human touches that made it a home . |
| 10 | No because our training is such that there is n't the officers just would not come into that bedroom at all because there is a threat in there and I 'm dealing with that threat and unless I specifically call for another officer to come and give me a hand there is no need to come in and in fact if anybody had 've done they 'd have been told to get out because I 've got a problem there and that 's my problem . |
| 11 | The suggested starting point was that , if a lad is coming out of Deerbolt , Father Patrick lets his area youth worker know and gives him a contact address for the worker and they go from there . |
| 12 | The primary purpose is to express concern for the individual involved and to give them a listening ear . |
| 13 | The yellow shirt stops and hands me a plastic carrier bag containing the soiled foil , the roaches and the methadone bottles , compartmentalised in bags like specimens . |
| 14 | Five minutes later , an Arab in a small blue van stopped and gave me a few kilos of tangerines . |
| 15 | Baptiste , run and ask your mother to come and give me a hand , would you ? |
| 16 | You 've got to give them a very specific task to do and give them the support and the materials to do it with and make sure it happens so that when they turn up at 3 o ’ clock , it 's set up to go . |