Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] [pron] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ONCE mentioned to a local farmer that my grandfather had been born in the little fishing village of Staxigoe , to the north of Wick in Caithness , and he quickly warned me not to go about repeating the story , because of the supposedly dubious reputation the natives of Staxigoe have earned themselves down the ages . |
| 2 | Maxine came to see me again the following week and we began the follow-up treatment , along the lines of those which you will find detailed in the ‘ case histories ’ sections of this book . |
| 3 | Maggie had seen him nearly every day at first . |
| 4 | So after a brief twelve months in existence , ACE has paddled itself up the Swanee , its dream of emulating the success of the personal computer revolution now just a pipe-dream . |
| 5 | Marlin had given them both a detailed description of the assailant , and instructions to let nobody up to the second floor without Ms Odell 's permission , and even then they were to accompany the visitor to the apartment door , and escort them out if his guest chose not to see them . |
| 6 | Philip went to see him twice a day , encouraged by Claudia , who hoped the child would make up to him for Eileen . |
| 7 | Had Liverpool been playing Arsenal next Wednesday would Dalglish have ruled him out a full five days before the game ? |
| 8 | That attracted Pompey , and Whittingham explained : ‘ I decided to buy myself out for £450 and take the plunge — I 'm glad to say Portsmouth did pay me back the money — and I 've never really looked back . |
| 9 | Lucy remonstrated , when Virginia had made them both a cup of tea and perched herself on the edge of Lucy 's bed . |
| 10 | It was when Izzie began to make him up a mattress to sleep on that he said , ‘ Well , just tonight . |
| 11 | Below , on the terrace , Marie Claire had heard me open the windows . |
| 12 | Using the magnifying glass he had found in the left-hand drawer , Ben had shown her how the print of the reflected newspaper was subtly different from the one the man held . |
| 13 | The idea of the Sudan had followed us up the Nile like a rumour . |
| 14 | Well Zoe said tell me up the school |
| 15 | Carlos Alberto Reutemann , that cunning , solitary ace from Argentina , worried about his racing twenty-four hours a day ; James seemed to give it scarcely a thought — technically , as a contributor to development he was something less than a devoted genius ( but on the track he had extraordinarily good reflexes and a lot of savvy ) . |