Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , her heart in her mouth , she went into the pub , located the public call box in the lobby and dialled the number the porter had given her . |
| 2 | They were glad to see it , as they had packed some food in one of the suitcases , and directly the porter had gone they set about preparing a meal . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , the porter agreed to take us there , ’ Corbett lied . |
| 4 | The Treeman had kept them safe in the deepest wildwoods while war raged . |
| 5 | This is the outer layer of the tent designed to protect you from the elements , usually wind and rain , but it could also be from heat . |
| 6 | Several Cabinet ministers were reported to be outraged that she had failed to consult them , depriving them of the opportunity to try to persuade her to step down in favour of a more plausible ‘ unity ’ , or ‘ stop Heseltine ’ , candidate from within the Cabinet . |
| 7 | Perhaps a letter from the local party chairman saying , ‘ I 'm interested to learn you are a supporter of ours and I 'd like the opportunity to get to know you . |
| 8 | You choose the form that best suits what you need to say , remembering always that the forms exist to help you say what you want to . |
| 9 | The Socialist government led by Prime Minister Michel Rocard survived a parliamentary vote of no confidence on Nov. 19 when only 284 deputies ( including the Communists ) voted against the government , five short of the majority needed to defeat it . |
| 10 | Of the quarter bequeathed property , the majority has sold it or expected to do so . |
| 11 | I understood exam stress thanks to you — my daughter took me to the exams to help keep me calm . |
| 12 | If you do your searches during the evening when the crowds have departed you will be able to sweep the head of your detector over the very spots where people dropped their cash . |
| 13 | Yes , of course , they will say , there is clear evidence that the Department of Trade and Industry fouled up badly — maladministration as the Ombudsman likes to call it . |
| 14 | The prince had asked him to take over a small present ; Simon had stuck it in a pocket and thought no more about it , only when he saw Constanza he decided to deliver it in person . |
| 15 | Indeed , the French envoy de Craon knew more , claiming the Prince had told him about Lady Eleanor 's death long before the porter had even reached Woodstock . |
| 16 | If you had not , and the prince had consigned me again to that man 's house , I should hardly have known what to do , or where to turn . |
| 17 | Item — the Prince had claimed he had no involvement in Lady Eleanor 's death but both he and his favourite appeared nervous . |
| 18 | As they approached , the prince had found it almost impossible to tell the one from the other . |
| 19 | … The prince going to see her every day . |
| 20 | The French pursued him , however , and although it is doubtful whether the prince intended to force them to fight it became clear that a battle could not be avoided . |
| 21 | In doing this , he takes us over the ground first , telling us what to expect , what to look for , so that when the hurricane does hit it hits us harder : |
| 22 | But , in changing direction , the hurricane had given them ten minutes of further respite . |
| 23 | On a recent visit to WACC in London , he explained how his release from 17 months of brutal imprisonment under the dictator Duvalier in the mid-1970s had led him to devote his life to the struggle for justice and democracy in Haiti . |
| 24 | All thoroughly unlawful but there is a limit to public patience when the law- abiding feel they are not protected by officialdom . |
| 25 | Now he was into jazz because he 'd heard that the Yuppies had hijacked it after Clint Eastwood 's film on Charlie Parker , and had moved back a decade to the late ‘ forties . |
| 26 | For the small producer , subcontracting to a TNC , the system is prohibitively expensive and the expertise required to run it is considerable , so it tends to be controlled by TNCs , or by the gargantuan retailers that they supply . |
| 27 | And presumably whatever it was the GP had give him has had tha , upset that thrombosis again . |
| 28 | Where a woman fails to perform her expected role properly the GP tends to see her ‘ either in terms of the conventional models of their own social background ( she must adjust to her situation ) , or in terms of individual personal inadequacy ( that she must be referred to the psychiatrist ) ’ ( Barrett and Roberts , 1978 , p. 46 ) . |
| 29 | She began to wonder if the woman who had sent the box-message had tricked her here into this dead-end room . |
| 30 | It was a brief letter from an address in Chelsea , telling him that the writer had heard he was looking for a sibling , affirming that the writer of the letter was probably that person , and suggesting a meeting . |