Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | London Scottish sevens coach and former scrum-half Andy Cushing has been helping PORTUGAL in training and , without any doubt , in spite of a temperamental outburst from Pedro Neiva that earned him an early shower and a one-match suspension , it showed . |
| 2 | As last year , they will bring the skip on a Tuesday and remove it a week later . |
| 3 | I told him all about Marie and showed him the pictures we took in that photo booth . |
| 4 | Knowing of Fothergill 's interest in natural history generally , Collinson invited him to breakfast at Mill Hill and showed him a diversity of William 's drawings . |
| 5 | My father paid for my digs in Paddington and gave me a pound a week pocket money , together with what he called ‘ travelling expenses ’ for my regular visit home ( home and a good , square meal ) , and to spend some time with Clare who was fifteen and slowly , very slowly , improving . |
| 6 | I decided that she had never really liked Richard and wrote her an angry letter attacking a Labour politician I knew she particularly admired , saying he did not care for Socialist principles and was no more than a cunning man who would do anything for power . |
| 7 | Rudyard Kipling ( who once was forced to travel on a migrant train in the United States and found it a ‘ nightmare ’ ) encountered a peculiarly American hazard for the famous traveller . |
| 8 | Buddie had been very angry , but everyone else had laughed at Frankie and called him a snivelling cissy . |
| 9 | Zak came up to me with Donna and offered me a lift back to the city in their bus , and at that exact moment I saw not Bill Baudelaire himself but someone who might go among the owners , where Tommy could n't . |
| 10 | If we 'd upset his applecart in busting out the hostages , then the radical fundamentalists might easily have taken over in Syria and given us a much worse problem . |
| 11 | I went to see Suor Eusebia and gave her a message to deliver to Eric when the attention of the carabinieri was else where . |
| 12 | We do not envisage using the TA to respond immediately to outrages in Northern Ireland or to make it the first wave of our assault for the repossession of Kuwait . |
| 13 | He looked back at Kim and gave him a small bow . |
| 14 | elected on the second of May and wish them an enjoyable and fruitful term of office . |
| 15 | She did , however , slip next door to May and gave her a rough sketch of what had happened , right up to the Syrup of Figs . |
| 16 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 17 | Still , I could go into Burnley and give it a try . ’ |
| 18 | A couple of hours earlier , on a hunch , Hermann Goering rang down to his main office in Carinhall and gave them a Stockholm number to obtain . |
| 19 | Bruce took me to Millwall and offered me a contract , but I did n't fancy living in London . |
| 20 | In the end he slippered Pickerage and called it a day . |
| 21 | From then until his death in 1099 at the age of fifty-six , El Cid fought a series of dazzling campaigns against the Moors , taking the fortified city of Valencia and making it an impregnable fortress against his enemies When news of his death reached the rest of Spain , men and women wept openly in the streets , tearing their clothing and lacerating their cheeks in an extravagant display of mourning . |
| 22 | A middle-aged man picked me up on the M4 near Swindon and offered me a lift to London , which was very convenient . |
| 23 | He kneels to PAMELA and offers her a bouquet of flowers . ] |
| 24 | No I 'll keep it for when I have my money and I 'll go down to Cardiff and spend it the bloody lot . |
| 25 | ‘ We are determined to uphold the law at Wellington and to keep it a drug-free zone , ’ said Mr Bone . |
| 26 | Well , having actually been to Nashville and found it a singularly ugly and inhumane property developer 's hell , I never really thought the city was downhome . |
| 27 | He just kept on giving everything to Lennie and giving him the love he needed . |
| 28 | ‘ I met Drew in Panama and liked him a lot . |
| 29 | Bernice took the repeater from Rosheen and tossed her the laser pistol in exchange . |
| 30 | He kissed Amelia and gave her a Christmas card . |