Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After collecting the award Reeves slipped it into a plastic carrier bag and shortly after dropped it . |
| 2 | Floating pumice fields were so thick that sailors could walk on them — and some bore bleaching human remains 4,500 miles across the Indian Ocean to deposit them along the beaches of Zanzibar . |
| 3 | And if you think I 'm going to bail Sleet out with the money Francis left me when you ca n't even be bothered to learn the most basic elements of running an estate then you 're mistaken . ’ |
| 4 | Look at the new 348 and try to imagine , step by step , year after year , how you should update the design features of the Berlinetta Speciale to make it more contemporary . |
| 5 | On the subject of the Pierre Matisse purchase he noted that less than half the collection had been sold but that Sotheby 's had recouped both the cost and associated taxes already . |
| 6 | From the description Corcoran obtained I 'm afraid it could be Paula Grey … ’ |
| 7 | He would n't even take the tablets Alan gave him . |
| 8 | It was said of him that he would have given the Masai Africa had he been able . |
| 9 | So you put in all the hours God gives you . |
| 10 | The look Madeleine gave him would have withered anyone other than her brother . |
| 11 | The look Maria gave him was inimical . |
| 12 | The look Luke gave her was cautionary as she stirred rebelliously , brilliant lips parting . |
| 13 | Richard Holmes of the Sheffield YMCA told me about the background to the game . |
| 14 | From the shape of the building Maggie thought it might be Ralston 's Fruitshop , but could n't be sure . |
| 15 | Ken particularly liked the story Orton told him about a man he had picked up in a lavatory and asked him if he did it often . |
| 16 | After paying off the driver Nathan steered her into a busy , softly lit restaurant , and she had to admit he had guessed correctly that a meal did indeed top her list of priorities . |
| 17 | STEVE BULL , the striker England feel they can do without , again emphasised the power that has set him poles apart from other strikers , at Molineux last night . |
| 18 | We camp , and to compensate for the fishing Odd-Knut suggests he will cook us another of his specialities , blåbærsuppe , a fish stew . |
| 19 | The Mother Superior knew it was time to end this interview , so now she stood up , saying , ‘ Well , Mrs Winkowski , I 'm sure you can leave your charge with us with an easy mind . |
| 20 | The captain of the Rebecca Sims described it in the ship 's log as a brownish-grey reptile at least 45 metres long . |
| 21 | She was a woman , and , even if she was hardly the sophisticate Nicolo imagined her to be , at least she knew what passion was . |
| 22 | Hari took the tea Beatie handed her and set it down quickly on the scrubbed wooden table . |
| 23 | They had strict orders not to let the Ping Tiao know they were being observed , but it was not something they could do indefinitely . |
| 24 | When he got back to the car Ivy took it away from him and opened the other end . |
| 25 | While I 'm paying for your time , we 'll discuss whatever I think necessary , ’ and if that was n't enough to send her temper soaring , ‘ So , for a start , you can begin by telling me why , when I know as fact that two men at least hang their hat up in your home , you 're so intent — the glasses , the schoolmarm hairstyle — on living up to the Miss Frostbite label they 've pinned on you here ? ’ |
| 26 | The Brigade Major informed me that the Brigadier 's party would be in the restaurant for at least one-and-a-half hours , which gives me time to look around the town . |
| 27 | The underwear Max wanted me to wear could n't be more different from my own taste . |
| 28 | As the poet Heine put it in 1844 in ‘ A Winter 's Tale ’ , the land belongs to the French and the Russians , the sea to the British , but the Germans ‘ are the unchallenged rulers of the kingdom of dreams . ’ |
| 29 | He too , dies the early death of romance — en poète , as the poet Burns put it with reference to his own fate — and his end is enveloped in the consequences of his supposing that he has lit upon some Chatterton manuscripts . |
| 30 | The glance Luke gave her was suspicious . |