Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Devlin clapped him on the shoulder . |
| 32 | Colin asked her . |
| 33 | Acquiring this kind of expertise brings its own rewards and it is gratifying to discover that it is often easier to explain a subject to others when you have had some difficulty mastering it yourself . |
| 34 | ‘ It is n't like that , ’ he began , but Ben interrupted him , a sharp edge to his voice . |
| 35 | For instance , when Oliver Reed made his now famous appearance with slightly more than a little Dutch courage inside him , he suddenly took it into his head that he wanted to sing . |
| 36 | Keith 's mum thinks he 's more like darts player Eric Bristow . |
| 37 | I sit there with a pair of tweezers going my mum thinks you 're so fussy , and I 'm like |
| 38 | My mum thinks I 'm having a great time , as I tell her that I am but it 's a lie , and it has n't got any better . |
| 39 | ‘ My mum thinks it 's OK too and Lol is great . |
| 40 | One of the other Germans emptied it and I recognized among the papers the interrogation form which the naval officer on the island had filled in . |
| 41 | He sees the deviant group as creating its own circumstances to the extent that it makes meaningful the societal reactions to it , or better generates meaning for itself in a world whose societal reactions deny them the full status of persons . |
| 42 | Any insect touching it becomes inextricably stuck and very often buried within it as more resin flows around it . |
| 43 | These will in most cases make it easier for tax exiles to acquire a foreign domicile . |
| 44 | When the storm broke they were literally in the front line , but they continued to stock The Satanic Verses and in many cases display it prominently . |
| 45 | He said he only needed to do two or three locums at these school clinics to see him round the other half of the world and he went off . |
| 46 | The drunken porter allowing them entrance after the usual altercation . |
| 47 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 48 | A team led by Basil Rose used a cloud chamber to measure the momentum of the neutrons coming from Zeta 's plasma , the measurements which they made in the spring of 1958 , showed that the fusion reactions producing them were between nuclei with on average a net directed momentum . |
| 49 | It could either provide that all married women should hold their property as their separate property — thus giving to all married women the right to dispose of their property and to make contracts binding it which formerly could only be given to them by a will or a settlement ; or it could adopt the more straightforward course of making the capacity of a married woman to own property , make contracts , and incur liability for torts the same as that of a man . |
| 50 | Wilful and wasteful of such innocent , joyful music , Mordkovitch wrenched at the tempi , disregarded the dynamics and , showing a wanton unfeelingness for the orchestra 's commendable attempts to accommodate her in a notey accompaniment , trailed Yuasa reeling in her wake . |
| 51 | One day Mr Brownlow asked him to come to his study for a little talk . |
| 52 | They were therefore leaving it exposed to the elements until it reached the point where ministers decided it was a waste of time and money to restore it . |
| 53 | He was a man whose approachability made him seem so very affable , but no one , however wealthy , becomes a Presidential hopeful without some steel in the soul , and it was that sudden steel that I now saw in the senator 's eyes . |
| 54 | who has let a prince clamber her . |
| 55 | You had to go to such trouble to persuade the subject to accept the poison and when ( or rather , in his case if ) you managed it , your very intimacy made it all too clear to everyone that you were the one who was slipping them the doctored crumble , the dodgy spaghetti bolognese or the potato salad unusually rich in mineral salts . |
| 56 | ‘ My name is Miriam Levy , ’ she said , her strong voice belying her embarrassment , but before she could continue Karlinsky interrupted her . |
| 57 | Like the system of militia service it pressed heavily upon the poorer sections of the groups it affected and fell comparatively lightly on the middle classes of the French seaports . |
| 58 | There was also substantial cross-group agreement on the selection of this feature , with most groups arguing that the 'summarising " nature of this sentence made it a strong candidate for an opening to the story . |
| 59 | The pope 's ardent desire for clarification and decision made it possible for judges to be used who were not always the bishops , in close contact with Rome , but abbots and other ecclesiastical officials . |
| 60 | The Bournemouth decision made it clear that the Unity Campaign 's success had been more apparent than real . |