Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] and [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shrugged his broad shoulders and gave her a warm smile . |
| 2 | Royal Scottish Chief Executive Ian Offor wrote thanking him for his prompt action and sent him a Fortnum and Mason luxury hamper as a token of appreciation . |
| 3 | Hamish would take pity upon this sorry figure and give him the duffle-coat to keep himself warm . |
| 4 | Psychologists have studied the personalities of 50 players at three top clubs and discovered what every manager needs to know : what makes a great team player . |
| 5 | I count it a double honour to represent Framlingham this afternoon and to offer you a welcome back , a welcome into our homes which we look forward to seeing you on Saturday and we are so thrilled to think that so many of you have made the journey back to visit us and I echo the sentiments of another speaker , do n't let it be so long before you come again . |
| 6 | He showed Mr Utterson the broken stick and told him the servant girl 's story . |
| 7 | I want you to take this neck and make it a neck-through-body Strat-style guitar . ’ |
| 8 | Having eaten it , he brewed some tea and took her a cup . |
| 9 | If so you must register the package , Transend can help with many popular packages and save you the trouble of sending orders overseas . |
| 10 | If so you must register the package , Transend can help with many popular packages and save you the trouble of sending orders overseas . |
| 11 | Joe had met up with Benny again on one of his rare trips to his old haunts and offered him a job , which Benny was glad to accept . |
| 12 | For Thames , a joint operation with the BBC is seen as a commercial coup and guarantees its a future , at least in the short-term . |
| 13 | ‘ However I wanted to race in Ireland and I was frustrated when the Lisburn club came back to me a few days after I had signed up for the French meeting and gave me the full details . |
| 14 | I wrote to him every few days and gave him the details of everything that happened and everyone I met . |
| 15 | This is the one combination which lifts the tailored jacket out of the dated power-suit idiom and gives it a contemporary relevance . |
| 16 | She tried the back door and found it open , and going in she turned on some lights and made herself a cup of coffee . |
| 17 | All you have to do , Laura , is to tell him that you love him , ’ she 'd added , putting her arms around her old friend and giving her a hug . |
| 18 | I suppose I thought she 'd either be fantastically frosty and sit on one of those little gilt chairs with a fancy gilt mirror behind her , or else be quite fat and red-faced and come in from the stove holding a wooden spoon and give me a huge embrace smelling of garlic and stockpot . |
| 19 | • Take five of PFK 's top writers and give them a nominal £250 to set up a tank . |
| 20 | ‘ A customer walked in this morning and offered us a fiver for it , ’ said an assistant . |
| 21 | He also conducted extensive tests on his engines , which demonstrated their high efficiency and gained him a reputation as a highly scientific engineer . |
| 22 | He has made a big impact this season and gives us a much better chance of succeeding against Stuttgart . ’ |
| 23 | Antonio fished in his back pocket and handed him a card . |
| 24 | A significant number of the executive search consultants in the major firms have chosen , for the best of reasons , to come into this role and find it a challenging and stimulating career in itself . |
| 25 | Not until you give me a few answers and do me the courtesy of telling the truth . ’ |
| 26 | All of this gives Dickens a very individual and interesting style and gives you the feeling that every episode is useful and vital in some way to the plot . |
| 27 | ‘ Rats , ’ I told him , but he opened the cover on the drain outside my back door and showed me the trap to stop rats climbing up . |
| 28 | He found another lever and gave it a nudge . |
| 29 | It 's usual to hang ceiling paper parallel with the main window in the room , but if you 're tackling the job for the first time and the room is noticeably shorter in one dimension , you may find it easier to manage shorter lengths and hang it the other way . |
| 30 | And she put it before Gabriel on a wooden plate and gave him a wooden cup full of water . |