Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] and [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | He showed Mr Utterson the broken stick and told him the servant girl 's story . |
| 6 | If so you must register the package , Transend can help with many popular packages and save you the trouble of sending orders overseas . |
| 7 | If so you must register the package , Transend can help with many popular packages and save you the trouble of sending orders overseas . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | This is the one combination which lifts the tailored jacket out of the dated power-suit idiom and gives it a contemporary relevance . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | • Take five of PFK 's top writers and give them a nominal £250 to set up a tank . |
| 15 | He also conducted extensive tests on his engines , which demonstrated their high efficiency and gained him a reputation as a highly scientific engineer . |
| 16 | Antonio fished in his back pocket and handed him a card . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | And she put it before Gabriel on a wooden plate and gave him a wooden cup full of water . |
| 20 | A panel of experts decided Kate 's winning menu made the best use of French cheese and awarded her the top prize a Concorde flight to Paris for a supersonic celebration . |
| 21 | As Ken told John Lahr , author of the official Orton biography Prick Up Your Ears ( Lahr also edited the Orton diaries ) : ‘ He ( Orton ) had this capacity to have a sexual adventure and tell you the conversation that went on as well . |
| 22 | For example , let's say an old lady with a walking stick approaches you in the High Street and asks you the way to the nearest public toilets . |
| 23 | But Clare was ten thousand miles away , I was thinking as I woke up , while Toma made fresh coffee and cooked me a man-sized breakfast of local bacon-cum-ham and two of the island 's tiny eggs . |
| 24 | My Dad — I could n't have believed it ! — we went down last weekend and he was sitting there , polishing the buttons on his old uniform and calling me a traitor ! ’ |
| 25 | However , given the actual staff time involved in production of the Standards I think this is a rather low percentage and gives us a somewhat unrealistic final cost per unit . |
| 26 | NEXT MONTH How to brighten up a dark hallway and give it a new lease of life |
| 27 | He tore out the early pages and gave me the rest of it and we use it now for our visitors ' signatures . ‘ |
| 28 | He lifted his dark head and gave her a penetrating stare , noted her expression , and asked swiftly , ‘ What relationship did you think I meant ? ’ |
| 29 | You never know who might mistake Armstrong for a real taxi and offer me a few quid as a friendly gesture for giving them a lift . |
| 30 | And the man to do that was John Bloomm , whose Rolls Razor company brought automated washing within the reach of ordinary people and made him a tycoon worth millions . |