Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenneth Branagh hired him to direct his Coriolanus at Chichester this summer after seeing his Billy Budd in Sheffield . |
| 2 | Cardinal Wolsey thought I knew his name . ’ |
| 3 | Lord Justice McCowan said he found it quite impossible to hold that Mr Hurd 's political judgment — that the appearance of terrorists on programmes increased their standing and lent them political legitimacy — was one that no reasonable home secretary could make . |
| 4 | Sarah complained that she was ‘ bored ’ and so Miss Rudge told her to pack her bags and leave for a term . |
| 5 | Oh by the way Miss Hall do you know anything , said P C Garfield , well said Jane I was n't going to tell , but I think Mr Sandy and their assistant knows something about it , because about twelve thirty this morning I was going to report about the cobwebs and dampness on the walls and I heard Mr Sandy and his assistant talking in the back room . |
| 6 | Miss Giles said she knew nothing about copyright and admitted : ‘ I could have checked and I should have checked . ’ |
| 7 | Miss Havisham wants you to meet me . |
| 8 | Judge Richard May said he accepted they were genuine supporters of animal rights . |
| 9 | Miss Lambe helped him to unpack his books , holding each one with as much reverence as if it had been the Sacrament . |
| 10 | Numbly Rory allowed him to lead her to the dance floor , moving automatically into his arms as though she 'd always belonged there . |
| 11 | But Chief Constable David Graham says he believes it is in the interests of public safety and the safety of officers not to introduce a full-time unit . |
| 12 | Twice they 've been with a cart , and Miss Theda let them take it all without a word said ! ’ |
| 13 | It 's an embarrassing thing for a fault-tolerant vendor to have to say , but a bug in Guardian for the Tandem Computers Inc NonStop CLX machines caused them to reset their clocks to December 1 , 1983 on November 1 , causing systems with time-dependent programs to go haywire . |
| 14 | At first Miss Outram told them to ask their mothers , but feeling she might lose the girls ' confidence if she blocked their curiosity she took a more direct approach . |
| 15 | ‘ Miss Anna told me to ask you to go straight in . ’ |
| 16 | It nearly killed them to acknowledge my existence and they only spoke in monosyllables when I was present , but the babble of sound which broke out every time I went out and closed the door behind me was enough to make me want to go rushing straight to Miss Malley to beg her to send me back to my friends . |
| 17 | ‘ Signor Diomede ordered me to bring it up , Signorina . ’ |
| 18 | Milton Keynes police believe they know who his killer is … and with more help from the public they 'll be able to make an arrest . |
| 19 | Your Miss MacQuillan says she questions my motives and emphatically will not encourage me to identify her father 's killer . |
| 20 | Mother Bombie motioned him to keep his voice down but he ignored her . |
| 21 | It was probably a combination of the moonlight and the girl but what-ever it was , the man who went on to become world-famous singing star Frankie Vaughan says she stole his heart the instant he saw her . |
| 22 | Richard Price says he wishes he knows what the secret of the dove family is … they 're just good horses and Flakey Dove is the best they 've had … she 's going to Cheltenham to see how good she really is … |
| 23 | At the beginning of Lent , Miss White approached me to see what she should do about the appeal |
| 24 | Dean Hall expelled him saying he was not a suitable pupil . |
| 25 | Issue : Will Arabel persuade them to let her look after it ? |
| 26 | I know Frank Foley wished you to help us extend our network here , but this is a task I think potentially more important . |
| 27 | Chicago-based advertising screens on shopping trolleys specialist VideOcart Inc has persuaded IBM Corp to let it restructure its $42m debt to IBM , to provide the company with relief from near term debt payments and enable it to attain its business goals : a $22m debt would replace the existing debt , giving VideOcart a one-time balance sheet gain of $20m ; terms of the new agreement include waiving all principal and interest payments until July 31 , and VideOcart retains its rights under a previous agreement with IBM that allows early repayment of the new $22m debt at any time for $17m in cash ; VideOcart also agreed to cancel a warrant granted last year to IBM to buy 540,000 VideOcart shares and grants a new warrant to buy 600,000 shares at $1.75 each ; from August 31 to December 31 , interest only payments will be due , but payments of $500,000 a month will be due beginning on January 31 1994 and will continue for 35 months , and a balloon payment will be due on December 31 1996 , although IBM has the option to convert the balance of the debt into VideOcart common shares at $8 a share on that date . |
| 28 | Charles ' suspicions of Dr Lefeuvre made him think his address was already common knowledge . |
| 29 | The Bootle Times wanted us to put them up again for a photograph , and they were left until the next day because it was raining . ’ |
| 30 | In March , her friend Mary-Ann Stewart-Richardson invited her to join her family on their skiing holiday in the French Alps . |