Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Daniel 's dark skin offers him the same protection as a mild sunscreen , it 's not enough to block all the sun 's harmful UV rays . |
| 2 | It was a great pleasure meeting you a few months ago and I should like to feel our paths might cross again some time . |
| 3 | The statute gives him no such say . |
| 4 | His work affects me the same way — which is why I bought that painting a few years ago . |
| 5 | I asked Make-Up to give him a few mosquito bites but he refused point-blank . |
| 6 | Federal Judge , Harold Green , ordered the immediate release of the transcript , saying the public has a right to know what the former president said . |
| 7 | I 'll ask Daddy to give you a few days off from the office . |
| 8 | His senior secretary had been instructed to cancel his engagements for that evening to give him a few hours ' peace before a six-month period in which his diary was entirely filled . |
| 9 | So far she had not been able to reconcile her desire to keep everything the same and her desire for comfort . |
| 10 | Fine songs such as ‘ Mean To Me ’ or ‘ I Ca n't Get Started ’ appear to be close to perfect here but such trifles as ‘ With Thee I Swing ’ and ‘ You 're Too Lovely To Last ’ are just as charming because the singer gives them the same sensitive treatment . |
| 11 | Parenthood promises them the same as the women — a future . |
| 12 | the shop sells it the same price as the |
| 13 | What makes it , what makes them improve so , the team makes it the same does n't it ? |
| 14 | That 's west unless we 're off course , in which case it 's night ; the King gave me the same as you , the King gave you the same as me : the King never gave me the letter , the King gave you the letter , we do n't know what 's in the letter ; we take Hamlet to the English King , it depending on when we get there who he is , and we hand over the letter , which may or may not have something in it to keep us going , and if not , we are finished and at a loose end , if they have loose ends . |
| 15 | That 's west unless we 're off course , in which case it 's night ; the King gave me the same as you , the King gave you the same as me : the King never gave me the letter , the King gave you the letter , we do n't know what 's in the letter ; we take Hamlet to the English King , it depending on when we get there who he is , and we hand over the letter , which may or may not have something in it to keep us going , and if not , we are finished and at a loose end , if they have loose ends . |
| 16 | I did n't actually visit Mum for very long but old Mrs McSporran told me all the news of the Senior Citizens and our deacon gave me a few tips about growing rhubarb . |
| 17 | ‘ Would not such an arrangement bring you a little happiness ? ’ |
| 18 | Johnny Dawes had a whipround in the pub as a sort of True Path benefit gig to give him a few days more . |
| 19 | And when my father gives it a little thought he 'll realise it is now September and that my time off is likely to creep into next year , which will make a much longer period owing to me . ’ |
| 20 | She kept a pretty green budgerigar called Peter , who once dropped dead in his cage but came back to life when Nanny gave him a few drops of gin squeezed from a wad of cotton-wool . |
| 21 | The words of the runner to Eli are very close to those the storyteller used himself a few verses before to describe the outcome of the battle . |
| 22 | Ten days on the ocean gave him a few chances to visit the cabins of single women , but until they arrived in New York , there were no places to escape once the liaison ended , however passionately , half-heartedly , or ephemerally it had begun . |
| 23 | Two separate grounds were advanced in support of the claim , namely , ( 1 ) the broad constitutional point that as the Commissioners of Customs and Excise had no authority from Parliament to impose the charges and the corporation were under no legal liability to pay them the latter should be entitled to recover , and ( 2 ) that the condictio indebiti applied where there was error in the interpretation of a public general statute . |
| 24 | Instead of buying us a present , from erm , my mum bought me a few bits and pieces when they went to France . |
| 25 | I did n't know it at the time but a greater blow awaited me A few days later Mrs Rumney was on the phone again . |
| 26 | Some Arabs in a tent gave them a little water and then the exhausted men finally stumbled into an outpost of the King 's Dragoon Guards . |
| 27 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
| 28 | A column of 400 Japanese followed them a few days later and reached Remexio , but there were no Australians in the town . |
| 29 | ‘ Or worse still , if he was going to have her killed , it would be a nice tidy thing to give me the same treatment , and Joel too . |
| 30 | Dulles replied that a good many countries in the world saw themselves the same way . |