Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Alison met him in the same bar .
2 Father Devlin clapped him on the shoulder with a large heavy hand .
3 Devlin clapped him on the shoulder .
4 Patrick flung himself on the mattress which Sarah was to use , and jumped up and down on his knees , full of boyish energy .
5 Nor does it seem to be the case that the notorious reluctance of the Masai to accommodate themselves to the modern world was to any significant extent the result of administrative protection from it .
6 Are Oxford for the drop , can Swindon make it to the premier league play-offs ?
7 SWEET JESUS : ‘ Albino Ballerina ’ / ‘ Your Baby Loves Me ’ West Midlands-based glamour pop four-piece follow their recent UK support spots with Pop Will Eat Itself with a double A-side
8 But after three disappointing Five Nations games , Ciaran Fitzgerald drafted him into the side — as well as making him captain — for the game in Paris .
9 Trent seated himself on the taffrail .
10 Bernie Scholtz passed her on the iron stairs as she was hurrying out .
11 Harvey led me to a room which he unlocked with a key .
12 MacDonald read it to the members of the Cabinet ( imposing further conditions before a loan would be given ) .
13 Karajan ( DG ) has often been taken to task from making an adagio meal of Shostakovich 's andante here , but Flor turns it into a snail 's banquet ( beautiful Concertgebouw wind playing notwithstanding ) .
14 The web tangled and clung mawkishly around her reasoning as Fernando lowered her to the bed .
15 Sotheby 's , determined to protect Irises ’ ‘ most expensive ’ tag , repossessed it , and in March sold it to the Getty museum , probably for $40 to $45 million .
16 Trent met it with a slight movement of the tiller bar , and the big catamaran lifted smoothly .
17 Peregrine interrupted her with a languid chortle and was properly admonished .
18 Giffen led us into a room on the left .
19 Henley prides itself on the accessibility of its Faculty whose services extend well beyond the formal classroom environment .
20 Alison led me through the hall into the kitchen , a sprawling space with a flagstone floor dominated by a huge table , a Welsh dresser and rows of large cupboards .
21 Victoria met her in the hall , saying , ‘ You look frozen .
22 Biff lowered him to the ground , and untied the rope .
23 I must have said that several times already because Ma fixed me with a glittering stare and exclaimed , ‘ If you say that word once more , Andrew , just once more , I 'll send you to the Science Museum again … with Annabel . ’
24 Two months later Minton visited him in the country , pale from a pub crawl in Ipswich , and seemed to Lehmann ‘ more settled with Rickie [ sic[ off the booze ’ .
25 Aswan has none of the melancholy transience of most end-of the-line towns .
26 Nour drew me as an English Miss : Ingleesy , prim , uneducated , unsophisticated .
27 Alon also experimented with the basic design , building a 130 hp Franklin-engined version and a prototype Alon A–4 with a Lycoming O–320 160 hp motor , before selling the type certificate of the Aircoupe to Mooney Aircraft , whereupon Mooney changed it to a single-tail design and manufactured it as the M–10 Cadet , producing 61 at $9,295 each before shutting the line down for good in 1970 .
28 On the day before de Macon sailed on his second voyage , the Ralembergs invited me to a formal supper .
29 The pyramids were already 2,000 years old when Herodotus visited them in the middle of the fifth century BC , but he found the Egyptians still told tales of misery about their construction , the horrors suffered by the populace .
30 For a time Malins regarded himself as a Liberal Unionist , but he made policy toward drink the only basis for supporting parliamentary candidates .
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