Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He realized with a stab of regret he had never once seen her face clearly , and if he went back to seek her out he would n't know her for sure among the many daughters of the chief . |
| 2 | None of the recent legislation and carve-up of countryside bodies by the present regime holds anything of good for the public . |
| 3 | Disposing of the matter of gay rights in the military , even if messily , can do nothing but good for the relationship between uniformed and civilian powers . |
| 4 | She liked the reflected glory of her daughter 's being with such a famous star , and thought it could do nothing but good for the girl 's future in the theatre . |
| 5 | They arrived after practice , but , like a fool , I put them on untried for the race . |
| 6 | us two , we do n't use many , so I made , I made quiches , I put them in raw in the freezer , you know ready just to cook |
| 7 | ‘ We 'll pick our strongest side for the one-days , although it 's unlikely we 'll bring someone in cold for the Test , ’ he revealed . |
| 8 | The East Gate had been built thousands of years before at a place where a long ridge ran down into the valley causing it to narrow to a hundred yards or less . |
| 9 | If they wo n't , then it is good for the leader to discuss it in private with the individual . |
| 10 | Others , like the noxious Eurasian water milfoil ( Myriophyllum spp ) enjoy anything from freshwater to a brackish cocktail of 33 per cent sea water . |
| 11 | I 'll bet , ’ he added , ‘ that for all your years of book-learning you know nothing about strapping on a pair of waders and getting out into the stream , feeling the water swirl around you — or how to bait a hook — ’ He pulled a small plastic box towards him . |
| 12 | And once he had become Head of Government , the need to detach himself in public from the distasteful gutter tactics of his activist anti-Semites was prompted above all by foreign political considerations as well as by the necessity to avoid gratuitous alienation of the conservative German establishment around Hindenburg , whose own ingrained anti-Semitism nevertheless stopped short of arbitrary open violence . |
| 13 | ‘ I can half accept the free kick because it was in a central position but to let one in straight from a corner is something else … |
| 14 | Teaching him to stale into the bucket helps save even more ! |
| 15 | Ace and Petion slipped off the safety catches on their automatics and pressed themselves in close to the walls , ready to spring . |
| 16 | The influx of new citizens from Russia may be exacerbating the friction in the settlements being established in the Israeli-administered territories won from the country 's Arab neighbours in the various attacks on the country since 1948 , and it represents an exodus of skills that Russia can ill afford to lose , but it is doing nothing but good for the vibrant information technology sector of the Israeli economy . |
| 17 | The same hospital called me in early for a quick and very successful cataract operation ( lens implant ) , seemingly in order to treat as many patients as possible before the go-slow came into effect . |
| 18 | ACTOR Clint Eastwood 's fan club has folded — after asking him in vain for a fistful of dollars . |
| 19 | Not that the Irish manager , Noel Murphy , has too many doubts : ‘ If only the Irish selectors had chosen him for their second game instead of bringing him in halfway through the campaign , he would be inked in by now . ’ |
| 20 | we use the same words we use them in different in the different area accents but i that 's all it is . |
| 21 | You old men who used to watch him on Manc of the Day may have got more exposure etc . |
| 22 | But if romanticism suits the Devil because it has a habit of slipping us into unreality-away from the real battle — it has an even more pernicious aspect . |
| 23 | In this case , the researcher decides how many of each category of person should be included in the sample , but then , instead of selecting them at random from a sampling frame , the researcher goes out looking for the right number of people in each category until the quota is filled . |
| 24 | Moore 's account of what he means by a natural property is none too clear , but in effect it means something like detectable by the senses or by scientific instruments . |
| 25 | Protestants found it theologically unacceptable to separate the table from the laity in the nave , and to place it on high in the position of an altar at the east end of the church . |
| 26 | She sets out her position in detail in her book Whatever Happened To Sex ? ( 1977 ) , and repeats it in full in A Most Dangerous Woman ? ( 1982 ) in her own defence . |
| 27 | His team won it for sure in the second half , with tries from full-back , Martin Roberts and flanker , Pete Glanville . |
| 28 | I did n't write anything for pastoral in the report . |
| 29 | A 39-year-old man admitted kidnapping two 13-year-old schoolgirls , raping one and indecently assaulting the other , before stabbing them with a three-foot-long ceremonial sword and leaving them for dead in the forest . |
| 30 | SAD , disappointed and deeply frustrated : Lady Chatterley and I had plenty in common by the end of Sunday 's opening episode . |