Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Avignon 's captain , strolling down from the bridge in a crisp , freshly starched uniform , smiled on hearing their banter and approached to greet them both with a formal French handshake . |
| 2 | ‘ We , ’ he proclaimed , encompassing them all with a theatrical gesture , ‘ are Contraband . ’ |
| 3 | However , it will never make them rich in the same way that potentially having an independent company and taking that to the market would have . |
| 4 | In any one place , the two species gain by resembling each other , because predators will treat them both as the same kind of prey ; but few predators move far enough for there to be any advantage to the Heliconius in looking the same in distant places . |
| 5 | The Moghul tombs , the Red Fort , the towering minarets of the Jami Masjid , made me aware for the first time of the significance of civilization , and the meaning of history . |
| 6 | I tried to become one with nature on the games-field , which made me unpopular with the enthusiastic cricketers . |
| 7 | This is the idea that crime and deviance have positive qualities and consequences that make them necessary for the healthy functioning of society . |
| 8 | ‘ I would envisage a process of discovery , so each party would list documents in their possession and make them available to the other parties . ’ |
| 9 | Lévi-Strauss accepted the traditional role of anthropology to ‘ explain' the differences of alien cultures in ways that make them recognisable as the same ‘ underneath ’ . |
| 10 | The announcement of the proposed merger ( unless shut-outs can be achieved — see para 8.2 below ) will bring both companies " into play " and make them vulnerable to a hostile bid . |
| 11 | The citation does however leave unexamined one further consideration ; that there might within the range of manufacturing and service industries be some which , for whatever reason , whether of the nature or of the size of the business , make them unsuited to the industrial co-operative form of organisation . |
| 12 | Their tiny eyes , rubbery sucking mouths and writhing bodies scarcely make them attractive from a human point of view . |
| 13 | Taking a step back , he flung the blanket aside , cursing aloud as the movement wrenched his arm , and lowered them both to the hard bench . |
| 14 | But if neither confesses , all the DA can do is nail them both on a lesser offence , for which the maximum sentence is one year . |
| 15 | She got them both with a single burst , and sprinted away , zig-zagging down a side-street . |
| 16 | I usually keep him in when I wash his clothes and I got them special for the cold weather so he should be all right . |
| 17 | Probing with his narrow hands he located the organs he sought , and , using another slender knife , dislodged and withdrew them , handing them to his assistant , who placed them in bronze trays and took them to another table where he covered them with natron salt , to dry and preserve them ready for the four jars which would stand in a chest at the head of the coffin . |
| 18 | When Liverpool beat them 7-1 in a pre-season friendly a few months ago I think a few people thought the Prenton bubble had burst . |
| 19 | He beat me 3–0 in a five-frame match , 2–0 when we doubled the money and then we played a final frame for double-your-money again and when he reached the yellow he had already won the match . |
| 20 | Variations Tweed and Highland were each updated with two new colours , keeping them abreast of the latest trends in colour and furnishing styles . |
| 21 | But magistrates found them guilty on a lesser charge of causing the animal to be terrified . |
| 22 | Villagers arrived and helped them both to a local hospital — ‘ a filthy hospital with no sanitation — we begged them to use a clean needle . |
| 23 | I wo n't bore you all with the technical details ; suffice it to say that the alloy truss rod previously fitted to Warwick basses just is n't man enough for the job — a classic case of a nice design let down by choice of materials . |
| 24 | But this does n't win her enough of the meaty character roles she 'd love to play . |
| 25 | Thus , it is contrary to natural justice to inform an individual of only one complaint against him if there are two , or to find him guilty of a different offence from the one he was actually charged with . |
| 26 | She had an exhaustive knowledge of Sunday Schools and it was depressing to find him full of the same bogus affability that she detected on every Sabbath of the year . |
| 27 | Kenneth Andrew Sanderson , of Wallace Avenue , Huyton , was sentenced in January 1991 after a Southampton Crown Court jury found him guilty of the two robberies for each of which he received seven years , concurrent ; he got six months concurrent for an admitted burglary . |
| 28 | The jury found him guilty on a reduced charge of assaulting the youth by knocking him to the ground . |
| 29 | Some of us worried and went looking for him , then one of Alf Wood 's sons found him dead in the old pw hut , we think he died of a heart attack or so the doctor said . |
| 30 | Later , when I returned to the old man , I found him alone with a few boys and the American film . |