Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are a scientific community , ’ he said as he led them into a dismal cavernous hall , ‘ and also a spiritual one . ’ |
| 2 | She led them onto a small covered terrace running the full width of the house . |
| 3 | There are amoebae which gather sandgrains of particular sizes — a process clearly requiring a selection procedure , an instinctive ability to make decisions — using them as a protective outer layer . |
| 4 | The Parquet had existed , he thought , since at least 1883 when a reforming Minister of Justice had unearthed in his office some Arabic translations of parts of the French Code Napoleon and promulgated them as the new Egyptian legal system . |
| 5 | She led me into the pink-and-green chintzy sitting-room where Harry , pale with blue shadows below the eyes , sat in an armchair with his bandaged leg elevated on a large upholstered footstool . |
| 6 | To determine whether DP-1 is present in complexes containing Rb , we immunoprecipitated them with an anti-Rb monoclonal antibody from extracts of the human leukaemic cell line JM , which contain high levels of the DRTF1/E2F-Rb complex . |
| 7 | But by far the best gift was given me by a little red-haired girl , Betty , who gave me ( a virgin boy ) her body . |
| 8 | The man took off his spectacles and wiped them on a snowy white handkerchief . |
| 9 | People whose parents baptised them into the Roman Catholic Church will probably be counted as Catholics all their lives — even if they never go to church ; for people to be counted as Baptists , however , they will have to have expressed a strong commitment to their faith and to have undergone adult baptism . |
| 10 | Willie pulls himself up the stairs reminding me of an elderly praying mantis . |
| 11 | plagued me like a treacherous intimate |
| 12 | They had been coming over steadily ever since , in spite of warnings about the difficulties of living in a foreign land — warnings given them by the English Jewish establishment . |
| 13 | HRM does not invalidate the procedures and skills of personnel management but , rather , places them in a different conceptual framework . |
| 14 | Place them in a warm dry position away from draughts or you 'll lose the lot . |
| 15 | You can also recognise them by the round yellow bill patch . |
| 16 | I have therefore grouped them on a broad geological basis : sand , chalk , clay , and the gravels and loams of the coastal plain which probably also enjoys a modest climatic advantage over the rest of the county . |
| 17 | She began to mince them into a fragrant green hill on the board in front of her . |
| 18 | Hopefully , YTS permitting , the rest of the country can catch them on the forthcoming Teenage Fannies tour . |
| 19 | Hopefully , YTS permitting , the rest of the country can catch them on the forthcoming Teenage Fannies tour . |
| 20 | She felt a pang of gratitude , remembering his generous offer to provide them with a month-long Sardinian holiday , not only on their anniversary this year , but every single year to come . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Dutifully , I changed them to a complete muesli-type food which is described on the bag as ‘ Hi Protein Fitness Food ’ . |
| 23 | To abolish the existing Governments of our country , North and South , and replace them with a true Democratic Republican Government owing but one allegiance to the Irish people . |
| 24 | Indirect Rule , then , with its implicit exaltation of the man-on-the-spot over the man in the central office , set the seal of legitimacy on the centrifugal tendencies long at work in the British Colonial Service , and provided them with a rational institutional expression independent of the existence of a frontier . |
| 25 | Irritated with herself for reminding him , Julia turned back to face the front and said nothing more until Bill had dropped them outside a big yellow house on the edge of Fiesole . |
| 26 | The EC defines people in poverty as those whose ‘ resources are so small as to exclude them from the minimum acceptable way of life of the member state in which they live ’ . |
| 27 | As I am aware that to remove it from its present location would leave an unwelcome gap in your own display , may I suggest that , if you are willing to lend it , we supply you with a full-size mounted or framed photograph of the original to take its place for the duration of our exhibition ? |
| 28 | He now faces Alan McManus , the Scot who defeated him in the Asian Open semi-finals last year . |
| 29 | They threatened that , if he did not co-operate , the Northern Ireland emergency powers of detention would be used to intern her as a dangerous subversive . |
| 30 | And then Raynor entered her with a strong swift movement , and the fires engulfed them both . |