Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip went back to Richard 's rooms in college to wait for him on this night of undreamt-of triumph , to enjoy it with him , to talk it through . |
| 2 | Rhino penises can fetch as much as $700 on the open market , while powdered horn is prescribed for everything from high blood pressure to fevers , nose bleeds and insomnia . |
| 3 | Three tracks are from previous albums — Desperate Move ( driving , excellent and written by JMT stablemate Steve Coleman ) , Body & Soul ( as with Round Midnight below , a standard given a singular and distinctive modern treatment ) and Rock this Calling ( a modern jazz blues ? ) — while four are previously unrecorded by her : the melancholy-then-strident Do n't look Back ( highlight for me of this album ) , the quixotic Soul Melange , the Monk/Williams ‘ standard ’ Round Midnight ( a refreshingly individual rendition ) and My Corner of the Sky ( a modern son , which reminded me of an uptempo Ella Fitzgerald scat rendition … but with a rock group ) ; all bar Round Midnight are Wilson compositions . |
| 4 | Muted sounds , and , once , a cry of pain , came from behind the closed doors that led off it on either side . |
| 5 | Roberto had written and asked me to carry for him in that year 's Open . |
| 6 | That 's torn it , thought Lydia , swallowing the smile , extinguishing the sexuality which she knew she had caused to flicker about her like burning brandy round the Christmas pudding , and adopting instead a workmanlike , country-walking air . |
| 7 | I mean apart from a monstrous attack on our own officers who ca n't answer for themselves in this place . |
| 8 | ‘ Now I know what passed between you over that cup of coffee . ’ |
| 9 | What passed between you on that occasion ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Goes for it in that sort of way . |
| 11 | Should the current tide turn , we will think about it with great pleasure and renewed confidence . |
| 12 | And if you were a a lecturer in politics and you went to see this play then you might think oh look oh and then you 'd start thinking and if you were a scientist you would think about it in another way and if you were an artist you 'd think about it in another way . |
| 13 | And if you were a a lecturer in politics and you went to see this play then you might think oh look oh and then you 'd start thinking and if you were a scientist you would think about it in another way and if you were an artist you 'd think about it in another way . |
| 14 | Gassendi adopted it enthusiastically and argued for it at great length . |
| 15 | But Beatriz Lavandera has adopted this approach to syntactic variation in a much more radical form , and argued for it in some detail . |
| 16 | The central objective was to establish the kinds of actions and organisations that people typically make for themselves in this kind of social and spatial environment . |
| 17 | It 's simply an activity which has been a little overestimated and is regarded as something of major importance . |
| 18 | I 've got two young sons as well , erm they two got took off me into foster care , and that was when I really had to decide it was the either the drugs or the children . |
| 19 | She probably managed to make him pay her a little more before she agreed to do what he wanted — and altogether earned for herself in one evening more than she does in several days of being a parlourmaid . |
| 20 | She [ mother ] did n't really know about it until one day the doctor came here and … she said … |
| 21 | ‘ Do my wishes count for nothing in this house ? ’ |
| 22 | Their need for food is easily met and the food we grow for ourselves on agricultural land is little more than a readily-available bonus . |
| 23 | Apartments had been booked for them in one block and they shared in couples . |
| 24 | And erm anyway we got more from the unemployment exchange that prepared to work for him for fourteen pound , when we could have a eighteen pound on the dole . |
| 25 | But her vibrant , reasoned tone seemed to slip off him without any effect at all . |
| 26 | Although occasionally an older vessel may substitute for one in dry dock , many venerable craft have been pensioned off . |
| 27 | I shouted after them in hoarse astonishment . |
| 28 | His mother could not be traced , but the tiny corpse was recognised by a lady who had looked after him for some time , before she , as many others , had done before her , had innocently replied to Mrs Dyer 's advertisement , disguised by the nom de plume Mrs Thomas . |
| 29 | He had brought with him reading that was expected of him during this vacation , works on sociology and on linguistics and some where these two studies converged , but these were not the sort of books one much wanted to read under the hot sun and the influence of wine . |
| 30 | And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator . |