Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Edwards ' brilliant support play earned him four tries before the break and six in the second half to take his season 's tally to 15 — six ahead of Halifax centre Greg Austin . |
| 2 | The whole walk from Milngavie to Fort William took us six days . ’ |
| 3 | Q. Blanket weed caused me tremendous problems in my Koi pond last summer , and I want to avoid the same thing happening this year . |
| 4 | But on my return to Salamanca Dana gave me strong support , a spiritual courage that entered our love and our poetry . |
| 5 | Londoner Dave Parris scored it 116–113 to the challenger , the Dane Torben Hansen scored it 116–112 Eubank with Ray Francis of England making it 115–115 . |
| 6 | Umm Jazz F M phoned me this morning . |
| 7 | SURPRISINGLY , DANNY says he does n't remember arguing about music in the office at all , save Neil Spencer telling him that Earth Wind & Fire sounded like ‘ a toothpaste advert ’ . |
| 8 | But in 1976 , when Jean Darnall gave me this advice , I knew exactly what she meant and I knew that what she recommended was exactly what I wanted to do . |
| 9 | Similarly organisations that find themselves in difficulty ; where the profits are not coming through , where there is pressure from shareholders for a significant improvement in profit performance ; here again , the chairman and the Board are likely to reach out to executive search consultants to find them new talent . |
| 10 | Money may have disappeared down a black hole ( the budget was $40m according to Hurd , though industry sources put it nearer $50m ) , but it has all been spent on spectacle , not marquee names : Ed Harris ( from Jacknife ) and Mary Elizabeth Mastroantonio star as an oil-rig foreman and the project engineer , both brought in to rescue a striken nuclear submarine . |
| 11 | Ironically , Bourdieu 's action theory means we human scientists are more constrained by structures than in Lévi-Strauss 's or Althusser 's structuralism . |
| 12 | ‘ David Lodge saw him last year in The Entertainer and said he was wonderful . |
| 13 | ‘ When Miss Purdue showed us those baby clothes — the little dresses and nighties for the children of the poor fallen girls in the home on Callendar Street — they seemed so stark and plain . |
| 14 | Club members ask me all kinds of health questions . |
| 15 | A few Opposition Members told us that smoking costs the national health service £437 million a year . |
| 16 | The landlord of the Dersingham Arms saw it driven past at about three-twenty pm . |
| 17 | One nice Liberal lady is embarrassed to read on her instructions from head office : ‘ Beware opposition volunteers giving you false numbers . ’ |
| 18 | The Emmanuel College list gave him minimal information about matriculation and tripos results . |
| 19 | She could hear the regretful , gentle voice of Mother Francis telling her that life was never meant to be easy and that her best course was to work very hard now and get out of this place in record time . |
| 20 | ‘ That , more or less , is what Miss Henry told me this afternoon , ’ she admitted . |
| 21 | Rollins , the ultimate ugly American , is late for a plane , all the tube trains have stopped running and the only way he can get the London Underground employees to pay him any attention is to scream ‘ THE SMITHS HAVE REFORMED ! ’ |
| 22 | He put some very special old wine on the table in front of the King and said , ‘ Duke Michael offers you this wine and asks you to drink it for love of him . ’ |
| 23 | Will curry do me any harm after this ? |
| 24 | Did the fact that he is accompanied by a doctor on the campaign trail help to lose him last week 's TV showdown with Clinton ? |
| 25 | A few quite days by F/L Newton gave me some circuits in the Oxford on the 25th . |
| 26 | I seem to remember hearing that the ‘ proper ’ fantasy leagues give you some sort of bonus points if your defenders kept a clean sheet . |
| 27 | This task was for him somewhat infra dig , but until Burden and Sergeant Martin brought him some information he had little else to do , and this way he could , at any rate , be certain it was well done . |
| 28 | And when Dr Greene examined her this morning he said the placental bleeding had completely stopped . |
| 29 | Dr Kepepwe assured me active steps were being taken to trace those who had been intimate with me during the ten blank years : my parents , my academic colleagues . |
| 30 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |