Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] [pron] [conj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sister tried to tell her that all new mothers went through something of this sort for a short time after childbirth ; but Harriet knew , when she fetched Liza and her baby back to Four Winds at the end of the week , that what her daughter was suffering from was not the ordinary ‘ blues ’ which she herself had experienced after Liza was born . |
| 2 | But experience has taught me that this is the rule of thumb that can be most profitably proposed and acted upon . |
| 3 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend accept the good news , contrary to what was said by the hon. Member for Ashfield ( Mr. Haynes ) , that although in recent times my constituency has experienced economic difficulties , so successful has my right hon. and learned Friend 's training and enterprise programme been that the Crawley and District Industries Association has told me that this is the first time during a downturn in the economy when training by companies has increased rather than decreased ? |
| 4 | Of course , if you have even a distant eye on a whole series of books featuring one detective ( and the late Margery Allingham once pointed out to me that the advantage of this is that half your potential readers want to read you and half want to read about your sleuth ) , then you are likely to land in difficulties if you hit on , say , a Victorian governess who happens to deal in the course of her scholastic career with as many as twenty or thirty " orrible murders . |
| 5 | Other areas where political religion helps to solidify one or both of the alliances are separate education and catholic-protestant marriages . |
| 6 | Scott had told him that this would be possible . |
| 7 | There was two feet of sand over the highest part of the island where the wind had carried it and all the heavy bridge-building machines were on their sides . |
| 8 | And cattle and sheep farmers from Dumfriesshire to Sutherland have to pinch themselves because all types of slaughter stock , even retired breeding animals , are attracting record prices . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , Arnoldo Momigliano has warned us that many Greek historians , as distinct from philosophers , paid little attention to the cyclical concept of time . |
| 10 | The tunnels , track arrangements , and loop lines were regarded as among the greatest engineering marvels of the age , and more engineers flocked to see them than any other contemporary achievement , even including the Panama Canal . |
| 11 | But these people had been shot down some months ago and as the Feldwebel had told me that this was only a transit camp I knew that I was not likely to meet them here . |
| 12 | The aircraft are safely hangared and the technicians have assured themselves that those cowboy pilots have n't damaged any of their babies . |
| 13 | The problems with most people , if I can generalise , is that they have been brought up on the notion that a picture has to represent something and that to them means something recognizable , like a tree , or a landscape , or a windmill , or an oast house . |
| 14 | I withdrew my detachments having accomplished nothing but that of witnessing the extinguishment of the last council fires of the most powerful Indian nation on the sunset side of the Rocky Mountains . |
| 15 | As he said this , he noticed that Cowslip had joined them and that Strawberry was talking to him quietly . |
| 16 | ‘ meticulous experiments have convinced me that this ratio ( 1:100 ) between the quantity of diluent and that of the medicine being dynamized is far too low to develop the medicinal substance properly and to a high degree with a large number of succussions unless force is used … |
| 17 | I just the slightest sort of movement has readjusted it and this would not move at all ! |
| 18 | She and Sarah had been sitting under the balcony and when the warning was given they moved forward but continued to enjoy the film in which John McCormack sang Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms and The Dawning of the Day . |
| 19 | Its age old pre-historic instinct had brought it and many others to the spot a day ago in a bloody frenzy of feeding . |
| 20 | His father had taught him that these must be suppressed , but now that the old attorney was dead Paul felt free to become himself ; what that might mean was not yet clear to him . |
| 21 | Her brief mention of Timmy had shown him that this was the stumbling block . |
| 22 | Rees Jones says people have told him that this is a golf course for intellectuals … which means you have to think everytime you a play a shot and that 's what he set out to create |
| 23 | This applies , presumably , to the case where one misfortune sets in train a whole sequence of further misfortunes , each confirming the child 's expectation of what life has to offer him and each giving him further reason to adopt whatever behaviour — flight from reality , antisocial tendencies , and so forth — he used as a way of dealing with the original situation . |
| 24 | Dr Mann , a leading American psychiatrist , has written : ‘ The church has failed me and most of my patients , because it has never discovered the secret of community fellowship . ’ |
| 25 | Many friends called to see him and this was a tremendous help to us both . |
| 26 | Nobody stood on the platform for the despised means to London , but in the ticket office the man had assured her that all was well , or at least , sane . |
| 27 | It wouldn't 've surprised me that that he could feel were an eyelash like mine was . |
| 28 | has responded to those by , for example , over this year there has been closed circuit television at one of the Park and Rides — I think it 's Thornhill — in consultation with the Police , and the Police have told us that that has reduced the number of crimes that have occurred and we have put |
| 29 | Of course it was not certain either that Zoser had done it or that , if he had done it , he had done it for sectarian reasons . |
| 30 | Long experience had told me that this was to be expected . |