Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he only needed to do two or three locums at these school clinics to see him round the other half of the world and he went off . |
| 2 | All of us probably envy the ability of Imelda , Ivana , Diana and co to indulge themselves with a glorious shopping spree whenever the desire grips them . |
| 3 | It ends : ‘ Will the tight budget bring us to a grinding halt ? |
| 4 | a Services Division to support them for a transitional period |
| 5 | Nor does it seem to be the case that the notorious reluctance of the Masai to accommodate themselves to the modern world was to any significant extent the result of administrative protection from it . |
| 6 | This decision represents something of a final throw . |
| 7 | Are Oxford for the drop , can Swindon make it to the premier league play-offs ? |
| 8 | She could lie in bed at night and in imagination move confidently around the cottage touching them in a happy exploration of shared memories and reassurance . |
| 9 | During the two shorts months that it took to draft the White Paper , opposition could be quelled , using the new powers and wholehearted support given him by the Prime Minister . |
| 10 | It may take several releases and many months before the company starts to see a return on its investments , so it is essential for an indie to have a relatively solid financial base to see it through the difficult early stages and to sustain the levels of promotion until an act on the label breaks . |
| 11 | He more than filled the gap left by Alex ; his presence animated her with a mysterious excitement . |
| 12 | In the first place , becoming a housewife impresses them by the very openness of the role [ ? ] and by the freedom they now have from constraining supervision … |
| 13 | Trent met it with a slight movement of the tiller bar , and the big catamaran lifted smoothly . |
| 14 | This rational presentation often follows a period of ingratiation through which the subordinate aims to get superiors to like him as a charming but intelligent expert . |
| 15 | All these meetings concerned themselves with the Spanish question . |
| 16 | Peregrine interrupted her with a languid chortle and was properly admonished . |
| 17 | At noon , the exhausted Pack gathered together and Brown Owl led them to a shady area . |
| 18 | I believe that it was , or had some connection with , a species of agoraphobia , which in his case manifested itself as an acute fear of heights . |
| 19 | The coronet is shown in loving detail as it embodies the moment when this family of merchants made it to the princely ranks . |
| 20 | I must have said that several times already because Ma fixed me with a glittering stare and exclaimed , ‘ If you say that word once more , Andrew , just once more , I 'll send you to the Science Museum again … with Annabel . ’ |
| 21 | Windows opened ; grocers ran to the doors of their shops ; customers stopped discussing bacon and turned ; our teachers wobbled on their bicycles as the noise buffeted them like a violent squall ; and boys sprinted to the school gates as they came out of the building , though many others , cool boys , shrugged or turned away in disgust , gobbing , cursing and scuffling their feet . |
| 22 | Aswan has none of the melancholy transience of most end-of the-line towns . |
| 23 | The blow caught her on the right side of her face , high on the cheek bone , beneath the eye . |
| 24 | Nour drew me as an English Miss : Ingleesy , prim , uneducated , unsophisticated . |
| 25 | Lady Constance visited some suffragettes imprisoned in Holloway gaol , and this experience transformed her into a public figure with a single-minded burning cause . |
| 26 | Alon also experimented with the basic design , building a 130 hp Franklin-engined version and a prototype Alon A–4 with a Lycoming O–320 160 hp motor , before selling the type certificate of the Aircoupe to Mooney Aircraft , whereupon Mooney changed it to a single-tail design and manufactured it as the M–10 Cadet , producing 61 at $9,295 each before shutting the line down for good in 1970 . |
| 27 | On the day before de Macon sailed on his second voyage , the Ralembergs invited me to a formal supper . |
| 28 | For a time Malins regarded himself as a Liberal Unionist , but he made policy toward drink the only basis for supporting parliamentary candidates . |
| 29 | Coun Bob Brady , committee chairman described it as an exciting project which would be part of the town 's City Challenge programme . |
| 30 | In the course of dealing with those who demanded excessively high wages or who broke their contracts , the courts provided us with a great deal of evidence about wage rates , and continuity and frequency of employment . |