Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His concern about Germany manifested itself again in 1936 , when he accepted the post in Geneva of League of Nations high commissioner for German refugees , a position he held until 1938 . |
| 2 | This therefore will be my last Sunday with you and so I take this opportunity to thank you again for all your kindnesses to me and for the way you made me welcome when I arrived 5 years ago ( does n't time fly ! ) . |
| 3 | Lynx contains nothing else of any note . |
| 4 | Since downloading the file I 've had severe difficulty tearing myself away from this game , such is the enjoyment and frustration I 've had from it . |
| 5 | ‘ I mean , they get these ideas and these bees in their bonnets and try and make everyone think the same way , and they change all the rules and upset everything , and Freud got it wrong in one way and Marx got it wrong in another . ’ |
| 6 | Molly moved them carefully to one end of the bar before she hung up Hugh 's clothes and her summer dresses . |
| 7 | ‘ The Bank may — ( a ) by notice in writing served on an authorised institution require it to produce , within such time and at such place as may be specified in the notice , such document or documents of such description as may be so specified ; ( b ) authorise an officer , servant or agent of the Bank , on producing evidence of his authority , to require any such institution to provide him forthwith with such information , or to produce to him forthwith such documents , as he may specify , being such information or documents as the Bank may reasonably require for the performance of its functions under this Act . |
| 8 | This is Whitlow driving it long to Speedy . |
| 9 | The councillors loved it , and journalists filed it away for some distant future when Mr Portillo might feature in a Conservative leadership election , writes Valerie Elliott . |
| 10 | and the rent , when I , I 'm going back six years now , the rent to leave it there for twelve months was only seventy pound a year |
| 11 | He said , No Emma I ca n't there 's no way I can be at a wedding to give you away at nine o'clock . |
| 12 | His mouth touched hers lightly at first , then he deepened the kiss with a passionate hunger that their lovemaking had failed to assuage . |
| 13 | She had n't been prepared for the way poetry came into this fitting together of parts , Shall I believe that unsubstantial Death is amorous , and that the lean abhorrèd monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour , she recited in her head , as O'Hara climbed on top and humped her beneath the rude unshaded bulb . |
| 14 | Once in the city the time-travellers find it far from dead . |
| 15 | If you know in advance that a customer is going to take six months to pay you instead of one and you still want to make the sale , then consider loading your price to cover your finance costs . |
| 16 | ‘ Stick on a swimsuit , and we 'll take our chances on the car making it there in one piece . ’ |
| 17 | Sylvie struck her again with greater force so that Katherine knocked her shoulder hard against the edge of the bannister . |
| 18 | A diving ship normally carries four splayed anchors to moor it precisely over any given spot on the ocean floor . |
| 19 | However , Kolbe relented when Griess approached him again in 1856 after working in a tar distillery in Offenbach , and took him back . |
| 20 | Thucydides praises him highly in general terms ( ii . |
| 21 | ‘ Unless there is a change of heart and a positive determination to rid ourselves completely of this terrorism , then it is bound to happen in places such as Castlerock , as it has done in other areas . ’ |
| 22 | David Swan joined them promptly at six-thirty . |
| 23 | That explains why any attempt to place Minimalist sculptures in the landscape or in urban sites reduces them invariably to homeless objects . |
| 24 | In the preface to another intelligence report , the SEAC Assistant Director of Intelligence addressed himself squarely to some of the political problems which were being faced . |
| 25 | He sent Rizzardi clear and his cross was missed by Brian Kilcline , enabling Capocchiano to put it away from close in . |
| 26 | A council statement endorsed by Mr Pignatelli , Mr McGrath and Neil McIntosh , Strathclyde 's chief executive , said : ‘ The council dissociates itself totally from any view which links genetic theory and race in such a way . |
| 27 | Sussex gardens offer a glimpse of sheep , while Norfolk gardens go one better with hydraulic rams ! |
| 28 | Smiles from that quarter are not so plentiful that I can afford to disregard them , but I was n't in the mood to appreciate one right at that moment . |
| 29 | Baldwin 's mission to Washington took him away from 27 December to 27 January . |
| 30 | Croat midfielder Zvonimir Boban put them ahead with further goals from Dutchman Frank Rijkaard , French striker Jean-Pierre Papin and Marco Simone . |