Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Father Devlin clapped him on the shoulder with a large heavy hand .
2 Devlin clapped him on the shoulder .
3 Wilful and wasteful of such innocent , joyful music , Mordkovitch wrenched at the tempi , disregarded the dynamics and , showing a wanton unfeelingness for the orchestra 's commendable attempts to accommodate her in a notey accompaniment , trailed Yuasa reeling in her wake .
4 The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar .
5 I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime .
6 A branch whipped him in the face .
7 This uncertainty might , on the one hand , encourage social commentators in the attitude expressed by a writer in The Economist in 1848 : ‘ In our condition suffering and evil are nature 's admonitions ; they can not be got rid of ; and the impatient attempts of benevolence to banish them from the world by legislation , before benevolence has learnt their object and their end , have always been productive of more evil than good . ’
8 We might conceive of the aside as occupying a zone midway between the play and the audience ; we continue to experience the play , but we do so via the new information or attitudes given us by the character or characters speaking the asides .
9 How many uplifts should I use , and do I need special adaptors to connect them to the filter ?
10 However , the prior hypothesis led us to the finding in the rural high oil worker category ( table II , both for all ages and the 0–4 age group .
11 There is little evidence that peasant faith declined , but the authority of village priests was progressively undermined : in terms of culture and way of life they differed too little from the ordinary villagers to inspire much respect , and the miserly provision made them by the State resulted in constant friction over money matters between priest and parishioner .
12 Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks .
13 The head of national television , Elemer Hankiss , initiated legal action in December to reverse Antall 's Dec. 9 decision to suspend him pending an investigation of charges of financial misconduct .
14 But after three disappointing Five Nations games , Ciaran Fitzgerald drafted him into the side — as well as making him captain — for the game in Paris .
15 All I can remember is having a pickled onion and my sister stabbed it with a fork and the middle shot across the room .
16 She said she did not want any birthday presents unless they could be enjoyed by everyone , so her friends spent £500 on young trees and got permission to plant them around the town .
17 The Tisseran itself is now in the Bate Collection ( illus.4 ) : its painted and gilded case reminding us of the harpsichord the princess is playing in The music party .
18 Your heart fits me like a glove .
19 Bernie Scholtz passed her on the iron stairs as she was hurrying out .
20 Harvey led me to a room which he unlocked with a key .
21 Maybe one of the powerful merchants regarded it as an eyesore .
22 Influenced by these dreams , beautiful mornings seemed to mock her waking despair , but once she had shaken herself free from their shades , sun , sky , trees and birds enveloped her like a benediction .
23 Karajan ( DG ) has often been taken to task from making an adagio meal of Shostakovich 's andante here , but Flor turns it into a snail 's banquet ( beautiful Concertgebouw wind playing notwithstanding ) .
24 The web tangled and clung mawkishly around her reasoning as Fernando lowered her to the bed .
25 The 28-year-old cab driver attacked her in a clearing after she went to join Queen 's Club in west London , Mark Dennis , prosecuting , told the Old Bailey .
26 He quotes the view of Aristo , who produces two arguments : first , that by analogy with relegatio dotis and the stipulatio emptae hereditatis the word ‘ sums ’ should be held to include objects as well as money ; second , that intention is particularly important in trusts , and it appears to be the testator 's intention in first speaking generally of ‘ sums ’ and then mentioning certain objects to include them in the expression too .
27 It could be simply a difference of opinion where conflicting views bring us to an impasse .
28 The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based .
29 The Minotaur was finally slain by Theseus , who found his way out of the labyrinth by trailing a skein of thread given him by the king 's daughter , ARIADNE .
30 She confessed that the bitter jibes and over-exposure led her to the precipice .
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