Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought he had seen the enemy aircraft and , as he winged over into a steep dive I followed him without question . |
| 2 | And I went down , I went somewhere else there was a few places I saw them so erm I said to , I said to Robert now you know those shirts , that shirt I bought you for Christmas ? |
| 3 | And before the end of the first term everyone knew me as crocodile . |
| 4 | For confirmation I visited him in prison , where in protest against his incarceration he had put himself in solitary confinement , and found him to be sandy-haired , bullet-headed and verbose , yet with a redeeming sense of humour ; his passionate denials of having played any part in the Ayr murder were too convincing to have been invented . |
| 5 | Or are we to suppose that Capitalism having been displaced by Socialism in the Marxist version , work with all the disagreeable characteristics which turn it into toil or boredom will have been reduced to the bare minimum necessary to sustain society and that a consequent and vast increase in the leisure will enable us to fulfil ourselves ? |
| 6 | If the problems were not put right , Coun Dixon warned : ‘ We would be very sceptical of any housing association which used them in future . |
| 7 | It is Labour 's insistence on putting the cart before the horse which fills me with gloom . |
| 8 | He took two steps which brought him into contact with me : he joined the ATC Squadron , and he saw to it that he did Fire-Watch duty on my nights . |
| 9 | He spent several weeks calling on the homes around his church to discover the needs of the community and the inhibitions which kept them from church attendance ( Schuller 1974:81 ) . |
| 10 | And in fact what marks the two genres off from each other is not so much the nature of the devices , but the nature of the opposition which constructs them as literature . |
| 11 | My mind is full of dark thoughts and evil yearnings , terrible images which move me to wickedness , as if to some obscure crime which perhaps I have committed already — ’ |
| 12 | We can not and never will understand this place appointed for our second race , for we are implicated without choice in the catastrophe of the copulations which splatter us into existence . |
| 13 | We can not and never will understand this place appointed for our second race , for we are implicated without choice in the catastrophe of the copulations which splatter us into existence . |
| 14 | Here the boy met the first Anglican priest who interested him in religion . |
| 15 | Most clients who seek them in fact qualify for green form assistance and they are comparatively uncommon . |
| 16 | We all sleep , and as a rule we do it at night in one long session of up to nine or ten hours , and during the day we stay awake . |
| 17 | That 's the cardigan we bought you for Christmas |
| 18 | ‘ The crime they sent me to prison for ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps you think the crime they sent you to prison for makes you unworthy of God 's mercy . |
| 20 | In support of this submission he referred me to Heaven v. Pender ( 1883 ) 11 Q.B.D. 503 and Le Lievre v. Gould [ 1893 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 21 | It 's responsiblebecause it brings it under control |
| 22 | He made contacts which brought him in touch with Jack Kent Cook who ran Saturday Night Magazine . |
| 23 | The police are obviously involved also in other activities which bring them into contact with employees and a good relationship with them in these other areas will often be beneficial to reaching a quick and satisfactory solution to all sides when violence does occur ’ . |
| 24 | Towards the end of Year II , some students undertake a six-week period of placement or work experience in a record office , museum or folk park ; others follow a specially-designed short course which prepares them for Year III and for the world of work beyond graduation . |
| 25 | ‘ At that point , ’ says Colonel Gordon Wilkinson MHCIMA , deputy director , Army catering , ‘ they go back to St Omer barracks , Aldershot , home of Army catering since the Army Catering Corps was formed in 1941 , to take the 12-week advanced chef 's course which prepares them for shift manager level in a kitchen . |
| 26 | It must be the smell which spirals you into double , triple , quadruple activity . |
| 27 | It was the Physics which led him to Engineering , and the Engineering which took him as a National Serviceman to Germany and the experimental air fields . |
| 28 | Raising standards ; by guaranteeing that all pupils get a balanced curriculum which prepares them for adult life ; and by setting objectives over the full range of abilities — via ‘ attainment targets ’ backed up with appropriate assessment arrangements . |
| 29 | The ancient rituals which linked them to fertility and the renewal of life were abandoned . |
| 30 | No , on my chips I like it with cheese Ooh it 's got kidney in ! |