Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw no one on the long lonely road home , and the only enemy that attacked me was the midges . |
| 2 | The choice of McLeish as captain will , Roxburgh believes , remove an unwanted , additional pressure from McStay 's shoulders and let him be the midfield schemer who orchestrates the emphatic victory essential to Scotland 's progress . |
| 3 | ‘ The right hook that finished him was the best body punch I 've ever thrown ’ said Damien with the air of a winner . |
| 4 | The birds that do it are the oilbirds of South America , and the cave swiftlets of the Far East , the ones whose nests are used for birds ' nest soup . |
| 5 | This connection between economic performance , marriage , and fertility , perhaps the best known empirical association in social science , then worked through the ‘ valve ’ of marriage : delaying marriage or avoiding it was the only practical way of controlling births . |
| 6 | And in the middle there was an area open to space , just a circle of bare surface with a window all the way round it , and a sign on the window that said it was the site of the Capellan arrival in the solar system . |
| 7 | I am a thousand winds that blow I am the diamond glint on snow . |
| 8 | The next climb that attracted us was The Magic Line on El Gorro Frigio — a large dome higher up the massif . |
| 9 | The Federation of Small Businesses reacted positively to the Budget and said it was the result of the Chancellor 's meeting its representatives and listening to what they were saying . |
| 10 | No two days are the same for the Buildings Branch and says it 's the variety which makes his job so enjoyable . |
| 11 | It 's being held in the town that claims it 's the birthplace of British ballooning . |
| 12 | Today the Bangor editor said : ‘ We are determined to emulate our team and show we are the top dogs in north Down . |
| 13 | For Matthew and Mark it 's the prospect of a new school , old friends to leave , and new ones to make as well as a new system of education . |
| 14 | By the thirteenth century the right of founding a castle , repopulating an existing site and fortifying it was the exclusive privilege of the pope in Latium . |
| 15 | You could live your whole life in some tiny place and think it was the whole world . |
| 16 | What bothered me mo well wha one of the things that bothers me is the fact that he said that he would n't like to do hospital chaplaincy because he would n't like to go visiting because he 's got no small talk . |
| 17 | The constituency that chose you was the Conservative party . |
| 18 | One widow wrote to thank the organisers and said it was the most moving service she had ever attended . |
| 19 | One leading UFF figure in the area last week referred to a gun attack on a house in Jamaica Street in the Ardoyne area on St. Patrick 's night and said it was the intention to kill anyone in the house . |
| 20 | Her sister thinks of this pain all day and night and says it is the worst part and I think it is , worse even than how it is to end . |
| 21 | Or take the old woman who is really a slave to the Gluttony of Delicacy but thinks she is the very model of abstinence : She is a positive terror to hostesses and servants . |
| 22 | Candle says it has successfully tested key DCE components within its Distributed Computing Server component in an MVS-OS/2 client-server environment and says it is the first implementation of DCE on an MVS system . |
| 23 | I 'd already been to the forest couple of times as a student and thought it was the most wonderful place . |
| 24 | During his waking hours the thought that haunted him was the Renault 18 and its two occupants . |
| 25 | A girl who pummels a destructive little brother who ruins her toys and finds she is the one who gets into trouble feels hurt and angry . |
| 26 | The book emerged on Monday , on Wednesday was broadcast as a play , on Thursday Daniel George ( Dan , Dan , the literary man , John calls him ) spoke on the wireless and said she was the greatest writer of her day , and on Sunday morning the book was discussed by a querulous little bunch called ‘ The Critics ’ , who seem to be part of the Establishment , and on Sunday afternoon , lo and behold , the television ( commercial ) went into Braemar Mansions itself , where she was interviewed by Alan Pryce-Jones [ then Editor of The Times Literary Supplement ] … . |
| 27 | Then he makes up this funny word and says it 's the name of a disease by which his brain is rotting away . |
| 28 | He offered a hand of reconciliation to whites and said it was the ANC 's job , as the country 's biggest political force , to address national unity and nation building . |
| 29 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 30 | Sir J. Franklin desires me to give his compliments — he is in very good health & hopes you are the same . ’ |