Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , let's face it , penis envy is a is a pretty wacky idea however you look at it , and you ca n't blame people for thinking , oh you know , this Viennese professor must have had a , had a diseased mind or something to come across such a crazy idea . |
| 2 | Imitation occurs if I send you verbal or non-verbal signals and you respond with similar signals . |
| 3 | Amid the clippings , I find a snapshot of myself sitting on top of a Syrian T-54 battle tank on the Beirut front line at Galerie Semaan ; another photograph taken by Zoheir Saade of the Associated Press shows Ed Cody of the AP and myself standing with Syrian troops in the mountains before the 1976 advance on Beirut . |
| 4 | His Nan always gets lollies in for the kids and they came in more than useful this time . ’ |
| 5 | He appeared to Mollie and me to stick to that view during the Conference until the Saturday when he told us he was consulting his doctor . |
| 6 | As the air catches the membranes , the fish is lifted above the waves and it glides for hundreds of metres leaving its pursuers baffled . |
| 7 | We readily accept that management of the Ministry of Sound takes unprecedented and most stringent measures to prevent drugs being taken into the club and we apologise for any implication to the contrary . |
| 8 | A certain Mr Tomlinson was in trouble ‘ having several times played in the upper part of the links with some gentleman who was not a member of the Club and who had on each occasion omitted to pay his green fee ’ ( at this time 2s. 6d . ) . |
| 9 | Well , I dropped in one evening , a summer evening it was , as I recall it , after I 'd been to dinner at the Chelsea Arts Club and I felt in urgent need of a little female company . |
| 10 | Sally sat close to Edward on the bench seat and he drove with one arm around her , somehow managing to change gear with his right hand . |
| 11 | As a result , its face appears to be covered in suede or velvet and it feels like soft moss to the touch . |
| 12 | My face was tingling with fear and I felt in imminent need of a toilet-roll . |
| 13 | There were inter-party rivalries within the UUUC and inter-factional rivalries within the parties and , although Paisley and I belonged to different parties , the fact that we were both identified with the Black case was not necessarily always helpful . |
| 14 | ‘ His first race was a bumper at Ayr and he won at 33-1 . |
| 15 | Well she had some they were like right slim at end and then went like that , and she got the fat bit and went crrrk and it hurts like mad . |
| 16 | ‘ There are multiple problems due to the fact there is a legal vacuum in many cases and little to distinguish between a genuine cause of fraud and someone buying in good faith . |
| 17 | Playing up to it , he gives an autograph and we board for free . |
| 18 | It is given over to writing between 2,000 and 2,500 words and it takes from three to four and a half hours to do . |
| 19 | I work for the same pre project as Verity and I worked with five , fifteen , sixteen year old boys , just yesterday , and they were one of the best groups I 'd ever worked with because |
| 20 | There will be various categories in which to enter good movement pictures and we hope to both generate more interest in Medau and find new ideas for our publicity boards . |
| 21 | The work that Roger Penrose and I did between 1965 and 1970 showed that , according to general relativity , there must be a singularity of infinite density and space-time curvature within a black hole . |
| 22 | Edward and I stared at one another . |
| 23 | In the Structure Plan this was regarded , at least in original proposals , as a strategic site for port-related industry and it remained as industrial land in the final version . |
| 24 | There may be pupils whose eye condition makes it difficult to tolerate bright light and who suffer to some extent from photophobia ( for instance those who are albinos or who have coloboma ) . |
| 25 | Sue and I go to this cafe , I told you at Newtown did n't I ? |
| 26 | Allen drove a long stick through the heron and they sat on either side of the fire , turning the spit as they talked . |
| 27 | Many of her friends had stepparents , and few of them were happy about it : in their rambling and interminable discussions they would deplore the stupidity and selfishness of their elders in introducing into their homes strangers who were not of their blood and who insisted on peculiar foodstuffs and liked or disliked various types of music — whichever was most inconvenient and painful to the children of the house . |
| 28 | Anton , his rolling bobbing head , in and out : and his mouth was ghastly , streaming blood and he bit at random , where he could : a cannibal feast , and there seemed no end to Parker , elephant big , but soft and white and easy to bleed , full of smells ; he could , heightened senses , whiff the slightest reek , the ebb and flow , as might a jackal , the strength drawn out of Parker . |
| 29 | Well we were lucky in that we 've been able to do , have a , a very good relationship with a company called well known in the marine side and they put in forty five thousand pounds into er the scheme and promised that before Christmas and that was reading the paper one day in November the , the Robert the National Heritage Minister saying that they may be , may , if you 're lucky , going to put some money into sport and er so we contacted them and we were one of the first sports to get , had money doubled as they say in the bingo hall , so we er we now have ninety , ninety thousand pounds and which I wh has been distributed or will be distributed in the , in the following way so that 's how we 're gon na spend it and er these er , the administration represent we were basically overwhelmed with enquiries and s we took on a person in order to , to do it , the normal R Y A staff had already got enough on so we took on a girl called Sara who answers all the queries on the Year of Youth Hotline and erm we are also running the boat shows , the four or five N B L challenge which is the flagship event for our sponsors which is er I wo n't go into the , the details but is a , a talent fight , talent spotting event for under sixteen year olds around the country and it provided fleet of dinghies , the prize for which is a dinghy which is not , not a bad prize I think you 'll agree . |
| 30 | Erm I would hesitate before offering the chairman or the committee the contract , er the contract for Eurofighter actually runs to thirty four books and it stands about that high and er . |