Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On my return late in the afternoon I saw two SS soldiers outside our front door . |
| 2 | Mummy I wanted another Kit Kat . |
| 3 | In winter the bare trees were florid with the purple and grey of pigeons , and in spring we buried dead baby sparrows under the soapsuds of fallen blossom . |
| 4 | To assess the potential contribution of lamina propria lymphocytes to measured metabolism we obtained peripheral blood lymphocytes from the heparinised blood of a patient having colonoscopy for polyp surveillance with centrifugation in Lymphoprep ( Flow Laboratories , Rickmansworth , UK ) . |
| 5 | So in the midst of all this apparent optimism we have independent community initiatives , run by people who live in the community , groups who are trying to provide work , wealth , education , advice and community support — groups which are under fierce attack for so doing ! |
| 6 | In this pilot study we showed that self monitoring of hypertriglyceridaemia in patients with non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus improved lipid profiles over six months . |
| 7 | ESSAY 7 — ; ‘ Their motives for social reform were far from benevolent , but in practice they created embryonic welfare states . ’ |
| 8 | On the rural side he had 180 tenant farmers , each with between 50 and 130 acres apiece ; and just as the Prince wanted the goodwill of his urban tenants , so too in the country . |
| 9 | Upstairs in the bedroom he found empty whisky bottles littering the floor . |
| 10 | It was at a height of nearly 3,000 metres & the air outside was well below freezing , but the lava tunnel was in an area of recent activity , and as a result it boasted beautiful underfloor heating . |
| 11 | Although the project was a disaster , costing France £10 million , and counter-productive in giving Greenpeace much-needed publicity about France 's nuclear tests , it at least gave the DGSE some confidence that if in the future it accepted another Henry II-type command it would have the backing of its politicians . |
| 12 | In 1908 however when Mr. Vernon S. Lovell presented his trophy it comprised two pewter quart pots and two George III candlesticks to be played for in a bogey handicap competition . |
| 13 | His almost pathological dread of producing a legato line means that instead of drawing us a picture of clear , flowing melodies he leaves little join-up-the-dots type sketches with the notes separated from each other by wide open spaces which even the generous resonance of St Peter 's , Waltrop ( near Dortmund ) can not adequately fill . |
| 14 | Nixon claimed that as President he had special executive privileges which allowed him to refuse access to the tapes . |
| 15 | Boy I had that person finish . |
| 16 | Training should be as specific as possible and so for karateka I recommend either shadow boxing against a mirror , or working out on a light punch bag . |
| 17 | Suspicious evidence relating to things other than the condition of the child I called secondary danger clues . |
| 18 | Walking past trees and hedgerows we heard more bird song , blackbird , song thrush , robin . |
| 19 | Just before the first Test they rejected blind-side flankers Mick Galwey and Mike Teague and chose to play Ben Clarke , tour No 8 , out of position . |
| 20 | He later became joint chairman of the UK Byron Society and joint president of the International Byron Society ; in this capacity he chaired international Byron symposia in Cambridge and Athens , on one occasion conducting members in the footsteps of Byron 's Childe Harold to Epirus , into which he had parachuted in summer 1944 . |
| 21 | The wooden crosses he said broke church regulations . |
| 22 | From Blackburn Rovers he signed outside-right Joe Hulme , said to be the fastest footballer in the game and famed for his accurate centres while running . |
| 23 | I said to Pete he went one Saturday morning , there was grass under one of the chairs ! |
| 24 | At home he shows consistent management problems . |
| 25 | In case you get any ideas buster , that car behind is full of friends of mine . ’ |
| 26 | However , being unwilling to contradict her parents ' wishes she took three science A-levels rather than the arts subjects she preferred . |
| 27 | At the moment I weigh 7 stone 10lb . |
| 28 | As a child I kept an unending diary ; as a student in Louisiana I wrote some tv news scripts ( and damaged the teleprompt during a live transmission , which put an end to that little job ) ; back home I produced beautifully worded advertisements for a local free paper . |
| 29 | When I was a little lad I had this mongrel puppy ; he got summat wrong wi ’ him , and the vet wanted to put him down . |
| 30 | That evening I received two elephant tusks , a heavy , ornate gold cigarette case , a large , colourful carpet and the third class of the Star of Ethiopia . |