Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clayton continued working in the darkroom while pursuing his goal of becoming a photographer . |
| 2 | THE Labour Party National Executive yesterday endorsed a campaigning strategy for the next year in which the party will seek to popularise its policy review while focusing its opposition to the Government on health , the economy , the poll tax , teacher shortages , and transport . |
| 3 | THE Labour Party National Executive yesterday endorsed a campaigning strategy for the next year in which the party will seek to popularise its policy review while focusing its opposition to the Government on health , the economy , the poll tax , teacher shortages , and transport . |
| 4 | By this time I was on my knees trying to make up my mind whether to bow my head in the direction of Japan , Taiwan , Singapore , Eindhoven or the US . |
| 5 | He had no alternative but to trust his fortune to fate and the high seas . |
| 6 | It is understood that the formula used by the Building Societies ' Association when recommending their rate of interest is as follows , viz : |
| 7 | Do bear this in mind when increasing your volume of food . |
| 8 | The chemists encouraged people to have fun in the sun while protecting their skin from the harsh rays which can prove dangerous . |
| 9 | Emma-Jane Mac had earlier given Coomes Bookmakers a chance to recoup money given in sponsorship when winning their contest on the 14-1 Everest Gringo . |
| 10 | In addition it warns Sun that it is alienating its customers by not letting them apply their corporate discounts to the Classic and by letting them perceive Sun as turning its back on its established technical clientele to pursue the commercial marketplace . |
| 11 | President Alberto Keinya Fujimori presented Guzmán 's capture as justifying his assumption of dictatorial powers in April [ see pp. 38846-47 ] . |
| 12 | It is much better to evaluate information needs and establish information flows in advance of the decision-making process than to discover their omission at a later stage . |
| 13 | Looking for the mound from where he stormed the Irish town while researching her biography of Cromwell , she asked a local priest for directions . |
| 14 | His Cabinet changes reflect his desire to reassure the Right while demonstrating his commitment to a more ‘ caring ’ form of Conservatism . |
| 15 | Smiles quoted Benjamin Haydon as dating his decline from the day he first borrowed money . |
| 16 | The hotel tried to rely upon the notice in guest 's room as excluding their liability for the loss . |
| 17 | Linking hands , they whispered their love for one another , and although they were kept physically apart by those old granite stones , they were in another sense brought close together by them , for it is curiously easier to give your heart away through a hole in the wall than to swear your fidelity between the sheets of a feather bed . |
| 18 | She 's cut out for better things than wasting her time on some blue-eyed , grease-stained English Romeo . ’ |
| 19 | The difference was that when constructing a plot she was able to invent clues that would subtly direct her readers in the direction of the guilty person while strewing their path with red herrings . |
| 20 | Madame imagined that while she was doing this to Boy she would tell him everything she knew , she would talk to him quietly each night whilst brushing his hair before bedtime . |
| 21 | Anyone who has attempted to compile machine-readable data either for teaching or research purposes will agree that such an undertaking impinges so greatly on our time and resources as to minimize our interest in providing support for other scholars who might become interested in our data . |
| 22 | Throughout her childhood she had heard similar sounds when accompanying her mother on visits to her women friends . |
| 23 | If it will please you To show us so much gentry and goodwill As to expand your time with us awhile For the supply and profit of our hope , Your visitation shall receive such thanks As fits a king 's remembrance . |
| 24 | The central figure , St Cecilia , seems rapt in such inspiration as produced her image in the painter 's mind ; her deep , dark , eloquent eyes lifted up ; her chestnut hair flung back from her forehead — she holds an organ in her hands — her countenance , as it were , calmed by the depth of its passion and rapture , and penetrated throughout with the warm and radiant light of life . |
| 25 | There is no criticism as regards its validity in law . |
| 26 | Similarly , he celebrates the great house at Allington , which is early Stuart and built next to the road , with the comment : ‘ To be near the village , so as in some way to afford comfort , protection , and patronage , and perhaps also with a view to the pleasantness of neighbourhood for its own inmates , seemed to be the object of a gentleman when building his house in the old days . ’ |
| 27 | If not , consider how it might be adjusted to different categories of student while preserving its efficacy as a means of encouraging orientation within a discourse . |
| 28 | Oliver Gregory , who set High Street trends as co-founder of the Habitat chain , might have slipped on wet grass while carrying his shotgun in the garden of his home at Collingbourne Ducis , Wilts . |
| 29 | He announced large increases in spending on social welfare , education and the environment while stressing his commitment to low taxation . |
| 30 | FACING PAGE When taking your dog to the ‘ great outdoors ’ such as here , at the Chiricahua National Monument , Arizona — ensure that it relieves itself well away from footpaths and picnic areas . |