Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [pron] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much interest was shown in Medau at a recent ‘ Come and Try It ’ day at Nede House , East Grinstead where we held our own alongside aerobic sessions , soroptomists demonstrations , ballet . |
| 2 | Leavis 's reputation as a crabbed stylist and boldly innovative thinker who had been rejected by a university where he spent his entire life was largely a figment of his own mind , and so much of his post-war life was devoted to mythologising his own career that it is difficult , by now , to recognise what a conventional figure in his place and day he always was . |
| 3 | Then there is the 39-member-strong Royal Society of Portrait Paints which operates from the Mall Galleries where it holds its annual exhibition . |
| 4 | Also they had to film the invasion in the dark so they gave us two lamps . |
| 5 | About this time I had , by a certain wicked attempt — for I had a bold heart which rather put me upon courting than avoiding danger — set a hornet 's nest about my ears so I thought it better to remove myself to France and be a little more discreet in my armours . |
| 6 | They think that they are far too rare to travel with the ordinary animals on Noah 's ark so they build their own ’ . |
| 7 | They think that they are far too rare to travel with the ordinary animals on Noah 's ark so they build their own ’ . |
| 8 | It has always been my intention to call a public meeting for all interested parties once we have something definite to report . |
| 9 | ( 4 ) Where a lessor is proceeding by action or otherwise to enforce a right of re-entry or forfeiture under any covenant , proviso , or stipulation in a lease , or for non-payment of rent , the court may , on application by any person claiming as an under-lessee any estate or interest in the property comprised in the lease or any part thereof , either in the lessor 's action ( if any ) or in any action brought by such person for that purpose , make an order vesting , for the whole term of the lease or any less term , the property comprised in the lease , or any part thereof in any person entitled as under-lessee to any estate or interest in such property upon such conditions as to execution of any deed or other document , payment of rent , costs , expenses , damages , compensation , giving security , or otherwise , as the court in the circumstances of each case may think fit , but in no case shall any such under-lessee be entitled to require a lease to be granted to him for any longer term than he had his original sub-lease . |
| 10 | P.S. I am Gabby 's biggest fan so I consider myself neutral on the Graf/Seles controversy . |
| 11 | but this time it was a genuine tragedy so he paid me all deposit I put in , he paid me all back , you know , I don I did n't want I do n't want to go caravanning by myself |
| 12 | Although Gascoigne found it difficult to escape the attentions of Walter Bonacina until he produced his headed goal four minutes from the end , he did not lose his temper . |
| 13 | The opposition reacted angrily to the intervention by French and Belgian troops , calling for their withdrawal and warning of more violence if they did anything more than evacuate their nationals . |
| 14 | It relieves the mind if you have something definite to do . |
| 15 | " I 'll gladly see your Superintendent if you think it necessary , " I said . |
| 16 | Once there , they had changed , as generation succeeded generation , to suit their new homes until they became their present species . |
| 17 | At this stage Dr Mumby gave him drops of dilutions of the substance into his mouth until he became his normal self again . |
| 18 | I think she 's all set to do herself some permanent harm if she pushes it any harder . ’ |
| 19 | Until the seventeenth century the courts would declare Acts of Parliament void if they considered them contrary to natural law , repugnant to the law or impossible to be performed . |
| 20 | The withdrawal of earlier death has been so marked that today most English people will have no direct experience of the grief of bereavement until they lose their own parents , when they are themselves well into middle age . |
| 21 | As a teenager he had been attracted to hear Paisley because he shared his evangelical religion . |
| 22 | Equally , Sigibert and Guntram may have been opposed to Gundovald because he threatened their own positions . |
| 23 | Many electors undoubtedly withheld votes from some of its constituency candidates because they judged them sure to be defeated . |
| 24 | If the authorities refrain from using force because they think it wiser to use other means , the effect is often as follows : … to prevent or resist violence , the governing class may use guile , cunning , fraud and corruption — in short . |
| 25 | It had a circular room with a compass inlaid in mahogany in the parquet floor , and here father and daughter sat side-by-side on the window seat while he coached her each evening in the school holidays . |
| 26 | The attacker then turns his body in a half-circle while he raises his right leg , using the left leg for support . |
| 27 | Her mum came down the street steaming from the chip shop , and she rushed us inside and got me to make a pot of tea while she shared them all out between the three of us , and we all sat round their fire eating them . |
| 28 | If you came in now and asked me for a pound of apples , well in a way I would n't know a stranger whether they like them under-ripe , ripe or just ready for eating . |
| 29 | PRESIDENT Bill Clinton last night pledged to maintain the special relationship between Britain and the United States before he began his first meeting with John Major . |
| 30 | The midfield star trained alone — sprinting , jogging , twisting and turning to answer claims that the tackle which put him out of the game would mean another lengthy lay-off , almost 17 months after he wrecked his right knee in the FA Cup final . |