Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During my boyhood my special task in the family was to look after our cattle , sheep and goats ; therefore I had to go through this training , and afterwards taught my brothers . |
| 2 | Father was invalided out before the end of the war with a poisoned hand , and a year after his return my youngest brother was born , there being over seventeen years difference in our ages . |
| 3 | Doctors are concerned about her condition which this morning was described as ‘ very poorly ’ . |
| 4 | And if he knew of the wanton pictures chasing one another through her head his insulting opinion of her would no doubt be confirmed . |
| 5 | The Royal British Legion have again requested support for their appeal which this year commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Battle of El-Alamein . |
| 6 | The emergence of the stream-of-consciousness novel at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries was obviously related to a huge epistemological shift in culture at large , from locating reality in the objective world of actions and things as perceived by common sense , to locating it in the minds of individual thinking subjects , each of whom constructs their own reality , and has difficulty in matching it with the reality constructed by others . |
| 7 | I remember a cook of my childhood whose great dish was a crème brulée in which the layer of glass-like caramel concealed , not the usual egg-thickened cream , but a delicate and softly frozen gooseberry fool . |
| 8 | During one of my absences our open grate was replaced by a wood-burning stove . |
| 9 | When they are quite innocent of certain events they are unfortunately blamed by the public in those areas , and they are seen as damaging the countryside and they are seen also they do not encourage the matter when you envisage the fact that they have these erm , for instance , animals — the dogs around their sites which are not noted for their behaviour , and there are many aspects of their behaviour which upset people around . |
| 10 | For much of their engagement his royal duties had taken him away from her side . |
| 11 | Later the hierarchy made it clear that the basis for their objections was the increase in power by the state vis-à-vis the liberty and self-reliance of its citizens which such legislation would entail . |
| 12 | In the comfort of its lair its powerful jaws were soon mangling the puny chest and shoulders of the dead Annamese into a bloody pulp . |
| 13 | Just the sight of him , his height and the strength she had gauged so intimately , and his darkness , emphasised by the light colours of his casual clothing , provoked the yearning , that molten clamouring throb of hidden flesh , with the anguished clenching of her heart its emotional counterpart . |
| 14 | As he raised her hand towards his mouth his grey eyes widened , then gleamed with laughter as he saw the state it was in . |
| 15 | Taniguchi was adopted at eight and although his conscious mind has no memory of his past his unconscious mind keeps regurgitating unfortunate images of cruelty . |
| 16 | Dawn had just broken and Sir John , unable to sleep , had risen early to confer with Alderman Venables about the continued disappearance of Roger Droxford , still wanted for the murder of his master whose decapitated corpse Cranston had found . |
| 17 | When he carne back from what was to be his last visit to the city of his youth his high temperature had worsened and he was advised to rest by the club doctor . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's proved that he is capable of scoring goals and although he can improve on the defensive side of his game his passing skills are a tremendous asset . ’ |
| 19 | At the height of his career his whole estate , including his patrimony , was probably worth rather more than £1,300 a year . |
| 20 | Quite apart from their aesthetic values as part of the overall design of your documents their primary function is as a conveyer of information . |
| 21 | When you think of your enemies your first thought is of certain identifiable men and groups of men , is that not so ? ’ |
| 22 | Other world is the half of your world which few mortals enter , for they do not know the way ; and it is ruled by powers of light . |
| 23 | Consider one major multi-national corporate of our acquaintance whose IBM-only purchasing policy was recently changed , if only slightly . |
| 24 | Erm I do see there would be problems if there 's a lot of land released in the Northern part of North Yorkshire and Hambleton , in terms of our meeting our own objectives . |
| 25 | Despite our growth our financial problems became acute when we bought a computer , we needed to handle all our administration , and began running up against our overdraft limit . |
| 26 | Walker was baptised a Presbyterian but throughout her life her religious faith grew ever broader in its outlook . |
| 27 | Throughout our discussions my Working Group was very anxious to compose chapters which would make clear our rationale to teachers and politicians of good will . |
| 28 | stuff keep the half way up my back its all padding and stuff and I 've rolled over , as I 've rolled over there 's been another one it has gone off , it felt like I 've been kicked in the back by somebody really having a go at me , it threw me and even with all that I had a like that so there not , there not kiddy toys . |
| 29 | I frequently give into their hands my best guns and never found them in the slightest degree disposed to take advantage . |
| 30 | Shocked is coming to terms with her loss her own way . |