Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone in late eighteenth-century London who was anxious to ‘ insure the removal of barrenness ’ or ‘ improve , exalt , and invigorate the body and through them the mental faculties of the human species ’ , need not have looked further than the Temple of Health where Dr James Graham had constructed what he modestly termed his ‘ medico-magnetico-musico-electrical bed ’ . |
| 2 | For me the chief attractions of this programme were the two pieces by Hans Gàl , whom I knew towards the end of his long and fecund life ( he died in October 1987 , at the age of 97 ) . |
| 3 | He must have looked at both of them a dozen times in the first two minutes . |
| 4 | I 'm glad it was one of my second-hand buys ; it only cost £10 so I suppose I 've had my money 's worth out of it a few times in the garden . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , the old man had a wry sense of humour though on the face of it the other provisions in his will are probably more important . |
| 6 | Below us the broad terraces of Hatshepsut 's temple were set into the curving amphitheatre of the cliffs . |
| 7 | Lot number sixty seven Lot sixty seven is another one there we are , that one showing for you a hundred pounds for this , and ten , twenty , at one hundred and thirty , forty one hundred and forty is bid and selling for one hundred and forty pounds , anybody else at one for one fifty , one sixty going on sir ? |
| 8 | Ever mindful of the utility of involving all the regime 's political " families " in the business of government , Franco distributed amongst them the remaining posts in his 1951 cabinet . |
| 9 | A sailor stood beside the captain , behind them a dozen men in jungle fatigues and black berets . |
| 10 | Behind them the massed troops of the Caliph , their battle cries rising and falling like a demoniac chorus . |
| 11 | Behind him the tartan curtains of the drawing room framed a view of ten yards of sodden lawn and a curtain of heavy rain . |
| 12 | They were facing a mounting legal bill , whereas Cassidy had behind him the huge resources of the diocese — much of it contributed by gays and lesbians , Moreover , the Chancellor 's opinion was clear . |
| 13 | And I use the word ‘ responsibilities ’ rather than ‘ pleasures ’ because whereas no one had ever discussed with me the possible pleasures of sexuality , the responsibilities of adulthood had been habitually stressed , both at home and at school . |
| 14 | I carry with me the tattered remnants of this psychic structure : there is no way of not working hard , nothing in the end but an endurance that will allow me to absorb everything by the way of difficulty , holding on to the grave . |
| 15 | Let's say that you give one of your people a six month project to work on , you 've agreed with them as part of the parameters that you 're going to check with them every two months on it , where do you put those reminders to yourself ? |
| 16 | In most cases these families are poor , but they have brought with them the petit-bourgeois values of financially better-off days , and this has led to an apparently unquenchable materialism . |
| 17 | The new recruits to Labour did not , however , bring with them the institutional structures of Nonconformity which played so important a part in both Liberal and peace politics before 1914 . |
| 18 | Instead , he had dropped her outside the Half Moon in Portesham , exchanged with her a few platitudes about the working week to come , then driven home to Radipole in time for tea with his mother . |
| 19 | During the meeting with him a few months before his death which was recorded in an article published in the London Review , Philip Roth found him as keen as mustard : here was someone who listened , with the intent stillness of a chipmunk . |
| 20 | I could tell him anything , even share with him the contradictory motives within my personality , and he would still love and accept me . |
| 21 | By the time of Safdarjung 's death , the Persian Nadir Shah had been and gone , carrying with him the accumulated riches of eight generations of Empire . |
| 22 | He keeps with him the Thirteen Treasures of Britain which are ancient talismans and magical objects . |
| 23 | With one hand she cleared away from under her the sharp stones of the unpaved road . |
| 24 | This would have been impossible with the yoke-harness , because as soon as the horse begins to pull with it the neck-strap presses on the animal 's windpipe and thus tends not only to restrict the flow of blood to its head , but also to suffocate it ! |
| 25 | The soup came and with it the three bottles of beer he had ordered . |
| 26 | High above us the celestial spheres of satellite communication look down upon us , observing any change in the weather , any reshuffle in the quiver of minutemen missiles in the United States ' desert arsenal , any time Mrs McGinty fails to hang out her Tuesday wash . |
| 27 | Above us the decapitated heads of traitors , crowned with laurels or ivy , gazed down at us , their eyes and mouths turned black by the pecking of ravens . |
| 28 | This state obtains its name from the fact that in it the general conditions of production and consumption , of distribution and exchange remain motionless ; but yet it is full of movement ; for it is a mode of life . |
| 29 | However , no sooner had they built such a machine than they recognised in it the inherent dangers of a heartless device capable of original thought . |
| 30 | ‘ Thus , ’ as J. A. Burrow remarks , ‘ as Duke Humphrey 's guests worked their way through this very unpenitential fish banquet , they were invited to see in it the four courses of their own life 's feast . ’ |