Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dangle assorted objects from string near him , so he just has to reach forward slightly to hit them . |
| 2 | ( 27 November 1777 ) Among his complaints were that Mozart and his mother had stayed too long in Munich and Augsburg using up their money on lodging expenses without having any means of earning money , that Mozart was not keeping him fully apprised of exactly where his plans lay , how he was proposing to get from one place to another and by which route and when , that he was not keeping up with his composition , nor arranging to have existing works copied so that he could present them to an influential Prince or noble , and that he had not taken the right sorts of composition with him — too many symphonies and not enough church music . |
| 3 | He , and the leaders of the extremist parties in coalition with him , are motivated primarily by ideology . |
| 4 | For the first time in over sixteen years , Elaine showed some signs of interest in him ! |
| 5 | However , the Dragons have not scored in nearly 12 hours of football without him , taking just one point from the last eight games to sink back into the bottom three . |
| 6 | By a notice of appeal dated 23 April 1992 the Treasury Solicitor appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) on a true construction of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 the court was precluded from making the order for examination ; ( 2 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in making the order and in holding that ( i ) it was possible to interpret section 9(4) of the Act so as not to preclude the order sought , ( ii ) the exclusion contained in section 9(4) was restricted to cases where the actual capacity in which the witness was called on to give evidence was a Crown capacity and that the fact that the evidence sought was acquired in the course of the witness 's employment as a servant of the Crown was not of itself sufficient to bring the case within the exclusion , ( iii ) the fact that the witness was now retired from his position was relevant to the question whether the exclusion in section 9(4) applied , ( iv ) if some other interpretation were possible , it would be unacceptable to approach section 9(4) as requiring the court to refuse to make the order that a witness who was competent and compellable within the United Kingdom should give evidence for foreign proceedings , ( v ) there was nothing in the material sought to be given in evidence which it could have been the policy or intention of the Act to have prevented being explored ; ( 3 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in approaching the question of capacity by concentrating on the position of the witness at the time that the evidence was to be given as opposed to the position of the witness at the time that he acquired the information which was the subject matter of the evidence and the nature content and source of such evidence ; ( 4 ) the judge had wrongly ignored the fact that the Crown as a party to the Hague Convention was in a position to give effect to it and to provide evidence to foreign courts in accordance with it without recourse to the court ; and ( 5 ) the judge had wrongly approached section 9(4) on the footing that it most likely addressed prejudice to the sovereignty of the state . |
| 7 | I agree but I think that anybody who speaks in public , you have nervousness beforehand and the moment you go to talk to the people you know what you 're going to say , you have a few notes in front of you and you talk to the people , if that is your job . |
| 8 | I looked round very carefully but could see nothing , so I turned back on the tail of the nearest Hun , who was chasing some Hurricanes in front of him . |
| 9 | They were at floor-level , and beyond the empty ranks of seats above them the only light came from two dim green EXIT signs . |
| 10 | He saw 2 cars in front of him and said one car , which was driven by Anthony Gallagher , had indicated left but pulled out in front of him . |
| 11 | She came back slowly , thoughtfully , and stood a few paces in front of him as she lit up . |
| 12 | ‘ The young man you saw merely exchanged a few words in English with me , and his arm was on the back of the seat — not cuddling me ! |
| 13 | They were close up to the car when the brown-haired man of average build left his car and Ven Gajdusek halted to exchange a few words in Czech with him . |
| 14 | Then an orange light flares in front of them , and I know some joker has thrown the first Molotov . |
| 15 | And of course we have seen that Wittgenstein wanted to show it impossible that there should be beings who behave like us but have no sensations or different sorts of experiences from ours . |
| 16 | There 's quite a few restaurants with people in them having their tea . |
| 17 | If the responses of a set of representative elements are statistically independent of each other , it becomes relatively easy to form reliable associations with combinations of them , whereas this is much more difficult when the responses show strong correlations . |
| 18 | Soon the mist grew thicker and he could see only a few feet in front of him . |
| 19 | Choosing to turn a blind eye to the unlikely drama that was unfolding a few feet in front of her , she merely expressed her gratitude for the imitation topaz bangle that she 'd just unwrapped , before turning on her heels and heading downstairs to catch the special seasonal episode of Crossroads . |
| 20 | But there were no unpleasant surprises in store for me , and the 500-mile trip turned out to be the most leisurely and enjoyable drive I have had for ages . |
| 21 | There was little Luch could do , apart from laying aside a few blocks of honeycomb for her . |
| 22 | Recently a small choir school has been founded by a Greek Orthodox church in London in order to provide trained singers for churches without them . |
| 23 | The need to monitor that experiment and the conviction that the court would benefit from improved lines of communication between it and those who used the court , either as practitioners or as litigants , had led to the establishment of a Court of Appeal Users ' Committee , representative of both , which would have its first meeting later this month . |
| 24 | The couple have run Ronald Richardson Jewellers for 16 years and have 140 years of tradition behind them . |
| 25 | Emma acquires the greyhound while she and Charles are still living at Tostes : the time of early , inchoate stirrings of dissatisfaction within her ; the time of boredom and discontent , but not yet of corruption . |
| 26 | There was four different colours of doors on them . |
| 27 | He 's gon na have some colours on top of them . |
| 28 | As regards the substantial outside assistance to the Western Isles , one wonders whether a small part of it might not usefully be redirected to subsidising the high costs of transport between them and the mainland . |
| 29 | We are all aware to some degree of the daily rhythms of nature around us . |
| 30 | You say that you found interstellar space being pretty cold , there are some variations of temperature within it , are n't there ? |