Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the mesh , she told Sally the next time she saw her , I 'm sorry I made that mistake about you having a sister she said to Sally , I 've written to tell mother you 've said you have n't one she must of been mistaken what your mother said . |
| 2 | I well remember going as a new convert into a Baptist church for the first time : how strange I found that row of five deacons ' chairs which dominated the scene , and even stranger the little cups for communion . |
| 3 | Up till about 1980 I had little experience of float fishing for big bream , and I do n't recall ever having read anything on the subject . |
| 4 | As a child of the Thirties I heard much talk of J.P.M. and Fred Shaw ( the NCLC Organiser ) , Plebs and the Railway Service Journal — and the Manchester Guardian — were as much a part of my youthful literary life as Mickey Mouse and Film Fun . |
| 5 | At the far end , once again my , detector gave a nice small signal , quite different from the copper halfpennies , and as I dug down to retrieve this I had some idea in mind that this might be a hammered . |
| 6 | Doctor : ‘ I 'm afraid I have bad news for you Mr Bristow . |
| 7 | He stepped forward , said in a deep , smoky voice , ‘ Miss Swift , I 'm afraid I have bad news for you . |
| 8 | For this you turn sharp right off the road from Saint-Jean to Saint-Palais , about half-way between those two towns . |
| 9 | In general , in three-variable contingency tables , to find the direct effect of X 1 on Y controlling for X 2 we consider each category of X 2 in turn , and subtract the proportion who are Y in the base category of X 1 from the proportion who are Y in the non-base category of X 1 . |
| 10 | He served Rome well but because of this he received hostile opposition from some Jews , especially the Pharisees . |
| 11 | By this he gives clear evidence of his innate greatness of soul . |
| 12 | For a period after this he stopped inviting Bobby for meals at Lyons and took Eric Verrico instead . |
| 13 | In charge of works after the collapse of the central tower in 1237–9 he remained chief master at least until Christmas 1257 , described as ‘ cementarius magister operis ’ and ‘ magister fabrice ’ . |
| 14 | In public he expressed great contempt for the system , but he made use of it to an immoderate degree , particularly by bestowing honours — undue honours — on the least worthy of his personal friends and particularly if the suggestion was made by anyone close to him . |
| 15 | In public he paid handsome tribute to Modigliani , but the truth of their private relations is more tangled . |
| 16 | The United Kingdom imposed visa restrictions from Nov. 8 on former Yugoslavs except holders of Croatian and Slovenian passports and agreed to take only 150 refugees plus their dependants ; on Nov. 30 it increased this number to 1,000 plus dependants for temporary asylum . |
| 17 | Now 12 years old he carries top weight in the Maze Handicap Hurdle . |
| 18 | During the nineteen-twenties she spent some time in London , and after her second husband , Maurice Platner , died in 1929 she moved to Johannesburg , where she died in 1932 . |
| 19 | In her room Sally eventually managed to get out of her dress though her hands were trembling so much she had great difficulty with the zipper . |
| 20 | 7 They put some emphasis on consumer choice . |
| 21 | As such it provided further evidence of a more flexible North Korean foreign policy arising in response to the momentous changes in Eastern Europe , and to South Korea 's recent successes in establishing relations with socialist countries . |
| 22 | On 30 April 1991 he sought legal advice from Marshalls concerning an order that he attend before the court in Manchester for examination by the liquidator of the company . |
| 23 | In 1660 he defended free grace in two public disputations at Allhallows against John Goodwin [ q.v. ] , the champion of free will . |
| 24 | Three years later he returned to Manchester New College , and in 1888 he became assistant minister to Philip Wicksteed in Little Portland Street , London . |
| 25 | On 17 July 1054 he consecrated Godric abbot of Winchcombe , having held the abbey himself since the death of Abbot Godwin in 1053 . |
| 26 | In August 1648 he suppressed Royalist activity in the area and in August 1651 he firmly rebutted the entreaties of Charles Stuart and his army . |
| 27 | On Dec. 7 he put this intention into action by visiting Amritsar , accompanied by his most senior ministers , where he received a warm welcome from large crowds . |
| 28 | ‘ Sorry you feel that way about it , Mark . |
| 29 | If you get married in a registry office , which I did , you do n't say an , in England , you do n't say anything other than that you take this chap to be your husband , and you interpret that to be as you wish . |
| 30 | If you sell product like that you get more hassle with it . |