Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oswald , whom Bede regarded as the fifth overlord of the peoples south of the Humber and described as ruling within the same bounds as Eadwine ( HE 11 , 5 ) , clearly became on this testimony as powerful a ruler as Eadwine had been , but on his accession he faced an immediate challenge in midland and eastern England from Penda . |
| 2 | Bought my Paradise Lost in a second hand book and I ga , shop , and I gave it to Marion . |
| 3 | Such is the power of suggestion that that night as I neared the top of the staircase , my foot stumbled on the last step but one . |
| 4 | With hindsight , she says : ‘ I wished I 'd kept my mouth shut in the first three weeks . |
| 5 | I 'd not done an adaptation before and my fears grew with the first reading of the book , simply because of the enormity of the task . ’ |
| 6 | You 've made my life complete for the first time since your mother died . ’ |
| 7 | On 26 April 1991 the Bank of England , who have entered the action as interveners pursuant to my order made on the first day of the hearing last Tuesday , served on the defendants a notice pursuant to section 39(3) ( a ) of the Banking Act 1987 , requiring them to produce at Threadneedle Street at noon on 9 May 1991 a number of specified documents ( comprising all or some of the documents covered by the injunction ) and stated to concern or relate to the accounts or related business of seven of the plaintiffs including A , on the ground that they were reasonably required by the Bank of England for the performance of its functions under the Act . |
| 8 | As one lecturer put it , ‘ I do n't want one of my students working for a first to have the achievement marred because it was ‘ only a 1.2 ’ . ’ |
| 9 | The war came nearer and my family went with the last train out of Maymyo , with hundreds of Anglo-Burman mothers and children proceeding northwards to Shwebo or Myitkyina for air evacuation to Assam . |
| 10 | Where their profits were associated with service to the Empire , their operations reverted to the nineteenth century ‘ tradition ’ of patriotic capitalism . |
| 11 | His arguments for the existence of God developed the ‘ Ontological Argument ’ of Anselm into the form which Kant criticised in the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | He smiled and Robyn watched and felt her heart stop for the hundredth time . |
| 13 | ‘ Her mum arrived on the fourth day of the honeymoon , ’ he said . |
| 14 | The publication in April of Poems on Various Subjects , its preface written at the last moment in Cottle 's bookshop , was a genuine cause for satisfaction and received enthusiastic reviews . |
| 15 | On CD at present there are discs by Haitink , Järvi and Maxim Shostakovich among others , all of them sonically impressive but not always possessed of the brooding tension which Rostropovich brings to the first movement . |
| 16 | The Damiani family made their decision to leave in the third week of April after snipers in Tel Aviv began shooting into the centre of Jaffa , sending at least one bullet into David Damiani 's home . |
| 17 | Their friendship continued for the next few days . |
| 18 | The ‘ central zone ’ went the same way during March , its collapse preceded by a second ‘ civil war within the Civil War ’ : a tragicomic affair in which ‘ rebels ’ under Colonel Casado , anxious to negotiate a surrender , engineered a coup and then clashed with Communists eager to fight to the last . |
| 19 | Within minutes of the result being known , Mrs Thatcher ( still in Paris ) had announced her intention to stand in the second ballot and Hurd , with her in Paris , had declared that she continued to have his full support . |
| 20 | Her eyes flickered for a split-second to see Lucenzo 's reaction . |
| 21 | In deciding which combinations to take after the first year of study , applicants should be aware of the entry requirements for both subjects . |
| 22 | New Zealand captain Martin Crowe has agreed to coach Italy 's national cricket team for the next two months to help their bid to qualify for the next World Cup in 1996 . |
| 23 | Their heyday lasted for the first five years of the Eighties , when they scored the incredible total of 20 consecutive Top 20 hits . |
| 24 | A hole in the wall , through which light shone from the next room . |
| 25 | Their goals came in the first half , Scot Sammy Johnston opening his account for the club and |
| 26 | Its onset coincides with the first appearance of Zea pollen . |
| 27 | BRIGADE batsmen Marshall Kilgore and Stephen Smyth hit top form at the weekend as their club cruised into the third round of the All Ireland Schweppes Cup . |
| 28 | Claudia lying in her hut listening for the first sounds of life . |
| 29 | In an attempt to win the people over from Bogomilism , the Hungarians introduced the Franciscans into Bosnia , and their influence continued into the twentieth century . |
| 30 | Their escape ended on the seventh circuit and during a hectic last couple of laps in which there were a number of attacks by Andrew Moss ( Ballymena RC ) Movilla 's John West , Mark Smyth ( Newry , O'Rourke 's ) and Jonathan Kenny ( Movilla ) , it was left to the sprint with Fullerton just shading the decision ahead of Brennan . |