Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [conj] [noun] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm excited about my future as God reveals more of his plan for my life . |
| 2 | In other words , he wrote , am I right or wrong to see this as decisive ? |
| 3 | I 'm not saying I chose an affair expressly to ward off the 30th birthday blues , but my age and stage contributed more than mere chance . |
| 4 | I yelled at the top of my voice and Jean got such a fright she sent the Cortina swerving all over the road . |
| 5 | For instance having retired to this lovely English village , and assembled my wits and memories to compile this narrative , I have had the satisfaction recently of discovering the original meaning of three common expressions which I have been using for years . |
| 6 | No that 's where my mother and sister live that one . |
| 7 | In one way or another however the credit industry now sees the need to adjust its attitudes and behaviour to incorporate more advice work , and to build on its shared interests with advice agencies . |
| 8 | Surely , it may be argued , its board and owners have more in common with the board and owners of a similar firm with headquarters in New York than with workers or self-employed professional people in the UK . |
| 9 | It needs to make up its mind whether Greece has some special purpose in the world , apart from survival , and if so how this purpose fits into the wider patterns of Europe . |
| 10 | They were just finishing their lunch and Barton chose this moment to walk over to their table . |
| 11 | Given this , Whitelocke was lucky to escape prosecution at the Restoration ; to the credit of both , he and Charles II made their peace when Whitelocke returned some royal manuscripts that he had saved from plunder and lectured the king about Welsh , which he said was ‘ his Majesty 's more ancient native language than English ’ . |
| 12 | ONE-THIRD of the vegetables grown by Londoners in their gardens and allotments contain more lead than is allowed in current food regulations . |
| 13 | On the other hand , although a herb garden grown entirely for its fragrances and aromas does little to conserve the environment , it will contain such plants as the scented roses ( the more strongly perfumed they are , the better ) — the damask rose ( Rosa damascena ) , and the cabbage rose ( R. centifolia ) ; also lavender ; lily-of-the-valley ; jasmine ( Jasminum officinale ) ; and border pink ( Dianthus caryophyllus ) . |
| 14 | On another dispute over foreign access to public utility contracts , on which Washington and Brussels accuse each other of discriminatory treatment , officials of the two sides finished two days of inconclusive talks in Washington on Wednesday . |
| 15 | The US Environmental Protection Agency began its investigation after evidence emerged that Craven may have " falsified residue and environmental fate studies " for firms hoping to get their pesticides approved . |
| 16 | They ate , they drank , they took their clothes off , Emily put on her stockings and Preston piled more logs on tie fire . |
| 17 | This was a literary dining club , to which Tolkien and Lewis had both , on different occasions , been invited as guests . |
| 18 | That adjourned meeting should be so fixed as to allow those who had not timeously lodged their applications or objections to have these applications or objections timeously lodged for the adjourned meeting of the board . |
| 19 | Her cries and thumps awakened both children , and when they started to cry , Charlotte screamed at her . |
| 20 | ( Their powers and duties resemble those given to English and Welsh school governors by the 1986 Education Act rather than those given by the 1988 Education Reform Act . ) |
| 21 | Once in position they were to form a cordon , await his radio command , then beat their way back towards the highway , creating as much disturbance as possible with their flashlights and guns to drive any fugitives ahead of them . |
| 22 | Some employees believe that the trauma of uprooting their families and homes outweighs any benefits that may be gained by taking up a new position ( possibly a promotion ) somewhere else in the country . |
| 23 | Indeed , despite their arguments that bile had little role in the pathogenesis of oesophagitis the data of Gotley et al show that 75% of patients with gastrooesophageal reflux disease do have bile in their reflux aspirates at concentrations >30 µmol/l and that higher concentrations of bile were more common at night , at which time our gastric pH profiles show greatest alkalinity . |
| 24 | As a result , Sranan bears little resemblance to English : its grammar and phonology have more in common with the African languages of the original slave population than with English , and its vocabulary , though largely English in origin , has undergone alterations which make it sound very unlike English : Sranan kondre na wan asi-tere ; wan dey a way so , a trawan a way so . |
| 25 | The extent to which patients and doctors understand each other varies . |
| 26 | Once the principle had been accepted , the main practical difficulty was seen as how to distinguish between innocent victims of assault and ‘ fraudulent and guilty ’ victims , such as criminals fighting over their spoils or men beating each other up in gang warfare . |
| 27 | Gnomic , succinct , its puns and allusions introduced all the themes she must develop , yet it remained abstract enough for her mind to keep firm purchase on her errant feelings . |
| 28 | The Turkoman nomads were no respecters of national frontiers , and their territory and influence spanned much of Central Asia . |
| 29 | BSDI , which the USL suit suggests is in collusion with CSRG , declines to publicly identify any of its founders or investors declaring such information ‘ proprietary ’ on the basis that BSDI is a closely held company . |
| 30 | The mythologies of tragic sacrifice that have coalesced around gay writers like Oscar Wilde and Joe Orton tend only to impede a fully contextual understanding of how their sexuality and textuality inform each other . |