Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , where it cut the highway , the steep bank of the river would give them protection from the full force of the hurricane . |
| 2 | It should acknowledge that there are conflicts between critical approaches , and should make the students ' confrontation of them part of the pedagogic process . |
| 3 | Play another sound effect — perhaps a door opening , keys jangling , a car moving off , a bomb exploding , or a dog barking — and it becomes difficult not to link the two sounds together and make them part of the same story . |
| 4 | I hate doing that , drives me up the wall the first bit cos I 've got all them houses in the first bit have n't I ? |
| 5 | For these stories plus the rest of the news , join me Ben for the extended bulletin at five on Trent F M. |
| 6 | Their dossiers should be kept complete , as complete as those of my friends to whom copies of the present missive have been sent . |
| 7 | Was there a secret reason that made them hanker for a new life in a new world ? |
| 8 | Swindle was too crude , for if the plan worked , no one would lose a penny ; all that would have happened was that a few banks would inadvertently have lent them money for an undefined period . |
| 9 | Baldwin showed them some of the curiosities of the house and gave them tea in the Long Gallery , which lie described with more pride than accuracy as ‘ the finest room in England ’ . |
| 10 | What is beyond dispute is that the portfolio valuations benefited on two counts : firstly through translation of foreign share holdings into sterling at more advantageous rates , and secondly through the appreciation of the shares of those companies whose large overseas involvement made them beneficiaries of a lower pound . |
| 11 | The drunken porter allowing them entrance after the usual altercation . |
| 12 | The following day it gained me entrance to the main gate of the embassy . |
| 13 | In competition it is to my advantage to feel for others as little as possible , an advantage which outweighs my dread of a growing isolation . |
| 14 | As an Englishman I express my subordination to the political authority under which I live by paying a certain fraction of my money income to the appropriate official . |
| 15 | ‘ After that I told Sir Alfred of my plans for a monocoque car for the next season , and got a sour letter back saying we had to win another grand prix before we talked about anything . |
| 16 | Fortunately their approach coincided with my plans for a charitable foundation to buy art for Britain . |
| 17 | This episode has not changed my attitude to the job of managing Celtic and I will be going before the board at a later date to give them my plans for the immediate future . ’ |
| 18 | With this in mind , I sent my plans to the Special Air Service Regiment , reputedly the best collective authority in Britain on desert survival , and asked them to comment . |
| 19 | What I 'll do when I 'm , if all the if signs and buts are covered , I will put the mike on it 's stand when I 'm working tomorrow , put it on the desk and put the recorder in the , in my briefcase underneath the little desk |
| 20 | ‘ And love of the man twisted my heart into a dry rope . |
| 21 | And it 's been on my heart for a long time to save . |
| 22 | But I could not bear to be supplanted in a view that lay next to my heart by an old acquaintance . |
| 23 | I could not weep , though grief lay on my heart like a heavy stone . |
| 24 | I wish I 'd not had to lie to my poor Norman , but he did n't question my story about a long-lost godchild and assured me he had no need of my money . |
| 25 | PRICE : £2.39/250ml ‘ I left the conditioner on for 15 minutes and wrapped my hair in a hot towel . |
| 26 | ‘ I put my views to the Chief Secretary , ’ he said calmly , ‘ before he left for London . |
| 27 | You have a love bite on your neck , yet you go on asking me for my views on the multicultural society , on secularism , on Darcian Monetarism . |
| 28 | Thank you for inviting my views on the above consultation document . |
| 29 | A few days later I did question Shadwell about the possibility of not being covered in shit for my debut as a professional actor . |
| 30 | [ Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence , My Part in a Changing World , 1938 ; Vera Brittain , Pethick-Lawrence : a Portrait , 1963 ; Roger Fulford , Votes for Women , 1957 ; Sylvia Pankhurst , The Suffragette Movement , 1931 ; Brian Harrison , Prudent Revolutionaries , 1987 . ] |