Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing was as before because he was there and if I did not persevere with my patronising offers of involvement it was because my confusion was worsening , the patch on my spirit growing . |
| 2 | ‘ In terms of my 30 years in stockbroking I think the past three years have been the most interesting , if interesting is the right word . |
| 3 | To Greeves , the orthodox believer , he wrote in January 1930 , ‘ In spite of all my recent changes of view I am still inclined to think that you can only get what you call Christ out of the Gospels by picking and choosing and slurring over a good deal . ’ |
| 4 | In my 14 years of support I finally got to come close to her in 1991 at Wimbledon when she took time out to meet her fans . |
| 5 | During my earlier periods of unemployment I had always , on a point of pride , provided for myself out of my savings . |
| 6 | It will be important for marketers to assess the experience of customers with their particular products in case it possesses some unsatisfactory performance or operating characteristic to which customers will eventually build up resistance . |
| 7 | Forestry is to a certain extent in conflict with agriculture not only because it removes large areas of land from farming for 50 or more years , but also because in its modern forms of organisation it tends to employ fewer local people . |
| 8 | What on earth they had been doing all this time before being consumed with their mad dreams of conquest I do not know . |
| 9 | But as a first-half Merson free kick ricocheted to him eight yards from goal he miscued . |
| 10 | Mr Wang , 23 , looking relaxed but pale , told reporters that despite his three-and-a-half years in prison he still believed in the principles of democracy . |
| 11 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 12 | He was First Commissioner in the Derby Governments of 1852 , 1858–9 and 1866–8 , and in his later years in Parliament he held various other government posts . |
| 13 | " My dear , in a moment I shall have to call one of the bearers to assist Mr Hopkins with his natural functions in case it should be necessary . |
| 14 | Though Jaq , in his role as a Trader , pretended to patronize a mistress , the reality was that during his thirty-five years of life he had only bedded one woman — almost on an experimental basis so that he should at least be acquainted with the spasm of sex . |
| 15 | In his ten years with Intelligence he rose to the rank of colonel , but his superiors ' prejudice against his British ancestry and education became unbearable and he resigned to take up the post offered to him with UNACO . |
| 16 | In his 50 years of Trotskyism he made not one small dent in the capitalist system , but he mortally wounded the movement he claimed to lead . |
| 17 | If Reagan did prove bellicose during his first terms as President he was amply repaid by the Kremlin whose ageing leaders appeared unable to take any positive initiatives . |
| 18 | During his five years in office he combined vigorous measures to suppress continuing disorder with efforts to promote a programme of reforms which he hoped would prevent a recurrence of the upheaval of 1905 . |
| 19 | I noticed , however , that despite his own years of allegiance he was still an AC2 like myself |
| 20 | But within his own terms of reference he was well informed and attentive . |
| 21 | When Sabin developed his attenuated strains of polio he energetically pursued his goal of making them widely accepted as vaccine strains . |
| 22 | When they entered the jungle again , the Moi several times spotted banteng , but what few traces of seladang they found proved to be cold trails . |
| 23 | When you all have to wear the same uniform , there is n't a great deal you can do to make yourself stand out from the crowd , but we did our best , washing and setting each other 's hair and sharing out what precious bits of makeup we owned . |
| 24 | The sort of questions your adviser will ask are : whether you are investing for income now or capital growth in the future ; whether you need to go for absolute security with every penny you have or whether you can afford slightly more risky investments in the hope of making more money in the long run ; what other sources of income you have , or might expect to receive . |
| 25 | To cover our confusion and to keep our emotional needs under control we deal with them by using stock phrases . |
| 26 | As we biotechnologicalise our existing forces of production we may well one day come to extend Marx 's aphorism by adding : and the advanced bioreactor ( fermenter ) gives you society with the Ecotopian . |
| 27 | It needs to be done but do you know what I mean , if you do n't your important things on time they become urgent |