Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun pl] of [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 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | During my earlier periods of unemployment I had always , on a point of pride , provided for myself out of my savings . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | What on earth they had been doing all this time before being consumed with their mad dreams of conquest I do not know . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I noticed , however , that despite his own years of allegiance he was still an AC2 like myself |
| 10 | But within his own terms of reference he was well informed and attentive . |
| 11 | When Sabin developed his attenuated strains of polio he energetically pursued his goal of making them widely accepted as vaccine strains . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |