Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wedding and funeral forms , sent in by the families , were passed to me for transposing into the accepted cliches . |
| 2 | ‘ My brother said nothing to me about acting as a romantic go-between . |
| 3 | Until , that is , he realises what he has done , and feels cross with himself for walking into an emotional trap of his own unconscious devising . |
| 4 | Although invited by the Liberal Party to be their candidate for the Clapham Division 20 years ago or more , [ he ] was unable to accept the invitation , and contented himself with speaking for the Liberal or Progressive candidate at every available opportunity in many elections . |
| 5 | He prides himself on delivering on the optimum date to balance the welfare of mother and baby , and his percentage of vaginal deliveries over Caesarean is amazingly high — which is great , these days . |
| 6 | He had managed to dislodge the noose from his neck and save himself by jumping into the freezing water below . |
| 7 | In arable districts most usable lad must already have been taken up , and with the commons jealously guarded by farmers to whom they were essential for keeping the animals on which cultivation depended , the landless man stood a better chance of carving a niche for himself by drifting to a less-developed , mainly pastoral terrain . |
| 8 | If size of following were proof of quality , then Glazunov would be a candidate for the title of greatest living artist : in Brezhnev 's time ( he was the premier 's favourite artist ) he ingratiated himself by playing on the sentimental Slavic strand in Soviet life with ‘ symphonic canvases [ which ] overflow with the dreams and feeling of the Russian people ’ . |
| 9 | Thank you for caring about a useless old man . ’ |
| 10 | and had you of gone to the wrong company , right |
| 11 | Properly installed — and full instructions accompany the Sleep-safe Smoke Alarm — a smoke detector will warn you of smouldering in the earliest stages of a fire and give you the vital few minutes that really could make the difference between death and survival . |
| 12 | So she advertised it at a knock-down price , and then invented a competitive bid to hurry you into signing on the dotted line . |
| 13 | MAS will , however , advise and assist you in preparing for the initial meeting . |
| 14 | There was also a straight and direct access route by way of a corridor in the middle of the West Wing , whereas at Knossos there was a long and circuitous route by way of the Procession Corridor , which doubles back on itself before arriving at the southern end of the Central Court ; the Phaistos entrance seems closer in spirit to the more direct west-east access corridor of the Knossos First Temple . |
| 15 | The value was set as of Oct. 22 at ECU1=NKr7.9940 , and Norway committed itself to remaining within the narrow 2.25 per cent fluctuation band . |
| 16 | An additional complication comes from the fact that Congress has never committed itself to paying for the entire SSC . |
| 17 | The system funds itself by operating on the Royal Bank of Canada 's over-the-counter exchange rates which are not as fine as those obtained by the institution itself . |
| 18 | ‘ He did n't try to talk me into acting as a romantic go-between . ’ |
| 19 | that everybody said it 's something about going to the back door . |
| 20 | It might be something about blending with the efficient American women he had seen around the city or it might be a feeling of exile . |
| 21 | He then spent many years at night in the New York public library searching for an alternative method , and eventually discovered one in reading about the well-known principle of the photoconductor — a substance that will hold a charge of electricity in the dark , but not in the light . |
| 22 | Nonetheless , might neurobiologists in general , and memory researchers in particular , not gain something by concentrating on a limited number of model systems that everyone could agree on ? |
| 23 | Return to any parts that cause residual difficulties and repeat them before moving to the second objective . |
| 24 | However , you will still need to get used to wearing them before embarking on a long trek . |
| 25 | As my wife , my family and I have had a taste of the suffering that Beck can impose on innocent people , will the Minister join me in sending to the real sufferers , the individuals who endured Beck 's homes and whose lives have been wrecked at his hands , the profound sympathy of us all ? |
| 26 | Castlereagh is not notorious , and most people in Northern Ireland will join me in objecting to the hon. Gentleman 's use of that word . |
| 27 | I won enough money in Sweden to at least get a category for the Challenge Tour next year and the experience will help me in qualifying for the European Tour . |
| 28 | ‘ All partners are technically self-employed but in order to prevent them from getting into a frightful mess we deduct a percentage from their drawings , so there is something put aside for tax . |
| 29 | Great Pulteney Street alone is 1,100 feet long and 100 feet wide , though the thin pilasters and applied pediments of Bathwick 's terraces prevent them from ranking alongside the Royal Crescent and the King 's Circus as works of European significance . |
| 30 | Those and many other pressures may distract them from remaining for a long period in the Territorial Army . |