Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | America , where there appear to be more grossly obese people than in Britain ( by which I mean those around double their desirable body weight , rather than just a couple of stones overweight ) , is an excellent place to observe this eating-speed phenomenon . |
| 2 | With only one to go , I asked the doctor from Cairo if he 'd like a dekko down the eyepiece , but he declined , which I found surprising in view of the scarcity of polyps in Egypt . |
| 3 | Commenting on a considerable drop in sales at a book fair , one experienced bookman wrote about these travel books : ‘ That such a range of books which I find boring beyond belief — I prefer to call them non-books — was due for a shake-out , appeared inevitable to me . ’ |
| 4 | It is this , in the end , which I find disquieting about Callinicos ' book . |
| 5 | You are able to order copies of these programs , for which you pay 2.50 per disc duplication costs , to enable you to test the full package before you buy . |
| 6 | So Bedford , Leeds , Norwich , Hastings , Weymouth , are added to the places from which you travel electric to London , perhaps not so bad a score for the decade . |
| 7 | Like most expatriate wives Molly Fletcher had a collection of sound and video cassettes which she had pre-recorded at home . |
| 8 | The whales of which we saw several in Bay together with grampuses and porpoises are all novelties . |
| 9 | He placed the course in what was , to our minds , a very reasonable perspective , saying that we were here to teach our particular specialities , but obviously there would have to be give and take , in that we would adapt ourselves to the students ' needs , and they would adapt themselves in turn to the sort of thing which we felt capable of teaching . |
| 10 | We planned and performed our audit so as to obtain all the information and explanations which we considered necessary in order to provide us with sufficient evidence to give reasonable assurance that the accounts are free from material misstatement , whether caused by fraud or other irregularity or error . |
| 11 | The fact that we must spend time in activities or surroundings which we find distasteful in support of a relationship is the cost of that relationship . |
| 12 | They live their first few months in the river , then migrate downstream to the sea ; they spend two or three years in feeding and growing out at sea , during which they cover thousands of miles ; and when mature , they migrate back to exactly the same river , and same tributary , as they were born in . |
| 13 | They were delighted and impressed by the Medau demonstration , which inspired a visit to the Medau Summer School held at Cromer from which they returned full of praise for those bodies in blue tunics ! |
| 14 | We have traced the processes by which they become turbulent in Sections 17.6–17.8 and Chapter 18 . |
| 15 | Some people thought that with the mitre on his white hair he looked like one of the effigies on the tombs of the prelates which they met recumbent in cathedrals , and fancied that here was a bishop out of the Middle Ages . |
| 16 | It would appear from investigations that this government in nineteen eighty four did a deal with the E E C to close down shipyards in future years , for which they received millions of pounds from E E C funds , and they never used them for the purposes they were supposed to be used for . |
| 17 | England got the all-important shot that took them through to the final which they lost 19-8 to Ireland . |
| 18 | the Directors be authorised to establish any further employee share option scheme which they consider appropriate for employees of the Company or any subsidiary or associate of the Company who are resident or working outside the United Kingdom , provided that : |
| 19 | Spells as a curate in Doncaster and Ipswich were followed by three years as chaplain at St Andrew 's in Kowloon , 1929–31 , during which he studied Chinese at Hong Kong University . |
| 20 | He could have sat down with only one of them and achieved the same guidance on weight and machining capability , but three of them came to the meeting , which he thought typical of engineers . |
| 21 | The most striking features of Chaplin 's film career were the rapidity with which he became popular outside America and the way in which he very soon became a favourite of intellectuals . |
| 22 | Brotherston 's data for Scotland showed that working-class mothers were not only less likely to attend ante-natal clinics than middle-class mothers , but that when they did they were also less likely to make early bookings — a fact which he considers relevant to infant mortality . |
| 23 | After a Goodwood win last May Brittain considered it worth letting him take his chance in the Budweiser Irish Derby in which he finished eighth to St Jovite and Dr Devious . |
| 24 | Tomorrow Gooch is due to bequeath the bat with which he made 333 against India in the Test here two years ago to the Lord 's museum . |
| 25 | Graham Gooch has presented to the Lord 's Museum the bat with which he made 333 against India in 1990 . |
| 26 | — Now you shall see , but take this by the way — He came home this Morning at his usual Hour of Four , waken 'd me out of a sweet Dream of something else , by tumbling over the Tea-table , which he broke all to pieces , after his Man and he had rowl 'd about the Room like sick Passengers in a Storm , he comes flounce into Bed , dead as a Salmon into a Fishmonger 's Basket ; his Feet cold as Ice , his Breath hot as a Furnace , and his hands and Face as greasy as his Flanel Night-cap. — O Matrimony ! |
| 27 | Miss Geyer writes : ‘ The new thing in history that Castro did was to destroy the Communist Party and create his own Fidelista Party , which he called Communist in order to stand up against the United States and to gain backing and to borrow power from the Soviet Union ’ . |
| 28 | Nobody would now hold them responsible for the Revolution in France , but the Encyclopedie , which Diderot inaugurated ( and edited with D'Alembert ) and to which he contributed hundreds of articles himself , undermined the authority of the regime , and argued for a re-ordering of society on rational grounds . |
| 29 | Arthur Wilson was better known to thousands , perhaps millions , of his countrymen in Britain and Ireland as ‘ Faed ’ , the pen-name by which he contributed hundreds of articles on cycling to cycling magazines , including his own , and published books on the sport . |
| 30 | It was again the bottom drawer in which he found most of interest . |