Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know no man since the apostles ’ days , ’ wrote Baxter , ‘ whom I honour more than Calvin , and whose judgment in all things , one with another , I more esteem and come nearer to . ’ |
| 2 | Not even that low humming sound which I knew sure as hell was n't the thermostat on the fridge . |
| 3 | I tell you , I 've had Sound Citys , which were garbage , Marshall , which I found unreliable and kind of loud , Roland Jazz Chorus 120s — I 've used those live with the distortion button turned on — and I had a Music Man amp for a while . |
| 4 | He was forever in demand , in spite of which he remained affable and good-tempered . |
| 5 | At issue is one small , but key part of the European Commission 's plan for an alignment of Value Added Tax ( VAT ) and Excise rates in the 12 member states , which it considers essential if frontier checks on traders are to be abolished after 1992 . |
| 6 | After one or two early passages of arms , when Wheeler had first come into the post , in which it became apparent that Wheeler was prepared to be a good deal nastier to Ian than Ian was to him , Ian had settled for a civil service manner in which he made no attempt to contribute to the department 's thinking . |
| 7 | All it took was for one saleslady to tell her she looked lovely and Mrs McMahon was persuaded . |
| 8 | Here the opposition isolated by the Formalists is between what they call fabula and syuzhet , and concerns the organization and the presentation of the narrative ( more of this later ) . |