Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sophia went back into the house and came out again with a bowl of washing , from which she shook out a large Union Jack . |
| 2 | ( Daly 1975 , p. 75 ) and ‘ the ability of people to reach destinations at which they carry out a given activity … ’ |
| 3 | He drank some of the vodka before opening another drawer from which he took out a large folder . |
| 4 | His mills had a reputation for supplying everything from newsprint ( for The Times in the 1850s and 1860s ) to security paper , in which he built up a huge export business to Europe , the British empire , and South America for stamps and banknotes ( his customers included almost all the best-known banks ) . |
| 5 | The importance of the notion of the ‘ epic poet ’ is the stress which it puts on an active , creative person who expresses his dreams in verbal form . |
| 6 | you you mounted up a certain amount of debt , you tried to get it paid by the end of the quarter . |
| 7 | Between them they built up a dense network of services , institutions and training and campaign centres with inevitable duplications and therefore the constant need for co-ordination . |
| 8 | When it slammed behind him she let out a long , shaky breath and felt blindly for a chair , afraid she 'd collapse without some means of support . |
| 9 | In Augsburg , he met up with his cousin , Anna Maria Thekla , with whom he struck up a lively — even unbridled — friendship . |
| 10 | He stocks his stores with fresh-faced young assistants to whom he hands down a rigid dress code like a strict father : no nail varnish , no high heels — no dark tights even . |
| 11 | On it he laid out a simple grid of streets with a central site for the new church of St Thomas , surrounded by 61 1 house plots . |