Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nothing I ever heard at home attracts me to literature or the arts . |
| 2 | For a city the nature of York it is vital , in my view , that public confidence in the greenbelt it 's got to endure for beyond thirty years , that is the case I would share the views to some extent of the York City in that , and which I I certainly read into ma'am , your , two of your questions , what happens beyond two thousand and six ? |
| 3 | The third summer I came across greenflies which I easily killed with malathion . |
| 4 | I remember being unable to connect those grainy breasts and pubic hair with anything in my own life — flesh , for instance — but the image gave me a mysterious frisson which I mistakenly took for sex . |
| 5 | Since then he has graduated to writing sequels to E.F.Benson 's Lucia novels , a book with the good title of Expecting Someone Taller ( which I must read sometime ) and another with the awful title of Who 's Afraid of Beowulf ? ( which I recently read for amusement , without success ) . |
| 6 | ‘ So your zeide says , ’ agreed Bertha Cohen as she spread the hake , thoroughly washed and cleaned , on a wooden board and cut it into thick pieces which she liberally sprinkled with salt . |
| 7 | Indeed , Leonard can only recall a volume of the Russian writer Gogol on her shelf , by which she presumably kept in touch with her own more distant — if painful — affiliations , though influencing Leonard , perhaps , unconsciously , with Gogol 's sense of fantasy and comic genius — as well as his need to travel . ) |
| 8 | She was attracted by the privation of the life , which she always linked with virtue , and she liked its sexual freedom . |
| 9 | Her massy hair , which she usually plaited at night or at least tied back , was all over the pillow and herself and him , covering his shoulders as well as her own . |
| 10 | These include the nucleus , which houses the chromosomes ; the tiny bomb-shaped objects called mitochondria ( which we briefly met in Figure 1 ) , filled with intricately folded membranes ; and , in the ( eukaryotic ) cells of plants , chloroplasts . |
| 11 | The Stealth combo which we recently reviewed in Guitarist smacks of your handiwork … |
| 12 | The frenzied living for ourselves which we once used to value so highly now disappears before the far more vital longing to keep company with God in faith , hope and love . |
| 13 | Mrs Knelle and June discussed turf , which they both used for fuel . |
| 14 | When delivered ready to start running on I August 1913 , the ten ‘ SoutherN ’ buses were integrated with the L.G.O.C. fleet and allocated to Streatham Garage , from which they normally worked on route 59 , ( Oxford Circus and South Croydon ) which competed directly with Croydon Corporation trams , emphasising Croydon 's weakness in not having through running powers to work to London . |
| 15 | A second , and more interesting , possibility is that subjects are actually recalling the situations in which they personally felt at risk irrespective of any other features of the junction . |
| 16 | The black-out happened on Monday night when vandals crawled down a 100-yard tunnel which carried eight 33,000-volt mains cables , dragging a lorry tyre which they then set on fire . |
| 17 | The black-out happened on Monday night when vandals crawled down a 100-yard tunnel which carried eight 33,000-volt mains cables , dragging a lorry tyre which they then set on fire . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd better break the engagement now , ’ I said , thinking my mother very foolish for not realising that what appealed to Syl was my very paleness , my silence , my hostility , which he mostly construed as shyness , until I was unpleasant , and when I was unpleasant he took it as evidence of some depth in my feeling for him and found it sexually alluring . |
| 19 | His departure was thought to improve the ruling Social Credit Party 's prospects ( from which he also resigned as leader ) , with an election due in 1991 , of withstanding the challenge of Canada 's increasingly successful social democratic New Democratic Party ( NDP — for its September 1990 provincial election victory in Ontario see p. 37705 ) . |
| 20 | Scotland , which he also claimed as part of his sphere of primatial authority , was cut off by the barrier of the province of York . |
| 21 | Each Saturday morning Eric would fly to Udine from Rome in one of the Desert Air Force bombers , in which he nearly froze to death , then hitch a lift from there to Verona — the huge Fiat was not part of the service . |
| 22 | He retained an affection for Paris and a gratitude for the intellectual advantages that it had given him to which he later referred as pope . |
| 23 | It may have been during this period that he was supported by a canonry in St Peter 's , to which he later referred as pope . |
| 24 | Eliot may have experienced displeasure at racial mixing in After Strange Gods , which he later withdrew from print as ‘ a bad book ’ , but it was no coincidence that in the same year as the performance of The Rock he defended Frazer , but attacked Ezra Pound 's favourite , Leo Frobenius , whose anthropological doctrines of racial purity he found particularly distasteful . |
| 25 | In the midst of fraught domestic politics and Anglo-papal aggravations , Bubwith was twice translated in reshuffles in 1407 , first to Salisbury ( which he never visited as bishop ) and then to Bath and Wells , not unwillingly . |
| 26 | Rather he asserted and tried to use effectively in the 1760s and 1770s powers which he undoubtedly possessed in theory but which under his predecessors had begun to be whittled away in practice . |
| 27 | At the end of the day , they presented David with a complete baseball outfit , padded shoulders , football helmet , which he proudly brought to school the following day . |
| 28 | He amalgamated parts of human bodies to create a ‘ monster ’ , which he then brought to life . |
| 29 | The isolation of the village from the outside world was mitigated by the existence of a close-knit village community with which the farm worker could identify and which provided him with the range of institutions and amenities which he then required in order to live the year round . |
| 30 | Now it was worth five times what he paid for it , a fact on which he often dwelt with satisfaction . |