Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in this reeking cavern with my hands , face , hair and every pore of my skin impregnated with cottage pie and chips , those birdies seemed far away . |
| 2 | My husband applied for disability allowance in April 1991 . |
| 3 | As the sky 's noise faded , my father moved into exit mode . |
| 4 | My beat went up Duke Street , turn left on Great George Street , up past the David Lewis Hostel for Seamen , down Park Lane , back to the bridewell and the quarter-hour point at the top of Duke Street . |
| 5 | And I know my love dressed in jersey blue |
| 6 | My Mom was very house-proud until my Dad died of lung cancer at the age of 32 , leaving a 28-year-old her and a 7-year-old me . |
| 7 | I have drawn up on the attached sheet the numbers of staff required in my estimation to deal with Council Tax in the future . |
| 8 | I now understand what my son has as maths homework . |
| 9 | During my time at college , my brother went for officer training and was commissioned in the Sherwood Foresters . |
| 10 | FOE has praised Strathclyde for its decision to dispose of sewage sludge to land rather than using incinerators . |
| 11 | For example , in forensic contexts phoneticians and linguists have for some years now used their expertise to assist in voice identification ; academically this is a highly controversial enterprise . |
| 12 | Seven law lords acting as the highest court in the Commonwealth have ruled that two men on death row in Jamaica for fourteen years should have their sentence commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 13 | Much of its money comes from church fund-raising groups , although the society denies there are direct church contributions . |
| 14 | therefore the invoice is for a larger sum than expected , which may be due to an increase in contract price on the anniversary of its letting to compensate for price inflation . |
| 15 | Their car came under mortar fire and they had to cross five military checkpoints . |
| 16 | It is fifteen years since he first explored the relationship of real flesh and its marble parallels in art history . |
| 17 | Besides the destruction of their habitat caused by dam building , silt and pollutant discharges into rivers , and the effects of boat traffic , the dolphins have also had to contend with accidental capture in fisheries , directed hunts for food and other uses , and even capture for display in overseas aquaria . |
| 18 | Day ( 1964 ) noted that people are fairly consistent as to the direction in which they shift their gaze to break off eye contact . |
| 19 | Its work ranges from soil analysis to Civil Engineering firms , to drawing up green plans for Local Authorities . |
| 20 | For he will realize that if this technique became popular , people who might benefit from new , forward-looking rules would lose their incentive to bring to court novel cases in which these new rules might be announced for the future . |
| 21 | All that is motivated by their desire to compete against rugby league . |
| 22 | So , for example , Mogul of Ireland ran into no problems over its failure to apply for planning permission for its tailings lake . |
| 23 | For most companies , political opinion polling is a way to get their name known , but the bread and butter of their business comes from market research . |
| 24 | Heavy trading in New York before Brazil made its announcement smelt like insider trading . |
| 25 | The pain had faded into the background and she was starting to feel stupefied , her head stuffed with cotton wool , her eyes heavy . |
| 26 | For example , expatriates may wish to link their departure dates with school summer holidays to cause minimum disruption to their children 's education . |
| 27 | Always the true internationalist , Hitler 's advent was her signal to pitch into refugee work . |
| 28 | Since the First World War the railways in the developed world have been in decline , their role usurped by motor transport and in particular the car . |
| 29 | Sony expects that CRT may increase its workforce depending on market interest in televisions . |
| 30 | His knees jutted just out of reach in the low black vinyl chair opposite her , and somehow this made her tongue feel like cotton wool . |