Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1844 William Makepeace Thackeray managed to get P & O to give him a free passage on a voyage to Athens , Constantinople , Jerusalem and Cairo and earned money by writing about the trip afterwards . |
| 2 | Page & Moy offer you a unique opportunity to see the spectacular Bolshoi Ballet perform Tchaikovsky 's Nutcracker at the Bolshoi Theatre on New Year 's Eve , as well as take in the sights of one of the world 's greatest capitals , Moscow . |
| 3 | Suppleness or flexibility gives you a greater range of movements which will help you avoid the problems of pulled muscles and tendons and sprained ligaments . |
| 4 | Some of the finest of these were on the walls of Puang Sangalla 's house , where Ranteallo took us the following morning to meet his dead father , and barely alive eighty-seven-year-old mother . |
| 5 | In the event that you or others named on your booking form suffer death , bodily injury or illness arising from an activity which does not form part of the services we have agreed to supply to your , then we shall through our Representatives or Agents offer you every reasonable assistance , including advice and guidance and may , depending upon particular circumstances and at our complete discretion , offer initial financial assistance up to a maximum of £5,000 per booking form . |
| 6 | Birds of prey , or raptors to give them an alternative group name , come in many sizes . |
| 7 | In a constitutional democracy , there are individuals whose status or office gives them the automatic right to be heard . |
| 8 | ‘ The real problem is once again the Government is trying to rush through a complex pattern of assessment without the resources or time to give it the proper foundations . |
| 9 | ‘ I would n't have known about it at all , except that Mum sent me a little note to tell me he 'd passed away — in his sleep , she said . |
| 10 | THE decision by Scotland 's Stephen McAllister 's to concentrate on rhythm and feel rather than technique brought him a rich dividend in the Balearic Open here yesterday . |
| 11 | But , she says , she did think that Ken showed him a certain degree of respect . |
| 12 | It was said that Gertrude gave him the final result . |
| 13 | After all , days before the invasion surprised President Bush , his ambassador , presumably not speaking just for herself , told Saddam in so many words that Washington gave him the green light on Kuwait . |
| 14 | It was such a desultory question that Ruth gave him the filthiest look she could muster . |
| 15 | I 'm not a psychologist , but I read , and I would say that attitude gives him a colossal arrogance . |
| 16 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is that Helen told me the same thing . |
| 17 | I believe that Craigendarroch offers you the best of two equally irresistible worlds . |
| 18 | Well that was the question that Mr asked you a few minutes ago was n't it , er Mr ? |
| 19 | She smiled at Aggie ; although Aggie gave her no answering smile , but just said , ‘ Well , the day 's Thursday . |
| 20 | Another problem was his feathers : he was n't growing down quickly enough and he was always shivering , so Maureen made him a little coat out of cotton wool . |
| 21 | He knew that people thought them an ideal couple because they lived their mutual lives at arm 's length , they complemented each other in self-containment . |
| 22 | He flitted about on this machine ( which obsessed him ) wearing a helmet and goggles so that Gabriel called him The Invisible Man . |
| 23 | It can also be said that , unlike Winckelmann , Hölderlin has some intuitive appreciation of the Greek spirit 's darker depths to which Nietzsche will later attach the name " flionysiac " — although Hölderlin gives them no such definition , and only in the last draft of his unfinished dramatic poem , The Death of Empedocles , do these depths receive a comparably urgent emphasis . |
| 24 | To achieve their objective , they have to rely on the efficient working of the price mechanism such that prices give them the appropriate ‘ signals ’ . |
| 25 | Mankiewicz always refuted stories that Sinatra gave him a hard time on the set , but one of Mankiewicz 's sons said that his father ‘ finished the picture hating Sinatra ’ . |
| 26 | Skipper worked nicely on the flat , so John built us a six inch cross pole to trot over . |
| 27 | If she were interested in such a campaign , she could perhaps use as the model for it our own dear Speaker , whose radiant health and youthfulness make him the perfect epitome of a diet based on vegetarianism . |
| 28 | He was never equal to Self in Citrine 's esteem , and he remained jealous of intervention by Self in matters of engineering and the development of policy on the generation side , for which his background and experience made him the natural senior voice among other engineers and managers . |
| 29 | The vast majority of the black sportsmen have aspirations of detaching themselves from the routines of school , employment — or unemployment — and wringing out a career in sports , even athletics , ostensibly an amateur sport but bountiful enough in ‘ gifts ’ and sponsorships to make it a lucrative career . |
| 30 | He opened the boomgate and Whitlock gave him a friendly wave as he drove past on his way to the visitors ' car park . |