Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told me that the previous year she had confided to an American friend in Rome that the two people who most fascinated her in the world were Albert Schweitzer and Herbert von Karajan ; and a year later she was sitting in an empty hall with Walter Legge , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , and Herbert von Karajan listening to a private recital on the organ by Albert Schweitzer . |
| 2 | Why , she wondered , when she had effectively let him off the hook ? |
| 3 | Escobar announced last month that he was declaring war on the state and the government has since blamed him for a series of bomb blasts in Bogota and other cities which have killed more than 40 people . |
| 4 | you 'd merely likened it to the bin-skips |
| 5 | He threw off the blanket , picked up the limp girl and gently placed her on the mat in front of the blazing fire . |
| 6 | You 've obviously enjoyed your career very much and we 've all enjoyed you over the years , would you be pleased if your grandchildren went into acting ? |
| 7 | ‘ I have only seen her at the funeral . |
| 8 | Without naming names , he goes on to outline the situations which had so interested him in the cases of the Melanesians and the Tari Furora , as he points out that to tamper with the pattern of primitive culture at one point is to endanger the whole structure . |
| 9 | His present celebrity is a fairly recent phenomenon , and he insists that it has not really affected him , although he acknowledges that his appearances on television shows and in magazine profiles have somewhat robbed him of the anonymity which still clings to his ‘ invisible ’ friend , Cartier-Bresson . |
| 10 | Whatever it was I 'd taken from Sunil 's house — and I 'd only done it as a favour to him , after all — he could n't have said anything to Nassim about it . |
| 11 | Then , blushing , she told Anne that when they had left Reece 's and were walking up Parker Street Ronald had suddenly pushed her into a shop doorway and attacked her . |
| 12 | ‘ Tiananmen has obviously moved us towards an attitude of caution . ’ |
| 13 | We 've argued for years about meals on wheel service that there should be seven day a week service throughout this authority , we 've only got it in the City , we want it throughout the authority . |
| 14 | It was a thoroughly tested number as Tiller had not only shown it at the Palace but his La Scala Girls had also performed it at the Winter Gardens Pavilion , Blackpool , the previous year . |
| 15 | At journey 's end she folded over the top of the bag and thoughtfully replaced it behind the netting on the back of the seat in front . |
| 16 | The mess steward came in with Woolley 's piano-accordion and gently laid it on the table . |
| 17 | Or probably , since you ca n't trust anybody any more , you 'd better put it through the letter box . ’ |
| 18 | But then you thought you 'd better put it in the fridge ? |
| 19 | ‘ I still ca n't work out how they got away with it because I 'd only left it outside the tent for a few moments before it vanished . |
| 20 | Somebody had obviously left it in the cubicle . |
| 21 | Eliot had apparently declined it on the plea that it was Lent . |
| 22 | She had rarely seen him outside the context of the family . |
| 23 | Hurley had not forgiven him for the loss of Syrian George , and he was still under heavy pressure from Washington to show results , but in general Coleman made sure they got along for the sake of his back-channel reports to MC/10 Control . |
| 24 | The bonus is combined with your normal pension payment for the first week in December , so if you have not received it by the end of that month ask at your local Social Security office . |
| 25 | His mother had not joined them for the meal , bowing in this regard to the T'ang 's wishes . |
| 26 | Paul had not recognized him in the porter 's uniform . |
| 27 | She wrote back to him careful little letters to which no one could object , fearing to display too much emotion in case it called attention to the boy 's over-regard for her but she managed all the same to make her affection felt , telling him : — Pilade looks for you everywhere and will not believe I have not hidden you in a box . |
| 28 | Robert can see Henry 's star quality and has already aligned him with an animal talent agency ( Satch 's Animals ) , although his one date with the cameras so far — for a Lucozade commercial — was n't exactly a smash . |
| 29 | I have just heard it on the news . ’ |
| 30 | Fitzosbert , however , had already dismissed him with a flicker of his eyes and was staring coolly at Sir John as if to prove he was not cowed by any show of authority . |