Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have we been expelled from an arcadia of fun where nature provided us with innocent automata , lowing and braying machines for our amusement ? |
| 2 | Female danger/power also rested on the fact that women occupied structurally marginal positions ( i.e. neither fully inside nor outside the system , not wholly nature nor culture ) and on the fact that society placed them in interstructural roles ( as wives and daughters ) with respect to alliance-making and linking disparate power groups . |
| 3 | Even Frank Sinatra said that Darin would be his successor — he had the same tremendous phrasing — although death cheated him of that . |
| 4 | Her hard work and determination set her in good stead for the confrontation she had had with the Johnson representative , Albert Buller . |
| 5 | A PENSIONER has told how positive thinking and determination pulled him through two strokes . |
| 6 | Heat and smoke buffeted him with welcoming arms as he entered the bar . |
| 7 | But his honesty and modesty endeared him to many who valued his wise advice : not a few he encouraged to posts of greater responsibility and challenge . |
| 8 | One particularly violent swerve took it right off the counter and Finn caught it in mid air , upside down , wheels spinning . |
| 9 | As they moved from one high-ceilinged panelled room to the next , signs of disorder and decay met them at each open door . |
| 10 | They even got the transparency of the house the wrong way round in their ‘ Country Homes ’ magazine , but their name and reputation insulated them against such elementary errors . |
| 11 | But Mum knew them for crafty rogues and she had n't forgotten the coal . |
| 12 | Seaton Burn made 92 for four , with John Graham 43 , but Hermitage pipped them by one run , Paul Mallabar top scoring with 41 . |
| 13 | Educated at King Edward 's School , Birmingham , Phil Richardson had initially shown great promise as a goalkeeper and played professionally with Aston Villa before injury forced him into premature retirement . |
| 14 | But it was n't easy to lose puppy fat when Mum fed her on stodgy good home cooking — stews with dumplings and meat pies with pastry crusts and steamed sponge puddings , and there was no money to spare for proper hairdressing salons . |
| 15 | When Pennant visited it in 1772 there were three farmers living in it with their stock and crops and at times in the summer months as many as twelve families were known to stay in it at once and it was the headquarters of those employed in the manufacture ( if kelp . |
| 16 | His jaw hung open , and he was near enough for me to see the rain dashing from his face — when lightning showed him at all . |