Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Fabia returned to her room admitting today — where for some unknown reason she had n't been able to admit yesterday — that yes , she was attracted by him , and yes , she did feel drawn to him . |
2 | Either it must be said , in traditional terms , that , together with his human nature , he also had , in one person , a divine nature ; or in some other way he must be held to be unique . |
3 | Would he speak to his sixth-form girls on the place of women in politics , or on any other subject he wished ? |
4 | She would give to it all that had been withheld from her , pour out her infinite capacity to love knowing that for certain this time it would be needed and valued . |
5 | She it was who interpreted for various French , German and Italian journalists as John Regis , our sole sprint medallist with a bronze in the 200 metres , told everybody that for one flickering moment he ( and many others ) had thought he had won gold . |
6 | As we all dance forward towards the next episode , I realise that for one brief hour we have escaped from the drab monotony of the Oxford English Culture . |
7 | When she bent her head towards his with her lips softly pouted , she came so close that for one brief moment he thought she might actually kiss his forehead . |
8 | And we do know that for some gravitational reason we 've yet to fathom , the absorption effect is nullified below ground-level . |
9 | Lord Beddington was not appreciating the day to its fullest , despite the fact that for some unknown reason it had seemed a good idea to buy a Panama hat . |
10 | After leaving the prairies in 1937 my working career took me to many lands around the world for 37 years , and I must confess that during all that time I scarcely thought of my old friend Edna Jacques until January of 1974 , when we were living in Anguilla . |
11 | More to put her at her ease again than for any other reason I picked up The Times and showed it to her . |
12 | ‘ Oh , all in a day 's work , but I must add that after that little fiasco I decided to join a more conventional hotel group and enjoyed the civilized calm of the Savoy for a while . |
13 | Come and tell me about this morning , ’ He looked round for Catherine to discover that with admirable good sense she had asked for the facilities of the house , and was being issued with soap and hand-towels by Miss Williams . |
14 | I believed that with that double victory I had now achieved more than most in British athletics , with the exceptions of course , of Coe , Cram and Ovett . |
15 | In these early years the Reich Treasury was unwilling to offer any subsidy to the Danzig Party , presumably on the grounds that with such poor leadership it would be money wasted . |
16 | There is little doubt that under any future administration we will get a larger supply of index-linked gilts . ’ |
17 | ‘ I suppose he 's a bit old for that sort of thing , ’ said Lili , ‘ although with that ridiculous car he drives he does seem to be trying to give an impression of boyish insouciance . ’ |
18 | Although in this last case we should note that it is much harder to talk of the sentence being ‘ wrong ’ ; there are circumstances when people validly violate semantic norms , as we shall see . |
19 | You have to remember only that from each such encounter he must , to make the story one of continuing progress and placate Thomas Ozro MacAdoo , take some new fact , something that leads him on , in most cases , to another confrontation — and take us , the readers , with him . |
20 | To be fully professional , one needs to express feelings and give responses to the feelings of the sufferer but nonetheless be aware that within that professional relationship it is not relevant that one should be personally liked or even appreciated . |
21 | Another is the ease with which it is assumed that in actual democratic politics it should be the majority in each nation-state which has the right to decide on all issues . |
22 | Whether it was that in that heightened state I had a premonition of what was to follow , or was simply recalling Dennis 's corpse-like stupor in the next room , I felt a perverted thrill , as though I were desecrating the most holy altar of all . |
23 | It is just that in that particular situation he had to act as he did , and to have acted differently would have meant that he would have been in the wrong though not for the same reason . |
24 | Grant that in this new year we may know your presence , see your love at work , and live in the light of the vent which gives us joy forever — the coming of your Son , Jesus Christ our Lord . |
25 | It would appear that in this moral stance they were backed by public opinion . |
26 | But the most important thing about Lord Robertson was that in this particular case he was even more prejudiced than Lord Grant , although in the light of all that had recently occurred , with far less excuse . |
27 | Uniting boredom , provinciality , the Gadarene stampede , and paper people , Peter Verkhovensky says : ‘ I realize that in this godforsaken town you are bored , so you make a rush for any piece of paper with something written on it . ’ |
28 | He had n't known whether to put it down to the fact that she imagined he was being left outside the camaraderie of the brothers or that in some strange way she was laying claim on him . |
29 | Lewis , who was no fool , soon saw that in some incomprehensible way he had put his uncle 's back up . |
30 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |