Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she lit him up the stairs , and went before him into the panelled solar , where Rhodri rose from a tall chair by the fire to receive him . |
| 2 | He 'd been shown to the interview room where Scott sat with a uniformed officer close by the door . |
| 3 | A named community , village , town , church or school in the UK or Ireland linking with a named community , village , town , project area or institution in the Third World , both in partnership with Christian Aid , having a link with the purpose of learning more about each other . |
| 4 | At last they came to a clearing , where Vic headed for a mossy log . |
| 5 | R.24(2) provides that any solicitor or RFL participating in a recognised body must not cause any breach of the Rules or other conduct requirements . |
| 6 | It 's a choice between you and them , either they die or Turry explodes in a spectacular fashion . |
| 7 | Jones & Smith looks like a simple theft case and the defendants should be so charged . |
| 8 | Although Nizan adhered to a clear set of communist principles between 1935 and 1939 , his psychological state fluctuated in accordance with national and international political events . |
| 9 | It was now that Nicandra fell into a sudden easy accord with Andrew . |
| 10 | Not any more , there aren't. — You must need your eyes testing ! — Anyway , that Lock sounds like a right dump to me . |
| 11 | Although Hawke prevailed with a substantial majority , most political commentators believed that it was a pyrrhic victory which had left him considerably weakened and vulnerable to a future challenge . |
| 12 | And so it was all along the line , from Telnitz in the south , right the way to the Olmütz road , where the plain rose into the foothills of the mountains to the north ; and after he had disappeared into the tumult and light , neither Thiercelin nor Epitot spoke for a long time . |
| 13 | It is said that Freud wrote in a male-dominated society , and that his theory about sexuality , and about female sexuality in particular , reflects this in the male bias in his work . |
| 14 | Never was a labour more arduous , and it was without his former youthful enthusiasm that Picasso began on a great canvas that was to be the first result of his researches . ’ |
| 15 | The upkeep of such a house would require a substantial income , she thought to herself ; she remembered that Veronica came from a wealthy family . |
| 16 | Taylor may recall that Gazza returned from a double-hernia operation to win a high-tension match for Spurs at Wembley inside the first 15 minutes . |
| 17 | Liza sings it to reverberate round the Albert Hall and the final syllable has more tone and depth than Kylie manages in a whole album . |
| 18 | A worse offence than Tutilo committed in a similar cause , to win her for Ramsey . |
| 19 | It derives from an earlier advisory group on computer security , although ITSAG draws on a wider membership than its predecessor ( including a bigger proportion of end users ) . |
| 20 | The move that Barthes makes to a second order signification has important methodological implications . |
| 21 | Looking at the relaxed poses in our photographs , it will come as no surprise to learn that Clarissa modelled for a few years back in the 60s . |
| 22 | And they were shocked to hear at the end of the three-month trial that Allitt suffered from a dangerous personality disorder . |
| 23 | Although Didcot finished on a high , they in the end , had to give the visitors best in this seven-goal thriller , and will be cursing their luck for the way they made so many errors . |
| 24 | It was argued that Britain stood at a historic point ; a new urban future was at hand . |
| 25 | ‘ What do we have to do to convince people that this is n't a dangerous place ? ’ asked Alasdair MacLaughlin the CBI 's regional director in the Province , pointing out that London suffers from a worse violent crime rate . |
| 26 | Sophia had , in a sense , married beneath her , for although Mark came of a good clerical family he was without private means . |
| 27 | I went to the house and got no answer then the woman next door told me that Brendan came in a posh motor car . |
| 28 | The conclusion might have been that Ealhfrith abdicated in a voluntary acceptance of the religious life were it not for Bede 's silence on the matter and his statement that Oswiu was attacked in the course of his reign by the Mercians , his nephew , Oethelwald , and by his own son , Ealhfrith ( HE III , 14 ) . |
| 29 | In chapter six of Emendatio Vitae he says that man must either be burnt in this life with the fire of God 's love and of tribulation ( the last being a means to proving the strength of the first ) or , after this life , bitterly in hell — a perception that Eliot transposes into a modern idiom in Little Gidding : We only live , only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire . |
| 30 | Sporadically , Katherine Mansfield conveys the volatile atmosphere in the comfortable apartment and Beatrice emerges as a deluded and rather pathetic exhibitionist . |