Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the phenomenal success of In Which We Serve , the Italian producer Filippo del Giudice , whose belief in high-budget artistic filmmaking was in line with Rank 's , attached his Two Cities company to Independent Producers , and made through it such films as the Lean-Coward This Happy Breed ; Laurence Olivier 's rampantly patriotic version of Shakespeare 's Henry V ( 1945 ) ; Thorold Dickinson 's unbalanced Men of Two Worlds ( 1946 , Witch Doctor in US ) and Carol Reed 's Odd Man Out ( 1945 , Gang War in US ) , the story of a dying gunman 's desperate search for charity on the streets of Belfast . |
| 2 | Our friend Pétur Björnsson ( Pétur , son of Björn ) has a lovely blonde daughter Marta , who speaks no English and talked to me all night when we were last there in a glorious mixture of Icelandic and sign language . |
| 3 | Then yet more came and brought with them great Stones which one day they started to take to the very centre place of Callanish itself . |
| 4 | In one regrettable case , which I myself witnessed , it had become an established sport in the house for guests to ring for the butler and put to him random questions of the order of , say , who had won the Derby in such and such a year , rather as one might to a Memory Man at the music hall . |
| 5 | Maud Bailey settled Roland into a tubular chair at a pale oak table , like a recalcitrant nursery-school child , and put before him various boxes . |
| 6 | in areas supplied by river systems , such as the Thames Valley , water can be taken from the river , used and returned to it several times with the result that much of its initial quality has been lost . |
| 7 | Although the first fruits of this decision took place in l982 , the writing had been on the wall , and read by us many years before that , and it took a period of some years to find a way of moving out of polythene , which was not only ICI 's own proud invention , but an area where we had been acknowledged world leaders for many years . |
| 8 | Im doing this on a PC , as opposed to me normal VDU , and for some reason the function keys are all up the spout . |
| 9 | This experiment was quickly followed up by others using protein synthesis inhibitors , all essentially leading to the same conclusion — that if protein synthesis was prevented during the period over which an animal was trained , or for up to about an hour subsequently , then although the animal could learn the task , when tested on it some time later — say the next day — it behaved as if it were naïve . |