Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] [pers pn] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There can be little doubt as to what in the way of topics and register the Host expects in the Monk 's Tale ; he concludes his observations on Melibee with : and continues with a description of the Monk that matches with the impression " Chaucer " claims to have of the Monk in the General Prologue , of a " " manly man " " , straining at the bounds of what is allowed to a monk ( and not dissimilar to the monk of the Shipman 's Tale ) : After nearly a hundred stanzas of the Monk 's tragedies , the Host is prepared to give him a second chance , as " Chaucer " had , but feels this time he has to be more specific as to what is wanted : But as soon as the Monk speaks we have the opportunity to see , firstly , that his reaction does not suggest he is flattered or pleased by the Host 's appraisal of him , and secondly that he sounds quite different from the bold and thrusting " man 's man " that " Chaucer " and the Host would make of him : Note how the Monk 's desire to offer literature that " " sowneth into honestee " " anticipates Chaucer the prosist 's retraction of the tales " " that sownen into synne " " . |
| 2 | Even if the opponent plays him false twenty times , the Satyagrahi is ready to trust him the twenty-first time , for an implicit trust in human nature is the very essence of the creed . |
| 3 | They moved on after that , with Jessica dropping in bits about Parr as they occurred to her — although not that she was due to meet him the next day . |
| 4 | It was , alas , only too derivative , but given its auteur 's antecedents everyone was prepared to give him a second chance . |
| 5 | Even the genial Binkie Beaumont was prepared to pay him a third of what the experienced Emlyn Williams knew he was worth and could get . |
| 6 | It was in this book that he was able to show me the first reference to the Santa Maria . |