Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deep in my heart safe from the guards |
| 2 | Knowing that half of Scotland had left their cars sitting in the middle of roads to make sure that they could get to the gig is not so much my horror story as the police 's , she chuckled . |
| 3 | Before this , the fortunes of the various strategies rose and fell , just as in my computer simulation of the Cheats , Suckers , and Grudgers . |
| 4 | I said oh I 'm not gon na give you my telephone number after the things I 've been hearing about you ! |
| 5 | ‘ It was only slightly traumatic , but I knew from my safety audit of the operators that it was virtually impossible for things to go wrong , ’ explained Nigel . |
| 6 | Training courses were arranged and at one of them General Aung San himself presided and listened to my opening speech to the PROS . |
| 7 | Two different frictions made the soles of my life grate upon the uppers of my loaf . |
| 8 | Our day started with my brewing coffee with the beans Jean-Claude ground , and buttering lengths of baguette to dunk . |
| 9 | I said breathlessly , tucking my pyjama jacket into the bottoms . |
| 10 | Sometimes I found it impossible to concentrate on my school work as the activities of the bird populations outside kept grabbing my attention . |
| 11 | I would lie for hours in my sea grey with the remains of bubble bath . |
| 12 | Clearly , the coherence of the passage is judged isomorphically by measuring its text world against the readers ' knowledge of the real world . |
| 13 | Several butterfly species live out their caterpillar stage inside an ants ' nest . |
| 14 | Donna chewed her lip contemplatively as she read , forced to run her index finger beneath the words , so jumbled and irregularly formed were they on the faded page . |
| 15 | ‘ And you did n't know he gave all her housekeeping money to the Druids — ‘ |
| 16 | In La Fille Mal Gardée Mother Simone does this when she triumphantly finishes her Clog Dance on the arms of her more graceful neighbours , just as all the guests but Alain do after the Betrothal and they all dance out , arms linked to celebrate . |
| 17 | One woman told Elizabeth Roberts that she had resorted to taking her wedding ring to the pawnbrokers ' three times : ‘ each time I was caught with babies ’ . |
| 18 | The moon had risen but no sooner did it spill its silver light over the fields than it was swallowed up by cloud . |
| 19 | Most of the new local authorities based their management structure on the Bains recommendations ( Alexander 1982a:69 — 72 ) , usually with modifications affecting the number of committees : local authorities did not follow Bains any more than Maud in the creation of programme committees . |
| 20 | John Paul 's pontificate may then appear as , in part , aberration , while a pluralist Catholic Christianity will be revealed as not only heir to the central religious tradition of the West , but as able to respond without losing its core identity to the needs both of a truly world Church and of the ongoing transformation of human consciousness and intellectual understanding . |
| 21 | Until last year the Yellow Swordtail was thought to occur only at its type locality in the headwaters of the Rio Sarabia , to the west of the town of Sarabia . |
| 22 | Her ‘ failure ’ to marry and bear children ( coupled with her insistence on confining her household work to the things she liked best — kneading bread , sewing and gardening ) secured time and energy with which to think and write : there were more than seventeen hundred poems by the time she died in 1886 . |
| 23 | Rather than disturb the patients at the hospital any more , Ace and Petion had followed the Marines to their staging area at the customs receivership , which Ace judged to be about the size of an aircraft hangar . |
| 24 | ‘ However , in fairness to Price Waterhouse , it should also be stressed that on other occasions — for example , in April and October 1990 — when the firm had made its audit report to the directors of BCCI , it ensured that some information was passed on to the Bank of England . |
| 25 | She pushed her way down the High Street , swinging her shopping bag against the legs of others and being clobbered in return . |
| 26 | The inclusion of a counselling element into such groups is based on the understanding of their potential value in facilitating and enabling personal change , by helping group members understand their own thoughts and feelings , and in changing their coping behaviour to the situations in which they find themselves within the group . |
| 27 | However , he is regarded as a less vocal critic of the government , has banned the study of the Medellin documents and asked nuns and priests to withdraw from their community work on the grounds that it had become too dangerous : |
| 28 | There was A12 , Waste Management Group , where the plutonium and highly enriched uranium and beryllium and tritium were taken from weapons that had achieved their shelf life in the guts of submarines and the bunkers of Air Force camps , then reworked for newer and more potent devices . |
| 29 | More to the point , in its registration statement with the Securities & Exchange Commission , IBM said it intended to issue up to $3,000m of long term debt and preferred stock during the next year or so . |
| 30 | Alexia took her canvas chair in the wings , her bug in her ear so she could relay if necessary his almost subaudial commands to the technical people . |