Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " My heart has joined the Thousand , for my friend stopped running today , " he said to Blackberry , quoting a rabbit proverb . |
| 2 | I told her that I was surprised at that because my Mum had said the same and I had n't believed her . |
| 3 | The Energy Efficiency Office in my Department continues to promote the wider use of the technology under its best practice programme . |
| 4 | ‘ In the village , my deformity had become the sole topic of conversation , ’ Panna told me . |
| 5 | I suppose I am plump — according to the ‘ Height and Weight ’ charts I am on the heavy side of OK , but my weight has stayed the same since I was fourteen , so I know it 's not true that I 'm overeating , or greedy . |
| 6 | When my village failed to supply the requisite number of slaves from the Araba tribe of Yaruda to the west , the entire village was cleared by the blancs . |
| 7 | Is my child to have taken the first step with this opera for nothing … . |
| 8 | First , because the defendants being an emanation of the Crown , which is the source and fountain of justice , are in my opinion bound to maintain the highest standards of probity and fair dealing , comparable to those which the courts , which derive their authority from the same source and fountain , impose on the officers under their control : see In re Tyler [ 1907 ] 1 K.B . |
| 9 | But my ignorance was not only mental torture , but my body seemed to suffer the intensest agony . |
| 10 | Of late my father had lent the greater part of this ground to a retired gardener and his wife , who had little garden of their own . |
| 11 | But it was n't to be the for the friendship with Tiny that my father got to have the rattling good supper that that they provided in in in the servants room . |
| 12 | My predecessor planned to borrow the thick end of £100 billion in the next three years . |
| 13 | But basically , my thing has stayed the same because I 've got really used to it , although it 's not even all that efficient . |
| 14 | It was er he had had it since my grandfather had had the same place as a blacksmith 's shop and then my father followed on with the garage with cycles first of all , and then when the motor trade came in , he started in motors repairing . |
| 15 | ‘ So if my company wishes to supply the domestic market of this large and expanding population , it has no alternative but to manufacture from within the country itself . |
| 16 | At home my temperature had followed the expected pattern , but here readings were so low when I was resting , even at midday , that I often kept the thermometer in my mouth for fifteen minutes in the hope that it would rise . |
| 17 | She had known as soon as they had arrived at the lodge that her heart had made the right decision , even though it felt irresponsible and utterly childish to be spending a summer like this , at her age , and after all the work she had done to put the initials MD after her name . |
| 18 | The Frenchman 's dark aquiline features and unsmiling silences made him think of history-book pictures he 'd seen of the warrior heroes of ancient Greece and Rome , and the dismay he had felt at first when their car had struck the Annamese villager had increased his sense of awe . |
| 19 | She tried to strangle her three-month-old daughter and then her lover arrived to finish the evil deed . |
| 20 | Their association has described the early closure of the haddock fishery as unacceptable , provoking speculation that the Shetland fleet will deliberately flout the quota regulations . |
| 21 | But capitalism has dwindled into the economy , and its management has become the sole area of dispute : an autonomous , uncontested economic system whose necessities are increasingly disarticulated from human need . |
| 22 | Often their work appears to depict the fleeting moment . |
| 23 | Shop and office workers who miss out on the best of the day only have their lunch breaks to enjoy the brief British summer . |
| 24 | The Government has signalled its determination to resist raising the 14 per cent base rate during the politically-sensitive fortnight of the Labour and Conservative party conferences . |
| 25 | The oldest member of the convoy was a 1901 Thanomile trike which had to make the journey around site on a trailer because its engine had expired the previous day . |
| 26 | Seeking to print the problem of a correspondent whose small son had , " taken a little girl behind the settee and pulled her knickers down " , she found her sub-editor had deleted the latter part of the quoted sentence and substituted , " taken off part of her underclothes " . |
| 27 | She found herself gazing with fascination at his hair , which curled slightly against his collar , before her gaze rose to meet the full impact of his startlingly blue gaze . |
| 28 | A HIGH-FLYING executive hounded out of her job after complaining of sexual harassment by her boss has won the maximum award of Pounds 10,000 . |
| 29 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 30 | The announcement on the morning of 22 November of Mrs Thatcher 's decision to resign came as a dramatic surprise to the public because , up to that point , all the outward signs had been that she intended to stick to her initial resolve to contest the second ballot . |