Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I settled upon this last gesture as my train stopped at Greenwich this morning . |
| 2 | It was like this — my uncle and my father came to Britain first and my uncle gave his pay packet to my father , who is older . |
| 3 | But with everyone listening intently , there followed what seemed like hours of scrabbling around with my paper looking for page two . |
| 4 | Aunt Louise sat impassive , eyes closed , mind apparently far away , but the area of the ward surrounding us had become very quiet , my voice superseding with ease that of the television which , as usual , was droning away unnoticed in its corner . |
| 5 | I will not have my food served on stone cold plates . ’ |
| 6 | My patient presented in March 1991 with a raised red lesion on the back of her leg , which she believed had developed after an insect bite on holiday in Malta in 1990 . |
| 7 | ‘ I did my Christmas shopping in Edinburgh that weekend . |
| 8 | The grandparents took on responsibility for the house and the children together : ‘ my mother went to work all the week , she never done no cooking . ’ |
| 9 | Although the complex is situated in unit one , its alignment relates to unit two , and thus the earthworks in their present form ( but not necessarily the house they enclose ) should date from the same period as unit two . |
| 10 | To maintain the continuity of movement on the screen from shot to shot , the girl 's walk along the path should be recorded from camera positions which are all within the ‘ 180 degree zone ’ on the same side of the path , eg at A and B. If shot 2 is taken from C , the audience becomes confused as the girl appears to have reversed her direction compared with shot 1 . |
| 11 | Three weeks after her trial began on February 15 this year , she collapsed , and from then the dock remained empty . |
| 12 | The place which seems above all to encapsulate the spirit of the Derwent Ings is Aughton church , standing alone in the marshlands , its churchyard lapped by floods each winter and haunted by the bubbling call of the curlew in spring . |
| 13 | FoE made a number of recommendations on taxes , incentives and greater spending on research ( including the government 's Energy Efficiency Office , which , remarkably , given the nature of the times , saw its budget restricted to £15 million a year for two years in succession — a loss in real terms ) . |
| 14 | C : Sigourney Weaver shaved off her hair to star in Aliens III |
| 15 | This is why , when her contract expires in April 1993 , Tessa will move on and devote time to her own work . |
| 16 | Walker ( 1988 ) , in a study which looked at the race of young males disposed of by the courts in London in 1983 , found that of those prosecuted , more blacks had their case dismissed without trial due to insufficient evidence , suggesting according to Walker , that either ‘ … the police more readily prosecute black people ’ , or that ‘ the court requires more convincing evidence for black defendants ’ ( Walker 1988 , p.459 ) . |
| 17 | The earliest opera on an historic subject , it is compact with characters more substantial than those of Ariosto , Tasso , or classical mythology and fully realized in their music : Poppea and Nero and their unfortunate spouses , Seneca , even subordinate characters like Poppea 's nurse ( who has the most purely beautiful song in the whole opera when she sings her mistress to sleep in Act II , SC.12 ) , and the maid and page who flirt so deliciously in Act II , SC.5 ( ‘ Sento un certo , non so che ’ ) and provide the comic relief like Iro in Ulisse . |
| 18 | Cardoso de Mello had told President Fernando Collor de Mello of her intention to resign on May 6 , but was asked to stay on until her replacement could take office . |
| 19 | And she can not wait for her wedding blessing in December next year — on her fourth anniversary . |
| 20 | Life itself is endangered , their enemy is the elements , their tragedy derives from forces greater than they , forces of nature and vengeful acts of God . |
| 21 | In the meantime , the life of the V Force would be extended and its vulnerability reduced by the provision of Blue Steel Mk II with its stand-off range extended from the Mark I 's 100 nautical miles to 700 , and its speed raised to Mach 3 at 70,000 feet . |
| 22 | After their dream win against Barnsley last week , they 're confident of taken some points off Notts County at the Manor tomorrow . |
| 23 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that rule 21 of the Family Proceedings ( Children Act 1989 ) Rules 1991 required justices to give reasons and state their findings of fact on making orders under the Children Act 1989 ; that where a party appealed their order , justices could not remedy their failure to comply with rule 21 by supplying to the appellate court a more detailed statement of reasons and findings of fact ; and that , accordingly , the appellate court could only consider the reasons given by the justices at the time of the decision ( post , p. 527A–C , E–G ) . |
| 24 | The committee discussed this suggestion at its routine meeting in November 1981 . |
| 25 | The major difference between the American and British systems is that we vote for an MP , the party with the most MPs wins and its leader moves into Number Ten . |
| 26 | As for Monica Seles , her desire to play at Wimbledon this year , coupled with the fact that she already has the Australian title under her belt , might be all the incentive that she needs to go for that Grand Slam this year , that same Grand Slam which she passed up last year with her refusal to play the British leg of the four majors . |
| 27 | Six months before her husband died in April 1803 , she had a letter from Coutts her bankers to say she had outstanding bills for £700 but her current account balance stood at 12s 11d . |
| 28 | Gladys Brown and her husband came to number ten quite a few years after we moved in . |
| 29 | Hawkridge starts with survey of new information technology and its jargon aimed at readers new to the field , and which could be skipped by those who know about it . |
| 30 | The question of the attitude of the particular plaintiff , a woman aged 37 years , to a scar on her forehead arose in Dimmock v Miles , a decision of the Court of Appeal on 12 December 1969 . |