Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mind has at last caught up , and indeed overtaken my body . |
| 2 | In her letter she asked Gwenellen to ask me if my aunt had at last decided to put poor Old Red out of his misery ? |
| 3 | ‘ Having my design photographed like this has been a really exciting experience ’ |
| 4 | I am naturally particularly interested in the Carmel Wood IDO claim , which I presume has been registered but my interest goes beyond this to encompass all the claims that have been made in Wales , which presumably are now subject to the same procedures being applied by your authority . |
| 5 | She could n't stand the thought of being shut in her room waiting for Roman to return . |
| 6 | Hale 's statement that a wife is not to be by her husband prostituted to another has also influenced judicial thinking in the twentieth century . |
| 7 | It was not until the Ptolemaic period that its price fell to that obtaining elsewhere in the ancient world . |
| 8 | With France searching for a style and an identity , their performance looked at best stilted and , for most of the time , muddled . |
| 9 | In particular , CBI compared the number of companies increasing ( or planning to increase ) their R&D spending with those reducing it . |
| 10 | Well it is , it is , yeah , it 's a , there 's a little of flesh but nothing like you know it was when his foot got like that do you see what I mean ? |
| 11 | Because what is done , I mean when I was in hospital his mum used to that try and pick up |
| 12 | His mind had at last found its way back to its usual cast when he heard Sara 's friend talking to her . |
| 13 | When the burning heat in his body had at last broken , she had concentrated on his arm , washing the wound constantly by setting a bowl outside to catch the clean rainwater and then replacing it with the pail , changing the two receptacles again and again . |
| 14 | Against this background , it is likely that Edward 's ordering of his kingdom aimed above all to secure continuity . |
| 15 | Against this background , it is likely that Edward 's ordering of his kingdom aimed above all to secure continuity . |
| 16 | Having left behind the bigoted Bolivian elite for whom he would always be only a rich cholo , the contemptuous South American term for anyone of mixed blood , Simon Patiño had his family enter a far grander arena through a series of aristocratic matches , and when he left his fortune estimated by some to have reached a billion dollars to Antenor following his death in 1947 ( as well as his taste for all things French ) , he also left behind a legacy of bigotry borne of his wish to improve his family 's social standing . |
| 17 | In the soft turf she turned his face to lie upon that grazed right cheek , and spread his arms above his head . |
| 18 | Our Annual Accounts for 1991–92 show a generally satisfactory position . |
| 19 | If your team wins by 30 points every week it soon becomes boring ! |
| 20 | I am fascinated to notice that your profession has at last started not merely to say that , but to criticise those who refuse to allow so manifest a fact to be stated in order that it may be examined . |
| 21 | Our plant consisted of two platens — which included a Heidelberg , and a Double-Crown Miehle , capable of poster work . |