Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am in constant touch with defence industry leaders through the National Defence Industries Council and the Defence Manufacturers Association , and my Department participates in the regional seminar staged by the DTI for small and medium-sized defence industries . |
| 2 | And then my mind shimmers in the great heat and all things appear to me as through coloured veils . |
| 3 | A trade union to my mind stands in the same position . |
| 4 | With hindsight , she says : ‘ I wished I 'd kept my mouth shut in the first three weeks . |
| 5 | How large will my Snakehead grow in the present set-up , and what is its life expectancy ? |
| 6 | [ Balliol ] pressed me much to have my name inserted in the new Commissn for the Peace , but I absolutely declined it . |
| 7 | The country women are wearing the sort of clothes my grandmother wore in the 1920s and 1930s , pinafores tied over rid-calf-length frocks , topped with cardigan and headscarf . |
| 8 | erm and as such a likely hiding place for someone to be was beneath the bed , erm I then lifted the bed with one hand , as I had my revolver drawn in the other hand , erm and then seeing no one was underneath it , I I dropped it again . |
| 9 | I come from quite a large family but most of my family live in the same area . |
| 10 | For the benefit of your readers , my mother resides in the Maximum Security Wing in this rest home on the outskirts of Melbourne . |
| 11 | Diet , general fitness , golfing psychology and sports injuries all feature among the discussion topics and have their part to play in the overall picture . |
| 12 | And its advantage lies in the particular enzyme by which it is transcribed into RNA . |
| 13 | The earliest mention of a ferry at Seacombe dates back to 1515 but its advancement came in the latter part of the last century when the ferry rights were taken over by the Wallasey local board . |
| 14 | Too often these people are frustrated by their inability to communicate in the new language . |
| 15 | Without consulting her it began to move faster , inciting her lover to a rhythm which he responded to triumphantly , accelerating in time with their heartbeats , taking her with him towards the culmination she 'd been given a foretaste of , which paled in comparison to the flooding rapture which overtook her seconds before Penry gasped , stiffened , then crushed her in his arms as their breathing slowed in the shared diminuendo of the aftermath . |
| 16 | Their resistance lies in the tiny glandular hairs which cover the foliage of the wild potato , but not that of cultivated species . |
| 17 | But there are fears that any hiccup in Christmas trading could lead to it having problems maintaining its banking covenants in the new year . |
| 18 | She was probably about twenty at the time and on her return created quite a furore among the ladies with her hair shingled in the latest fashion and sporting lipstick and rouge which was almost unknown at that period . |
| 19 | Sally-Anne , her heart thudding in the strangest way when he asked her this , as though he had said something much more intimate , and then suddenly understanding by the ambiguous way in which he had spoken that he had offered her other games than chess , and his wicked expression betraying that he had seen her confusion , flushed , and he added softly , so that Matey could not hear him , ‘ Come , McAllister , give me your answer — you surely wish to please the Master in every way possible , ’ the last bit in a fake American accent so bad that she laughed out loud . |
| 20 | SCOTTISH Tories , awaiting their election counts in the early hours of Friday , were prepared for the worst . |
| 21 | In addition , it throws up a syntactic-semantic distinction which is important in its own right and which will make its presence felt in the other adjectival positions also . |
| 22 | This legal bonanza was obviously too good to last and ultimately matters were brought to a head in a series of compromises , as a result of which the lease was forfeited but the plaintiffs abandoned all its money claims in the relevant action other than for arrears of rent , and — and for the present purposes this is the crucial matter — the plaintiff released the surety unconditionally from his personal guarantee contained in the licence of 3 December 1973 . |
| 23 | The Damiani family made their decision to leave in the third week of April after snipers in Tel Aviv began shooting into the centre of Jaffa , sending at least one bullet into David Damiani 's home . |
| 24 | Cleo turned and craned her neck to take in the massive black pile rising behind them . |
| 25 | A horse that persists in trying to buck us off may have its self-esteem developed in the wrong way ! |
| 26 | Her glance skittered in the opposite direction towards the exit . |
| 27 | Within minutes of the result being known , Mrs Thatcher ( still in Paris ) had announced her intention to stand in the second ballot and Hurd , with her in Paris , had declared that she continued to have his full support . |
| 28 | AA patrolman Nimesh Patel went to help a woman get her car started in the damp — and fell headlong into her icy pool . |
| 29 | I caught it with the catapult , the thick black tubing of the rubber twisting once in the air as I scissored my hands and fell back , letting the buck go over my head and then kicking with my legs and turning myself so that I was level with it where it lay , kicking and struggling with the power of a wolverine , spreadeagled on the sand slope with its neck caught in the black rubber . |
| 30 | There was a vast empty space like a hall , its roof lost in the golden haze . |