Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I regret that during my research for this debate I found that , in the field of computers , one of the least well-equipped police forces is that in my own area , Greater Manchester . |
| 2 | Daddy kept rather obviously bestirring himself to mind about my exams and piling up my desk with secondary stuff I 've no time for — I do n't want to read literary criticism yet , almost at all , and I 'm damned sure he does n't smother his clever boys with it . |
| 3 | Such manic behaviour I should have found disturbing in normal circumstances , but in my state of extreme tension it had become quite insupportable . |
| 4 | tell us about breathing , no you 're not getting my voice on that thing he says , I , I do n't like hearing me voice and everything , and he threw it on the settee . |
| 5 | Putting my hand in one window I turned the catch and forced open the window . |
| 6 | I want to emphasize that in my discussion of social differentiation I am not dealing with an ‘ underclass ’ in the sense in which that term has recently been employed by , among others , Dahrendorf ( 1987 ) . |
| 7 | So I hope you 'll understand that if I do n't include my subscription with this letter it 's not because I do n't support you and if I shop in Smiths it 's not because I want them to sell pornography . |
| 8 | ‘ Of all the people in my class at naval college I am the only one still in the service . ’ |
| 9 | Since the point has now been taken that in my judgment in that case I did not support that particular passage from the Master of the Rolls ' judgment , I should state that the reason was because I did not find it necessary to do so in the particular circumstances of that case . |
| 10 | In fact , in my time in central recruitment we have not used headhunters in any way , and there is little prospect of our doing so in the near future . ’ |
| 11 | If the whole group has to make its decision through verbal discussion it is often better to first present the issue or problem to small groups , then ask each to report back to the whole group . |
| 12 | The prince always let her spend her money in any way she liked . |
| 13 | How on earth could he tell ? she wondered , hunched against the banshee howling that came at her from all directions , hurling rain against her skin with such force it stung like grit . |
| 14 | When she 'd been doing her research for this article she 'd talked to various other people in the City regarding Laura Wyndham 's expertise in her job , and they had all agreed on one thing — she was at the very top of her profession . |
| 15 | But when I recall her attitude over this house I ca n't help wondering if that hardness has always been in her , and I was too dumb to see it . ’ |
| 16 | To understand its meaning in this case it is necessary to consider Table 4.5 . |
| 17 | Like her heroine in Prime Suspect she found success the hard way … |
| 18 | From her period of residential living she had developed a particular rapport with Henry . |
| 19 | If she fixed her focus with enough concentration she could envisage the invisible barrier . |
| 20 | The object of the game is to see who can shake it off in the shortest time without using their hands , but they can move their head in any direction they wish . |
| 21 | Increasingly she felt , without putting it into so many words , that all she wanted was to read , to paint , and to make her father into that person she had seen with the Princesse : a light , carefree , witty , happy Jacob . |
| 22 | Miss Sanchez plays her game with such enthusiasm she is always so entertaining to watch . |
| 23 | In the sense of their access to political power it was not so much a case that women were ‘ returned ’ to the family since they had never really left it to go out to get power — rather they had traditionally exercised power , if at all , by virtue of their familial positions and as the public and private spheres were separated , women were left behind . |
| 24 | If the business buys goods for resale , or components for assembly , the terms on which it buys should be considered : to what extent is it possible to pass back liability for defects in those goods ; can the business recover an indemnity from its supplier against any liability it incurs to third parties , or is such liability excluded ? ( 3 ) Who are the business 's customers ? |
| 25 | Peter : What he 's done today is buy himself a little time , his troubles are n't over , Mrs Thatcher still casts her shadow over this conference he still has problems inside and outside the cabinet but he has bought some time . |
| 26 | In the early to mid-'80s , The Wasp Factory 's prole art debut would not have seemed so brave , but in releasing an album bound to infuriate and confuse most who cross its path at this time they really are pressing their luck . |
| 27 | In the early to mid-'80s , The Wasp Factory 's prole art debut would not have seemed so brave , but in releasing an album bound to infuriate and confuse most who cross its path at this time they really are pressing their luck . |
| 28 | Who was employed before they came here , that had erm , sickness pay from their employer for any time they were off . |
| 29 | Apart from the fact that Cara would professionally streamline her way through any interview she effected with Mr Gajdusek , Cara would never have worn ‘ sensible ’ shoes to start with . |
| 30 | No I especially hope it will be read by sceptics , by people who have grown up with a kind of psychologically inspired dismissal of religion , people who 've become so sophisticated , so busy they have no time for it , people who are so bemused by technology , by the greatness of human achievement , the computers , the moon rockets , the medical advances , that in their worship of human talent they forget that there 's a point where human power ends and the power of God begins . |