Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the patient , it 's not my place to comment on his medical condition , except to say that he is still quite definitely alive and in the best possible hands . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I had to sell my share in Moffat Engineering , which lost me my chance to drive for them that year … ’ |
| 3 | The row strengthened my resolve to start on my own . |
| 4 | But the fact that the medical profession has , for example , tended to restrict entry to the profession so as to preserve status , jobs and income , does not imply that I should withhold my trust in the ability and intention of my doctor to act in my best interests . |
| 5 | But since my brother 's death it has been my duty to care for my two nieces . |
| 6 | It is ironic that even in the UK the National Anti-Vivisection Society ( NAVS ) urges us in its literature to look to our own self-interest . |
| 7 | So an essential skill of counselling is to avoid completely the giving of advice , and to allow counsellees to take what eventually must be their responsibility to arrive at their own decision , in their own time and in their own way . |
| 8 | The troops seemed eager enough , but the next few seconds would be the acid test of their willingness to fight against their old master , Napoleon . |
| 9 | The lender gives you some of its money to use for your own purposes — but in return you pay interest on the loan . |
| 10 | It states : ’ as to the future , we have to secure for Scotland a much more direct and convenient method of bringing her influence to bear upon her own purely domestic affairs . |
| 11 | Apart from the strong suspicion that the revenue officers of Wigtown were rather too closely associated with smuggling , their failure to determine at their first survey the proper quantity of dutiable iron imported by Bailie Hooks suggested a method of changing the composition of the town council when the vital election of a delegate to represent the burgh at the ensuing parliamentary election was to be held . |
| 12 | Some carers will feel imprisoned by the demands made of them , and they will be torn between their desire to care for their older relatives and their own need to lead an independent life . |
| 13 | The rabbi 's wife had insisted it was her role to attend to their epileptic daughter several times each night ; her husband must sleep to be strong for the community . |
| 14 | Sometimes she dared to wonder at the causes for this way of life , for she could see that it did not represent a normal attitude towards society , though it was so deeply bred in her that all aberrations from it were for the rest of her life to seem to her perverse : but when , occasionally , she glimpsed some faint light of causation , she recoiled from it and shut her eyes in horror , preferring the darkness to such bitter illumination . |
| 15 | Their aggressiveness to cuckoos — whether real or stuffed — started to increase , as did their ability to discriminate between their own and foreign eggs . |
| 16 | After the strike , however , they were called on to return to their ‘ service role ’ for the miners , and they faced difficulties sustaining both their solidarity and their ability to build on their new-found strength ( see also Waddington et al. , 1990 ) . |
| 17 | The arrests were widely believed to have inflicted a serious blow to the organization 's command structure and its ability to continue with its 22-year guerrilla war . |
| 18 | The pace of colonial emancipation would , in future , be governed more by the dependent peoples ’ view of their readiness for independence than by British administrators ’ judgement of their fitness to stand on their own feet . |
| 19 | ‘ I went with a friend to see the headmaster and ask his permission to go to our local church and say a prayer for our dead King , ’ he says . |
| 20 | Choking , he shifted one hand from his enemy to claw at his own throat , and instantly the fist that was strangling him heaved him roughly back from the edge and flung him down in safety at the foot of the wall . |
| 21 | McAllister had six birdies and showed his determination to improve on his 1993 best placing of 31st , with a remarkable par-saving effort at the difficult second hole . |
| 22 | Some will be disappointed to learn that Clavierübung III as finally printed has nothing to do with the number of buttons on Bach 's waistcoat or the transit of Venus , but everything to do with his compulsion to expand on his original conception of works on a more or less ad hoc basis . |
| 23 | ‘ Irridek , ’ he breathed , lifting his head to stare into her stunned face with blackly dilated eyes . |
| 24 | Townsend at least gave fans something to shout about with his well taken goal in the 86th minute when Dennis Wise cleverly controlled a Gareth Hall centre for his captain to fire in his fourth goal of the season . |
| 25 | It is commonly rumoured that the King was on his way to stay with his new wife , Queen Yolande , at a nearby manor . |
| 26 | He pulled its hind legs towards him , turning on his stool to call to his younger son who was milking invisibly somewhere behind him , ‘ Leave her ! |
| 27 | She moved her nimble fingers beneath his crotch to play with his two empty balls . |
| 28 | Their strong support came after a top BBC manager also backed Mr Birt , while admitting he and the corporation and Mr Birt were damaged by the row over his tax deal — which enabled him to be treated as self-employed and his pay to go to his private company . |
| 29 | Their strong support came after a top BBC manager also backed Mr Birt , while admitting that the corporation and Mr Birt were damaged by the row over his tax deal which enabled him to be treated as self-employed and his pay to go to his private company . |
| 30 | At first , he doubted his ability to succeed at his self-appointed task , which seemed ‘ utterly formidable , completely ludicrous ’ . |