Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When confronted by The People she said : ‘ I 've been instructed by my employers to refer all matters to them . |
| 2 | My shoulders brushed both walls at once , so I twisted slightly to cut out the sound . |
| 3 | My guards put ninety-one chains on my left leg , so that I could not escape . |
| 4 | I could not see what was happening as I was falling upsidedown and my legs obscured all view of the aircraft above me . |
| 5 | My feet made neat tracks on the tiles . |
| 6 | Can he confirm that he will not extend national insurance contributions to savings , because a large number of my constituents took early retirement from the coal industry and use their savings to supplement their income ? |
| 7 | Many of my constituents live 50 miles from the nearest district general hospital . |
| 8 | ‘ I am calling on my officers to give extra attention to temples and mosques in the area and people must be urged to be vigilant to protect their property , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Step 12 Evaluate the success of your actions by asking : ‘ Have my actions made any difference to the person 's behaviour ? ’ |
| 10 | You should also look beyond the immediate boundaries and ask ‘ How do my actions affect other parts of ICI ? ’ — the ‘ knock on ’ effects . |
| 11 | At that point , Benn had to admit , ‘ my aims to encourage further trade with Russia [ as well as Romania ] and to break through this whole strategic nonsense have come unstuck . ’ |
| 12 | Now each of my siblings has fifty percent of my genes . |
| 13 | My bookshelves contain well-thumbed copies of books by authors such as Lockley , Williamson , Atkinson , Kearton and Fraser-Darling , to name but a few dedicated island-lovers . |
| 14 | But my windows commanded charming views of the city . |
| 15 | I can not make my players sing any anthem in their rooms , nor can I stop them . ’ |
| 16 | Which is why I have always tried to insist that my players have proper ways of relaxing away from their work . |
| 17 | I am trying to teach my children to have some respect for the place in which they live and play , but if the so-called adults in the controlling Liberal Party are vandals , what chance do the children have with that example ? |
| 18 | For some time it stood as the seventh ‘ port ’ in the kingdom , despite the fact that its quays were some distance away ; its merchants had exclusive rights over trade in much of western Sussex for most of the later middle ages . |
| 19 | Shoe-buckles , harness fragments and tunic buttons spread outwards from them for many yards when the gradients become steep , marking places where panting packmen and their contemporaries sought easier paths up the slopes . |
| 20 | Their scales have three notes in conflict but four in common , so that the balance is weighted slightly in favour of compatibility between the keys , while there is enough stress available when needed . |
| 21 | The chief characteristic of the Byzantine Church is the dome ; it represented the symbol of the vault of heaven and its builders developed constructional ability in domical form which enabled them to create many different types of design with it as covering and architectural feature . |
| 22 | Herak calmly narrates how he and other Serb soldiers were encouraged by their commanders to take Muslim women from the Vogosca motel , rape and then murder them . |
| 23 | In a study undertaken over a two-week period , Tom Tadecki , research director of the International Coalition Against Violent Entertainment , found that more than 33 per cent of its programmes involved some form of aggression , with violent acts occurring at a rate of 10 per hour . |
| 24 | The Republic also pointed the way to the future in its attempts to regulate English trade in a way that would help English shipping though its efforts were not immediately successful ; the monarchy took the same legislative approach , but was able to make its laws effective and on this basis set up a system of control of trade in the empire that survived until the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | But the association was frustrated in its attempts to build larger schemes in the Waterside and in the North ward on the site of the old Birmingham Sound Reproducers factory . |
| 26 | NSS , in common with virtually every other publication in the country , got its fingers burnt last week as a result of giving too much credence to the pollsters ' consistent message that we were heading for a hung parliament . |
| 27 | I trust you , you 're not a fool , you know what could happen if you got up to some mischief out there , ’ and her fingers described general obloquy with a sweeping gesture of abolition , ‘ and then you 'll never get a husband either . |
| 28 | Leicestershire SSD has revised its plans to warn other authorities about workers connected with the Frank Beck case . |
| 29 | The party yesterday unveiled its plans to attract new members with less bureaucracy and more political education , campaigning and fun . |
| 30 | Despite the powerful case which it put forward , the Polytechnic failed to persuade the government to change its mind and the Welsh Office went ahead with its plans to remove teacher-training courses from the Polytechnic . |