Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oliver Craddock wrote this down for me the first time I saw him and I 'd forgotten all about it , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Which was stupid — I mean , I had a really good girl right along with me the whole time . |
| 3 | Humphrey Lyttelton recounts : ‘ We brought along with us a strong contingent from Camberwell Art School , and John Minton , now recognised as a distinguished painter , was among the most formidable and dangerous of the first school of dancers . ’ |
| 4 | His tongue stroked briefly across the tender inner swell of her lower lip , inducing a tingling sensitivity , and then she was accepting its sinuous thrust against hers and along with it a wild pleasure , desire following only a heartbeat behind . |
| 5 | Once she 'd put the phone down on him the previous night she 'd regretted her skittish way with him , and , after a heart-to-heart with Marlin in which she 'd told him she wanted to go back to England , and he 'd replied that it would all seem different in the morning and why did n't she just take a pill and lie down , she 'd decided to call him back . |
| 6 | Now when it came down to it the national government essen sorry the Supreme Court essentially said if the national government wishes to create a national bank in pursuance of legitimate aims of the constitution then it should have the discretion to do so and it should n't be interfered with by a state government . |
| 7 | With all these new developments pressing in on him the last thing he could afford was an afternoon off work . |
| 8 | I looked in on you a short while ago and you were fast asleep . |
| 9 | He told the Prime Minister : ‘ We have handed over to you a united country . |
| 10 | I lay there trying to square what I heard with the new enthusiasm derived from Edward and Laura , for I 'd left the Lodge around two in the morning , ready to set off with them the next day in search of the horizon . |
| 11 | Richie caught up with them the next morning . |
| 12 | ‘ You were pretty fed up with me the other night — on the phone . ’ |
| 13 | " She gave up on me a long time ago , but she made sure that my two sons , Charles and Joseph , speak the language of her forebears , and that will stand us in good stead in your colony . " |
| 14 | The minute she set eyes on him , she seemed to take leave of her senses — and he 's been playing up to her the whole time . |
| 15 | A ferocious-looking man whose tangled hair resembled the roof of his own tent held up to them a rough bowl . |
| 16 | Interesting Pauline at work , she 's ever so hurt , could n't get over it , she came up to me the other day she said , hello , how long has it been we have n't seen one another for two months . |
| 17 | ‘ Apart from your flashing eyes and passionate temper , ’ he did n't hesitate to remind her , ‘ you came over anything but frigid when you snuggled up to me the other evening ! ’ |
| 18 | An extension to movement this year was Rosemary Gould 's Reflexology therapy , carried on in her every spare minute , all her proceeds going to Medau . |
| 19 | It 's alright I know I take the piss out of you every other day of the year but today I will not from now on . |
| 20 | Seems he 's gone out of it the wrong way . |
| 21 | The Prince , who had important paperwork to attend to at Buckingham Palace , asked her to drive back with him the following day . |
| 22 | But the other way this particular Friday can be called ‘ good ’ is by reading back into it the astounding outcome on the day after the Sabbath — the 1st day of the new week . |
| 23 | Each time , like , I 've learned not to do this because that 's what got me back into it the last time . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , while you 're here supporting your partner you can tell me to my face why you intend walking out on me a second time in my life . ’ |
| 25 | It 's nice a wee taste of haggis now and again , not that you 'd want to eat it too often , it does tend to come back on you a wee bit , does n't it ? |
| 26 | I read this poem to a group of 10- and 11-year-old children , pointing out to them the physical immediacy of phrases like ‘ tummy jiggled ’ , ‘ ears/Were cold ’ and ‘ teeth on edge ’ . |
| 27 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 28 | He has strong , agile and indeed superb hands ; in the palm of his raised , right hand he holds out to you a miniature city , complete with dome , bridges and towers , the freedom of which he is offering you and which he has promised to protect . |
| 29 | Encourage the person to speak-when they stop or get stuck , allow them time to think and repeat back to them the last thing they said to help them find their flow . |
| 30 | fax numbers and things put on but that alright let's give she came back to me the other day and said I can not get this fax through and had actually typed down the wrong fax number |