Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [pers pn] [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a task which some of the more well-bred staff in the royal household find frankly distasteful — the private secretary to the Prince of Wales , Sir John Riddell , reputedly once told a producer from Thames Television , working on a fortieth birthday tribute to the Prince , that ‘ dealing with you people is like having one 's private parts slowly nibbled by rats ’ — but they go along with it because the deferential attitude of most of the media is the means of engaging popular support for the ins of monarchy . |
| 2 | ‘ The more I saw of … the doings of an official generation slightly older than my own ’ , he writes , ‘ the more it was borne in upon me that the genuine image of the diplomatic process is hardly to be recaptured in historical narrative unless the lens through which it is viewed is a sharp one and the human texture of which it consists becomes visible in considerable detail . ’ |
| 3 | You bang down on it and the darn thing is n't there . |
| 4 | The door judders open , and Summerchild looks doubtfully in at me and the old grocery boxes . |
| 5 | Later , the knowledge filtered through to me that the two ruffians — escaped prisoners like myself , without a doubt — had attacked me solely on account of my fire . |
| 6 | They are often already experienced in the needs of those they are looking after , and a close relationship can build up between them and the whole family . |
| 7 | They are concerned with giving both to the younger ones coming up behind them and the older ones ahead , who are nearing the end of life . |
| 8 | ‘ When somebody is going through a crisis they are opening up to you and a deep bond does develop , more perhaps than you would have with a doctor . |
| 9 | When Aggie climbed into bed , such was her weight that the child rolled towards her , and her head seemed to fall naturally between her breasts , and when the small face peered up at her and the small whisper said , ‘ You 're very big , ’ Aggie said , ‘ Aye , I 'm very big . |
| 10 | Yet our present line of argument shows that there is another possibility that , because of failures in individual and superego development , such conflicts will no longer be confined within the personality , but may break out between it and the outside world . |
| 11 | Her entire body was shaking , yet the sight of his brown arm reaching out towards her and the confident ring in his voice gave her courage . |
| 12 | When my right hon. Friend visits the county palatine , will he hold a meeting with tenants and perhaps point out to them that a standard rate of 35p in the pound , which was described as preposterous by the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) , was the rate levied by the last Labour Government ? |
| 13 | Then about four days later it was pointed out to me that a real earthquake actually hit Germany last week , and she was n't being poetic at all , and I actually felt cheated of the wave of emotion I had felt towards her . |
| 14 | There 's , they pointed out to me that the two thousand percent increase in prescription charges |
| 15 | Then fitzAlan turned back to her and the serious , searching expression in those piercing light eyes banished reason of any description . |
| 16 | The boat went on without her and a few seconds later went down under the water . |
| 17 | is , is , in London and we deal with the British Section which is are the particular bits , but the prisoners have to be vatted and looked at and found by the International Secretaires , then they 're passed on to British Section who pass them on to us and a great deal of research goes into making sure that they really are truly prisoners of conscience , that they 've been in prison for some er possibly because of their belief or religion or their race erm and they 've not taken or advocated violence not taken part in or advocated violence and then , then they are full prisoners of conscience erm we maybe allocated them . |
| 18 | She stepped on to it and a little breeze caught her hair and lifted it behind her . |
| 19 | In his reference to the poll tax , the hon. Member for Teignbridge referred to the many things that had to be built on to it and the many anomalies that had to be addressed . |
| 20 | But what we 'll do is take it there early in the morning , we 'll get he back the bus back to Liverpool , we 'll go to the pier head and we 'll go on the ferry to New Brighton and there was me prattling all on at him and the next thing er , you di , we did n't know that , we thought we were on the main right of way street and your dad started to go across and I looked , your dad was driving , I was sitting beside him and coming towards us along this other road , which had the right of way but we did n't know was a little black mini , I was a ergh , ergh oh Harry , Harry ! |