Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children skipped along with him for a few yards and he saw how beguiling their faces were , the large dark eyes , the straggle of thick black hair , the earnest looks of desperate innocence . |
| 2 | In the end , the big woman with the cherries in her hat had dragged the now screaming child from his mother 's arms , pulling poor Edith along with her for a few steps until she had dropped sobbing on to the linoleum . |
| 3 | He stared down at her for a few seconds , almost as if searching for some clue hidden in her expression . |
| 4 | I 'd have liked to have cut the face off of him with a few choice words . |
| 5 | Western attention was mostly directed towards the Kurds , who rose up against him at the same time , but the greater threat to Saddam and the heavier loss of life was Shiite , Not Kurdish . |
| 6 | And when she jumped up again , the chair sort of stuck to the seat of those awful green breeches she wears and came up with her for a few seconds until the thick syrup slowly came unstuck . |
| 7 | Susan caught up with her after a few words with Mr Darling . |
| 8 | His own address stared up at him in the same black hand |
| 9 | She held her breath for a moment and then the tears and the breath burst out of her at the same time . |
| 10 | Nicholson got nothing out of it except a few good pay days and suffered occasional touches of melancholia about his work ; he was getting ‘ old ’ and anything substantial was nowhere in sight . |
| 11 | When the greatest lords drove out to their estates , he often drove out with them in the same carriage . |
| 12 | Back with us in a few days . ’ |
| 13 | This being the case we can talk back to them on the same basis and presumably they will understand . |
| 14 | Come back to me in a few weeks with another research proposal . |
| 15 | Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins . |
| 16 | You will have achieved very little if parents sort problems one at a time and keep coming back to you for the same advice for each one . |
| 17 | The head man could get bitten , the tail man could get doused with noisome excreta — and if they both missed their grasp , then the middle man got both bad ends of the snake coming back at him at the same time . |