Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bond began to be formed when they asked Martin to place protection for them on an icy pitch just below the summit . |
| 2 | We understand from the Office of Fair Trading and the Consumer Credit Sub-Committee of the Institute of Trading Standards Administration that — although there is clearly opportunity for it within the close-knit personal relationship between the check trader and the customer — exploitation of customers seems very rare . |
| 3 | ‘ Siddy 's ’ fiancée , Beth , would cut and set her hair for her in the late ‘ twenties , but by the time the couple married in June , 1930 , Granny was very near the end . |
| 4 | More did not — but included provision for it in the other types of school . |
| 5 | ‘ Britten had written the part for him as the eldest son , Jaffet , which was a treble , ’ said Graham . |
| 6 | He thinks there 's a part for me in the new play at the Queen 's . ’ |
| 7 | This depends on the aims of the essay , but it might include : — a judgement about which of the competing arguments you have considered in your essay is correct or most persuasive ; |
| 8 | He then became the resident guitarist at ECM and therefore has played guitar for everyone in the modern movement : for example , Paul Bley , Mike Gibbs , Eberhard Weber , Paul Motian and Jan Gabarek . |
| 9 | During a walkabout on Merseyside , the Princess of Wales was overcome by tears after the crowd voiced their support for her amid the current press controversy surrounding her marriage . |
| 10 | To a king about to embark on war , the support of wise counsels and mighty powers was indeed essential , and the men honoured in 1337 repaid the king 's generosity by loyal support for him in the forthcoming campaigns . |
| 11 | The West Ham Trades Council resolved that conscription was a serious threat to the labour movement , and summoned Thorne to explain his support for it at the 1916 Labour Party conference ( East Ham Echo 12 February 16 ) . |
| 12 | The idea of a National Government was primarily an idea of the political centre and right : there was hardly any support for it in the Labour party — except from Mosley , and he was moving rapidly to the right . |
| 13 | Nice and easy for those of you just beginning to try your hand at intarsia and it 's not too difficult to work out the chart for yourself with the many aids available . |
| 14 | The figures in Appendix I , Table 4 suggest that paying off credit agreements typically absorbs roughly twice as high a proportion of income for someone in the lowest income group as it does for people in higher income groups . |
| 15 | Do you take responsibility for them as an active dad ? |
| 16 | At the same time as I was writing some correspondence ( including the note to you ) , I was attempting to organise the hand-over of certain severely disturbed patients to various colleagues who were to assume responsibility for them during the long vacation . |
| 17 | Folly finished the sentence for him in a flat voice that she hardly recognised as being her own . |
| 18 | You have the look about you of a hired sword , Hrun of Chimeria . |
| 19 | I know you have no money for anything but the hired costumes and I am prepared to waive my fee for designing extra clothes for her . |
| 20 | Word processors are more like DTP packages , and spreadsheets do just about everything bar make the money for you in the first place . |
| 21 | ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’ |
| 23 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 24 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 25 | For it seemed to her then that he was aware that her thoughts were troubled and , when he had no need whatsoever to put himself out , he had decided to take her mind off them for a brief while . |
| 26 | It was published in March 1986 , five months after Jones ' arrival at BYU , and he decided to give a talk about it in the departmental weekly colloquium . |
| 27 | I was advised that before studying psionic medicine it would be appropriate to learn homoeopathy and this I duly did , leaving my post in the genetics department for one in the homoeopathic hospital . |
| 28 | A first round victory caught everyone 's attention , and Swift kept close tabs on him for the rest of the year , even fielding a car for him in the 25th anniversary race at Silverstone and again in the Irish Festival . |
| 29 | ‘ You plug it in when you go away and it switches on the light for you at the same time every evening , and switches it off too . |
| 30 | She knew she ought to get a piece about him in a national newspaper . |