Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last Friday night Sir Hector Monro , Scottish minister of agriculture , let it be known he was not happy about board proposals to transfer its every nut , bolt , fixture and fitting from statutory monopoly to voluntary co-op from April 1994 . |
| 2 | Charles 's boyhood sufferings taught him a patience far removed from defeatism , reinforcing Christianity 's message that to be humbled was the prelude to triumph . |
| 3 | Even at its simplest your intervention — supports the children in their role-play introduces the idea that you , the teacher , can play a role yourself creates the possibility of formalising their language creates the possibility of introducing some simple work in other curriculum areas ( e.g. counting ) encourages them to think beyond the immediate , maybe introducing simple notions of cause and effect narrative gives you the opportunity to introduce simple signals indicating when you are in and out of role , thereby accustoming them to this strategy for when you use it later in a whole group drama . |
| 4 | She thinks that being a crime writer makes me a detective as well . |
| 5 | A shrewd aid programme does us a favour . |
| 6 | He was propped on one elbow beside her , the width of the picnic hamper giving her an illusion of safety from too close an intimacy . |
| 7 | Now we 've got a buyer for that one at home well two for pound help to buy you a bed . |
| 8 | The silver pince-nez gave him the air of a rather unpleasant schoolmaster . |
| 9 | Most drawing packages offer you an alignment tool but it usually does n't solve the problem of spacing a set of objects evenly . |
| 10 | A beggar lad showed us the house in a dank , narrow alleyway where Mistress Hopkins lived . |
| 11 | I think its fairly unanimous that if any department needs improving its the defence . |
| 12 | Another more immediate solution would be to combine an outing with others who live near you so that you could get into town on a bus and then share a taxi back ; or ask a car owner to give you a lift , in exchange for petrol money and perhaps some skill that you can offer . |
| 13 | Only a very few civil servants within the recipient government understand what the project is really about . |
| 14 | It will not be possible subsequently to replace the VAT accounting procedures to reflect what the state of affairs was intended to be . |
| 15 | Leaving me to continue cleaning up , my husband climbed the ladder into the roof space to see what the situation was there . |
| 16 | He expanded this idea at his next job interview , and finally his obsession with debt paid off : the aid agency offered him a position . |
| 17 | An older club member gave me a lift back to the station and I asked her what she thought of Ten Forward . |
| 18 | ‘ I seriously thought of studying English literature — or becoming a cook ! ’ he told me with a laugh , ‘ but then Imperial College London offered me a place in mathematics . ’ |
| 19 | Lawyer A gave him a lot of advice about what was reasonable , but it was not invariably accepted . |
| 20 | As an example of symbiosis Chris showed us a tangarana tree which has an accommodation with ants . |
| 21 | Tea and biscuits end the afternoon session giving everyone a chance to rest . |
| 22 | Being signed by Hampshire as replacement for Andy Roberts just a few months after his Test debut gave him the chance to impress Clive Lloyd in county matches and in 1982 he really came good with 134 wickets , the best season 's haul since the reduction in championship matches in 1969 . |
| 23 | He was , he told Greta Burkill , intent on persuading the Cambridge University recruiting board to offer him a place on an officer training course . |
| 24 | Tennis rackets give you a lot of power but the most power you get from the body . |
| 25 | The only reference point to give us a sense of our height was the tiny boat on the beach beneath us , with the two fishermen , who had not only declined to follow us up the crater , but also expressed an urgent desire to avoid even setting foot on shore . |
| 26 | As a quick reference guide to give you an indication of how many glasses of a lower alcohol product you can drink for every glass of a standard alcohol product below is a table which shows drinks which have the same alcohol content . |
| 27 | It seemed safe because there were no other guests , but the pub owner asked us a question which worried us . |
| 28 | I gazed at the picture of the crocodile pool and all I could think of to say was , did the gallery owner give you a discount because you 're a friend of Robert 's ? |
| 29 | ALEX FERGUSON revealed yesterday how he tried to sign Mick Harford just before the transfer deadline to win him the title last season . |
| 30 | you were n't in and I could n't , I could n't find telephone number to give him a ring , I 've just got , I 've just got through to Directory Enquiries , got the number , just gon na dial it and gran says Annette 's home . |