Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The housewife refers to them as external obligations to which she feels a deep need to conform . |
| 2 | Now make another table of what you expect from your house , and award points from one to ten in the same way : |
| 3 | Most of the rainforests belong to developing countries which have to resort to milking their most precious resource to make ends meet , and to pay back money lent to them by Western countries . |
| 4 | It is a privilege enjoyed by everyone in this country but because the library profession has a responsibility for some considerable part of the provision of and access to literature and information , there is a heightened obligation for the library profession in the UK to resist censorship with a much greater collective and individual will than it has tended to show in the past . |
| 5 | Richard Baxter was deeply shocked by this tragedy and also by the general prejudice aroused against him by this incident . |
| 6 | Maybe the wee dram given to me by one of the Sergeant instructors kept out the cold . |
| 7 | Philip went back to Richard 's rooms in college to wait for him on this night of undreamt-of triumph , to enjoy it with him , to talk it through . |
| 8 | Even now he had learnt that Pete Foster , the man being investigated for murder and fraud in the Docks , a hard man , was terrified of his old mother and had kept his successful career in crime hidden from her for sixteen years . |
| 9 | There are discredited and out-of-date theories around , and I have asked officials in my Department to report to me on those matters . |
| 10 | Did n't your detective johnnie come across something like that in one of your books ? ’ |
| 11 | When Kevin Woodford , owner and chef of Woodfords restaurant on the Isle Of Man asked viewers of ITV 's This Morning programme to write to him about any culinary problems , the letters simply flooded in . |
| 12 | In rural areas , the figure drops to one in three . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes … kiss me … ! ’ he muttered thickly , and his mouth moved over hers with anguished excitement . |
| 14 | Almost two years after the beer orders went through the House , we are entitled to ask the Minister what good came of them at last . |
| 15 | I am reminded of the famous poem , by Robert Southey , about the battle of Blenheim , when little Peterkin asks : ’ But what good came of it at last ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Does not the whole ensemble speak to you of imperial confidence , a global network of industry ? ’ |
| 17 | Russell was what you might call a social climber , inasmuch as he specialized in fitting out rock shelters for himself at various altitudes and if possible receiving his friends in them . |
| 18 | The degree and nature of any interaction between the proposal and existing research programmes would depend totally on the needs of each individual submission made to us by visiting researchers , and can not be foreseen at this stage . |
| 19 | It was a great pleasure to talk to you at dear Crabb 's breakfast party . |
| 20 | The Secretary of State shall lay before both Houses of Parliament a draft of any code of practice prepared by him under this section . |
| 21 | Well , Adolph , it certainly was a real pleasure to hear from you after all these years . |
| 22 | Hence photographs of herself taken by a lover look like lots of different women . |
| 23 | The pigeon lay soft and warm on my belly , and I stood listening while my metabolism returned to something like normal . |
| 24 | Tension stretched between them like invisible wires . |
| 25 | H's purpose , however , was to punish the tenant for having given evidence ( under subpoena ) in an action brought against him by another of his tenants and it followed that the landlord was guilty of a criminal contempt of court . |
| 26 | And his dark head bent , his mouth closing over hers with burning sensual expertise . |
| 27 | The air was charged with tension coming at her from all directions . |
| 28 | FOOD TALK brought to you by best and Nestlé |
| 29 | ‘ You know , Frome , it gives me a great deal of pleasure to think of you as head boy here next year . |
| 30 | Inside the wrist was a yellowish label with the words Mireille , gantière embroidered on it in blue silk . |