Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Now , with Teesside boxing doyen Phil Thomas as president it trains in the former Palm Lounge of the DeNiros pub/disco . |
2 | With a sigh I went on a few steps further to George 's office and found him as I 'd expected , fully dressed , lightly napping , with worked-on forms pushed to one side beside an empty coffee cup . |
3 | It was just a fantasy I nurtured for a few years as I puffed and panted my way through the ten-foots and alleyways of downtown Hull . |
4 | A few years ago I and my two sons made an amazing discovery — a discovery we shared with a few of our colleagues here . |
5 | The unusual job I have for a few weeks is to collect unpublished or limited circulation material for whizzkid computer boffins in Oxford to tag and analyse on computers . |
6 | From her work as a professional painter and teacher she passes on the many tips , secrets and techniques that she has learned over the years and shows how gardens , with their immense variety and colour , can provide the artist with endless ideas . |
7 | Linford Christie also runs his first major individual race of the summer in tonight 's Golden Gala and will be looking for the sort of confidence-booster he gained at the same meeting last year . |
8 | Will the right hon. Gentleman reconsider the generosity he bestowed on the former Leader of the House , the right hon. Member for Shropshire , North ( Mr. Biffen ) , who moved the guillotine motion on the original poll tax measure applying to Scotland ? |
9 | I giggle a little as I fetch the little dark blue jacket I bought at the same time : it was rather extravagant to buy both but they seemed to belong together . |
10 | Is the price we pay for a few moments of Mills and Boon romance too high , leaving an aftermath of bitterness , boredom and let-down ? |
11 | " Philip so honoured him " , wrote Roger of Howden , " that every day they ate at the same table , shared the same dish and a- night the bed did not separate them . |
12 | If , for instance , he drops a ball it accelerates at the same rate as the capsule and will remain at rest relative to the capsule , whatever their shared acceleration . |
13 | Her mother , her doctor and her psychotherapist say that it is vital for her well-being that next month she goes to the same primary school as her friends . |
14 | Near the close , Holding began to lay about him and was dropped off a skyer ; next morning he continued in the same vein to ensure his team a first innings lead , and ensure , too , that Bob Willis 's Test career would end on an unhappy note as it was he who took most of the stick . |
15 | The raising of a ‘ grain curtain ’ is threatening the economic stability of those countries which have lost the protection they enjoyed from the former Soviet empire . |
16 | pBLcat2 and wild type oligo I constructs from the same experiments are shown for direct comparison . |
17 | This Pool who is not Poole can not be worse than the last idiot I saw from the same backward profession : he was extremely fortunate that I did not send the details of his impertinences to the Medical Association or whatever it is called . |
18 | When we reached the jetty we paused for a few moments to look across at the islet . |
19 | In his later life he became for a few months nearly as famous as Ramsey , though in a different context . |
20 | But in a sense it failed through the same sort of determination that gained him the earlier success on April 27th . |
21 | In portraiture he obtained at the same time a good likeness , much appreciated by the sitters and their families , and , in these works and in his more fanciful subjects , he engendered feelings of respect and admiration . |
22 | In any case it succumbed within a few years to the stresses of the Seven Years War , and was not revived until 1775 . |
23 | ‘ What is remarkable about it is that in its own way and by its own route it struggles after the same message as Christ . ’ |
24 | People hear within the market place that , that we give good training , that we do develop people and it does attract good people to join us does n't it , whereas very few people want to join a company where you go nowhere , where you 're not given any training you stay in the same job for ten years and it does nothing for you . |
25 | As we turned another corner we came across a few villagers handling copra . |
26 | Last autumn he came within a few minutes of death when he slashed his wrists with a razor blade . |
27 | These are made in the same kind of way but for each pattern shape you work on the same set of needles as if you were turning the heel of a sock . |
28 | But most of my time I spent in the many and varied mosques , and each day I went back to Hagia Sophia , sometimes remaining for hours . |
29 | When I first when I was first driving in the early 1970's you could park in the quarry car park any time you fancied except the few days before Christmas . |
30 | Riva would not hear them , were it not for the fact they speak in the same language , use the same gestures , and wear the same scars or armbands as her saints . |