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5 The unusual job I have for a few weeks is to collect unpublished or limited circulation material for whizzkid computer boffins in Oxford to tag and analyse on computers .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 .
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