Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast I have chosen the following passage from Barnaby Rudge : |
| 2 | For the purposes of this chapter I have given the four schools fictitious names . |
| 3 | Mr Maurice Saatchi who now gets three hundred and ten thousand pounds a year compared with six hundred thousand pounds a year two years ago replied I 'm quite satisfied that involuntary taking a fifty per cent pay cut I have done the right thing . |
| 4 | Before I had turned back from Bilen I had watched the Awash flowing towards its unknown destination . |
| 5 | this afternoon , thank you , and your raffles now , er Mrs on the pink you 've got the first one love , give it to Mabel |
| 6 | In daylight Folly could really appreciate details of the luxury she had missed the previous evening . |
| 7 | For several weeks after her wedding she had entertained the silly idea that James might look for her , but she was thankful that he never came even though he soon heard about her marriage to Nahum . |
| 8 | In this chapter we have traced the detailed mechanisms of the creation of the sex fiend in the press . |
| 9 | In this chapter we have discussed the main ways in which social services encouraged economic growth . |
| 10 | In this review we have charted the substantial progress which has been made in understanding the cellular and molecular basis of NMDA receptor-dependent LTP in the hippocampus . |
| 11 | The girls came into school discussing the merits of a programme they had seen the previous evening , a ‘ religious ’ programme , Meeting Point , which had been about pre-marital sex . |
| 12 | It was Li Yuan 's horse ; the horse he had ridden the last time he had come . |
| 13 | The desire of the Cubists to keep closely in touch with visual reality explains Picasso 's uneasiness about his Cadaquès paintings : clearly he could not go back to his earlier , more laborious methods of dealing with form , and yet at a single stroke he had carried the new technique suggested in the work of Braque to something very near complete abstraction . |
| 14 | He had , of course , given up cigarettes by the time he had gone into the clinic , but as a result he had abandoned the puritanical principles inculcated into him in youth and had started eating sweets instead ; and this meant that he was putting on weight . |
| 15 | And not only that er go into the Newcastle Evening Chronicle it 's dumped the next day . |
| 16 | And also like Braid he had won the Open Championship four times by 1908 but he was to win twice more in 1911 and 1914 . |
| 17 | For a split second he experienced that same numbing fear he had felt the first time he had come under enemy fire . |
| 18 | He glanced to his right and saw the handsome , leonine profile of the silver haired killer he had spent the past five years hunting down . |
| 19 | Whilst the form and degree of criticism has changed over the twentieth century , in essence it has remained the same , with similar international contrasts being drawn . |
| 20 | He had hit the right note of playful yet dignified affection with the children — mischievous Sam Yaxley had proved an ally there ; and even throughout the days of his own distress he had comforted the sick and sorrowful , acting in the simple trust that , however removed chose impoverished lives might seem from his own , they were members of one another . |
| 21 | From my hotel window I had watched the tiny procession bearing its little donkey aloft , then seen the children sweep the streets with the palms , startling a piglet from a gutter . |
| 22 | He also ordered a meal of succulent roast capon cooked in rich sauces and freshly baked loaves of pure wheat rather than the coarse rye bread I had eaten the previous months . |
| 23 | As she says , you can do this if the pattern is on the mylar sheet by adjusting the pattern width dial , but since she saved the hedgehog she has erased the mylar sheet . |
| 24 | We therefore apply ( 2 ) with unc This gives for the solution of ( 2 ) unc Since the columns and rows are arbitrary to a scalar multiplier , we may now write unc ( for simplicity of exposition we have multiplied the first column on the right by 3 ) . |
| 25 | The village they found lined the ancient Akeman Street , the Roman road which linked St Albans with Cirencester . |
| 26 | The village they found lined the ancient Akeman Street , the Roman road which linked St Albans with Cirencester . |
| 27 | All around her men 's eyes are avidly forsaking their embarrassed girlfriends for the fantasy they have paid the go-go dancer to concoct of herself ; the room contains a crowd of men united in desire and fear of possession of women who are separated from each other by bars . |
| 28 | At Carole 's insistence they had climbed the long metal ladder which led inside from the roof of the nave to the top of the tower : Henry went first , Amaranth second ; by some accident of fate , David followed on her heels , leaving an indignant Carole to bring up the rear . |
| 29 | Alan thought of the little scene he had witnessed the previous night . |
| 30 | The money raised by the medieval trustees responsible for the upkeep of the bridge was surplus to requirements , and enabled the bridge to become a landowner , in which capacity it has helped the poor of the town and built and maintained the old grammar school . |