Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if there was no advantage for him he would n't come . ’ |
| 2 | Having left behind the bigoted Bolivian elite for whom he would always be only a rich cholo , the contemptuous South American term for anyone of mixed blood , Simon Patiño had his family enter a far grander arena through a series of aristocratic matches , and when he left his fortune estimated by some to have reached a billion dollars to Antenor following his death in 1947 ( as well as his taste for all things French ) , he also left behind a legacy of bigotry borne of his wish to improve his family 's social standing . |
| 3 | That is exactly what has happened in Southampton where , in spite of all the professional advice , the Government committed an offence against the public purse for which they should still be held accountable . |
| 4 | Had she not taken her weight off them they would simply have given way . |
| 5 | ‘ If I had written a script for myself I would n't have changed a thing ’ , he said . |
| 6 | It hardly matters , given the man ; the essence , his core , a sly pederast ( Parker was a regular subscriber to magazines entitled such as Boy and Superboy , Kim and Pim ) ; he thought it best , and he felt safer ( it was his constant dread that the magazines — delivered from an English P.O. box number — should go adrift or burst in transit ) that as a cover-up he acted crude ; and he did it so well ( it might be a hateful zest for what he could not have ) that you would have never thought . |
| 7 | Work in a museum did not encourage the study of what we should now call ecological relationships . |
| 8 | He lived in Notting Hill Gate , in a house he 'd bought cheaply in the late fifties , which he now seldom left , touched as he was by agoraphobia , or , as he preferred it , ‘ a perfectly rational fear of anyone I ca n't blackmail ’ . |
| 9 | On the right side of them you 'd never guess |
| 10 | Muller will watch from the stand knowing he is destined to face the England B team at Bristol on Saturday in preparation for a confrontation of which he could once only dream of : ‘ Facing Will Carling and Jeremy Guscott at Twickenham . ’ |
| 11 | These machines , which are comparatively new to the domestic market , have jog/shuttle dials with the aid of which you can rapidly pinpoint edits by playing the tapes back and forth at any speed you like from single-frame and slo-mo to five or more times faster than normal . |
| 12 | And with an east wind behind them they could not abruptly halt . |
| 13 | After nine years association with him he can still move me to tears , and other people in the Labour Party who might be more cynical than I am . ’ |
| 14 | He puts forward the concept of the ‘ eye-beam ’ as an instrument of perception with which we can actually touch and feel objects : |
| 15 | If your friends really cared about their friendship with you they would n't mock your beliefs . |
| 16 | Yet they can come to see one opponent as the rock upon which they will undoubtedly founder . |
| 17 | The Duke turned Friar in Measure for Measure cultivates at least two different prose-styles , a plain and business-like one for his benevolent deceptions , and that of a moralist disappointed with the world — a persona within which he can also rise to more serious denunciatory verse as the occasion warrants ( for verse within this prose role see III.ii. 19–39 ; 261–82 ; IV.ii. 108–13 ) . |
| 18 | Faced now with the future upon which she dare not hazard herself , the other seemed suddenly quite possible . |
| 19 | The Labour party is utterly impaled on the horns of a dilemma from which it can not escape . |
| 20 | And certainly after Sam and Anna 's kindness to me I would n't want to seem ungracious . ’ |
| 21 | Nicky is entangled in a sticky web of subtle rhetoric concerning ‘ right ’ and ‘ wrong ’ , his mother 's feelings , his own feelings , and underlying all this is the reality of the force to which he must ultimately submit . |
| 22 | Yes , she thought , if Tamar had set her mind on something she would never rest until it was accomplished . |
| 23 | But I thought when he puts his mind to it he can really try ca n't he ? |
| 24 | Run from the ambitious young man who was her husband and who was bringing fear into her existence , a horrible fear to which she dare n't put a name and which had sprung into life a month ago . |
| 25 | Like her French contemporaries Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun or Adelaide Labille-Guiard , Angelica Kauffman was caught up in the contradictory politics of class and gender through the elite patronage without which she could not work . |
| 26 | He also got a copy of the underground railway map , and tried to trace that invisible geography over what he could actually see ; he would even try and trace the map of the flight paths of aeroplanes over the city , deciding which direction indicated which distant country . |
| 27 | If a stranger could have such an effect on her she should never have agreed to wear Paul 's ring . |
| 28 | Frodo perceives the colours of Cerin Amroth accordingly as at once ‘ fresh ’ and familiar , with a light on them he can not identify : ‘ On the land of Lórien there was no stain . ’ |
| 29 | Standing with him , chewing the chalky corn , it was not difficult to enter his vision of the only past to which he could comfortably look ; a spiritual homeland to which he could never return . |
| 30 | There was nothing to suggest the reduction in capital was brought about with the deliberate intention to obtain legal aid to which he would otherwise not be elegible . |