Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The force of it lifted Golden Girl 's stern and for a moment Trent feared that she would bury her bows in the sea and pitch-pole . |
| 2 | That state was called the In Ovo , and on the other side of it lay four worlds , the so-called Reconciled Dominions . |
| 3 | But a small part of her cried that Ace seemed to have lost all sense of kindness and decency as far as she was concerned . |
| 4 | William Troy in the Nation was similarly unable to find the right words to explain the greatness of It Happened One Night and he suggested that ‘ a good photoplay , like a good book or a good piece of music , remains always something of a miracle ’ and that ‘ beyond a certain point the mind is forced to bow down before its own inability to unravel and put together again all the parts of the shining and imponderable whole with which it is dealing ’ . |
| 5 | If you do n't know a priori where the break will come , right , only we can get some , you can get a handle where the break in this series may come by looking at the rolling regression like you did last week . |
| 6 | The predominant over-view in this Department was that Television held a special kind of mystique ; that writing and producing drama for it demanded special levels of skill which were to be somewhere between the scopes of the Theatre and the Cinema . |
| 7 | On the one hand , the local situation and knowledge about it encouraged some people to retire at the same time as they were made redundant . |
| 8 | The rest of me knew this sort of thing worked . |
| 9 | But the rest of me ignored those details and clutched hungrily at the reassurance that she had n't really played a willing part in my humiliation . |
| 10 | None of the rest of us had that kind of head . ’ |
| 11 | The same unfortunate landlord returned a few days later as we were playing forfeits , and made no mention of the fact that one person was in a bra and panties with a colander on his head , another had wellingtons on filled to the brim with curdled milk and the rest of us had false moustaches drawn on with an indelible black magic marker . |
| 12 | ‘ So I decided I needed a solid-body guitar for regular playing , and this friend of mine had this Firebird . |
| 13 | A friend of mine had this Firebird — I did n't know what I was buying , and he did n't know what he was sellin |
| 14 | A doctor friend of mine found this home on Welfare Island where I could just observe old people . |
| 15 | In fact , on one occasion , a very close friend of mine found this step with a piece of carpet on it . |
| 16 | A quarter of us had four radio sets or more . |
| 17 | I have just heard that an aunt of mine died some years ago . |
| 18 | LITTLE Laura Davies , who is critically ill following rejection of her transplanted small intestine , was last night facing a massive new operation , to replace her entire digestive system . |
| 19 | Not one word of it made any sense at all to him . |
| 20 | Moddy Dhu was the PHANTOM dog of the Isle of Man , and the sight of it caused immediate death . |
| 21 | Suddenly the sky behind them flashed brilliant fire . |
| 22 | It was the highest ever vote for our party and the modest swing to us reflected great credit on the many people who helped the Liberal Democrat campaign in South West Surrey . |
| 23 | Or was it true that the Church was so short of people of stature ( under the age of 73 ) that only one man among them had enough stature for the see of London and for that reason his scholarship must be sacrificed on the altar of a higher good ? |
| 24 | In Easton , the dislike of it made some policemen reluctant to attend certain sorts of incident where a great deal of paperwork could be expected ( such as road traffic accidents ) , although means of formal control usually ensured they responded in the end . |
| 25 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 26 | You know quite apart from the fact that you get a situation where somebody sets fire to the infrastructure and it closes down the whole of the East coast main line like it did two days ago . |
| 27 | a big str , a bit strong fellow to he had good legs on him , he did a lot of cycling you know |
| 28 | An acquaintance of mine arrived some weeks later to be told that he could have them if he had turned up sooner . |
| 29 | A couple of them sported bruised faces , and one was limping . |
| 30 | I wonder if I could go back to that point that er a couple of you raised this morning , about the transfer assets into the wife 's name . |