Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is held that , although he lived until the end of the Second World War , his clericalism and conservatism alone deprived him of his Marshal 's baton . |
| 2 | The agent just gave it to me , which obviously meant he wanted him to do it and is unusual because they do n't normally give out telephone numbers . |
| 3 | Depictions of the nativity meanwhile show her with her son , with Joseph , the angels , the ox and the ass , the shepherds and the magi : with all the characters who make up the Christmas story . |
| 4 | Well they have four cars they have this wee car for , to tow the caravan to the caravan sites on holiday and then he has his new car and the father has a Jaguar and then they 've some other wee car just to get them about you know . |
| 5 | ’ Gharr probably put it on me when I was asleep , ’ she said defensively . |
| 6 | The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry and the British Chemical Distributors and Traders Association also apply it to their member companies . |
| 7 | It is my intention then to deliver them to you the following day , Friday 5 March , probably sometime before midday . |
| 8 | ‘ I was angry ! ’ he admitted , thrusting his hands into the pockets of his trousers as he studied her , his eyes traversing her slender form , raking over the tangle of dark hair , her susceptible grey eyes , her full , sensual mouth , before lowering them in slow appraisal of her trim figure then returning them to her querulous expression . |
| 9 | It was , it 's slow when you do n't have the computer just doing it on its own . |
| 10 | The cold eventually forced him to his feet . |
| 11 | And then at a certain point she felt , and we felt , that Madam was n't quite enough ; and so just now , anyway , she was known as Madame , and no one in The Bar ever addressed her as anything else . |
| 12 | I was explaining this to your door porters when a most helpful youngster kindly took me in his charge and escorted me into this room . ’ |
| 13 | He threw his head back with laughter then hauled her to her feet and hugged her to him . |
| 14 | He 's gone into Boots , he 's admitted to doing the offence erm picking up some perfume from the counter in Boots , put it in the basket then placed it into his bag |
| 15 | When offered the leadership for which he had fought so hard , Law almost lost It by his apparent doubt ; in his speech of acceptance he spoke at length of his unfitness for the job ; when told that he was now a great man and must learn to behave like one , he replied " If ! am a great man , then a good many great men must have been frauds . " |
| 16 | ICL Plc and Fujitsu Ltd , which helped with the Sparc port , and NEC Corp , which helped with the Mips iteration already have them on their machines . |
| 17 | She asks us if we would agree that Julia Roberts is the most stunning thing we 've ever seen , and we have to admit that Julia 's extraordinarily wide mouth and upturned nose always remind us of someone with their face pressed against a plate-glass window . |
| 18 | The Last Post also does it for me ! |
| 19 | The Community even tells us through which fields we are to put our roads . |
| 20 | Her husband kindly returned them to me , and I was able to do a great deal of destruction for myself . |
| 21 | After a few hours a rustling noise nearly shocked me off my boulder . |
| 22 | Needless to say , the marshal soon disabused them of their misapprehension . ’ |
| 23 | To begin with , they thought that the Robemaker had injured him in some unimaginable way , for the crimson mask still had him in its grip and in the flickering light , it looked for a moment as if the lower part of his face was covered in blood . |
| 24 | His talents and character perfectly qualified him for his role and his motives expressed ‘ an awful sense of his duty as a Christian ’ . |
| 25 | He put down his drink then took her in his arms , holding her tight . |
| 26 | My predecessor took me carefully aside to explain that this device was part of a plot by the Director of Education either to drive him from his place or to impose comprehensives on the whole campus . |
| 27 | Either you have lost the letter or you did n't have it to lose in the first place , in which case the king never gave it to you , i which case he gave it to me , in which case I would have put it into my inside top pocket in which case ( Calmly producing the letter ) … it will be … here . |
| 28 | As I walked down by the riverside one evening in the spring Heard a long gone song from days gone by Blown in on the great North wind Though there is no lonesome corncrake 's cry of sorrow and delight You can hear the cars and the shouts from bars and the laughter , and the fights May the ghosts that howled round the house at night never keep you from your sleep May they all sleep tight down in Hell tonight or wherever they may be … |
| 29 | Rickie suddenly asked me in what purported to be a tone of serious enquiry . |
| 30 | My mother and father both encouraged me in my playing , but I was n't encouraged to get into the business because they knew it was kind of tough . |