Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some , like David Young , who had abandoned the law for a career as a property developer , she put in charge of great statutory bodies , in his case eventually raising him to the Cabinet as Lord Young of Graffham . |
| 2 | And the computer successfully identified it as an Exocet . |
| 3 | He walked into the corridor , tiredness suddenly overcoming him with the prospect of a few hours off , and very nearly knocked Catherine Crane over in his preoccupation . |
| 4 | One of the Taï chimpanzee mothers , Ricci , was kind enough to provide us with the first record of observable active teaching ( acceptable to a psychologist ) in a non-human animal in the wild . |
| 5 | Gilly could feel Miss Ellis 's fingers on her backbone gently prodding her through the doorway and into the house . |
| 6 | Herbs too are a practical addition so keep them near the back door , perhaps framed with a fragrant low hedge of lavender or santolina . |
| 7 | ‘ A bit stiff leaving me in the lead bucket . ’ |
| 8 | Since it can not be known as a concept that will realize itself in the future , Sartre argues instead that the totality only produces itself in the moment : ‘ The incarnation as such is at once unrealizable except as totalization of everything and irreducible to a pure abstract unity of that which it totalizes ’ ( II , 58 ) . |
| 9 | Such a picture of the mind naturally lends itself to a James-type account of the localisation of bodily sensations : if the mind has its ‘ seat ’ in the head , and sensations are in the mind , then what appears to be the directly-kno-wn location of the sensation must really be the indirectly-known location of the source of the sensation . |
| 10 | Jon Pepper always struck me as a very proficient newsman . |
| 11 | Patients at Dr Jordan 's 1,530-strong practice yesterday described him as a ‘ conscientious grafter ’ . |
| 12 | " The problem , dear lady , " he said quietly , his accent more pronounced now that he had calmed down , " is that a certain Madam Lundy was sent a telegram yesterday informing her of the whereabouts of a certain Patrick Lundy . " |
| 13 | This vulnerability further endeared her to the public . |
| 14 | But the mind always expresses itself through the body , consciously or unconsciously , just as it does in humans . |
| 15 | You have the intention permanently to deprive me of the petrol . |
| 16 | In November 1989 Bishop Ioan of Zhitomir proclaimed himself head of a revived Ukrainian Autocephalous Church ( abolished in 1929 ) and was summarily excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church ; the Constantinople Patriarchate also dissociated itself from the revival . |
| 17 | This high degree of concentration also manifests itself at the most localized scales . |
| 18 | The card immediately signals you as an important customer . |
| 19 | Manoon immediately surrendered himself to the authorities and was later charged with , among other crimes , conspiracy to assassinate Queen Sirikit in 1982 . |
| 20 | I bought another dress in Barnard Castle made from very fine material with a flared skirt , and the Daily Mail kindly presented me with a broad-brimmed floral hat and a pair of white gloves to take some very nice photographs . |
| 21 | The film director claimed his former lover regularly rang him in the middle of the night to scare him . |
| 22 | Then a fiercer gust of wind almost blew her from the path and she hung on to bag and box like grim death . |
| 23 | I took off my rings and jewellery and put them in my handbag then lowered myself over the cliff edge . |
| 24 | One inmate then aimed it at the perimeter fence of trouble-torn Lindholme jail , Doncaster , as other prisoners pelted warders with bricks . |
| 25 | She fumbled in her pocket for the key then let us in the side door . |
| 26 | His car barely made it across the finish line , spluttering and choking , before the fuel supply dried up . |
| 27 | Modern routine clinical practice however offers something of a dilution of the original Jacobsonian relaxation techniques . |
| 28 | She appeared to have sufficient buoyancy forward to lift her over the next wave instead of burying the foredeck , something which normally prefaces a broach . |
| 29 | The agent never treated me as a serious buyer because I did n't fit his image of a businessman ’ ) , the adaptation process began . |
| 30 | I 've a good mind never to allow you in the Park again ! ’ |