Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We went off to parade for lunch ; this meant ten minutes doing press-ups with the Corporal halting us in mid exercise so that we were poised between the ground and the arms-stretched position — as our limbs weakened so people started to slump and collapse , which resulted in kicks and blows . |
| 2 | One particular Easter , a beautiful day , I remember an overwhelming fear filling me with absolute terror as we stood outside the ticket office after returning from a journey . |
| 3 | They carry on average only 2.5 grains each and , as the corollas fall in the morning , they ny back up to the canopy , where they effect pollination , any slight wind drifting them to other trees . |
| 4 | Having the opportunity to do some work from home is of great assistance providing me with extra flexibility to help balance and organise my professional and domestic commitments . ’ |
| 5 | They spent the evening trying them in different places and ended with one in the hall and one in the window seat in the winter parlour . |
| 6 | He has been a fantastic friend helping me with financial work . ’ |
| 7 | It is important to take a wider view of social policy development relating it to economic policy . |
| 8 | Mr Morgan and his organ releasing them into hysterical laughter had anaesthetized the horror of the past . |
| 9 | Saunders is fed up with speculation linking him with other clubs , Newcastle being the latest to show an interest , following Spurs and Aston Villa . |
| 10 | Coleman had met Ross in 1981 while writing his book Squeal , in which he described how Las Vegas superstar Wayne Newton had sued Ross and Silverman over an NBC story connecting him with organized crime . |
| 11 | So his Hebrew schooling thereby climaxed ; his public participation galvanising him to accelerated study . |
| 12 | Even so , the image of Chung Hu-yan waking him with awful news persisted , until he realised what it was . |
| 13 | Though living with his father in Dearborn , near Detroit , Kalid visited his mother and grandfather in the Bekaa Valley several times a year , a family duty providing him with perfect cover for the job of courier in the DEA 's stepped-up programme of controlled heroin deliveries . |
| 14 | Recently , the society offered to give its building to New York City in exchange for a revision of status entitling it to city-provided operating funds . |
| 15 | Everybody scattered , including the scared young lady with the serious skin condition ; she just vanished out of the back of the café leaving us with smashed bottles and glasses . |
| 16 | On Wednesday David Howell , the Energy Secretary , was forced to withdraw the threat of pit closures and on Thursday we woke up to a dreadful press accusing us of ignominious surrender . |
| 17 | The other half of the club has a stage surrounded by white plastic tables and chairs , above which a blonde girl in a white body stocking was dangling from a rope , with only a ligature around her ankle saving her from crashing head first to the floor . |
| 18 | You could make a fortune selling them to stressed businessmen . |
| 19 | We believe that St Albans er has a traffic problem facing it in recent years , two or three year 's ago at the height of activity er the problems facing it were were more obvious and along with that situation er there 's no question about that and one might be forgetting to thinking the problem and not the way it has n't , it will return now , we know it will be return and therefore we should be firm in our resolve and at some point in time in the future that problem must be addressed sensibly for the good of the people of St Albans . |
| 20 | He was dressed in close-fitting grey trousers that emphasised the length of his legs and a short-sleeved cotton-knit shirt , also in grey , a striped butcher 's apron protecting them from fat splashes . |
| 21 | According to the Liberal-Irish alliance , the Irish party was supposed to abstain from the 1901 Conservative bill , aimed at bringing denominational schools in England and Wales into the national education system while at the same time absenting them from local government control : that is , giving finance while maintaining the system of denominational clerical control . |
| 22 | This was the corner to which she had tottered , her mother holding her on white leather reins , her legs encased in knitted leggings whose scratchiness she could still remember . |
| 23 | When he hesitated Carrie ended , ‘ As your mother greeting me with open arms . |
| 24 | They also enabled women to challenge male professional power while at the same time implicating them in coercive class regulation . |
| 25 | Some female handed them a hypo-bulb and they sprayed it into Jezrael 's face , and there was a physical paralysis leadening her without physical pain . |
| 26 | The start of the walk is very gentle with a wide dirt track taking you into cool woodland with spring vegetation and all shades of mosses on the banks by the side of the path . |
| 27 | And Mr Corker has received letters from the tourism office advising him of financial help available for expansion plans . |
| 28 | I saw Pike 's weatherworn little face watching me with intense concentration . |
| 29 | Simon Werman 's work , at Broomfield , can be most easily identified by his edge mouldings , where they all carry a uniform design of a continuous running stem pattern that has a leaf crossing it at regular intervals . |