Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It collects these flakes with the brush near the end of its hind legs and passes them forward to its mouth where it kneads them with saliva . |
| 2 | And my father was her shepherd so nobody asks us to their houses , so I never met people like this before and Aunt Emily is trying to bring me out and she 's so sweet , so generous . |
| 3 | The Lady 's last opponent shifted his seat until he faced her across the board . |
| 4 | So I got up immediately and said it would be the end of a beautiful friendship if he accused me of necrophilia ! |
| 5 | A who has a new Rolls-Royce car , says to B , I will give you my car if you fetch it from the garage . ’ |
| 6 | A who has an ancient and dilapidated Rolls-Royce immobilised in his garage says to B , ’ I will give you my car if you fetch it from the garage . ’ |
| 7 | One 911 owner once remarked to me that he had n't been terribly impressed by his car until he took it on a racetrack . |
| 8 | You use my deodorant if I leave it in there . |
| 9 | How many of the popular novels of the past evoke derision rather than appreciation if we read them in too literal a spirit ! |
| 10 | I do n't think the Labour 'd know a free vote if it bit him on the leg . |
| 11 | In other words teachers and schools will readily seek to improve their practice if they regard it as part of their professional responsibility , whereas they are likely to resist change that is forced on them . |
| 12 | Mrs Currie says she does not agree with the ‘ dual mandate ’ — politicians sitting both at Westminster and Strasbourg , and intends resigning her Westminster seat if she makes it to Strasbourg . |
| 13 | The command PRINT ‘ Hello World ’ is an instruction to print the message ‘ Hello World ’ on the screen but Qbasic does n't obey this command until you tell it to . |
| 14 | Following a very rough crossing from Portsmouth during which I slept very little it dawned on me that we were on our own in a Renault van which was half a ton overweight , had a top speed of 60 mph , an up-hill speed of 40 mph provided you had a run at it , jumped out of fourth gear unless you held it in position and we had 1850 miles to go ! |
| 15 | ‘ We need him as president because it takes him off the streets , ’ said his close pal , David Leopoulis . |
| 16 | ‘ It was a kind of torture because it reminded me of how you made love . ’ |
| 17 | They declared their hostility to apprenticeship since they regarded it as a delay in ridding the colonies of slavery . |
| 18 | Do unto your enemy before he does it unto you , but always make sure his back 's turned ! ) |
| 19 | My father said the 17-horse power would use too much petrol , but it gave me a year 's pleasure before I swopped it for an A30 van . |
| 20 | My wife had determined that I must swop my old bike for a car after I told her of an encounter with an old pupil of mine as I was toiling up the hill by the power station in Haughton Road , Darlington . |
| 21 | So I can muck about on that piece before I tackle it in here , so mm . |
| 22 | She had started the second stage of labour when they carried her into the Rotunda and hurried her away into the labour ward . |
| 23 | Accordingly , in Clarence ( 1888 ) 22 QBD 23 , a woman 's agreement to sexual intercourse with her husband meant that , surprising as it is to modern ears , he was not guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm when he infected her with VD . |
| 24 | She was n't even aware of having spoken the words aloud until she saw his face tauten with some undefinable emotion as he held her from him . |
| 25 | Ironically , it was the motor car which saved Huntercombe — not just as a means of travel but because the wealth of car maker William Morris , later Viscount Nuffield , secured its future when he bought it in 1925 . |
| 26 | Yeah , she 's , for the last three nights running , right , every night she 's tried to get out of Ben 's car when we drop her off home |
| 27 | Then he pushed everything from his mind as she touched him between his legs . |
| 28 | Approaching the signal box he mounted the steps , the hand-rail creaking as he used it for support . |
| 29 | I lay very still , the hair rising on the back of my neck as something nudged me through the canvas . |
| 30 | James expressed the negative side when he described it as ‘ the theory which denies that there can be in a sensation any element of actual locality , any tone as it were which cries to us immediately and without further ado , ‘ I am here ’ or ‘ I am there ’ ’ . |