Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This family comes from a long line of fishermen … now unable to float their boats in the silted up harbour except at high tide they catch hardly enough to feed themselves . |
| 2 | What she means is that this instruction should be borne in mind if at any time it starts raining . |
| 3 | But here , luckily , you will be spared the difficulty that can arise through not having " seen " that murder since in all probability you will have begun your story by describing , in as much vivid and convincing detail as you can manage , the killing itself or its immediate circumstances as they affect the perpetrator . |
| 4 | All she got for her pains was a slight smile but no verbal reply as with efficient ease he filled and switched on a percolator . |
| 5 | Neither Laura nor Bernard were able to attend this ceremony as by that time they had exported themselves . |
| 6 | She had no need to worry about making herself understood , though , she realised , for no sooner had the casually but expensively dressed dark-haired man bent down to the window than in faultless English he was commenting easily , ‘ Having trouble ? ’ |
| 7 | To worry that your brother might make an unfortunate marriage when at any moment he might be killed was something she found difficult to understand . |
| 8 | In the bedroom , Cati hugged herself again with delight as with pent breath she waited out the meeting ‘ Rosa , Rosa , Rosa , now you have someone to love you , yes you do . ’ |
| 9 | Er this erm world of fantasy is a very wonderful place because in this world it 's very easy to meet peoples ' I T requirements . |
| 10 | the American stuff but when you 're arrested you are always arrested on suspicion because in this country you are innocent until a cou a court proves you 're i er guilty , yeah ? |
| 11 | By this time he was writing rather apologetically to Constanze , telling her that she must be more delighted to see him back in person than with any money he would be bringing in — he had even been obliged to lend his impecunious patron Prince Lichnowsky 100 gulden , a request he could hardly refuse … . |
| 12 | This can cause misunderstanding and conflict when in later life they talk to one another . |
| 13 | The exercise of cooperating with the other people , even though they 're in the same relative area than in this case it may be use of facilities for leisure , is not very easy and there may be a very very good cause to have a proper course in how to get on with other people , in these sort of cooperative ventures , so thank you for , for drawing our attention to it , it is an interes would be an interesting exercise to . |
| 14 | Since Yugoslav support for the Soviet navy is based less on coordination in security policy than on commercial interest it is not regarded by Belgrade as likely to lead towards a form of alignment with Moscow . |
| 15 | She would n't mention the boy who 'd made trouble unless for some reason she happened to be asked about him , and she felt she would not be . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought that — wondered if it was — suicide because of this man she 'd been seeing , ’ Merrill said in a small voice . |
| 17 | It does not seem to matter if these are mixed together in the one preparation whereas in classical homoeopathy it is held that remedies should not be mixed . |
| 18 | ‘ A person who is or has been … a member of the security and intelligence services … is guilty of an offence if without lawful authority he discloses any information … which is or has been in his possession by virtue of his position as a member of any of those services … |
| 19 | These certainly were not in the box when it arrived in England and I fear were purloined from you either at Perth or Sydney , the tin box where in all probability you intended to put them not being opened at the Docks . |
| 20 | It is a typical Karajan project because in one respect it is enormously sophisticated — the technology is elaborate , expensive , and bang up to date — and in another it is very simple , inasmuch as its ultimate aim is nothing more or less than the lucid presentation of the music . |
| 21 | The genesis of employers ' associations , however , was not only as a response to trade union growth and militancy because to some degree it was , in addition , a reaction to economic pressures . |
| 22 | The court may annul a bankruptcy order if at any time it appears to the court that the order ought not to have been made ( on any grounds existing at the time the order was made ) or the debts and expenses of the bankruptcy have all been either paid or secured to the satisfaction of the court since the making of the order ( s 282(1) ) . |
| 23 | Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ . |
| 24 | Yeah although the tape 's on I 'll still say I 'll still say I mean there are people within the company as within any company I 'm sure who you when you get to know their technical ability or lack thereof you think well how have they managed to get where they have but they just seem to be able they seem to have this ability to be able to be in the right place at the right time . |
| 25 | I remember David had a look of amazement on his face because at this point he had quite a few gold albums , but he still did n't have the money because the rate that they made money went straight back into making the show even bigger and better , and everybody travelled in style . |
| 26 | We have no direct evidence as to whether the matter in other galaxies is made up of protons and neutrons or antiprotons and antineutrons , but it must be one or the other : there can not be a mixture in a single galaxy because in that case we would again observe a lot of radiation from annihilations . |
| 27 | ‘ What are you going to do today ? ’ he enquired , joining her at the table as without further ceremony they got on with breakfast . |