Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pron] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FAMILY EDWARD SCISSORHANDS , one of 1992 's most entertaining videos , is the bittersweet tale of artificially created boy ( Johnny Depp ) with scissors as fingers who joins your average American household . |
| 2 | What is to be avoided is the point-scoring conflict that develops between groups who see their relative success and status vis-a-vis their neighbours as being more important than the pursuit of the common good . |
| 3 | ( d ) Structure words which indicate relationship — words like on , in and under — may first be presented through objects which illustrates their particular type of relationship ( Mackey 1965 ) . |
| 4 | When the Maggot became too boring about football I told him cricketing stories until he shut up . |
| 5 | After tea she unpacked her shabby and much-mended clothes ( no chance of getting stockings for Christmas now , unless Felicity had a practical fit and sent her some ! ) and wrote two letters : a polite little note to Miss Henry , thanking her for past kindness , and a lengthy epistle to Gay , telling her the gloomy news . |
| 6 | Suez was the watershed between our imperial past and our offshore island future : before Suez we sought to restore our declining power ; after Suez we shed our self-imposed colonial responsibilities as fast as we could reasonably do so . |
| 7 | After coffee I announced myself eager for the fleecy crook of Morpheus ' shoulder , and they buggered off . |
| 8 | As he became more independent of booksellers he began to choose works for publication which suited his own taste . |
| 9 | As Creator He began it all ; as all-powerful He sustains it all ; as judge of the world He will complete it all and bring it to its consummation . |
| 10 | For companies you need their full name , country of registration and registration number . |
| 11 | The book shows that heightened social awareness , reliance on people rather than technology , and belief in self rather than ‘ experts ’ or ‘ professionals ’ can enable people to take their own decisions about matters which affect their daily lives . |
| 12 | I still have nightmares and if there is something on the television about rape it brings it all back to me . |
| 13 | Mr Cross walked to the signal box at Girvan and waited until the train was belled off Kilkerran which gave him sufficient time to drive to Pinmore . |
| 14 | I have been talking only about directors who own their own company but the concept of restricting earnings can often be profitably applied to other employees . |
| 15 | The model proposed embraces a concept of the aims and process of assessment which acknowledges its inherent complexity and the high level of skill required of practitioners . |
| 16 | From the moment Alexander II ( 1855–81 ) took power , an image was built of the ‘ Tsar Liberator ’ as a resolute and liberally minded champion of progress who imposed his autocratic will over the objections of subservient nobles and bureaucrats . |
| 17 | Ferdinando surprised her by having someone write a letter for him towards the end of March which made it plain that Mrs Browning had fared no better in Rome than in Siena and was very ill . |
| 18 | JOHN DUTTON , 47 , a graduate of Lancashire College of Agriculture who started his journalistic career as a Press officer with the Milk Marketing Board has been appointed Editor of ‘ British Farmer ’ , the official journal of the NFU . |
| 19 | Also , say the physicists , the nature of physics itself makes it difficult to compartmentalise . |
| 20 | We share His life through the water of baptism which washes us clean and brings new growth into our lives . |
| 21 | great And of course her doing it all with her usual |
| 22 | ‘ And of course we had our little agreement about the second book . |
| 23 | So And then of course we had our own thrashing mill and we did our own thrashing but it was great fun down the glen when they got the thrashing mill in . |
| 24 | If you 're moving also through Banbury , of course we have our usual restrictions ; the high street is affected and also if you 're moving through finally on to the A422 , I would mention , in Warwickshire , the Stratford to Alcester road , that has some temporary traffic lights at Taylor 's wood . |
| 25 | Of course he knew what those reasons were but he had never faced them . |
| 26 | Of course I saw her naked . |
| 27 | Of course I remember them eighties and nineties here . |
| 28 | So a lawyer came , and of course I had my own office , confidential stuff , so he wanted to give it to me . |
| 29 | What is seldom revealed in the history books , though perfectly easy to verify , is that Darwin 's contribution was less a paper than a rambling series of notes which contained nothing novel , whereas Wallace 's " Ternate " paper was the first complete exposition in writing of " Descent and Divergence with modification through variation and Natural Selection " — which is the very kernel of what has become known as the " Darwinian " theory of evolution . |
| 30 | After a heavy assault , he took the great city of Toledo which became his chief fortress on the eastern frontier , extending his kingdom still further into Moorish territory . |