Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are interested and associated but not absorbed and should European statesmen address us in the words which were used of old — Shall we speak for thee to the king or captain of the host ? ' — we should reply , Nay sir , for we dwell among our own people' ’ . |
| 2 | In Chile , in an address to the Congress , Bush stated that the country 's economic policies put it in the " forefront of the free-market movement now taking hold across Latin America " and that this made it a " prime candidate " for debt relief proposed under the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative . |
| 3 | The way was thereby opened for English merchants to establish themselves in the island , and William Bolton came to Madeira as an agent for Robert Heysham of London , who had a brother in Barbados to whom Bolton shipped a large quantity of wine . |
| 4 | This is necessarily caused by the fact that the intrinsic differences between the services provided in different organizations reflect themselves in the respective budgets . |
| 5 | Mangen and Castel relate an appalling tale of how the circumstances in which the French asylums found themselves in the Second World War prompted experiment with alternatives . |
| 6 | I joined the others with great anticipation , of , possibly , hot coffee , French bread , maybe fried eggs awaited us in the barn . |
| 7 | Lomnitz has shown how squatters manipulate social networks to establish themselves in the city ( Lomnitz 1977 ) . |
| 8 | marketing director for Prontaprint , sets out a few simple guidelines to help anyone in the hotel industry who is commissioning design and print . |
| 9 | It 's just I mean as philosophy just very standardly takes words from ordinary language gradually gets a technical meaning , er which is different from the original meaning and then when ordinary speakers use it in the original meaning they get told off . |
| 10 | The Government could only be brought down if sufficient Conservatives were prepared to vote with Labour and Liberal MPs to defeat it in the House of Commons , forcing a new election or opening the way to a reconstituted anti-fascist National Government . |
| 11 | Warwickshire unsurprisingly lost to Notts in their first four-day game but Smith 's five first-innings wickets kept them in the game until the final day . |
| 12 | The fact is that men and women of that day inhabited separate worlds ; their social rounds and domestic activities kept them in the society of their own sex much of the time . |
| 13 | ‘ I do not actually need the evidence of two people in one bedroom and the sight of crumpled covers to point me in the right direction . |
| 14 | And there are no collectable power-ups to help you in the battle to shoot first and ask questions of the flaming wreckage later . |
| 15 | Only people with soft heads stick them in the sand and wait to be kicked up the arse by little cheats and liars . |
| 16 | Leith , with two very large problems staring her in the face — the mortgage and Naylor Massingham , despite his action yesterday still there metaphorically breathing down her neck — thought a denial preferable to dampening her mother 's present happy frame of mind . |
| 17 | But from when she had been sixteen and had left the Dame School and stepped right into the home life above the shop , it had been borne into her that marriage was a humdrum affair : two people lived together , apparently happy , yet went their own ways , as shown by her parents ; they did n't think alike , yet they did n't argue ; they never laughed at the same things , nor did local or national events affect them in the same way . |
| 18 | " They may be familiar with the paintings of Whistler , or perhaps with Whistler 's statement that when evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry , as with a veil , and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky , and the tall chimneys become campanili , and the warehouses are palaces in the night , and the whole city hangs in the heavens , and fairyland is before us — then the wayfarer hastens home , and Nature , who , for once , has sung in tune , sings her exquisite song to the artist alone , her son and her master — her son , in that he loves her , her master in that he knows her ? " … shall I read you that deposition again , Mrs James ? " |
| 19 | Cosy armchairs greet you in the marble lobby from where you can wander off to enjoy the lovely piano bistro or de luxe restaurant . |
| 20 | It is as a result of resource monopoly that those important cases arise which in the language of the layman , the economist and the antitrust lawyer are called monopolistic production . |
| 21 | Indeed , if we go so far as to see externalization as inevitably bringing the ego into conflict with reality , then we might conclude that many modern neuroses — perhaps the most severe ones — are likely to become para-psychoses : that is , neurotic conflicts expressing themselves in the language of psychosis . |
| 22 | The risks to his person were already great simply coming down the nearly straight avenues from the Palaţul Primaverii to the Central Committee building , but the imaginary dangers threatening him in the area to the west of the hill were too great to be contemplated . |
| 23 | One of the most important questions facing us in the field of procedural protection is whether we are prepared to think more broadly about what procedural protection connotes . |
| 24 | So , naturally , many insect-eating animals pursue them in the air . |
| 25 | This was protected on the landward side by the Portsea Lines but the garrison would be harassed by small boats taking them in the rear via the channel between Portsea and Hayling Island . |
| 26 | ‘ Too soft you are , girl , ’ Win Morgan broke her bread into small pieces soaking them in the soup , ‘ ca n't be responsible for the whole neighbourhood , can you ? |
| 27 | Pearly tears seeded themselves in the corners of her eyes . |
| 28 | Deep-set eyes quizzed her in the candlelight . |
| 29 | All held The big farmers had them in the barn . |
| 30 | When , some time later , one appeared , Owen handed the youth over to him with strict instructions to keep him in the local caracol until Owen would question him . |