Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pers pn] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Fawcett family were very brave about it when the telegram came from the War Office . |
| 2 | Likewise , the lie will be wrong for you if the toe rests on the ground with the heel clear . |
| 3 | If the beach is crowded with swimmers , sail well clear of them since a board travelling even at low speed could do severe damage to someone 's head . |
| 4 | Whether strictly order twenty eight , er order sixty , rule twenty eight for erm applies in this case is not amount entirely clear to me because the obligation to lodge a bill of taxation under rule twenty nine provides that he must begin proceedings for the taxation either within three months after the judgement direction or order of the terminations enter sides are otherwise perfected , and that is presently on it 's face which seemed to be debited May of nineteen ninety three and er accordingly that is right , it 's not in fact been any failure to comply with order tw order sixty two , rule twenty nine , one , and that has n't been disregarded , it 's not entirely clear to me that erm there is any matter come from paragraph sub paragraph A of rule twenty eight , four , it may already require , still nevertheless erm fall within paragraph B of rule fo , erm there has in fact been a delay in lodging the bill of costs for taxation , the delay being really and truly , the delay in having the order of Mr Justice perfected and it seems to me that although in chasing matters generally speaking it is the court will itself draw the order , nevertheless where er it seems to be clearly in this case would contemplate it that counsel would sign a minute erm that counsel do sign a minute and that minute has been signed having forwarded by the defendants solicitors to the defendants solicitors seems to me it must be the case that erm the obligation to , as it were , forward that minute to the court , it is an obligation which would lie upon the plaintiffs solicitors and it maybe said that erm there has been delay and erm on the best it should be lodged with the court sealed , er shortly after it was received and that therefore on that footing there has been delay lodging the bill of costs for concession , er Mr , doctor does n't seemed to be take any point in relation to that er because it 's not in his interest to do so , it seems to be that he does have to say if it has been delayed , with an order of twenty eight rule four that 's a rule , rule , rule twenty eight er four if he is to have interest disbarred and er Mr er he 'll apparently have the matter of read before the taxing master , it seems that the taxing master did not chew any sympathy with that er suggestion , that er there was in fact no breach of the requirement rule twenty , four , Mr he said , very probably , that erm , look on text upon it , he really is concerned to erm have this case dealt with as you put it on the merits , it seems to me it 's in the interest of all parties that erm I should deal with the case on merits have on the assumption erm that er , that that was lodged properly I think , I ca I , a matter of which found within rule twenty eight , four and that the taxing officer give our interest under that rule . |
| 5 | And it was perfect for me because a lot of the vibrato that I had developed over the years suddenly sounded more like me , because the vibrato bar was n't there taking up the slack and giving way every time I applied vibrato . |
| 6 | Father Reynard too began a prayer and was half-way through it when the crossbow quarrel hit him full in the chest , ripping open skin , bone and muscle . |
| 7 | Of course , I 'm an old lady now and sometimes , you know , the past seems more real to me than the present . " |
| 8 | The past , reflected Sara , when the peacock silk curtains were newly hung in the Chinese room , was probably more real to her than the present . |
| 9 | Mum had been civil to me since the soap episode but something had gone between us . |
| 10 | There was no offering more gratifying to him than the trust of adolescents . |
| 11 | That he had in some way taken her aback was as obvious to him as the reason was obscure . |
| 12 | Much-maligned pasta can actually be very good for you if the sauce is not rich . |
| 13 | Our survey shows that highbrow readers rated their papers no more useful for them than the lowbrow papers were for their readers ( Table 6.11 ) . |
| 14 | I am presumably using words literally when the metaphor is a matter only of etymology ( ‘ insight ’ ) , and feel still more confident of it when the etymology belongs to the Latin ancestor of the word ( ‘ intuition ’ , from intueor ‘ gaze at ’ ) . |
| 15 | Eventually , however , as the tutor became more important to her than the tuition , she found herself reluctant to mention Davis to her husband . |
| 16 | ‘ Wish that I did have the courage to kiss you , querida , ’ he rasped , ‘ but I have standards and a level of decency to live up to and they are more important to me than a moment of weakness to prove that I am immune to you . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ My virginity is more important to me than an hour or two of easily forgotten pleasure , ’ she broke in . |
| 18 | Then I got my time and felt even better — the time was more important to me than the medal . |
| 19 | We have now the Cambridge Encyclopaedia which is probably as important to us as the dictionary is to them , it 's a really important new publication for us , and a book which there is n't really an equivalent from Oxford , so I think there 's room for both of us . |
| 20 | If the idea itself is more important to you than the glory reflecting from its success , then raise the idea at a meeting so that it becomes an idea generated by a team . |
| 21 | Believe in dialectical materialism and the class struggle will be more important to you than the kingdom of God . |
| 22 | That part of me which , when first we met , I should willingly have made over to Jean-Claude — and which he seemed to make no attempt to acquire — was , of course , no more available to him than the source of his being was to me . |
| 23 | How much money would be available to them when the probate of the estate had been completed ? |
| 24 | Order , will the right hon. Gentleman seek to have the report of the Select Committee on Energy on the privatisation of the electricity industry in Northern Ireland available to us before the debate takes place ? |
| 25 | Paige had been happy to house-sit for him until a relative could arrive , and in the meantime she had done a little searching around of her own in the markets . |
| 26 | It has been particularly difficult for him because the Government have two of their placemen on the council , but he has managed to keep fighting though the council has this deadweight of government lackeys . ’ |
| 27 | The girl Bob thought was his daughter had become more and more precious to him since the death of his wife Barbara . |
| 28 | ‘ He 's more precious to us than the crown jewels . ’ |
| 29 | By what I can gather they must have lived in Durham for a time , 'cos when she was saying her prayers she brought in a Mrs Melburn , a parson 's wife , who was kind to them after the father died or whatever , an' from what I made out of her jabbering the woman and the mother have written to each other . |
| 30 | Delight because it brought her close to him when the cottage was empty — despair because his talent was in his hands rather than in his composing ability . |