Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 He said he only needed to do two or three locums at these school clinics to see him round the other half of the world and he went off .
2 This rational presentation often follows a period of ingratiation through which the subordinate aims to get superiors to like him as a charming but intelligent expert .
3 His son , a bachelor of twenty-five , became King Henry V , and he experienced a couple of attempts to usurp him during the first year , but by August 1415 he was able to sail with an invasion fleet of 1500 vessels to France , where he withstood an attack launched on 25th .
4 The coronet is shown in loving detail as it embodies the moment when this family of merchants made it to the princely ranks .
5 In the course of dealing with those who demanded excessively high wages or who broke their contracts , the courts provided us with a great deal of evidence about wage rates , and continuity and frequency of employment .
6 These jobs are usually seen as benefits , certainly by the workers who flock to take them up , and by the governments that have established incentive programmes to attract them in the first place .
7 ‘ Azadi said that I had just twenty-four hours to provide him with the exact location of the ship — or else I would be executed .
8 Notice also how these skills provide us with a timeless wisdom , applicable to all people-situations anywhere .
9 The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished .
10 Attempts to find him by a local Hezbollah cell had failed .
11 Her investments provided her with an annual income of well over a million dollars , in addition to the trusts and investments left to her directly by her husband .
12 Flows of assistance between generations provide us with an important example where , in practice , support is often one way , and where apparently this is regarded as quite proper .
13 The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money .
14 Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) .
15 The brown eyes regarded her in a contemplative manner until he said , ‘ You must meet Matt .
16 Virgin Atlantic , as the new airline was to be called , would need to become airborne within the next three to four months , to take advantage of the summer traffic and generate the necessary cash reserves to see it through the fallow winter months .
17 He eventually slumps back into his seat , his smarting face and aching eyes reminding him of the misled thought journey that took him back round to before where he started .
18 Originally it had no towers and was aisleless , but extensive additions in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries made it into a three-aisled church with a tall tower .
19 Lucenzo 's golden hair streaked back in the wind , emphasising the high purity of his cheekbones , and briefly his eyes lanced hers with a calculating look .
20 Its supporters regarded it as a happy augury that on the same day the Soviet Union finally called off its blockade of Berlin .
21 His eyes met hers with a strange sort of intensity .
22 At the door , Xanthe took her by both hands and held her so hard Miranda felt her nails cut into the palms and her eyes met hers with a pale blue flare , as clear as her father 's , and as unassailable , as she breathed out , holding Miranda by her side , and turned to face her father across the room .
23 Vitor 's eyes met hers in a steady look .
24 One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature .
25 With a stifled groan that for some reason moved her deeply , his lips found hers with a sweet fire that seemed to sear her very soul .
26 But not any more , because you see this is how I look at it now : those kind of schools grind you into a certain way of thinking and … and somehow , unless you become very careful , you 're stuck that way for the rest of your life .
27 In my teens , similar doubts lured me into the darker recesses of the family 's medical encyclopedia , there to discover I was Britain 's first recorded case of Futtock 's Syndrome .
28 The Jews provide us with the single most illuminating incident of the episcopate of Avitus .
29 Popular images of parent-child relationships put them in a special category , distinct from other kin relationships , and suggest that this is where we will find the strongest feelings of duty and obligation .
30 No , what I am looking at are the first direct signals to reach me from the dark constellation of Serafin .
  Next page