Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilful and wasteful of such innocent , joyful music , Mordkovitch wrenched at the tempi , disregarded the dynamics and , showing a wanton unfeelingness for the orchestra 's commendable attempts to accommodate her in a notey accompaniment , trailed Yuasa reeling in her wake . |
| 2 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 3 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 4 | We might conceive of the aside as occupying a zone midway between the play and the audience ; we continue to experience the play , but we do so via the new information or attitudes given us by the character or characters speaking the asides . |
| 5 | How many uplifts should I use , and do I need special adaptors to connect them to the filter ? |
| 6 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
| 7 | Maybe one of the powerful merchants regarded it as an eyesore . |
| 8 | Influenced by these dreams , beautiful mornings seemed to mock her waking despair , but once she had shaken herself free from their shades , sun , sky , trees and birds enveloped her like a benediction . |
| 9 | He quotes the view of Aristo , who produces two arguments : first , that by analogy with relegatio dotis and the stipulatio emptae hereditatis the word ‘ sums ’ should be held to include objects as well as money ; second , that intention is particularly important in trusts , and it appears to be the testator 's intention in first speaking generally of ‘ sums ’ and then mentioning certain objects to include them in the expression too . |
| 10 | It could be simply a difference of opinion where conflicting views bring us to an impasse . |
| 11 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 12 | George Best , a thin teenager from Belfast , whose dribbling skills made him into a star with Manchester United and the darling of the sports and gossip columns epitomized the new era . |
| 13 | Among their recommendations are : the need for regular reports on implementation of the Fifth Action Programme on the environment ; the rapid establishment of the European Environment Agency ; and early ratification of the Climate Change Convention agreed at UNCED , with the development of national strategies to implement it by the end of 1993 . |
| 14 | ‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award . |
| 15 | Where do evokes the infinitive as a reality , the modals evoke it as a potentiality . |
| 16 | His contemporaries reported him as a master of geological field-mapping techniques and his original maps of many parts of Scotland confirm his observational skills and his ability to locate himself in the wilderness with an accuracy that can not be improved upon with aerial photographs . |
| 17 | This reconstruction of Rawls ' argument for the doctrine of neutral political concern attempts to found it on the notion of autonomy through the notion of moral self-determination . |
| 18 | Part of the process of gaining control over our lives involves us in resisting their attempts to box us in the pigeonhole of ‘ client ’ — and to expose their self-styled , self-seeking efforts to elevate their second-hand knowledge about disability into a ‘ profession ’ . |
| 19 | Charles behaved rather like a landlord who could take a long view of the future and expect his possessions to provide him with an income in the fullness of time . |
| 20 | Bob and I are progressing as a piano/clarsach duo , and of course some of the accompaniments to his songs tax me to the limit , or have to be vetoed altogether . |
| 21 | This teacher 's view that the Afro-Caribbean pupils felt obliged to live up to the labels given them by the school was reiterated by other teachers . |
| 22 | Inevitably , his steps led him in the end to the Corso , where the evening promenade was in progress . |
| 23 | His deep eyes regarded her for a moment , then he looked at Rory . |
| 24 | The blue eyes regarded her across the stretch of mahogany desk . |
| 25 | ‘ I buy enough marmalade at local fayres to see me through the year . |
| 26 | The proposals were given a cautious welcome by politicians on the left , but the right-wing parties decried them as an attempt to distract from the President 's and the government 's current unpopularity . |
| 27 | Suddenly he looked tired , and there were deep furrows in his brow as his eyes scanned her for an instant . |
| 28 | Though sometimes , the gentlemen chucked her beneath the chin absently , or gave her a sixpence , and one , even , pushed her for a whole quarter-hour on the swing . |
| 29 | One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married . |
| 30 | A man in rags asked her for the price of a cup of tea . |