Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 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 | The coronet is shown in loving detail as it embodies the moment when this family of merchants made it to the princely ranks . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | Notice also how these skills provide us with a timeless wisdom , applicable to all people-situations anywhere . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Attempts to find him by a local Hezbollah cell had failed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | The brown eyes regarded her in a contemplative manner until he said , ‘ You must meet Matt . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Its supporters regarded it as a happy augury that on the same day the Soviet Union finally called off its blockade of Berlin . |
| 18 | His eyes met hers with a strange sort of intensity . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Vitor 's eyes met hers in a steady look . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Jews provide us with the single most illuminating incident of the episcopate of Avitus . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | No , what I am looking at are the first direct signals to reach me from the dark constellation of Serafin . |
| 27 | I had each Wednesday afternoon off from Russell 's and he enroled me , secretly , into his school for lessons with his normal classes , He and his wife held a weekly open house and these cramming sessions prepared me for the coming Halton entrance examination . |
| 28 | The predatory gleam in his eyes told her in no uncertain manner that he wanted her too . |
| 29 | It went against the grain to meekly obey , but the look in his eyes told her in no uncertain terms that she was standing on the edge of a minefield . |
| 30 | They have evolved separately and thus we discover that monkeys with prehensile tails serving them as an extra hand only come from the New World . |