Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , I had ‘ covered ’ the Boys ' Parliament sessions and other church activities for him on a free lance basis , and I was sure he knew I was determined to take up journalism as a full-time and life-long career . |
| 2 | 750,000 copies of this booklet have been produced and we will try to get copies for you for the next Q.T. Day . |
| 3 | She left her office at about five forty-five , saw Naylor 's Jaguar in the car park and went weak at the knees about him for a few seconds , then she determinedly got into her own car and drove home . |
| 4 | George moved to Sheffield to play for The Wednesday in the summer of 1925 but his 48 goals for us in the higher divisions , scored generally when we were far from being a great side , were easily our best tally in the period 1921–5 and have only ever been bettered by Mark Bright and Ian Wright . |
| 5 | Harry played in eight of the last nine Palace Football League matches of season 1921–22 and scored two goals for us in the last eight minutes on his debut to help Palace defeat Bury 4–1 at The Nest on 25 March , but all these appearances were in the inside or centre-forward positions . |
| 6 | The reader in men and masculinity from Bradford University conjured up images for me of a muscular man walking in with a few four-packs of larger under his arms ready to address BASW delegates . |
| 7 | He was about to step across to the darkness of the recess and Lily 's room when he heard footsteps and the sound of voices below him in the tiled entrance hall . |
| 8 | As though he could see beneath her skin with those piercing dark eyes of his to the anguished pulsing ball that was her heart at this moment . |
| 9 | But the resurgence of nationalism in Europe and in other parts of the world , in diverse forms , has made this once again a major issue for political analysis , and I shall return to various aspects of it in the next chapter . |
| 10 | ‘ Male fans ask for pictures of me in a bathing costure ’ |
| 11 | The last thing we want is pictures of him on the back pages having a punch-up . |
| 12 | Likely any car would have traces of it for a long time . |
| 13 | Fairbrother 's hundred was his fifth in first-class confrontations with Yorkshire — only Chris Lloyd with six stands above him in the Red Rose list — but it was his first three-figure score since he assumed the leadership as captain-elect midway through last summer . |
| 14 | He took the two or three steps with her to the other doorway . |
| 15 | Silver pulled at the rope that held me , and turned his eyes upon me with a deadly look . |
| 16 | ‘ And which of them , ’ asked Isambard lazily , stretching out his long legs before him across the bare floor of the stone cell , ‘ sent you to kill me , Harry ? |
| 17 | Her defiance gave her the courage to lift her eyes to his for the first time , and she saw the surprise and sudden uncertainty that flashed across them . |
| 18 | They had been working all the evening , sewing Rosie 's wedding-dress , and it would be terribly unlucky if the bridegroom set eyes on it before the great day . |
| 19 | Professor Ruiperez told me I need not start my classes until I was quite recovered , and the women in the office and the library spoke friendly words to me for the first time . |
| 20 | He homed to the nameless grave like a pigeon , and fell on his knees beside it with a great sob of thankfulness . |
| 21 | Many advice workers are unaware that they have had a democratic part in the policy decisions that have adopted these training requirements and some even see these demands on them as a personal affront . |
| 22 | He cast his eyes over her in an unhurried , tantalising gaze , smiled a seductive , lazy smile that told Robyn only too well what was to come . |
| 23 | Ralph Downes , who helped with the instrument 's design , made some Pye Nixa recordings on it in the earliest days of stereo ( 1958 ) to show just how effective this spatial effect could be in the music of Bach . |
| 24 | She borrows books on it from the local library and copies out old patterns . |
| 25 | as if he felt her gaze on him , the man slowly turned his head , a pair of steely grey eyes regarding her with a slow , almost insolent appraisal . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're right into the teeth of it over the first five holes . |
| 27 | The right of the painter to move around an object and combine various views of it into a single image , first stated in writing by Metzinger in 1910 and elaborated a few months later by Allard , was quickly adopted by most critics as a central feature of the style , and became related to the conceptual or intellectual aspect . |
| 28 | The article gives the possibility of legal action against individual sellers or suppliers , or groups of them from the same economic sector , or against their trade associations . |
| 29 | We obtain a national picture of crime and people 's attitudes towards it from the three BCS , but for their critics these surveys have emphasised this national picture at the expense of the inner cities , which suffered more than their fair share of crime . |
| 30 | In the autumn , the sweeping tracts of it on the lower , treeless hillsides are the colour of rust , and it is then that it is scythed down , to provide bedding for the animals during the winter and , once suitably impregnated , fertilizer for the fields the following spring — in a neat ecological cycle . |