Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This helps them to see a 3-D object as a simpler , two-dimensional configuration of lines and shapes . |
| 2 | Maggie stared at him and Ana held out her hand , allowing them to see the glittering ring at last . |
| 3 | Fans wrote letters to the band enthusing and it prompted them to include the rustic version on the CD , cassette and French version of the single . |
| 4 | Our aim is to help them make the right purchase by giving them all the information they need . |
| 5 | At last , a streak of orange light appeared to the east ; and gradually the white sea in front of them became an immense expanse of fertile green , while the purple ocean behind turned shimmering white . |
| 6 | And the prophecy of Isaiah 61 : 1 , ‘ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me , for he has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor … ’ stands in Luke 's Gospel ( 4:18 ) , as a beacon shedding light over the whole of his ministry . |
| 7 | Sotion and Ps. -Aristotle quoted them to confirm the remote origin of philosophy outside the Greek world ; but the main argument was represented by Magi and Brahmans who had a better and older reputation among Greek thinkers and historians ( Diog . |
| 8 | First to tell me wins a signed photo of Jon Newsome : - ) |
| 9 | It should not be too much to ask them to forgive the miserable uncertainty of a young man at Oxford 23 years ago , and it should not be impermissible to say that they are in the wrong if they refuse . |
| 10 | None of them shared the icy restraint of the last letter . |
| 11 | ONCE again baseless charges of lewdness and indecency in this column make it impossible for me to report the following headline in the newsletter of Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries : ‘ What 's Five Inches Long — and Worth £200 ? ’ |
| 12 | A few of these difficult public-interest cases go , not to the disciplinary committee , but to the Joint Disciplinary Scheme : not more than about one or two a year , but each of them demanding a great investment of time and money . |
| 13 | Many of the reformers of the 1870s and 1880s believed that women would earn both a new respect , if they could eschew the frivolities of fashion , and a new freedom which would liberate them to perform a useful role in society . |
| 14 | Finally , in growing anger , I told them to perform an unlikely act upon themselves — they stared — and turned away . |
| 15 | As Fael-Inis began to play , each of them drew a deep breath and surrendered , and each of them experienced the deepest contentment at hearing the silver pipes of enchantment . |
| 16 | This is the relevance of rules ; for the courts to embrace such an issue would be for them to breach the long-standing settlement with regard to the boundaries of parliamentary privilege ( see below , pp.113–19 ) and they would not do it . |
| 17 | For example , if the figure was a line diagram of a room with four windows set at different heights , the programme would ask me whether a line of sight from the far corner of the room would enable me to see a particular point outside the window nearest to me , a point that shifted on the screen at speed . |
| 18 | For them an insidious sense of illusion stimulates my imagination and enables me to see the entire pageant of Venetian ships , present and past , actual and intangible , sailing before my eyes . |
| 19 | do you see what I mean , right , sit and re-question close , right you can close them on ee do you want to include the extra window for two hundred pound , you follow me you 've hit them with a price you want to close them , right and you sit and do the paperwork and you just say to them do you want me to include the extra window for two hundred pounds because you 've already said to them you , you give an extra , do you follow me ? |
| 20 | right with an extra window , whatever about the money , like Mrs what 's her name , so you 've nearly closed her on the conservatory you do all the paper , your order close form on the conservatory and you say to her , right , cos you 're working your sums out , do you want me to include the extra window for two hundred pounds ? |
| 21 | UNESCO , who has suddenly come alive , has invited the two of them to plan an experimental city in which new technologies and new ways of living can be explored more fully than they were in the real world . |
| 22 | I tried to convince him there must be jugs at the grade and he fell for it , allowing me to breathe a great sigh of relief . |
| 23 | Behind them hulked the great mass of Shunner Fell below the flanks of which the Butter Tubs Pass wormed its way over into Wensleydale . |
| 24 | The majority in the snail darter case thought that the best interpretation of the convention about statutes required them to enforce the literal meaning of the Environmental Protection Act unless it could be proved that Congress intended otherwise . |
| 25 | We should take a radical approach to the position of elderly people beyond the year 2000 , and consider whether technology can allow them to enjoy a better standard of living and to rely less on residential and nursing homes . |
| 26 | Her direct challenge to the authority of the professionals forced them to acknowledge an alternative conceptualisation of Tom 's needs which carried with it quite different implications for the outcome of the formal assessment of those needs . |
| 27 | On our first visit I was left standing by these youngsters as one of them unearthed a good bag of finds ranging from Roman through to Georgian . |
| 28 | Christianson and Loftus ( 1987 ) had subjects write down the central detail from each slide and Christianson and Loftus ( 1991 ) had them evaluate the affective quality of each slide , both these studies showed results which appeared to be consistent with Easterbrook 's hypothesis . |
| 29 | I enclose a copy of what caused me to miss the last meeting of the Powys Health Project . |
| 30 | Thank you very much for inviting me to attend the forthcoming AGM in Aberystwyth . |