Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adv] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them are also Companions of Honour , an order additional used as a way of rewarding prime ministers ' political friends , so ‘ that Norman Tebbitt and Lord Whitelaw , neither known as retiring aesthetes , rub shoulders with Anthony Powell , Lucien Freud and Dame Ninette de Valois . |
| 2 | And her son too , if I 'm any judge of character . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think I 'm any good at marriage , Julius , except perhaps in bed , and even that did n't last , it all went wrong . |
| 4 | I was always miles off course , |
| 5 | I was only average at school . |
| 6 | And you 're now Director of South East Arts , having left the Arts Council . |
| 7 | c ) At 5 pm. she is again 30km from home . |
| 8 | After ricocheting from one emotional moment to another today , she was now face to face with possible disaster . |
| 9 | She was there year after year . |
| 10 | ‘ She was always kind at school , ’ said Lili . |
| 11 | Not having set off from directly overhead Gransden ( a practice advisable in murky conditions ) we are slightly south of track . |
| 12 | So I feel that our power has grown very much and that we are now hand in hand with the comrades in Namibia . |
| 13 | You know sometimes the way forward is backward , there are no short cuts with god , if he 's leading along a certain path and were disobedient , there 's no way we can opt out of it and join the trail further along , he does n't allow it , its back to where we left it , that 's were we 've got ta get back to , we ca n't skip an experience , we ca n't miss any thing out , we 've got to go back to where we start , where we were when we left the trail and Naomi has to do just that to go back to Bethlehem , that 's the way forward for her , and you see because we all , we always find this if we are really children of god , then we can never ever be satisfied away from the will of god , there 's nothing else that meets our need , its god will or nothing , you know , when we know frustration in our lives , when we know sort of the , these annoyances and , and , and , and er sense of frustration there , its not because god is leaving us that way its invariably cos we have actually gone out of gods will because he 's will is not frustrated , its satisfying , can I just , it will only really be headings this morning , just leave us with three brief headings in this little incident that we 'll read or we , we wo n't read the whole passage but its , er in the remainder of the , or more or less the whole of the remainder of the first chapter tha that the cost was involved and then the choices that were made and then the commitment , the cost that was involved Naomi had to pay something , you see before she could return to Naomi she had to con , before Naomi sorry could return er to , to Bethlehem , she had to acknowledge she 'd done wrong , she had failed , she had sinned , she had to acknowledge she had made a mistake now in fairness to Naomi she did it and she excepted her responsibility , she did n't try and shift the blame on |
| 14 | Even supposing they could have pushed that up to 150,000,160 … we 're still way off track . ’ |
| 15 | And we were also way off beam about unemployment being the greatest political force of the 1980s in the Third World — we predicted riots among the urban unemployed all over the world which simply have n't happened . |
| 16 | We were now face to face with this man of diverse talent — poet , novelist , song-writer , performer — after following his career for nearly two decades , reading his books , playing his records , watching him sing , reading of him through the eyes of his critics — no easy feat when one is not inhibited by astigmatism ! |
| 17 | Their quality seems to be exhausted by the ‘ conditions of their production ’ , which suggests they are simply impressions of heat , etc . |
| 18 | They are mostly Ryes from Moor . |
| 19 | They are just suggestions for day and half-day excursions to take in the best of the scenery , rather than the villages the tours pass through . |
| 20 | ‘ Exactly , and remember , art and sport have this in common , they are both means of self-expression . |
| 21 | Structures of social relationship are not only structures of indebtedness , they are also structures of power . |
| 22 | Despite John Ruskin 's strictures ( ‘ Such works as … the iron roofs and pillars of our railway stations … are not architecture at all ’ ) , it is now generally admitted that not only are they architecture but they are also works of art . |
| 23 | Women — like children — tend to be called by their first names where men would not be ; and they are also recipients of endearment terms like love , dear , honey , pet , hen and so on . |
| 24 | We also use those homes as centres for day care , and the financial effects of that are estimated and taken out of these calculations , but I think it 's important for members to remember that your residential homes are n't purely and simply providing only residential care , they are also centres for day care in that particular area . |
| 25 | By now they are probably nerves of iron because , you know , you have to co-exist with an army like that he has to really take it fairly easy because they can be quite rude and , you know , shove you around get whatever they want and very harmful methods . |
| 26 | They are now items of fashion or something to collect . |
| 27 | They do not represent additional demand for resources , they are merely transfers of purchasing power from the taxpayer to other sectors of the community . |
| 28 | They 're just guns for hire : tough guys sent on a job . |
| 29 | The experiments are not particularly relevant to anything , they 're just experiments for experiment 's sake , one experiment illustrating a particular bit of theory ; it does n't do anything particularly useful , you just look at an oscilloscope and take some readings and hence you can demonstrate this bit of theory . |
| 30 | They 're just bits of flesh , gee whiz |