Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [conj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The international economy consists of relations between these national entities and is shaped by them rather than by a world system which dominates and determines national conditions .
2 but I had n't yet realized that the answers had to come from me rather than from the therapist .
3 ‘ I received a lot of abuse when I left Brookside , not ME personally but in a way just as bad .
4 Some of the activities and resources are such that the parties engage or wish to engage in them or possess them only because of the conflict .
5 ‘ Madam , I confess myself deeply grieved that you should judge one an enemy who has ever served you and yours faithfully and to the utmost of his ability , ’ he said sorrowfully — and the prince , watching the scene with avid interest , expected to see tears well from his eyes .
6 ‘ In the end I asked him not to bet with me anymore because of the size and frequency of his bets . ’
7 " Mother Benedicta told me yesterday that in a year or two I 'm to go to the village of Yelton .
8 ‘ I 'm not probing , you know , Joe , but we 've been together months now , nine of them , in fact , and I know no more about you now than on the day we met , except that you come from the wilds of Northumberland .
9 Oh they had I must tell you now that at the time that we had n't got a car at all , on the occasion of a royal visit , or some very important action being taken , my Chief Constable used to hire a chauffeur driven car from Mr of Lane in Ipswich .
10 A new relationship formed today will be very important to you now and in the future .
11 A new relationship formed today will be very important to you now and in the future .
12 A new relationship formed will be very important to you now and in the future .
13 So it 's a very great honour and privilege for me to address you today because at the end it may be difficult for you to understand but when I return to South Africa , and forgive me for speaking personally I also realize the full meaning of the support of British trade unions and the labour movement and the churches because it was because of your political material and particularly in the case of the G M B , financial and material support that it gave us the means to do what some of us wanted to do about our country and our situation , and bring about change if we could peacefully .
14 Father had told me repeatedly that as a woman my role was to surrender to a man : that submission and compliance would be the meaning of my life .
15 ‘ But we could not follow them far because of the snow .
16 He says John 's wo n't speak to me now because of the motorbike and er I says oh Ryan you must be imagining things , he says no he says he just wo n't talk to me because I 've got the motorbike .
17 Charles 's territories could already have been described as an empire , in the sense that he ruled over a collection of different political units held together by the allegiance his subjects felt they owed him rather than through a sense of common institutions or common language which could serve as the foundation for a unifying national spirit .
18 Fifteen years later , it became obvious that Lord Sagramoso was seducing the hereditary lords of neighbouring star systems — mainly agricultural ones — to turn preachers into compost and swear fealty to him rather than to a deity thirty thousand light years distant .
19 Zoser served her politely but with an air of detachment , as if his mind was on higher things .
20 Li Yuan stood at the rail , looking out across the darkness of the lake , his sense of ease , of inner stillness , lulling him so that for a time he seemed aware only of the dull murmur of the voices behind him and the soft lapping of the water against the wooden posts of the jetty .
21 It is to teach our young people about Him , it is to bring them to a conscious faith in Him so that in the heart and life of the Church , they can proclaim and witness to the faith of the ages , that Jesus is truly God and truly man , the Lord and saviour of us all . ’
22 But I 'm not going to turn against him just because of an accident .
23 Ramsey was sent to two dames ' schools in succession but learnt so little that his parents took him away and for a year he was taught at home by his mother .
24 There was nothing he could do for her now or in the future .
25 She seemed to live by an instinct which drew her strongly and on the whole accurately towards such manifestations , such hints and echoes of a grander world , and which yet at the same time could not approve them .
26 Everything in her life — all the pain , blood and death — had been pushing her onwards and into the desert .
27 I did not see her again until during the afternoon lessons , when I noticed that she had been sent to stand alone in the middle of the schoolroom .
28 They got her upstairs and into a room with a large , iron bed and a lot of heavy furniture .
29 You found them everywhere and in the sun all of them were beginning to be too big for their blue jeans and jackets that they could never fill when they were on the bum and hungry .
30 ‘ Italian security chiefs .. have pledged to lock up the yobs in Sardinia 's notorious Buoncamino Prison and leave them there until AFTER the World Cup ends . ’
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