Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First to tell me wins a signed photo of Jon Newsome : - ) |
| 2 | Leslie was disturbed to hear of this latest small trauma : ‘ It distresses me , ’ he wrote , ‘ to think of you being chivvied about in the way you are ; after all , the army supports me , and when it moves me thinks a wee bit about me . |
| 3 | And behind all of them lies the archetypal opposition between good and evil , light and darkness , creation and destruction , God and the Devil . |
| 4 | This , it seems , was a widely held assumption : ‘ If the yeomanry of England were not , in time of war we should be in shrood case ; for in them standeth the chief defence of England . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Anyone who can beat me has a good chance of knocking out Holyfield , ’ he said . |
| 6 | That as it were milkman 's stool with three legs and each of them has a certain amount of power and it is a question of the adjustment of that power and it is not the of the power to my Right Honourable Friend , the Home Secretary and yet when things go wrong , and they do , in police forces and in local auth police authorities , what happens , people turn round to the Home Secretary and say what are you going to do about it . |
| 7 | Could you introduce er the people , your team , particularly as I think one of them has a different name to the label in front of them . |
| 8 | And none of them has the right kind of tights . |
| 9 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 10 | Or as they descend the Eastern Terrace after climbing Psycho-Killer or MND , which of them notices the flowering profusion at the back of the terrace — the stonecrops , campion , roseroot and saxifrages ? |
| 11 | In addition , the person who sent me wants the young man to be removed from his home and educated as a gentleman who expects to inherit a fortune . ’ |
| 12 | Year I develops a thorough understanding of programming principles , and provides a sound basis on which to build further programming experience . |
| 13 | Title I establishes the European Union as a formal entity . |
| 14 | I says a new declaration of intent has not yet been printed . |
| 15 | I started two schemes , first I increases the monthly payment on the mortgage , then I starts a separate savings account . |
| 16 | I likes a nice pair of shoes on if , if I go out . |
| 17 | Upon the balance between them depends the enormous variety of societies seen in the animal kingdom . |
| 18 | Controlling for them tests the original relationship between X and Y , and checks that it holds up . |
| 19 | Like most good theories , theirs integrates a great accumulation of evidence which , once presented in a single context , makes the theory seem almost self-evident . |
| 20 | ‘ 'E needs a good romp in the fields , ’ and he looked at Willie , and I reckon you do an' all , he thought . |
| 21 | The figures do afford some comparability between years , and even a brief examination of them shows the great shift from wool to cloth as England 's main export commodity . |
| 22 | Neither are the risks merely physical when she encourages a direct association between looking at her art and consuming food and drink , but the vast array of psychological dynamics which can motivate purchases as humble as a cup of coffee guarantees that the decision to choose one bar over another is often less casual than browsing through galleries . |
| 23 | Jen might think she 's a bit tarty but she plays a tarty bit in it does n't she ? |
| 24 | Victoria , 39 , repeats the role in her Christmas special tomorrow when she plays a pram-pushing mother in a skit on daytime magazine programmes . |
| 25 | Mer-doll and T-shirt opportunities appear to be limitless ; making balance-sheet splashes are Disney 's The Little Mermaid and the upcoming Cher movie Mermaids — a tail story in which she plays a single mother of two who leads a less-than-respectable love life . |
| 26 | Superbly , she evokes the fragile communion of the other and of herself in her ineluctable trajectory . |
| 27 | In the first show she builds an inner-city farm for kids in Sheffield in just 77 hours . |
| 28 | She represents an obnoxious type of High Church Christian , often typified by adherents to the Oxford Movement , self-consciously ‘ medieval ’ in her choice of early English saint 's names for her sons . |
| 29 | Though , as we have seen , once there she fulfils the traditional roles of provider of food , nurse and comforter . |
| 30 | She produces a monthly newsletter for local authorities , social work courses and other relevant people , giving information about the implementation ofthis new piece of legislation which comes into force in October 1991 . |