Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She takes as her working material clothing scavenged from thrift shops and garage sales , women 's clothes mostly from the 1950s , and combines them with various substances including hair , urine and even faeces . |
| 2 | She maintains that her own fear of the sea was a result of the tragedy . |
| 3 | Just think how she 's going to feel now when she knows that her own sister is having a relationship with the man who left her . ’ |
| 4 | What will her reaction be when she knows that her bright boy , while patting and stroking her and kissing her brow and her blue lips , must have been laughing up his sleeve at her , and thinking what a clever boy he is to be able to live in her fine house and have a big say in her business , while at the same time running a mistress on the side . ’ |
| 5 | He feels that art directors often have such set views about the subjects he photographs that his own creativity is suppressed . |
| 6 | He accepts that his contrary nature sometimes irritated the other members but feels his sacking contained an element of Gedge wanting to remove a strong influence from the group , an influence often opposed to his own . |
| 7 | More specifically , he puts the young reader in touch with the French impressionists in his rich illustrations for Charlotte Zolotow 's Mr Rabbit and the lovely present ( although , strangely , he says that his main influence here was the American naturalistic painter , Winslow Homer ) , and with the pop art of cinema and food packaging in In the night kitchen . |
| 8 | Kermode recalls the seminars as occasions of good humour and tolerance , despite sharp intellectual disagreements , and he laments that their humane spirit did not survive later events . |
| 9 | He confirms that his next director 's job will be a project starring Kevin Costner . |
| 10 | This occurs when he discovers that his beloved Caesar has been murdered . |
| 11 | If nothing else it shows that our own irrationality is shared by others . |
| 12 | for however much it costs or whatever new clothes you would like . |
| 13 | He fears that his libidinal impulses and those of other people can not control the aggressive impulses sufficiently to prevent utter chaos and destruction . |
| 14 | Having listened to Government spokesmen , it appears that their political objections are twofold . |
| 15 | In spite of many attempts to extend the use of hormones to the treatment of other cancers , it appears that their important effects are on the organs which they normally control . |
| 16 | He soon remarried and it appears that his second wife had no qualms about sharing the bedchamber with her predecessor . |
| 17 | From Nietzsche 's private notes of the period , it appears that his conservative inclinations were reinforced by Hanslick 's insistence on traditional formal principles of composition and the orthodox ideal of autonomous musical structures ; and it is no surprise to find distinct hostility in Nietzsche 's recorded comments on the new piano score of Die Walküre in 1866 . |
| 18 | It seems that whatever Saxon settlement there had been was so devastated during the Norman advance of 1070 that it was still uninhabited at the time of the survey in 1086 . |
| 19 | Even as governor-elect he was obliged to disavow any interest in the 1968 nomination ; however , it seems that his wealthy backers from the beginning had the White House in mind . |
| 20 | It seems that his original conception was of natural selection operating upon varieties or subspecies , not upon individual variations within the same population . |
| 21 | It seems that my hon. Friend is going to the essence of the argument . |
| 22 | It seems that our collective wish for this state is so strong that we are quite unable to contemplate the opposite . |
| 23 | For each thin section , the scientist makes a decision on what he regards as its significant features ( such as size or shape of particular mineral inclusions ) and then scores each feature , for each thin section , on a simple scale from one to five , without giving any thought at this stage to similarities and differences . |
| 24 | He had already shown some delightful touches in central midfield , the position he regards as his best , speed of thought and a supple-like body in what he regards as his best position in central midfield , combining well with Andy Townsend , who usually delights in destroying Spurs on his own . |
| 25 | It is obviously in an uncomfortably contradictory position — squeezed between the expectations of the bureaucracies on which it relies and its political affiliation to the struggles of the mass of blacks which it is called upon to mediate , translate and sometimes police . |
| 26 | He feels that his own experience in education will be particularly valuable . |
| 27 | He hopes that his latest breeding venture : a cross between a bronze , a Norfolk Black and a Wrolstead ( a slow-growing , white-feathered turkey from America ) will be the shape and taste of the future . |
| 28 | He imagines that his own family might have had this ease in the bourgeois world before they left Europe . |
| 29 | It denies that its proposed purchase of GiroBank necessarily postpones the conversion plans . |
| 30 | Children tend to believe that those adults around them are all-wise and all-powerful and it follows that whatever these adults say must be true . |