Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undoubtedly , the two interrelated movements — the democratic movement and the labour movement which developed so vigorously in the nineteenth century continue to have a major influence in politics , but the relation between them has changed during the present century , in a way which is also relevant to the character of more recent movements . |
| 2 | Ran away with the blacksmith who beat her with his bellows if his dinner was n't ready on time , and now she lies buried underneath the spreading chestnut tree . |
| 3 | The wound I made in you has healed in an ugly way . |
| 4 | Here I use her hypotheses as set out in her paper ‘ Some Mutual Interactions Between Organizations and Their Members ’ as well as others she has written on the same theme . |
| 5 | She has written in the same magazine ( June 1987 ) on the Book of Exodus , warning that a reading of the Bible as literature , rather than as sacred text , ‘ can not lift heavenward ’ . |
| 6 | Of course absence from school and periods in hospital have been a disadvantage to her , but she has survived as a cheerful and courageous person . |
| 7 | Much of the alleged wisdom that inheres in institutions and practice is part of what she has regarded as the flabby consensus that dragged the country down . |
| 8 | Maude 's telegram from the Queen was also expected this morning at Trees Park Village , near Middleton St George , where she has lived for the last seven years . |
| 9 | Strong political statements commenting on Ireland where she has lived for the past two years . |
| 10 | Joan Knight will also be returning to the theatre which she has run for the last 25 years , Andrew McKinnon having invited her to direct Tally 's Blood . |
| 11 | She has grown into an elegant and gracious woman , but lost none of the spark that made her such an endearing young bride . |
| 12 | Anstey 's approach to this edition was initially intended to be thematic but she has reverted to the chronological format of the first edition , thus not only dispensing with the problems of placing the themes but also giving the reader a parallel in comment on Thomas 's development both in poetry and prose . |
| 13 | A pattern has evolved in her writing schedule : when she has reached about the half way stage of the book , she will get together with her editor Rosie Cheetham and her agent Christine Green to discuss progress . |
| 14 | CLAIRE , as pale as the winter daybreak she will never see again , sits on her bed wheezing through the oxygen mask she has worn for the past three months . |
| 15 | Held back for a long time by wild hitting , she has accepted in the last 12 months that there are occasions when she must suppress the urge to attack everything flat out . |
| 16 | Yet , to a greater extent than other mobilizers , say , Joseph Chamberlain or Lloyd George , she has operated within the established political institutions of Parliament and party . |
| 17 | Some might say it presents an idealistic picture of family life ; others that it is a reactionary attempt to turn the clock back on the women 's movement ; yet others might argue that she has gone beyond the available evidence in concluding , or at least implying , that delinquency might result from early day-care experiences . |
| 18 | It is obviously a very exciting project for us though , and it will allow Kylie to show just how much she has developed over the past three years . |
| 19 | At times she has dressed as an Arab woman , worn the ha'ik , looked at the ground as she walked , among women only . |
| 20 | When she tells us that she left for work , we assume that she has dressed for the outside world . |
| 21 | In Kahlo 's painting , the figure falls from the fantasy world she has inhabited to the harsh bloodspattered reality of the street , literally coming down to earth . |
| 22 | Fergie was not , strictly speaking , Diana 's type ; she was certainly not like her old friends , nor indeed many of the friends she has made in the last few years . |
| 23 | The best she can do is to try to secure it by non-military , legal means , and this she has done with a fair measure of success . |
| 24 | She stands as the martyr of organized and systematic sexual wrong-doing on the part of the man who should be her mate , and whom alone she has evolved to the human plane . |
| 25 | At this stage , perhaps because she is unfamiliar with how the words look , she has substituted for the correct letters something which sounds all right but is inaccurate . |
| 26 | Originally from Belfast , she has worked in the Danish capital for four years . |
| 27 | The insolvency department has moved to Southampton based Lyon Pilcher , the Salisbury office is closing down with the loss of four jobs , and Gaynor Harris is back where she started with the Southampton practice ( to be known as Hook Harris ) which she has bought from the old partnership with Charles Bullworthy , with money borrowed from family and friends . |
| 28 | A woman retiring at 60 will get a lower pension from a PP than a man would at 65 , even if she has paid in the same amount over the same number of years . |
| 29 | Elsewhere , the close-up , detailed approach which works brilliantly , say , for Imogen Stubbs 's affecting Desdemona ( the pathos of her disoriented , jittery jauntiness intensified by beautiful touches such as the sepia photograph of her estranged father she keeps on the bedside table in Cyprus or the chocolates from Casio that she has secreted in a locked draw , not because she fears sexual misconstruction but because she would like to be thought too grown-up for frivolous sweet-guzzling by Othello ) paradoxically diminishes Iago because it encourages the belief that he can be realistically ‘ explained ’ like a figure in a novel . |
| 30 | The eyes of his beloved wife , are tear-reddened ( sic ) and she has come to the awful realisation of a gap in her waning life which will never be filled . |