Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His words brought to her eyes the same look that is in an eagle 's eyes as she flies again above moorland of the Western Isles and watches , far below , her own shadow flighting across the wild moorland wastes of Callanish . |
| 2 | She is indeed a transcendent figment of the creative literary imagination : According to Janette Richardson ( 1970 ) , Alison escapes any punishment in the tale because she acts purely in accordance with " nature " . |
| 3 | I guessed this was happening , because er she told me that she gets here at quarter past seven . |
| 4 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 5 | She seems very at home in her skin . |
| 6 | For the time being , notice that on two occasions , Carol interrupts the flow of her own talk , trying to remember when a particular event took place — and on both occasions her self-interruption is in LE , interrupting a Creole sequence : Thus Carol 's talk in this conversation can be analysed as making use of two distinct codes , " Creole " and " English " , between which she moves systematically from time to time . |
| 7 | Defending a minuscule majority of 147 , he commutes assiduously by train between Westminster and the railway-rooted constituency . |
| 8 | This may fatten GE 's profits but it sits oddly with talk about a partnership with suppliers . |
| 9 | He looks forward with impatience to the time when he will be sent to Siberia ; his martyrdom ends with the beginning of his punishment " . |
| 10 | It stands today in need of rescue from commercial interests to whom its traditions mean nothing , and likewise from administrators who would subordinate all else in deference to the supposed interests of the England squad . |
| 11 | He says apart from drill in the sense of head-counts , turn your back to the blast area and sitting on the ground covering your eyes and so on — none whatsoever . |
| 12 | There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down . |
| 13 | For printing , he uses a wall-mounted De Vere enlarger , with which , to get the size , he shoots literally from ceiling to floor — with many pairs of worn jeans to prove it . |
| 14 | Attracted , presumably , by the bright whites and reds , it flits deftly from shirt to shirt , with no intention of going anywhere . |
| 15 | In other words , it costs less per unit of body weight for large animals to run . |
| 16 | It concentrates particularly upon benefit in terms of deferment of long-term or short-term institutionalisation ( Was the project successful in sustaining at home people who without the enhanced care would have been in institutional care earlier ? ) . |
| 17 | The latter , although a mainly psychic state ( albeit drug induced ) , can be mistaken for non-responsiveness because of the patient 's agitation and apparent suffering ; it responds rapidly to reduction in opioid dosage . |
| 18 | There is no chart telling us just how many hours we should be sleeping ; indeed it varies greatly from person to person . |
| 19 | It varies greatly in form among different families in adaptation to the environment and habits of the species concerned . |
| 20 | Although the Law of Property Act 1925 , s196(5) , ( which incorporates the method of service therein prescribed ) applies to all leases unless a contrary intention appears it applies only in respect of notices " required " to be served by the lease in question . |
| 21 | It appears widely in panelling in office , shop and bank fittings , and also in the manufacture of traditional inlay motifs , lines and bandings . |
| 22 | I had hoped for some characteristic entry in his unflaggingly ironic Dictionnaire des idées reçues ; but it jumps pointedly from cognac to coitus . |
| 23 | It consists mainly of criticism of the theories of absolute monarchy and the divine right of Kings , for which Robert Filmer had argued in his posthumously published Patriarcha ( 1680 ) . |
| 24 | Today , quite apart from its scientific interest , the mule , offspring of a donkey and a mare , has enormous economic potential : as a work animal , the mule 's life is almost twice that of the horse ; it pulls more in proportion to its weight ; it needs shoeing less often ; and it can be worked in large teams without difficulty . |
| 25 | He seems most at home in the thick of a hectic scrap for victory . |
| 26 | If it is the Minister , he speaks again by leave of the House as no Member can address the House twice on the same motion without leave . |
| 27 | In this speech , Simon has recourse to the theories of the Russian Formalist school of criticism to support many of the arguments he puts forward on behalf of the inherently political viability of a formalist aesthetic . |
| 28 | But the aim of radical reform is not merely to change the law 's approach so that it becomes more in tune with modern perceptions of sexual assault , but to address directly the problem of processing rape . |
| 29 | With articulated limbs and facial expressions which even allow the effigy to weep tears and gnash its teeth , it springs fully to life before the hypnotized community , dragging the priest behind it , speaking recognizably in the voices of the recently as well as more distantly departed . |
| 30 | It is worth pointing out that it does so in accordance with the normal justification thesis . |