Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pers pn] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | While I was in Germany I took a special interest in the treatment of creative men and women who had lost direction and in some way broken down . |
2 | Indeed when the time came to leave Germany I made a mental decision never to return . |
3 | Before I left for San Francisco I spent a few days wandering the considerable length and the decidedly inconsiderable breadth of the Canal , newest of the major approaches to Balboa 's ocean . |
4 | Each time I have a pint in the pub at Rhydd Ddu I recall a snowy Easter night spent waiting for mates who had set off earlier to tackle the Snowdon Horseshoe . |
5 | At LimoRent on Third Avenue I hired a six-door Jefferson with cocktail bar , TV and telephone . |
6 | At Cosford I received a sobering shock , being beaten by Lincoln Asquith in the 60 metres . |
7 | At Frinton we played a one-armed bandit for two whole clattering hours and never attained three fruits in a row — but did we mope ? |
8 | On Tuesday we had a first-class Budget , a Budget for recovery . |
9 | In Lewis Carroll 's Alice in Wonderland we encounter a large cat , lying on the hearth and grinning from ear to ear . |
10 | But on Saturday we face a new challenge , virtually the Bath team led by Stuartwho clearly has already made his mark on South West . |
11 | If York or London needed Bell or Ramsey they had a moral duty to move whether or not they wanted it . |
12 | MOTHER Teresa , a Scout jamboree and the Pope may seem an odd combination but for stamp designer Gyula Vasarhelyi they have a common bond they all feature on his latest stamp designs for Mongolia . |
13 | As a young doctor in Leiden he paid a seminal visit to the neuroanatomist WJH Nauta , at that time developing a revolutionary anatomical technique for investigating the nervous system by staining degenerating fibres cut off from their parent cell-bodies . |
14 | Short , playing black , dominated the game throughout , and at the end of the first session of play on Tuesday he had a clear advantage in an endgame with superior pieces and a very strong passed pawn . |
15 | But Prokofiev 's opera owes just as much of its enthralling power to the brilliance of its orchestral writing , and in Edward Downes it has a superlative master of the composer 's idiomatic style . |
16 | One day in January I had a free afternoon , as Adèle was ill , so I decided to walk to Hay , a village two miles away , to post a letter for the housekeeper . |
17 | In my garden at Wells I have a wonderful well — indeed , there are five of them and the city of Wells derives its name from the five springs in the palace grounds . |
18 | ‘ Well , with Jonathan Ross I use a 60 watt Rivera combo with a Twin Reverb as a kind of satellite , and a Korg A3 for effects . |
19 | Dr you 've a new number five . |
20 | She then became fascinated by Montessori pre-school education and on returning to England she started a Montessori school in her country home . |
21 | And Ellie you 'ave a 'appy birthday , yes ? ’ |
22 | ‘ May we walk a little way ? ’ |
23 | Eqn ( 4.34 ) is suitable for the measurement of L. We impose a sinusoidal V ext , we know R ( from calculations or measurement ) , we measure I , calculate dI/dt , and then L , being the only unknown , is determined . |
24 | T. D. We cleared a little thing up — back end of a wedding . |
25 | In Spain we like a good gossip . |
26 | After touring the Cote Sauvage we had a perfect lunch in a crep erie : galettes — whole-wheat crepes made from sarazin ( black wheat ) — filled with ham or melted cheese and accompanied by foaming mugs of Breton cider ; then crisp lacy brown crepes with sugar and jam or chocolate sauce , which bore no resemblance to the limp pancakes served under that name in America . |
27 | IN ABERDEEN we offer a wide range of services to , amongst others , oil industry clients on and offshore . |
28 | The spandrels at Horkstow are figured whereas at Winterton they contain a heart-shaped cantharus . |
29 | There do n't appear to be any weak links , and in John Eales they have a phenomenal line-out talent . |
30 | Then last February he bought a second-hand Gemini FlashIIA microlight , a weight-shift control aircraft , direct from the manufacturer . |