Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the scheme outlined by Talcott Parsons and Edward Shils in Towards a General Theory of Action ( 1951 ) . |
| 2 | They 'll be yours some day unless Mummie hurries up with a little brother . |
| 3 | Today it 's Joni Mitchell 's The Circle Game , from the album Ladies of the Canyon , and if the conversation pauses Andy steps in with a musical interlude . |
| 4 | ‘ Why I want to warn every mum-to-be ’ Leslie Ash speaks out on a hidden danger |
| 5 | Pierce finishes off with a ghostly version of the great Skip James ' ‘ Hardtime Killin' Floor Blues ’ , one last acoustic cry before the tape runs out and proof positive that the blues has never been in better hands . |
| 6 | Short gets off to a bad start |
| 7 | COUNTRY star Daniel O'Donnell sets out on a 46-date UK tour next week … after fears that he might never perform again . |
| 8 | When Christ cries out in a loud voice , ‘ My God , why hast thou forsaken me ? ’ , |
| 9 | But as Robins points out in a later paper , a wide variety of anti-social childhood behaviour predicts a wide variety of adult deviant behaviour , rather than , as some have claimed , particular behaviour being predictive of specific offences ( e.g. conduct disorder predicting property but not person offences ) . |
| 10 | Don Johnson holds on to a chic Melanie Griffith ( above ) |
| 11 | Mrs Robins comes over as a cold , strict woman who was for ever giving orders . |
| 12 | BEN settles down to a romantic candle-lit dinner with JACQUI , JACQUI 's friend FIONA , KEREN , KEREN 's friend SALLY , and SARAH . |
| 13 | BEN settles down to a romantic candle-lit dinner with JACQUI , JACQUI 's friend FIONA , KEREN , KEREN 's friend SALLY , and SARAH . |
| 14 | In the Godfather , Michael Corleone starts off as a good guy . |
| 15 | For every 100,000 inhabitants , Belgium boasts 32 central bankers , France 31 , Germany 23 , America and Britain both 9 , while Japan gets by on a paltry 5 . |
| 16 | Ronnie Biggs harks back to a bygone age . |
| 17 | At one moment the boatswain Jack Allgood comes out of a berserk rage to realise that he , a warrant officer , has allowed his hatred of the captain to lead him into mutiny ; the points of physical detail enforce his emotional agony : |
| 18 | In an uproarious performance , Finney comes over like a Mancunian Tigger , insufferably bouncy and crassly insensitive . |
| 19 | When sh , Sarah comes in with a long skirt on he , he goes up |
| 20 | I 'm keeping my fingers crossed that Sierra comes up with a few more of these ! |
| 21 | And Runcorn striker Steve Shaughnessy stands by for a possible call-up into the F.A . |
| 22 | Gilly gets off to a bad start in life by having a mother who deserts her when she is only three years old but her problems since then are all of her own making . |
| 23 | Having depicted the palace not just as a multitude of busy people and face-to-face relationships , but as an arrangement ( dispositio ) , an apparatus to be efficiently designed and maintained , Hincmar moves on to a second institution , the assembly . |
| 24 | CATWALK dazzler Cindy Crawford steps out in a wispy wraparound of leopard fabric , a welter of gems and precious little else . |
| 25 | ‘ Come off it , ’ Harriet carries on with a sudden jerk . |