Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [det] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may choose from Cardiff to Bristol ; from Coventry to Blackpool ; from York to Lindisfarne , or between any other places you fancy . |
| 2 | After the emergency , give your child the opportunity to talk about the incident and about any other worries he or she may have . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a good price and — ’ he winked slyly at Erika — ‘ and for another twenty marks they 'll wear gipsy dress . ’ |
| 4 | She did n't spend very much on herself , she spent on houses , and during those early years she entertained — people lived differently , you know , dinner-parties for English visitors , musical parties , charity affairs ; and she spent a lot on other people , on her new family and the poor . |
| 5 | I think of Oreste day and night and weep to think he will be two years of age when this second child is born and of those two years I have had so little . |
| 6 | Chapter 9 , ‘ Living Language ’ , points out that this aural memory-bank of speech and language continues to grow , and like all growing things it needs nourishing . |
| 7 | Medical staff at Middlesbrough General Hospital did their utmost to try to save Mrs Loughran 's life but Mr Smith heard that at her age and with such extensive injuries it was very unlikely that she would have survived . |
| 8 | Madra 's forehead shone in the heat , and with those dark eyebrows she looked as though she were concentrating hard on not spilling the wine . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't care about the baby , ’ Philip said , and with those few words he doomed his unborn son . |
| 10 | The talks which Lewis gave to the RAF were on such basic issues as ‘ Why we think there is a Right and Wrong ’ , and from such simple beginnings he framed , in language which was meant to be arresting to ordinary men in the ranks , an exposition first of the theist position , then of the Christian religion . |
| 11 | And from these two factors you can erm form three prognostic routes . |
| 12 | Moreover , what we can know , such as our duties and obligations to each other and to God , is just what we need to know ; and in many other cases we have beliefs sufficiently well-founded for the purposes of our everyday life . |
| 13 | At that time , the mullahs were the country 's principal teachers and in many rural areas they had become considerable men of property , taxing the people and buying land for themselves . |
| 14 | ‘ Certainly , Cabannes did superbly at the back of the lineout today but he was a regular target and in all other areas I gave Back the edge . |
| 15 | Ellie was now eighteen years old , and in all those years she had never travelled in a taxi-cab , nor had she ever been into the heart of Boston . |
| 16 | Obviously there is not a club atmosphere at Harlequins , and in most other sports they would be fined or disciplined for the unfair competition they are setting up in the league , both from the top and bottom sides . |
| 17 | It is in terms of such a paradigm — broadly conceived , and preferred among the diverse methodological orientations that I discussed in the Introduction for its greater fruitfulness and explanatory potential — that I have analysed political movements , change and conflict throughout this book ; and in these final pages I should like to consider briefly the contribution it can make to understanding the present state of the world and its likely evolution in a medium-term future of two or three decades . |
| 18 | He was a compelling man , overwhelmingly masculine , and in any other circumstances she would have been attracted — no , more than just attracted to him . |
| 19 | And in those early days he was careful with money . |
| 20 | And in those fat books you 're always reading , with busty ladies on the cover . |
| 21 | And in those few moments he looked so much like his father , Major John Lewis , the man who had first taken her virginity , and later betrayed her husband . |
| 22 | I just looked at her very quickly — I was so nervous — and in those few seconds she was gone . |
| 23 | She stood aside as Ace floated into the cabin , and without any preliminary checks she started to shut down the spacesuit 's systems . |
| 24 | And on such flimsy grounds she 'd apparently been tried and sentenced . |
| 25 | And on all those issues I think the industry itself has pulled itself up and through the National Tourist Boards we are going to promote it very hard indeed over the four week period . |
| 26 | I am a woman , and also a writer who has used up her allotment of renown during her own lifetime ; and on those two grounds I do not expect much pity , or much understanding , from posterity . |
| 27 | Modernists never wrote stories , as that word is commonly understood , and to all public appearances they seldom read them . |
| 28 | In the image the tribe acts as a unit only when people need it , and at all other times it is only a possibility , a concept in their minds . |
| 29 | There 's a technique in nuclear physics , called neutron activation , which allows you to measure quantities of trace very small quantities of particular elements in materials and it 's been applied to looking at the concentration of arsenic in Napoleon 's hair , and you find that there are particular periods in his life when he got dosed with arsenic_ one 's not quite sure how — and at those particular times he was erm very ill ; it correlates very well with the historical evidence . |
| 30 | The convective state of the troposphere tends to raise cloud particles above the base , and at these higher altitudes they do not evaporate , because of the lower temperatures , and thus a cloud can have a considerable thickness perhaps extending towards the tropopause , above which convection is weak . |