Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adj] [art] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this moment she had the urge to fly back to the house , take her into her arms again and say ‘ I 'm going to make it up to you for all the love that I 've withheld , and for all the love you 've missed in your life . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And for all the way she bullied other people , she 's always been under that fellow 's thumb and so has Dympna . ’ |
| 3 | The pain of returning circulation was violent , and for half an hour he bit his lips and clenched the muscles that still worked to keep himself from moaning . |
| 4 | She had known as soon as they had arrived at the lodge that her heart had made the right decision , even though it felt irresponsible and utterly childish to be spending a summer like this , at her age , and after all the work she had done to put the initials MD after her name . |
| 5 | So Elizabeth told her everything that had happened today and after half an hour they decided to tell everyone what the they had done at the disco that night . |
| 6 | He had got under her skin , and after half an hour she went home alone , not content with second-best . |
| 7 | He had never heard of anyone actually reaching the German trenches , so he was n't sure what he was supposed to do next , and despite all the training he still found it hard to shoot on the run . |
| 8 | He is able to say that what he believes is true , and behind such a statement he has sure and sufficient reasons of which he is fully persuaded . |
| 9 | ‘ Just along the bank a TV crew were filming , and with all the commotion I was making someone broke away from the crowd , jumped into the river and dragged Mrs Miniver to safety . |
| 10 | A boat returned me to the little coral landing-strip ; Friendly Islands Airways took me down to Tongatapu ; and within half a day I was settled in a small hotel in Auckland , waiting for the weekly Cathay Pacific jet home . |
| 11 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 12 | The hotel staff were wonderful , coping with the unusual load with quiet , efficient speed and within half an hour I was installed , my possessions absorbed into cupboards and a free-standing rail supplied to accommodate my surplus clothes . |
| 13 | Reversing the courts below , the Court of Appeal refused his application ; his credibility was the key issue , and in such a case it was of ‘ extreme importance ’ that his evidence be tested by cross-examination in open court . |
| 14 | If they stay they must deliver an emasculated version of their own educational vision , and in such a position it is easier to deny the ideals than to stay open , day after day , to the disappointment and the sense of inauthenticity . |
| 15 | And in such a situation it becomes difficult to say whether the temporary worker is brought in because of a shortage of permanent staff or because there is ( now ) a once-off task to be performed . |
| 16 | First , I wanted to see the Castle of Zenda and in half an hour I had climbed the hill to it . |
| 17 | If it was something he had n't seen before , he 'd bend over it like it was a babby , and in half an hour he 'd know that machine inside out . ’ |
| 18 | We 've spent years examining the Bridge systems , but for all the good it 's done us we might have been blowing bubbles . |
| 19 | Bank managers and accountants tried to depress Finch , but for all the limbo he was in , his spirits were kept up by the strongest curiosity to see what would happen next . |
| 20 | Rage at her daughter , not just for what she had done but for all the unhappiness she had caused her grandmother . |
| 21 | Mr Clinton occasionally lost his temper , but through all the flak he showed remarkable staying power , which his supporters say is a mark of his fitness to occupy the White House 's Oval Office . |
| 22 | But in such a climate they begin to look unique . |
| 23 | ‘ No ! ’ she protested , but without half the conviction she would have liked . |