Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Alice or Bert filled it with hot water and it leaked causing injury , would either of them have an action ? |
| 2 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |
| 3 | It was a statement of fact rather than the opening shot in an argument and Trent accepted it as such . |
| 4 | They were gradually weaned off the drugs and Valnet treated them with internal doses of essential oils instead . |
| 5 | She was nineteen , the age Maria had been when she had first felt the power of Luke 's attraction , and Maria regarded her with ironic envy , wishing she could have reacted as insouciantly , her awe and admiration as impersonal as Penny 's , Luke confined to some remote pedestal along with other out-of-reach heroes , contact undreamed-of . |
| 6 | It was already deep in debt , after repeated maladministration and corruption amongst its earlier inmates , and Wolsey seized it in 1525 . |
| 7 | She had five children , and her own independent income , and Creevey married her in 1802 . |
| 8 | Fairbrother was shuffling reluctantly out of the stone doorway as he returned , and Richard greeted him with sarcastic cheerfulness . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , dear , you do n't want to hear my stories , ’ he would say when Benny and Eve plagued him for some information . |
| 10 | Sweden more than doubled its crop area between 1840 and 1880 , Italy and Denmark expanded it by more than half , Russia , Germany and Hungary by about a third . |
| 11 | His lips twisted in scorn , and Lissa hated him for that look . |
| 12 | An insurance cover note also said it was a 1.6 and Jackson sold it as such to Robert Ross , of Bridgegate , Barnard Castle , for £3,695 . |
| 13 | Strawberry moved out of the burrow and Hazel followed him into another run , leading deeper down below the wood . |
| 14 | Omi crooked a finger for the waitress who offered the bill with subtle deference , and Omi paid it with subtle superiority . |
| 15 | ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor . |
| 16 | Standing on opposite sides of the pile , Mina and Kāli beat it with wooden spades , softening the clay and mixing in the cow-dung . |
| 17 | Before they left at the end of their week , Alastair and Stuart presented them with Scottish Nuclear baseball caps and T-shirts . |
| 18 | When Bill and Jenny bought it in 1977 , it was in need of a lot of tender loving care — today , much restored and refurbished it has a wealth of beams , stripped pine and attractive brick fireplaces . |
| 19 | It is deeply embedded in Western culture — so deeply that few are aware , for example , how far both Freud and Jung integrated it into Western psychological theories . |
| 20 | He obstructed collection of ship money in 1638 and Poole returned him to both 1640 Parliaments . |
| 21 | Whitelegge 's brother-in-law Victor Horsley [ q.v. ] served on the commission , and Whitelegge supplied him with pathological specimens from rabid dogs caught around Nottingham . |
| 22 | Poland was surrounded by neighbours who were contemptuous of its existence and anything but trustworthy , and Poland treated them as such . |
| 23 | In fact they were painted from dead specimens , and to get within range of a naturalist was a misfortune for a nineteenth-century bird or animal ; but Audubon painted them against realistic backgrounds , and in more or less plausible action . |
| 24 | Worcester were wobbling at 33 for three but Hick guided them to 158 for five . |
| 25 | But ESA delayed it for five years , mainly so that this prestige project could be launched on the European launcher Ariane . |
| 26 | This was an entirely legitimate and historically well-founded practice , but Nixon carried it to extreme lengths , seeing it as a way both to cut back on federal expenditure and to impose his own order of spending priorities . |
| 27 | Furthermore , when Joseph explained to his brothers the purposes of God that had been running through the events they had been caught up in , he used terms recalling the promises of Genesis 12 : ‘ … you meant evil against me ; but God meant it for good , to bring it about that many people should be kept alive , as they are today ’ ( 50.20 ; see , too , 45.4–11 ) . |
| 28 | But years later he was able to tell his brothers : ‘ You meant it for evil , but God meant it for good . ’ |
| 29 | But God wanted us in that society and we now have a choice . |
| 30 | But God confronted her about that laugh — not because she laughed in God 's presence but because her laughter expressed a limiting view of God which was a denial of his power and an incitement to doubt . |