Example sentences of "[coord] [pos pn] [noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October of that year , while she was teaching in Columbia , South Carolina , she had realised that her work to that point expressed what her teachers or her friends expected it to ; and she determined , then , that she should allow it to express what she was feeling . |
| 2 | Whether it was the high volume of radio traffic , FAKINTIL sabotage , or his underlings keeping it from him , I 'll never know . |
| 3 | I enjoyed the function and my friends kept me in good cheer as I was obviously anxious about my husband being in the Gulf and did have a few too many drinks . |
| 4 | My great-grandmother taught it to her daughter , my grandmother , and my grandmother taught it to me . |
| 5 | All I can remember is having a pickled onion and my sister stabbed it with a fork and the middle shot across the room . |
| 6 | We arrived at the house and my Dad introduced me to a woman . |
| 7 | I had that and my mum sent me to ballet classes |
| 8 | ‘ But John Reed knocked me down and my aunt locked me in the red room , ’ I cried . |
| 9 | But no one knows the exact details : when the accident happened , the War Office was secretive and my father remembers nothing except waking up in hospital and the five major brain operations that followed to remove bits of shrapnel from his triple-fractured skull . |
| 10 | The white tube , the cork-effect filter , the solid hot flare of the match and my lips tell me of my lungs as I make my own smoke , with its blue drifting and acrid smell . |
| 11 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
| 12 | I did n't introduce him to either of those things , his father Albert paints and my husband took it from him . |
| 13 | I mean I did n't take a lot with me , I mean I took too much as it was and my arm carrying it across the Underground . |
| 14 | I and my colleague thank you on behalf of the people in for this opportunity of presenting our case for acceptance of this petition . |
| 15 | ‘ I fell apart at the seams — I was in tears all the time , and my doctor put me on pills . ’ |
| 16 | By the time I was fourteen I could n't wait to get away from that place and my mother took me to the hiring fair in the marketplace in Bishop Auckland . |
| 17 | And I remember very very well he had a big heavy coat and my mother put him in a very big pocket on the inside of the coat and we always called that his rabbit pocket , because he very often came home with a rabbit . |
| 18 | It is well written and interestingly , Warner is publishing it as an original B format and its gimmick to bring it above the rest is to give it a dust jacket . |
| 19 | SWAPO and its sympathisers condemn it for let ting the South Africans out of their bases . |
| 20 | In consideration of you instructing your advisers to carry out a due diligence investigation of ABC Holdings Limited ( ‘ ABC ’ ) and its subsidiaries to enable you to further consider purchasing all of the issued share capital of ABC we the undersigned , being all the owners of the legal title , all the registered holders and all the principal beneficial owners of all the issued shares comprised in such share capital ( ‘ the Shares ’ ) , each agree as follows : — |
| 21 | For Acheson , who became Secretary of State in January 1949 , as for most of the Administration , Congress and probably most of the American people , and as a straight and simple choice , France was more important than Vietnam or Indo-China and more valuable than a party aspiring to be government which , in spite of impeccable anti-colonial credentials and its ability to present itself as all things to all men , was beginning to look more and more like an affiliated communist state . |
| 22 | As far as overall weight is concerned , it 's surprisingly manageable and its size puts it into the larger car boot category for transport . |
| 23 | Sea Change and its successors have something in them of the career novel , a popular genre in the first decades after the Second World War , as well as the more general intention of inspiring youth to purposeful activity and ambitions . |
| 24 | The Alliance and its supporters busied themselves in rates and exposes of socialist malpractice . |
| 25 | The club and its supporters saw themselves as part of the mythical ‘ aristocracy ’ of football but Macari insisted they were out of touch with modern football and embarked on a mission to toughen the team and its image . |
| 26 | She gave a small , tight smile and her grandmother answered it with , ‘ Yes , in more ways than one , we 'll definitely be back to square one . |
| 27 | As the door banged Peggy and her grandmother threw themselves into each other 's arms , one arm only around each other for they had to suppress the laughter that was bursting to escape in loud , hilarious guffaws … . |
| 28 | Going upstairs to Helen 's flat , she handed it over , and her godmother took it with a smile . |
| 29 | She specialised in art history and education and her studies took her to Paris and Florence . |
| 30 | He felt it would soon be the moment to make a move , and her behaviour left him in little doubt as to what sort of move it should be . |