Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [noun] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one evening when I happened to be valeting him , Mr Charles told me he had come across my father some years earlier while a guest at Loughborough House — the home of Mr John Silvers , the industrialist , where my father served for fifteen years at the height of his career . |
| 2 | The river fussed through the dale in a great hurry , foaming with impatience where boulders stood in its way and tumbling in joyous cascades where its channel fell in rocky shelves . |
| 3 | Belgica antarctica ( Figure 3.12 ) , a wingless midge , is confined to the shoreline of northwestern Antarctic Peninsula and the South Shetland Islands , where its larvae feed in moist soil and tide pools . |
| 4 | She and her daughter set up schools in New Haven and New York , where her daughter died in 1828 , leaving her and her four grandchildren to a semi-nomadic and seemingly ill-fated existence in America . |
| 5 | He recently published a book on the labour camp where his weight fell from 13 stone to just five . |
| 6 | He recently published a book on the labour camp where his weight fell from 13 stone to just five . |
| 7 | Data from a study in Wales suggested that patients treated by geriatricians were more likely to receive post-discharge services than their contemporaries treated by general physicians ( Victor and Vetter 1985b ) . |
| 8 | At least two-thirds of Americans have never had any reason to think of the British as their Anglo-Saxon cousins ; the East European émigrés who ran the studios were no more likely than their successors to look upon British producers as partners , and nobody would queue to see a film just because it was British . |
| 9 | And there is no more constant a reminder to her than her experiences teaching in special needs schools and her present job as adult education tutor at Ashworth . |
| 10 | Holmes was the number one American porn star throughout the '70s , although his attempts to break into mainstream Hollywood failed dismally . |
| 11 | Poor John Durbeyfield 's death had more importance than his family realized at first . |
| 12 | It 's , it 's , it 's , I mean it 's like your Modern Number One again , I mean although the character shapes are lovely , I mean although your G looks like that , is exactly the shape you want it to be , these thins here are real hairlines and that 's exactly what you do n't want it to be in six point , so I stretched the Swift by ten percent . |
| 13 | Cos my mum gets like that a bit . |
| 14 | I was that content with being a mother I 'd decided I did n't want a job until my daughter went to secondary school . |
| 15 | Until I re and , well until my husband retired at sixty and I thought well if he 's going to retire at sixty , I might as well retire , you see . |
| 16 | You remember , how once in my self-unconfidence , I asked you to take care of me until my age settled into true understanding of love ? |
| 17 | What if my parents heard of this ? |
| 18 | To put it simply : I can never have just one thought about the spectacles , and if it could be truly said that I was only able to entertain , say , two or ten thoughts about them — if my thinking consisted of discrete , countable thoughts — then they would not be thoughts at all . |
| 19 | If my team finished with 77 or 78 points I would be extremely disappointed not to go up automatically . |
| 20 | In her letter she asked Gwenellen to ask me if my aunt had at last decided to put poor Old Red out of his misery ? |
| 21 | But if my mother moved to another house see she could n't afford to refurnish |
| 22 | She 'll rigid cos her pay stopped at one stage and it was wrong because she had n't been warned |
| 23 | I expect it will be cancer cos her mother died of that as well . |
| 24 | They promised that if their cathedral came through unscathed , they would dedicate a window in gratitude to the Royal Air Force . |
| 25 | But this does not exempt them from liability if their actions result in negligent damage to people or property . |
| 26 | These patients can be given the option of being seen by an ENP rather than a doctor if their complaint/injury falls within agreed parameters . |
| 27 | Heavens , if her heart beat like this at the sight of Luke 's stepmother , how would it react when she came face to face again with him ? she thought despairingly . |
| 28 | Now what would have happened if her broker came to this convention and heard about their disease , and two years ago sold her a disease policy , that would have given her two hundred thousand pounds , on the diagnosis of the disease . |
| 29 | If her father got like that , then it might be all right . |
| 30 | After his education , he was apprenticed to his father 's coach-building premises , graduating after three years to an office position which he retained until his father retired in 1890 . |