Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will some of these carrots grow larger if we leave them till next week ? |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not going to worry about it now , ’ said Pam , resolutely , ‘ but if they leave it like last time , I 'll kill them . ’ |
| 3 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 4 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 5 | What would he do with Harry 's body when he found it at last , but toss it back again to go downstream as he willed it to go , and leave its poor slender bones scattered all along the banks of Severn without a name or a resting-place ? |