Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Come and see the sorcerer 's kitchen where I brew up the grotesque potions that make me a legend here . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ They wanted a dramatic ending where I kill off the central character and they also did n't like me making fun of the audience . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , those of you yet to take out a home-loan but thinking of doing so might be better off going for the repayment version where you pay off a little bit of the loan and interest as you go along . |
| 4 | Just the same refuges of the elderly also appear in the Social Survey of Merseyside of 1934 , where they made up a third of the tenants of the largest multiple households . |
| 5 | This gallant officer , the colonel assured the regiment , careless of his own safety , continued the attack after Lieutenant Harvey had fallen , killing several German soldiers before reaching their dugouts , where he wiped out a complete enemy unit singlehanded . |
| 6 | When the character of Harlequin , the Comic Lover , had become familiar in England he was quickly promoted to lead the pantomimes ; nowhere in ballet does he rise to more commanding heights than as Captain Belaye in Cranko , s Pineapple Poll , where he takes on the superior airs and manners of the British Navy and becomes the apple of every girl 's eye . |
| 7 | ACROSS 1 Give bad reviews to dumb show — he might be in this ( 9 ) 6 Old-time US lawyer and rocker ( 5 ) 9 Reversing of French vehicle went quickly ( 5 ) 10 Dynamic object contains fungus ( 9 ) 11 Main entrance where he went Up the third time ? ( 3,5 ) 12 Baldwin shortly takes on church position ( 6 ) 14 The man himself ( 7,6 ) 16 New sandpit from E. Europe used to treat shoes ( 4,3,6 ) 21 Gauges placing a thousand rows ( 6 ) 22 Seller hears another way to say in other words ( 8 ) 25 Phone round Esquire readers with article on things observed ( 9 ) 26 One lady posed as the one with tattoos ( 5 ) 27 Equipment in ship for sketches he 's appeared in ( 5 ) 28 One put her away immediately ( 9 ) |
| 8 | He strolled along by the front of the house until he reached the north wing , where he turned down the grassy slope towards the trees . |
| 9 | His most spectacular success came in the AJC PLate , where he handed out a ten-length beating to his Melbourne Cup conqueror Nightmarch . |
| 10 | He pushed past Sharpe into the map room where he threw back the heavy wooden shutters to flood the tables with sunlight . |
| 11 | When he was at home he had begun living at the School , where he boarded up the broken windows and had the chimneys cleaned . |
| 12 | There was no roof and the rain that had fallen in the night left dark stripes where it trickled down the greasy surface of the cows ' rumps . |
| 13 | And as independents Tony Carlin and William McCorriston , both formerly of the SDLP , counted their losses last night , the SDLP was celebrating victory in both the Northland Ward , where all five fielded candidates were elected , and on the Waterside , where it picked up an extra seat . |
| 14 | The birds had told me Diggs had left a few minutes earlier , so I ran back the quick way to the house , where the lights all burned as usual . |
| 15 | No one follows , so I come out the other end and nip round the small block . |
| 16 | I felt that the design for this holiday picture should be a natural and less structured design than normal , so I laid out the pressed stems of eucalyptus which naturally fell into a fan shape and used that as the basis of my design . |
| 17 | The waiters were all busy at that moment so I picked up a full glass from the table and fought my way to where she was holding court in the middle of the mass — standing up , of course . |
| 18 | While it was charming I was not at all happy there so I gave up the grandiose life and moved over to the Peel Street YMCA . |
| 19 | The Captain had no sooner opened his mouth to say : ‘ Your husband is n't in … ? ’ than she took out a crumpled handkerchief and huge tears were rolling down her fat cheeks . |
| 20 | When he started school , she only had to look after him before school started and after it finished , so she took on a part-time job as a lunch-time playground supervisor at the same school . |
| 21 | Then her hands began to shake so she put down the half-eaten cake , very aware that his face was full of emotion , belying the quietness of his voice . |
| 22 | Some people thought plastic plates were tacky , but if you used the real thing once you got over a certain number you just had endless mess afterwards . |
| 23 | Once you build up a regular routine you will want to get outside whatever the weather is doing . |
| 24 | The likeliest place for the specks to get into the product was in the ‘ Fluon ’ finishing Room so we set up a multi-disciplinary CAT of operators , supervisors , QC , QA and maintenance personnel headed by Finishing Room manager Jim Fairhurst . |
| 25 | Some had national flags flying from their rucksacks so we hung out a tiny Scottish Saltire . |
| 26 | At Naba we were overtaken by the hospital train and discovered that their food supply had run out , so we handed over a whole case of sausages and one of tinned peaches . |
| 27 | All the matches are wet , so we cram down a few handfuls of cheese and boiled sweets . |
| 28 | We are inundated with rabbits , so we fenced off a rabbit-proof area for vegetables and netted the top — the pigeons , caterpillars and slugs ate the lot . |
| 29 | Now we 've got a formula , so we build up a little table . |
| 30 | John Dunford , Philip King and John Kennedy had had this idea to record me ‘ live ’ in a pub , so they brought down a mobile unit to Winkles Hotel in Kinvara , and we were all there for three or four days . |