Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Peyton has the right to stick to his guns and he 's disinclined to give in after the majority he won last time . |
| 2 | It was felt that the Stand we had last year was well worthwhile . |
| 3 | Continuing up the easy gradient of the ridge we made frequent stops to admire the icy crest and fearsome north west face of Chamlang , soaring skywards . |
| 4 | In the vote on the NUM motion three factors helped to tip the balance in favour of the Labour leadership : the NUM lacked the support it commanded last month at Blackpool from Nalgo , the local government officers ' union , since the latter is not affiliated to the party ; the pro-nuclear EETPU , absent from Blackpool since its expulsion from the TUC , cast its votes in favour of the leadership 's stance ; and Ucatt , the construction union , previously in favour of the 15-year deadline , has recently withdrawn its opposition to the policy review plan . |
| 5 | Because of his absence from the trial he forfeited all rights to appeal . |
| 6 | Gray had told the board he needed three years to build a top side . |
| 7 | On my return late in the afternoon I saw two SS soldiers outside our front door . |
| 8 | In the afternoon he visited various people who had been on friendly terms with the dead man . |
| 9 | ‘ If that was the case I found great difficulty in seeing how he could get permission from my local authority to license me , ’ he said . |
| 10 | I know this is a crime , and so does my father , and I think that sometimes he regrets the decision he made seventeen years ago , in his hippy-anarchist days , or whatever they were . |
| 11 | See that ladder you 've got , you know the bit you had this morning ? |
| 12 | As Emily Mahon stood in the kitchen she hoped that Nan would be warm and pleasant to her father this morning . |
| 13 | Several blind people complained of the excessive concern over their inability to make eye contact with clients and the difficulty they had convincing teaching staff that they could cope . |
| 14 | The exposure it received this year was an all-time record . |
| 15 | When they grew up and went off into the wild I suffered dreadful pangs . |
| 16 | President Richard von Weizsäcker , often able to set the tone , has been unusually reticent since the storm he created last year by urging that the government should move from Bonn to Berlin ( an issue that remains undecided ) . |
| 17 | When she was about fifty metres away from the building she heard some people behind her , but she did not stop . |
| 18 | Just a few hours before the verdict he told Central News that he believed the jury would find him not guilty . |
| 19 | The cottage they bought 38 years ago for £4,500 will be swept away as the last unspoilt corner of the village becomes an estate of 150 homes . |
| 20 | According to the patent ( Us 235 199 ) , when the chopped light beam was focused onto the diaphragm it created sympathetic movements which could be heard as sound . |
| 21 | I refer the honourable gentleman to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
| 22 | I refer my honourable friends to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
| 23 | I refer my honourable friend to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
| 24 | I refer the honourable gentleman to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
| 25 | I refer the honourable gentleman to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
| 26 | I refer my honourable friend to the reply I gave some moments ago . |
| 27 | It did so not only through the stringent processing of applications and the guidance it offered individual institutions , but also through more general analysis of the problems faced by institutions making the transition from ‘ monotechnic ’ to diversified colleges . |
| 28 | This concludes Mr Birdwood 's article and again many thanks to him for the talk he gave last March and for permission to reprint same . |
| 29 | In 1758 he published a comprehensive pamphlet on this industry , and when later reproduced in the Dictionary it occupied seven pages of text and a further seven of illustration . |
| 30 | So after I finished Sleeping With The Enemy I walked Pennine Way to release all the pent-up aggression and that helped , ’ he says . |