Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was surprised because the songs are so good that even when they 're getting massacred by cats and dogs or Germans or Russians they still stand up . |
| 2 | Where the peasantry remained ‘ pre-commercial , ’ as in large parts of Russia and among the emancipated slaves of the Americas who returned to subsistence peasant agriculture , the estate retained this advantage , but without the physical compulsions of serfdom or slavery it now found it more difficult to obtain labour , unless the former slaves or serfs were landless or so short of land as to be obliged to become hired labourers — and unless there was no more attractive labour for them to take . |
| 3 | or places we never saw , the idea |
| 4 | We shall be leaving Peking for Sian at 11.30 this evening , and the comrades have given us a rousing send off with beautiful presents including a big embroidered tablecloth and napkins , and a beautiful framed picture made out of shells , with an inscription written on it specially for & I. They also gave us the enclosed photos , which give you an idea of what life is like here . |
| 5 | Occasionally you 'd get a script come down with lines in it you instinctively knew your character just would n't say , or actions she just would n't do , particularly from writers who were new to the show . |
| 6 | Cathy Massiter made it very clear in her television interview that MI5 and Special Branch alone decide who merits a dossier and which group they belong to and can open a file on any person or group of people or organisation they please , put into it anything they like , be it only gossip or hearsay , and once opened the file remains there indefinitely . |
| 7 | Oh if I ever get they get both of them , like Superintendent J , well which one , can I have Mr Williams , well do you want Chief Inspector or Inspector they just bung 'em through , still same surname , but |
| 8 | Lack of money prevents us eating properly when we are children , ruins our health , rots our teeth , makes our parents quarrel and take to drink , stops us having the clothes we want , the friends we like , the parties we long for , stops us having the tuition which would enable us to get an education — makes us end up street sweepers and not doctors ; induces women to have babies because there is no money for travel or entertainment , or to leave the parental home any other way : lack of money humiliates us all our lives : lack of money makes us live with husbands or wives we no longer love : lack of money makes us age earlier than we need : makes our hands rough with toil and our brows creased with anxiety : keeps us weeping by day and sleepless by night : the terror in our lives is the bill through the door which ca n't be paid : our lives close in the knowledge of failure — we failed to make enough money . |
| 9 | He spent a good deal of time in his satires , presenting himself as a satirist — unplaced , unpensioned , no man 's heir or slave he proudly describes himself as he tells us that he 's willing to lash out at even the most eminent public figures . |
| 10 | Use a green pencil to underline all the foods or meals you normally eat that you think are nutritionally sound and that you do not want to change . |
| 11 | The practice can not therefor either share the load or hand it over . |
| 12 | When you have filled it in , send it to the Customer Care Unit or hand it in at any post office . |
| 13 | I du n no whether , should I go and see him or hand it in or what ? |
| 14 | And then if it 's in another area which invariably is if you 've got to give them somewhere like Trowbridge or sometimes erm in Bath or Chippenham You then have to ring up D S S to find the address . |
| 15 | We are now beginning new ways of thinking about whether to feed mice or kill them , plant trees or chop them down which require new balances of conflict of interest . |
| 16 | There 's gon na be times when you 're collecting more no 's than you would like to collect , and you 're gon na go home pretty miserable , and this is the time when your partners have got to know what you 're trying to achieve and maybe put the arm round your shoulder or butter you up , discuss these things with them . |
| 17 | In light weather you either keep the boat upright or heel it very slightly away from the wind so that gravity helps to fill the sail . |
| 18 | In essence , Labour is proposing the Swedish model in which the state controls the economy — rather than owning it — and taxes it ferociously to pay for a ballooning public sector . |
| 19 | Habitat as Spoonbill , with which and various egrets and herons it often breeds . |
| 20 | And er to try and tide them over . |
| 21 | Like Graham and Sabrina he too had been left a holdall , containing a Geiger-Muller counter and his favourite handgun , a Browning Mk2 , in a locker at the main railway station where he had spent three hours studiously checking the invoices for all the freight loaded at the goods yard over the past ten days . |
| 22 | Where it is suggested to professional advisers , the suggestion will commonly be met with the caution and dubiety they naturally bring to a proposal lying outside their experience or practice . |
| 23 | Take the B P and D. You often see that the P's , the D's du du and the B's share similar features . |
| 24 | This is surely a far cry from the grotesque yet ridiculous horns and hooves we immediately call to mind in any usual interpretation of Satan . |
| 25 | And buck you up a bit . |
| 26 | An Add-A-Plane jig and planer I normally use to thickness ¼in strips for canoe building provided the answer . |
| 27 | Two queers heel and toe it down the High , |
| 28 | Over the next few days Sir Robin could need all the native cunning and tact he once showed as a cricket captain to deal with the political uncertainty many expect after the election . |
| 29 | But for the moment , the prospect of marriage to a woman he loved , and of life together in a place of exquisite beauty , seemed to offer the stability and direction he never ceased to crave in his personal life . |
| 30 | Police found credit cards in both the name of Garawand and Yousefi they also took the keys to a white Ford Transit van , which they discovered in a car park . |