Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , where it cut the highway , the steep bank of the river would give them protection from the full force of the hurricane . |
| 2 | It should acknowledge that there are conflicts between critical approaches , and should make the students ' confrontation of them part of the pedagogic process . |
| 3 | Play another sound effect — perhaps a door opening , keys jangling , a car moving off , a bomb exploding , or a dog barking — and it becomes difficult not to link the two sounds together and make them part of the same story . |
| 4 | Pimlico was shown to be comparatively resistant to clamping , as were Mayfair , Soho and Knightsbridge , all of them part of the original clamping area . |
| 5 | Field work to acquire the specimens that I drew took me scuba-diving in the warm , subtropical waters of Natal and Zululand and braving seasickness on a research ship off the Transkei coast . |
| 6 | Was there a secret reason that made them hanker for a new life in a new world ? |
| 7 | While he was at college , he got a Saturday job with Austin Reed , the men 's outfitters , ‘ which gave me experience of a real shop-floor environment — right at the front line of customer service . |
| 8 | Swindle was too crude , for if the plan worked , no one would lose a penny ; all that would have happened was that a few banks would inadvertently have lent them money for an undefined period . |
| 9 | Baldwin showed them some of the curiosities of the house and gave them tea in the Long Gallery , which lie described with more pride than accuracy as ‘ the finest room in England ’ . |
| 10 | The English kings , however , were unlikely to be willing to relinquish a part of their inheritance which brought them revenue in the early fourteenth century of about £13,000 a year , and whose subjects accepted English rule . |
| 11 | The drunken porter allowing them entrance after the usual altercation . |
| 12 | In common with any other community , the Deaf Community has had its share of people who have performed deeds of bravery that earned them recognition from the appropriate authorities . |
| 13 | The following day it gained me entrance to the main gate of the embassy . |
| 14 | The second place is that probably one of the reasons that physicians feel threatened by these kind of laws is that , without the law , I can cruise along and maintain my patients ' comfort and my sanity to the best of my ability . |
| 15 | In competition it is to my advantage to feel for others as little as possible , an advantage which outweighs my dread of a growing isolation . |
| 16 | This experience deepened my dread of the five fillings which awaited me . |
| 17 | As an Englishman I express my subordination to the political authority under which I live by paying a certain fraction of my money income to the appropriate official . |
| 18 | What I 'll do when I 'm , if all the if signs and buts are covered , I will put the mike on it 's stand when I 'm working tomorrow , put it on the desk and put the recorder in the , in my briefcase underneath the little desk |
| 19 | I had lost my heart to the little , golden flowers that brightened the meadows like a thousand suns . |
| 20 | ‘ And love of the man twisted my heart into a dry rope . |
| 21 | Lifting my heart with a strange . |
| 22 | And it 's been on my heart for a long time to save . |
| 23 | But I could not bear to be supplanted in a view that lay next to my heart by an old acquaintance . |
| 24 | I could not weep , though grief lay on my heart like a heavy stone . |
| 25 | I wish I 'd not had to lie to my poor Norman , but he did n't question my story about a long-lost godchild and assured me he had no need of my money . |
| 26 | If it was n't , and he came back and caught me , then I 'd have to fall back on my story as an over-enthusiastic games player . |
| 27 | The gentleman who saved me suggested I tell my story to the French authorities . |
| 28 | PRICE : £2.39/250ml ‘ I left the conditioner on for 15 minutes and wrapped my hair in a hot towel . |
| 29 | ‘ My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures . |
| 30 | I waited three days for the sun to come out but to no avail , so on a very grey , cloudy day I set my easel by the French doors , put my paints and brushes on a high stool next to me and started . |