Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [adv] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I looked from his face to O's ( my eyes often followed Madame 's ) I saw an older face , one I thought had been weathered by sex and by that indefinable sorrow of O's into a quiet , strong silence . |
| 2 | Though my brothers too enjoyed shooting , they preferred hunting , and my mother , who had hunted in Ireland before she went to Abyssinia , now took it up again . |
| 3 | The way in which authorities apparently withheld information about the explosion and fire at the Zaporizha plant in central Ukraine will also generate fresh opposition to the industry seven years after the Chernobyl disaster . |
| 4 | Her teeth badly needed treatment . |
| 5 | Eight women said their husbands never passed opinions about how the housework had been done : |
| 6 | But when at last they halted in front of me , their eyes also held disappointment . |
| 7 | A tall man with an exoskeleton frightened her by demanding a retina-scan but the contacts in her eyes apparently passed muster because he let her through . |
| 8 | The coincidence between the ordinary predicative and clausal positions is all the more striking in that the inherently restrictive adjectives can not be so used in predicate qualifying position ( where restriction for identification is not appropriate ) ; this is why there is a further contrast between ( 57 ) and ( 59 ) , even though the adjective is one of this inherently restrictive group in both cases , and despite the fact that the property THIRD is certainly compatible in itself with the noun ox : ( 57 ) she considers the Admiral ( to be ) the worst ( e.g. of the village 's gardeners ) ( 58 ) she declared the squire ( to be ) the lazy ( 59 ) the revellers had eaten the ox the third ( 60 ) they ate their steaks well done Example ( 60 ) shows that eat can support predicate qualifiers , so that incompatibility between the verb and the construction can not be given as a reason for the ungrammaticality of ( 59 ) . |
| 9 | At their most severe , Purism and its allies virtually eliminated modulation and transition curves from their works . |
| 10 | Her administrations were headed first by the " duumvirs " , Godolphin and Marlborough , and from 1710 by Robert Harley ( soon to be Earl of Oxford ) , none of whom were conventional party men ( although Harley , a former Whig , can essentially be regarded as a Tory by Anne 's reign ) , and her governments often contained men from both sides of the party divide . |
| 11 | Their responsibilities often included areas which had little or nothing to do with foreign policy . |
| 12 | Sometimes , where occupation is particularly dense , there is little or no evidence for any associated property to the rear , suggesting that their occupants either worked land elsewhere or derived their livelihood from other specializations . |
| 13 | Having it in their hands never made money their own . |
| 14 | According to these results the overwhelming majority of seats went to the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) , whose officials vehemently denied opposition charges of election fraud , claiming that their " crushing success " was due to " good organization and hard work " . |
| 15 | Paying homage to Allende , he said , restored not only the latter 's dignity , but that of hundreds of other victims of military repression whose bodies still awaited discovery in anonymous graves . |
| 16 | The knife gripped between his teeth slightly distorted Rev. Levitt 's articulation but did not inhibit his chatter , which rose above the shrieks of the fowls beating their wings in panic against the coop and the even more frenzied squawking of the hen imprisoned in his hands . |
| 17 | His parents quietly hoped Angel would marry Mercy one day . |
| 18 | Laurent died at the height of his powers in 1853 , but his ideas slowly gained ground over the next ten years . |
| 19 | His words as well as his paintings however evoked atmosphere . |
| 20 | His studies inevitably included competition between microbes living free in the soil . |
| 21 | His relations also included men of every stratum of the knightly classes ; one of them was a domestic knight of a great baron , with no property save his armour . |
| 22 | The usual jibe was that Crowninshield was a politician without a cause , or rather that he would support any cause so long as it was fashionable , but his critics also attacked Crowninshield for being wealthy , claiming that his eminence was solely due to the vast amounts of money that he spent on his campaigns . |
| 23 | The dog had received a massive electric shock , his children also received shocks and his wife , in trying to comfort the dog , received a nasty bite to her hand . |
| 24 | Since our ancestors presumably sought safety in exactly such spots , his theory would seem to be plausible — assuming that acquired information can be transmitted genetically from adult to offspring , which is unlikely . |
| 25 | ‘ You see , ’ said The Fat Controller once Crispin had disappeared , ‘ your shorts already had shape and form — in his mind . |