Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What would Dixie Dean and Tommy Lawton make of it all ? |
| 2 | Speaking through an interpreter , Mr Usta said : ‘ As far as I can figure it out , one day before the operation the cheque was given by Dr Crockett , it was changed and the money given to me that night . ’ |
| 3 | The Masai were elusive , even when constantly told they had nothing to fear , and consequently the British administration found itself engaged for fifty years in a ceaseless struggle to impose on them some measure of control . |
| 4 | ‘ We are all men of the world ’ — he excluded the Archdeacon from eye contact and addressed himself exclusively to the Dean — ‘ so of course we know , do we not , that problems of that sort for young clergy bring with them all kinds of undesirable connections . |
| 5 | From my discussions with British Rail , I know that it made specific proposals for the diversion of at least four of the crossings and that the Ramblers Association objected to them all . |
| 6 | Now she was safely east-north-east in her green canopy , her pale lips laughing at them all . |
| 7 | Lydia thought that the harm done to us all on being born was irreversible but held her tongue . |
| 8 | Bonanza boasted to me that with his organisation he 'd be sure and locate Connie himself within that time . |
| 9 | Manipulating his zimmer with dexterity , Chatterton nodded at them both and left . |
| 10 | I just felt my mind rebelling against it all the time . |
| 11 | A major difficulty is that the inert gases account for only a small fraction of the volatiles known at the surfaces and in the atmospheres of the three planets , where the volatiles almost entirely consist of CO 2 , H 2 O , N 2 and O 2 , or of compounds derived from them such as carbonates , hydroxy-silicates and nitrates . |
| 12 | More than anything , it 's what makes him unique : this ability to combine a hoarse moral anger at the way the world is turning with the basic confusion shared by us all . |
| 13 | Adeane counselled against it all , and was backed by the Duke of Edinburgh . |
| 14 | Whatever Jean saw in you that first occasion was still there and she accepted your explanation about letting her down that evening . |
| 15 | The beggar in Ingmar Bergman 's film Virgin Spring speaks for us all . |
| 16 | My grateful thanks go to them all . |
| 17 | return spring gone on it that 's all |
| 18 | He was the only father you 've ever known , so it is n't a crime to refer to him that way ! |
| 19 | Rose Hilaire had a waking dream , one which followed her into sleep and came out again the other side to stay with her all day , going with her into Belmodes side by side like a fellow worker . |
| 20 | Many people on the continent agree with us that business must not be overburdened and that it should be allowed to make choices about how best to involve employees in the process of the business . |
| 21 | My kids write to me all the time . ’ |
| 22 | [ E ] ven in this simplest form , such a rule brings with it many elements distinctive of law . |
| 23 | Policies have brought inequalities , promoting individuals to become self-seeking , rather than an active citizenship which reached common values and bare necessities required by us all . |
| 24 | The introduction of the remedy for each defect might , in itself , be considered a step from the pre-legal into the legal world ; since each remedy brings with it many elements that permeate law : certainly all three remedies together are enough to convert the regime of primary rules into what is indisputably a legal system … |
| 25 | When he had gone Sarah carried on with her chores , but Garry 's words stayed with her all evening . |
| 26 | I think it takes you forty five minutes to listen to it all back again . |
| 27 | In fact , you know I 'm consciously now not to become a Welsh accent because if I 've got the Welsh accent added to it all it 'll be horrendous ! |
| 28 | Tim Smith converted , the cherry and whites made whoopee but what does the coach think about it all ? |
| 29 | Leys refers to them both , but only applies one to the Kenyan situation , that of the creation of state posts to absorb the unemployed surplus population formed by changing relations of production . |
| 30 | Why did this boy arouse in him that nostalgia , that sensation of something altogether extinct . |