Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and they would also , they , she probably the , the lawyers would also go for a settlement for him the property |
| 2 | Nick did n't send any shivers through her the way Jack Butler had but after he 'd kissed her softly goodbye and she was walking through Portman Square , she found herself looking forward to seeing him later . |
| 3 | The ladies concerned I think were very pleased er , erm , I do I think it 's a very good idea , erm , to give a wife 's medal and er , with all the medals , and we ought to provide money for them the amount of waiting about they have to do |
| 4 | With a child , you 've only got to take your eyes off it a minute and anything might happen . |
| 5 | And probably picking up another hundred pound hundred and twenty pound between them a week . |
| 6 | Erm th the net result of it the proposal stopped dead , are those who did not wish to transfer , meaning the pensioners , had an increased inflation percentage as a result er pensioner representatives have been appointed , widows have had a increased pension . |
| 7 | The lur blowers are far more intriguing because local legend has it that every time a virgin walks past them the sound of the lur echoes round the square . ’ |
| 8 | Through no fault of ours the situation has changed . |
| 9 | I also think it 's important that people have this sort of emotional side of it taught to them as well , you 're often taught like the straight , you know , the wee sperm and the wee egg come together and you get a baby , but you do n't , not taught about the emotional side of it a lot |
| 10 | From there the single line emerged onto the road , and along one side of it the train to West Cork would puff and blow at a brisk but not incautious pace , its smoke staining the leaves of the roadside trees , the guard ringing his bell almost without stop until they were approaching Carrigrohane and could reasonably expect to be out of range of busy pedestrians , excited children , and messenger boys on bicycles plaguing the engine-driver by trying to outspeed him . |
| 11 | One of Isambard 's advance party , and by the cut of him a man of importance . |
| 12 | ‘ Why is it that every time you open that pretty little mouth of yours a viper speaks ? ’ he said angrily . |
| 13 | ‘ I hope it gives other kids like me a chance — they deserve it . ’ |
| 14 | Or do the copy department deal with it the copy department ? |
| 15 | But not with Lucenzo 's cold black eyes finding fault with her every hour of the night . |
| 16 | So he goes quietly home , sits and watches the telly with her a while ; then , in the commercial break perhaps , he leans forward , taps her on the head with whatever he has selected for the job , waits a couple of hours , then rings us . ’ |
| 17 | Feed 'er up , get a gold lamé turban and you could be back in the ring with 'er no time at all . ’ |
| 18 | Of course , I 've only set eyes on him a couple of times . ’ |
| 19 | Oh , she had n't missed Naylor 's eyes on her a time or two when she exchanged some comment with Travis — but surely he did n't expect her to ignore him ! |
| 20 | There was a long pause while she cleared the bed of her things , and she was aware of his eyes on her every movement as he checked over the items she 'd packed for any signs of decadence . |
| 21 | From one she extracted the brown exercise book , more creased and folded than when she had first set eyes on it a quarter of an hour or so before . |
| 22 | Into the empty seat beside him a passenger joined him . |
| 23 | Pike was curled up into a ball , like a hedgehog , clutching his wig to him the way a kid might hold on to its teddy before going to sleep . |
| 24 | It exploded from just inside the Springbok 22 and Oosthuysen raced three-quarters the length of the pitch with Steve Hackney closing on him every second . |
| 25 | The Merger Regulation indicates in its recitals that if the parties ' combined market share does not exceed 25 per cent in the EC or in a substantial part of it a merger between them is unlikely to impede effective competition . |
| 26 | When The Waste Land appeared , Untermeyer had become more irate : ‘ The Dial 's award to Mr T. S. Eliot and the subsequent bookpublication of his The Waste Land have occasioned a display of some of the most enthusiastically naive superlatives that have ever issued from publicly sophisticated iconoclasts ’ . |
| 27 | they are required to do five hours work for you a day |
| 28 | ‘ I will miss you , Penini , ’ she said to him , giving him a hug in return , ‘ and I will kiss Pilade for you every day . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It opens old wounds for us every time Saddam Hussein is mentioned . ’ |
| 30 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |