Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they grew up and went off into the wild I suffered dreadful pangs . |
| 2 | ‘ If that was the case I found great difficulty in seeing how he could get permission from my local authority to license me , ’ he said . |
| 3 | In this particular case I used wild roses , plus their buds and leaves . |
| 4 | As a car driver I have conflicting reactions to hitchers . |
| 5 | ‘ Despite my close relationship with Sonauto I had solid contacts with Honda and I remember the problems I brought on myself . ’ |
| 6 | And I 've got to say this , in some cases I had additional time as a shop steward and a convenor , to spend on major problems er affecting the incentive scheme . |
| 7 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
| 8 | We then found that we did n't have enough cash to pay the landing fees , and in response I offered Portuguese escudos , converting at the rate in the newspaper . |
| 9 | To see if topical streptokinase , as in ‘ Varidase ’ ( streptokinase and streptodornase ) could be absorbed from a wound site and produce a similar response I measured anti-streptokinase titres in patients with wounds . |
| 10 | In my early struggling days as a writer I spent occasional days as a film extra . |
| 11 | Unless of course I have derma-optical perception . |
| 12 | And then of course I see great differences in feminisms in different countries — in first world , third world , whatever , and also principally between third world countries themselves and I think that 's a point we have n't really touched on yet . |
| 13 | Returning to the office in the afternoon I write legal advice and comments on the proposed homelessness policy . |
| 14 | It may seem that I 've never taken my title seriously , but below the skin I have great respect for it , and for this house too and the men who have gone before me who made it . |
| 15 | Get them out for Easter I mean white lines up the seams |
| 16 | Doubly foolproof in a way , since the 103/4 is , as I had been led to expect from someone in whose ears I have complete trust , one of the most ‘ out-of-thebox ’ loudspeakers that I have had the pleasure to use — one can be very quickly up and running with it and feel only the need to make relatively small adjustments to positioning and so on in due course as listening progresses ; such changes with this loudspeaker result in subtle rather than profound modifications to the sound . |
| 17 | Anyway , in that desolate chamber at Sheen I removed soft buskins from the corpse 's feet , carefully pushing back the blue robe and the white cotton shift beneath . |
| 18 | Wes smiled and looked up at me and for a moment the tough mask dropped from the grubby features and in the dark wild eyes I read sheer delight . |
| 19 | In the last chapter I outlined certain similarities between karate competition and boxing . |
| 20 | ‘ Joe knows that when I do n't train with the lads I do extra training on my own . |
| 21 | So after I finished Sleeping With The Enemy I walked Pennine Way to release all the pent-up aggression and that helped , ’ he says . |
| 22 | From my hotel at the foot of fifth Avenue I made short forays into the neon between soaking my cuts , counting my abrasions and nursing anxiety to sleep . |
| 23 | During that twelve months you get extra supervision and at the during that period the chief constable is entitled to dispose of your service at a week 's notice , but after you get over the probationary period only the Watch Committee could dispose of your services , the onus was on the Watch Committee . |
| 24 | from Marks and Spencer you know different shapes . |
| 25 | Inside the aircraft you do internal checks . |
| 26 | In future you take preventative measures . |
| 27 | There 's lads of real trouble there , but there was lads you know young lads with kids and mortgages and and we had er he I 'm sixty all your worries are over are n't they . |
| 28 | When she looked into the dark she saw corrupt towers and crumbling walls , high on the cliff , the rooting place , now , of gigantic trees . |
| 29 | Our first problem at Llandrindod Wells was to estimate the numbers coming to the lake , so each night during the spring we made hourly circuits of the lake collecting all the toads we encountered . |
| 30 | In winter the bare trees were florid with the purple and grey of pigeons , and in spring we buried dead baby sparrows under the soapsuds of fallen blossom . |