Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the Enlightenment as Kant or Voltaire saw it ( see pp. 411ff below ) , as the human mind liberating itself from the self-imposed tutelage of centuries , a new birth of intellectual adventure , they had no inkling . |
| 2 | Bob Carpenter at Kitcat & Aitken believes they are undervalued and should be purchased for the 7 per cent dividend yield and the group 's medium term potential . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've got to get rid of this man before Sister or Robins finds him here . |
| 4 | She thought that the photograph neither flattered , nor was very like her , but suppose Rose , or , worse still , Dr Neil or Matey saw it ? |
| 5 | Well he was just a slaughterman then he always used to try and have Frank , another one of our butcher boys , or David or Frank to help him . |
| 6 | But the match needed an attacking spark from Romario or Careca to bring it fully to life and the goal saved the evening a damp , dismal denouement . |
| 7 | It was a staple of the revenge tragedy as Kyd , Tourneur or Shakespeare conceived it , and plays by Dekker , Lyly , Webster , Ford and Middleton all made use of madness on stage , and of actors specially trained for the parts of madmen . |
| 8 | Mr and Mrs go to play bridge with the Fountains-Abbotts and Seb takes me to a film . |
| 9 | And then two goals from Stein and Simpson brought them level with Wolves , the final score ; three three . |
| 10 | The Scapegoat had been secured by ‘ wrists ’ and ‘ ankles ’ to the inner ring and Wycliffe thought he could make out the four points where the ropes had been . |
| 11 | The boy pointed to a back bedroom and Massingham pushed him gently before him . |
| 12 | But a winter of hard work , tuning and rebuilding the engine , has rounded up more speed and Ian knows he can stay with the very best . |
| 13 | After Maltote was rested Corbett and Ranulf met him in the hall . |
| 14 | Claire says she started climbing with her brothers and Allan says he saw some people climbing when he was youth hostelling and thought that 's the sport for me … |
| 15 | They ate on the terrace and Constance found it almost as sensual and satisfying an experience as the previous night 's love-making . |
| 16 | In that year , also , L'Estrange 's ineptitude cost him control of the official news-books and Muddiman regained it because of the regard he had won from both secretaries of state . |
| 17 | Like Stuart pretending he has n't heard of Picasso and Oliver pretending he does n't understand any machinery invented after the spinning-jenny . |
| 18 | Killion and Lambert watched him curiously . |
| 19 | In their libretto for Offenbach 's opéra bouffe , Gaieté Parisienne , which was first given on the Paris stage in 1867 , Halévy and Meilhac summed it up : |
| 20 | Melissa 's eyes glinted murder and Robyn knew she had hit the mark . |
| 21 | There was no reply and Clarissa said they could n't hear him , so why did n't he leave it ? ’ |
| 22 | Tuppe found a pair of really spiffing sun-glasses in the glove compartment and Cornelius put them on . |
| 23 | She was squatting down in the photograph and Sabrina estimated her to have been a little over five feet with a slender petite figure and a pale , milky complexion . |
| 24 | Bob quelled her with a look , but I noticed slightly later and indeed all evening that she stuck very closely to his side , which could have been interpreted as her own insecurity if I had n't remembered Mackie saying that meek little Ingrid never gave Bob much chance to stray with the likes of Angela Brickell and God help him if he did . |
| 25 | Only Greece , Portugal and Ireland support them . |
| 26 | She began to swim with her nervy , graceless stroke and Nick watched her sympathetically . |
| 27 | Richard and Maggie love them dearly , but sometimes discipline is necessary otherwise nothing would be learned . |
| 28 | like , we 'd never go and sort of erm disturb Richard and Chad do we ? |
| 29 | you want your coat on , how about you having a try and see if you can put yours on , like Richard and James do you think you can ? |
| 30 | well , we started this mouth to mouth and Elizabeth says I 'll and I 'll put , I said I think her heart 's going , but I mean , to me it means anything to get her going . |