Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was not so lucky with Benton , who sprang up and crashed into her , his arms locking around her waist , their combined momentum slamming them against the door . |
| 2 | Many librarians , especially in Hertfordshire , remedied their lack by attending Garnett College for a one-year course preparing them as teachers in further education . |
| 3 | It 's the usual imaginative , expensive production , in this case whisking us from London to New York to New Orleans . |
| 4 | The duo 's set seemed lethargic , a muddy mix robbing them of the textured subtleties that make their records so invigorating . |
| 5 | At least this time she had some help loading them into the van . |
| 6 | ‘ I heard another teacher calling you by it just before we came in , ’ Matilda said . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , all this business putting me on the carpet … implying that I might leave you short . ’ |
| 8 | But all good things must come to an end ; back on the old routine mixing it with the Luftwaffe and all they could muster — and their reaction was tremendous . |
| 9 | When I ran back to the girl , there were a couple of railwaymen on their way to work and another policeman carrying her to the Out-patients . |
| 10 | I was awakened by a French Commando nudging me in the ribs with the toe of his boot . |
| 11 | But Coleridge soon discovered the shortcomings of Clevedon , and especially the inconvenient distance separating it from his literary friends in Bristol , and from the indispensable Bristol City Library . |
| 12 | In adapting Doolittle 's theory for low-molecular weight liquids to the case of very high molecular weight polymers , Williams , Landel & Ferry ( 1955 ) took a different definition of the fractional free volume defining it as where is the fractional free volume at a reference temperature is a coefficient of expansion of free volume . |
| 13 | They will build special buses with a pneumatic suspension allowing them to be lowered to the ground for the easy loading of wheelchairs . |
| 14 | But many teachers feel this will be too late to make the public stop comparing them to the O-level system . |
| 15 | So his Hebrew schooling thereby climaxed ; his public participation galvanising him to accelerated study . |
| 16 | In 1985 , however , the Government specifically rejected calls for another inquiry like Lord Scarman 's , arguing that since the riots were a ‘ criminal enterprise ’ it was useless to search for social explanations or to have yet another report advising it about what to do . |
| 17 | The project would welcome researchers in post-war British history contacting them concerning any papers they themselves may have discovered . |
| 18 | On June 1 End Product Duty — the system that assesses the tax on beer as it is about to leave the brewery — replaced the old system assessing it at the beginning of fermentation . |
| 19 | It stands on the slight and indefinite watershed at the head of Glen Shiel and has its own group of Munros in the high country dividing it from Glen Affric to the north . |
| 20 | He held the office until Safar 924/February 1518 when he was succeeded by two Damascene scholars in turn , who between them held the post until 927/1521 ; then by two Ottomans , in turn , until 930/1524 ; and then again by one of the Damascenes who had earlier held the post , this time holding it from 930/1524 to 936/1530 when he was removed , apparently for misconduct . |
| 21 | When the Miller has finished telling his tale , Chaucer characterizes its contents once more , this time describing it as a " " nyce cas " " , " a foolish state of affairs " ( 3855 ) : an apparently neutral moral description which nonetheless contrasts significantly with the more clearly marked " " harlotrye " " that has formerly been used to label the contents of the pair of fabliaux we are now halfway through . |
| 22 | At the end of the nomination latency period the LIFESPAN manager and module managers will again receive mail messages , this time informing them of which modules have actually been deleted . |
| 23 | If only I had as much spare time as you evidently do , then I would happily reciprocate by wandering about this house reminding you of tasks you have perfectly well in hand . ’ |
| 24 | If that individual is not its mother but a human foster parent feeding it from a bottle , the lamb imprints on whoever held the bottle . |
| 25 | The decline in rough grassland/moor may reflect its ‘ better ’ agricultural management bringing it into the category of permanent grassland instead . |
| 26 | He walked away , his long , easy stride taking him down the rough path to the lakeside . |
| 27 | At the resumed hearing a nolle prosequi was entered pursuant to section 4(1) of the Criminal Justice ( Administration ) Act The defendant was tried on a second indictment charging him with murder , convicted and sentenced to death . |
| 28 | But one day in 1977 a rather special envelope arrived , bearing an engraved card inviting me to be a guest of honour at the Women of the Year lunch at the Savoy Hotel in London . |
| 29 | People born since the 1890s have been unnaturally large because they have eaten too much protein believing it to be essential for growth , says survey author Geoffrey Cannon in New Woman magazine . |
| 30 | So the real question facing us at the moment is not whether there should be a relationship , or whether there should be a link but in what way we should modernize it and arrange it today . |