Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An ample private income allowed him time to indulge his tastes for writing , politics , and rowing . |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose , ' ’ Rab said , but he hardly felt the better ; not , with hobo drinkers , they looked at him and the tattooed barman called him Stick . |
| 3 | Wahlitits prophesied his own death , and the warrior Lone Bird intoned : ‘ My shaking heart tells me trouble and death will overtake us if we make no hurry through this land ! ’ |
| 4 | An uncomfortable inner part appears , and at the same time an awkward leap across the strings between the last semiquaver of bar 4 and the first of bar 5 in the top part gives us pause . |
| 5 | So I made an approach , a long low approach and happily there was a bit of a crosswind from the portside , I decided to use this crosswind to help me place the aircraft at the end of my run off the normal line of landing and nearer to the engineering hangar . |
| 6 | When Atropos , who snips the threads of life , misses one thread she cuts another , and we who do not know why one thread is missed and another cut call it Fate , Kismet or what we will . |
| 7 | There is not enough space in this chapter to do them justice and standing orders vary from one committee to another . |
| 8 | President , with a very heavy heart and bitter disappointment for all our people out there , who are depending on the Social Chapter to give them dignity , safety and a reasonable standar standard of living , I reluctantly withdraw this motion , but I will say this , we live to fight another day . |
| 9 | Right it 's a green gas and it 's also what it does it to this paper turns it acid to start with and then takes the colour away it is a bleach . |
| 10 | Someone else came into the room and sat down on a plain wooden chair to watch him struggle . |
| 11 | when an old artist offered me coffee . |
| 12 | Historical Society re-vamps it image |
| 13 | His savage etchings of the leading figures of English society brought him fame , if not fortune . |
| 14 | The British government gave him protection , but backed the principle of free speech only as vigorously as was diplomatically comfortable . |
| 15 | Fortunately for the police complaints department , skins seem to regard this as part of the normal way of life , in the same way they might get a good hiding from their old man to make them toe the line at home . |
| 16 | A quietly efficient English manservant brought them coffee and Armagnac , and then withdrew . |
| 17 | Another prisoner gave me information about him . |
| 18 | Group chief executive , Joe Dwyer said : ‘ The strong advance in homes sales we have experienced this year gives us confidence that the UK housing cycle is turning towards recovery . |
| 19 | Wimpey chief executive Joe Dwyer said : ‘ The strong advance in homes sales we have experienced this year gives us confidence that the UK housing cycle is turning towards recovery . |
| 20 | It asserts that women 's social position offers them access to aspects or areas of reality that are not easily accessible to men … |
| 21 | This booklet gives you guidance on how to deal with the problem in the workplace . |
| 22 | ABOVE Another scene in the Seychelles this time offering us tranquillity for very different reasons ; the rocks and the overshadowing branches indicate to us that here we can enjoy good observation of our surrounds without ourselves being observed . |
| 23 | When war broke out , the Foreign Office refused him permission to enlist , so he resigned and stood for Parliament . |
| 24 | For example , a photocopier which would only be bought by office managers and which would need fairly detailed copy to do it justice would be a waste of money to advertise on TV because the number of office managers in your audience is so tiny , and TV is not the right place to put a lot of product detail because time is so limited . |
| 25 | Only those whose prodigious skill gives them leverage for negotiating secure contracts are prepared to forsake higher education for sport . |
| 26 | I HEARD LITTLE PRINCESS CALL HIM DADDY |
| 27 | The drunken porter allowing them entrance after the usual altercation . |
| 28 | That the categorical imperative bids me act in a particular way follows from the impossibility of avoiding the action without acting on a maxim I can not thus will universalised . |
| 29 | Such backup gives me confidence with producing the final artwork that the factual content is sound . |
| 30 | Most youths and even small boys wore a strip of hide around their wrists or ankles : this had been given them with appropriate blessing to bring them success when they became warriors . |