Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaving poor old William skating on his own |
| 2 | Ruth moistened her dry lips , feeling this Fernando moving into her secret world and not having the strength to shift him out of it . |
| 3 | If you were working , though , the thing reversed itself : and you longed for the office lights to blink out , and the old Smith-Corona to die under your fingertips … |
| 4 | Why ca n't this Sebastian look after his own dog ? ’ |
| 5 | It is too late for British Telecom to return to its old ways if only because the public now knows that it does not have to put up with a telephone system built for the 1950s . |
| 6 | But the monomode fibre that British Telecom favours for its trunk lines costs up to £700 per kilometre . |
| 7 | There can be no secret about them , for British Telecom says in its instructions , ‘ The customer may be told the hourly charge rate ’ , though whether he will be told if he does not ask is another matter . |
| 8 | Assuming that I now had BWB approval in principle and a promise of funding , I went ahead and on 12 May called on our members for volunteers . |
| 9 | Oh God , have I forgotten how poor old Eddy sat at his desk in Hand and Ball Court on the last day of his life , talking about those past times which were most important to him , and how nobody took any notice ? |
| 10 | WIMBLEDON 'S Vinnie Jones could n't have chosen a less appropriate place than Old Trafford to expound on his vision of Premier League football as a glorified hangover cure . |
| 11 | Well old Harry shared with my uncle he had his house and he bought a piece of land on the bottom of his garden and he built wall on his or this piece along the bottom of his garden , but er I could n't tell you , it was n't very far up the road . |
| 12 | We invited Corpus Christi to tea and they in turn invited us to a sumptuous Sunday brunch in their garden overlooking Christ Church meadow . |
| 13 | Pensioners living in and around London should be sure to keep Thursday 30 September free in their diaries . |
| 14 | Old Plumpton appeared in his white trousers and string vest and the four boys came out five minutes later , not looking keen at all . |
| 15 | In 1903 Boase retired from his post of librarian of the Law Society and devoted the rest of his life to his biographical work . |
| 16 | Old Mel returned to her corner and became once more a shapeless dark bundle . |
| 17 | The irresolute Abuna got to his feet and began , " If these things are true … |
| 18 | In 1985 Ford failed in its attempt to merge its European car production facilities with those of Fiat , largely on the issue of which company would be dominant in the partnership . |
| 19 | About 1802 Schweppe retired to his country house in Bouchet , a hamlet close to Geneva . |
| 20 | HISTORIC Scotland has in its care many superb monuments . |
| 21 | This comes out well in The Short Guide to Electioneering , a pamphlet Quintus Cicero wrote for his brother , the Cicero , when he was standing for consul in 63 BC . |
| 22 | That Katherine smiled with her lips open . |
| 23 | A mark of how things had changed was that there was now a hospital to which he could be admitted : there in the University College Hospital in Gower Street he made a will on 7 October witnessed by his old friend Edward Humberstone . |
| 24 | As she stepped into the lift-cage Paige glanced at her watch . |
| 25 | The typical IBMer tunes to his PROFS screen from his office , his home , from a phone kiosk , even ( in the case of Tony Cleaver , IBM UK 's chief ) from the cellphone in his car ) . |
| 26 | Both brothers were dressed in neatly tailored white tuxedos and black ties in preparation for the formal reception being given in their father 's honour at the palace of the governor of Cochin-China , and it was Chuck who had insisted that they travel separately by pousse-pousse rather than in the official Citron sent for their parents . |
| 27 | Gouache is the medium Mary uses for her work , it is akin to watercolour but always provides the essential opaque quality . |
| 28 | Decade-long plans for the museum 's controversial and costly expansion program are on hold , Ross says , until better economic times , but he does expect any enlarged Whitney to remain on its current Madison Avenue site . |
| 29 | In 1154–5 Andrew returned to his scholarly work in Paris . |
| 30 | Rugby League : Featherstone Rovers 20 , New Zealanders 44 Leota puts in his Test claim . |