Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ When you started prattling about that man I sometimes saw here before I ever went up to Oxford , ’ she said . |
2 | For each bank you actually get three : Drum , Percussion and Bass . |
3 | For each bank you actually get three : Drum , Percussion and Bass . |
4 | During that time he also rode for Ferguson when he rode Lacken Beau for the Ballymena trainer at Downpatrick . |
5 | During that time he never finished lower than 24th on the official Order of Merit and was a regular member of Europe 's Ryder Cup side . |
6 | Although the City Council paid the bill for dry cleaning he never forgot the smell or the indignity of walking through the City streets on a summer evening drenched in manure . |
7 | We are concerned primarily about the quality of education and for that reason I very much welcome the tests . |
8 | Look through the books and patterns you have , see what 's available at your local knitting centre , perhaps send for that book you never bought earlier and have a really fun time with the wealth of designs from Iris Bishop or Wendy Phillips or whoever you like best . |
9 | Gradually I get out of the unscientific habit of trying to read other people 's faces , and come to see the bodies from which personality has faded as the automata which for scientific explanation they already are . |
10 | During this period she also founded and directed the National School of Opera at Morley College . |
11 | During this period he also wrote the first act of the ‘ sacred Singspiel ’ Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots ( 9 ) the remaining acts being written by Michael Haydn ( l737–l806 then Konzertmeister to the Archbishop of Salzburg ) and Anton Adlgasser ( 1729–1777 , court and cathedral organist in Salzburg ) . |
12 | During this period he also studied painting under Charles Lucy [ q.v. ] in London and Paris , and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1849 , 1850 , and 1851 . |
13 | During this period he also led the British expedition to observe the transit of Venus in Hawaii ( 1874 ) , travelled in Siberia and the Gobi desert , and reported the Russo-Turkish war for The Times in 1877 . |
14 | In this recording the orchestra is in the foreground most of the time ; and during this time we often hear the singers as though looking at them on stage through inverter opera glasses , where they are distinct but tiny . |
15 | I live on the reserve from March until early December and during this time I only go over to the mainland about once a month . |
16 | The Court of Appeal decided to undertake a review of the basic principles of the law in this area and as this has not been done for some time we now set out in detail what they held . |
17 | But for some reason it just refuses to go away . |
18 | I weighed in by saying that for some reason it no longer appeared in the Radcliffe Camera , as I gathered the library had ceased to subscribe to it . |
19 | For some reason it never occurred to me to lie or make any effort at all to save my invaluable little tin box . |
20 | If for some reason it subsequently becomes obvious that you ca n't do what you said you 'd do , then the genuine thing to do is to contact the person before the deadline expires , admit your difficulty and negotiate a new deadline . |
21 | It was as painful as hell , and she despised herself for even caring what he had thought of Mark 's abilities , but for some reason she desperately needed to know . |
22 | For some reason he never liked me , even when I was a child , and when I became Joe 's apprentice , he seemed to hate me . |
23 | He attended a different school , had his own friends , and for some reason he seldom played with my crowd . |
24 | That 's alright that , I must have done six loads of washing , for some reason I just did n't seem to have enough to do me loads |
25 | Yet straightaway I knew that something had changed , since that distant Moscow meeting and our encounter three years ago in Switzerland : for some reason I no longer felt desire stirring for her . |
26 | Apart from liking London bands such as the Stones and the Kinks , for some reason I always had a working knowledge of the Small Faces . |
27 | For some reason I never understood , ICAO was not sympathetic and refused to include the item on the agenda , so I decided to attack head-on . |
28 | I handed in Matchbox , cos for some reason I still had it . |
29 | Though he had lived for weeks for this hour he now felt a wild surge of resentment towards McQuaid as he came into his own house . |
30 | The butler seized the glass where upon the fairies tried to regain the cup but realising that they were no match for this mortal they finally abandoned the struggle and vanished , leaving the butler with the glass cup and according to a ballad by the German poet Uhland with this warning . |