Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent times I have been able to go down to the hostel , where my good friend Richard Megson gives me the opportunity to wash in lovely hot water . |
| 2 | Liz is now under close watch at her Bel Air home where her seventh husband Larry Fortensky is nursing her . |
| 3 | Until yesterday , he and his closest confidante had been forced to meet in secret , at carefully-chosen safe houses — such as the high-walled home of Camilla 's sister , Annabel Elliot , at Stourpaine , Dorset , or her best friend Amanda Ward 's secluded Berkshire mansion . |
| 4 | Taking precipitously to his heels and hurriedly joining the Coldstream Guards , he eventually settled in East Anglia , where he married and where his literary son George was born in 1803 . |
| 5 | There was no picture of his mother or his murdered brother Stefan . |
| 6 | The death of his father Edgar was followed by a dispute between the magnates over whether Æthelred , still a child , or his older half-brother Edward , should succeed . |
| 7 | Gentlemen did n't clout their womenfolk about , beat them , bruise them , tie them up and whip them … or whatever jolly games Johnny 's preferences led him to pursue . |
| 8 | More than 250,000 visitors have enjoyed the excitement of the York Model Railway — the land that took over 10,000 hours to build and where our High Speed Intercity train travels an amazing 14 miles a day . |
| 9 | Not that I know much about him , just that my philosophical friend Kevin Rice despised him . |
| 10 | Since I am certain that my dear cousin Araminta will neglect to inform you of it , allow me to introduce myself . |
| 11 | Erm , on page thirty you talk about the erm Employer 's Federation in the er minimum terms and conditions , well I 'm only hoping that my own firm Securicor do n't have any er input into that , because er as you know they unilaterally reduced all the terms and conditions Securicor guarding and cleaning recently erm I 'd like to know when we intend meeting with Securicor Cleaner I do know you 've written to them on a number of occasions and their refusal to meet with us . |
| 12 | My Lords for reasons that have already been explained to Your Lordships and which I will not pursue yet for , er it seems that everybody 's agreed that it is important that the erm local authority representatives should be in the majority and I have to admit that my amendments do not go that far because I was concentrating on getting the magistrates back where they ought to be , er but er that is one thing , the other is that it er was an interesting point that er the Noble Lord , Lord of Greenwich raised , that my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw er at columns four eighty and four eight one er questioned whether it was indeed appropriate that er the Home Secretary should make these appointments . |
| 13 | My Lords , I very much hope that my Noble friend Lord Fellows , the Minister will feel able to er take the advice of my Noble friend Lord Wrenton er for a particular er and it is not quite the same reason as his . |
| 14 | When we nodded assent , Mr Murray smiled ‘ And would it be true to suggest that my old friend Tom Warner is the Divisional Superintendent here for the C.P.R. ? |
| 15 | Also , I was conscious that my little friend Suzi Hoflin is usually the only young one at these evenings , so I thought a couple of extra women nearer her own age would make her feel less conspicuous . ’ |
| 16 | Neither Hugh Dundas , his wife ( who is my sister ) , nor their American partner Don Tafner were at all keen to run in the first place . |
| 17 | In a further disclosure on April 18 Astra Holdings , the British ammunition and fireworks group , confirmed that its Belgian subsidiary PRB had been contracted to produce a very large gun propellant for an Iraqi customer . |
| 18 | Last month ICI announced that its third Klea ICI 134a ( HFC134a ) plant will be built at Mihara , near Hiroshima in Japan . |
| 19 | When I asked her what she wanted for Christmas she said things that her seven-year-old brother Simon could have . |
| 20 | Morgan , who alleged that her ex-husband Eric Foretich had sexually abused the child — an allegation not sustained by any court — had been imprisoned in 1987 for contempt of court after refusing to reveal the whereabouts of her daughter [ see also p. 37407 ] . |
| 21 | ( And who is to say that she was not a little piqued that her younger sister Shirley was already planning marriage ? ) |
| 22 | Someone came to tell her that her twelve-year-old son Paul had been knocked down by a car on the way home from a friend 's house and taken to the local hospital . |
| 23 | The big three's domination is such that their nearest rivals Limerick do n't even make it into double figures . |
| 24 | The big three's domination is such that their nearest rivals Limerick do n't even make it into double figures . |
| 25 | The Soviets , who had arrived at Heathrow the previous evening , were taken to Twickenham to train and practise , and it was there that their assistant manager Douglas Kavtalashvilli made the offer . |
| 26 | But it has to be said that their bass player Steve Harris does have his own football pitch and his own pub ! |
| 27 | Although its standard Informix SE relational database engine has been available on DOS since 1984 , Informix Corp appears to have made little impact on the lower end of the market , concentrating instead on its core Unix business . |
| 28 | No-one was more cheerfully downhearted than their Barbarian captain Kari Tapper , sporting a tightly wrapped knee following an injury in a soccer game the week before Catania . |
| 29 | Esther Ward had more reason to be ashamed than her vulnerable sister Elizabeth , for she had taken advantage of the forbidden love which had grown between Elizabeth and Richard , and she had never once opened her heart to the innocent girl-child who was born out of that love . |
| 30 | It is to be hoped that Hermione Lee 's excellent new book will help to change that , for Cather is one of the most original and inventive of modern writers , a more powerful artist , for instance , than her contemporary Edith Wharton . |