Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chapman & Hall made him some compensation through extra payments for Pickwick Papers and Nicholas Nickleby , and by making loans and advances . |
| 2 | Much of her spare time is spent acting as secretary to her husband , who is Deputy President ( Technical ) of the B.A.G.A. The rare weekend not taken up with Medau or Gymnastics sees them both actively pursuing their other hobby — rambling ! |
| 3 | Instinct and an adolescence spent in observation rather than practice told her this was the kind of man who ate little girls like Suzie for breakfast . |
| 4 | Local spokesperson Yvonne Stewart said : ‘ We hope to bring home to people that abortion affects us all . |
| 5 | Dad patted me on the head and Mum gives me this little kiss on the cheek and then they went off and left me with this old woman . |
| 6 | The children made lots of friends in the Mini-Club , under the watchful supervision of ‘ Animators ’ who organised activities in the morning and afternoon giving us some time to ourselves . |
| 7 | Just look at the table of comparative costs and hope that when you get to the station there 's a friendly British Rail man with time and patience to explain it all . |
| 8 | Appalled , Ramsay and Moray heard it all . |
| 9 | While such links proliferate in affluent countries , the global scope of drugs-related crime , political violence and AIDS reminds us that poor countries are far from immune . |
| 10 | Mr Crump was alarmed ; Mrs Crump leaned forward on her toes to increase her disappointing height and to reach forward to this man whose every title and reference made him more and more desirable . |
| 11 | ‘ Any adventures or encounters ? ’ asked Susan languidly , and Breeze told her all about Mrs Dare , and Ebenezer Arkwright , and the Blessington-Dalrymples . |
| 12 | And heaven forgive him that invention ! |
| 13 | ( His meanings were tinged with the sharp edges of anxieties that she could n't comprehend , and joy laved them all away . ) |
| 14 | In the morning , everything was just as it always was when Mother went away ; much pleasanter , with nobody quarrelling even in that dreadful quiet way of just looking and going out of rooms when other people came into them , and Gran told them several good long stories in the evening . |
| 15 | If a marble statue of the Virgin Mary suddenly waved its hand at us we should treat it as a miracle , because all our experience and knowledge tells us that marble does n't behave like that . |
| 16 | Something between distress and amusement struck her this time . |
| 17 | well not saying tha , I mean I and again I , I think what I need to do is get a sheet again , obviously working with yourselves and Rod to get you more information to make sure the classes are not and do n't get same situation as last year |
| 18 | Instead , the National Consumer Council 's previous work on consumer aid and advice convinces us that advice about money and credit problems — just like other types of advice — is best available as part of a general advice service , from non-specialist advice bureaux such as CABx . |
| 19 | This was a new Lachlan for most of the men — quieter , grim but not violent ; and his efficiency and drive won him more respect than ever his temper had done . |
| 20 | Do you think that that 's just the way things are and they ca n't change it and society gives me more economic power and he has more natural strength , so this is an on-going battle that wo n't change very much ? |
| 21 | Eva 's strong faith and reassurance in words and song took them both through , despite the double blow of the death of her eldest sister Dorothy only a month before her father died . |
| 22 | There was to be full-blooded abolition of RPM and legislation to achieve it that session' . |
| 23 | The English edition sold out very quickly , and rumour had it that interested parties had bought up large numbers of copies in order to minimise its impact . |
| 24 | You 'd better keep this absolutely hush-hush , you understand , or it 'll all be winging its way across the Atlantic , whilst the London Library replaces its carpets and installs a coffee machine and Cropper sends us another of his nice helpful smiley-regretful Faxes , offering access to the Stant Collection and every possible assistance with microfilm . |
| 25 | ‘ He who controls the past controls the future ’ is the message of his last utopia : a sense of history is ultimately power , since a people is guided and governed by a collective sense of what it means to itself and to the world , and history gives it that sense , and only history . |
| 26 | I had been saving up to buy a cooker and fridge and Brian 's mum and dad gave us some of the furniture . |
| 27 | It was felt that married women like Butler should lead the movement , because her status as wife and mother gave her more authority to speak about the delicate issue of sexuality . |
| 28 | It had given me a world of wonder and time to draw it all in . |
| 29 | But experience tells us that adaptive behaviour most often reflects the intelligence of evolution rather than that of the animals it has so carefully programmed . |
| 30 | But Folly found it all rather overwhelming , as if she had suddenly been spirited away by a magic carpet and found herself in some Sultan 's harem . |