Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When items are faulty , not delivered on time , or more rarely where Ian has by his own fault succeeded in botching an order , then he goes on the defensive . |
| 2 | I never needed the alarm clock or Mum or Bri to hammer on my door . |
| 3 | He snatched my ticket , demanded to know if I was Miss or Mrs. glanced at my ringless left hand when I refused to answer , crossed out ‘ Ms ’ and wrote ‘ Miss ’ . |
| 4 | The epigraph is Veteris vestigia flammae from Aeneid 4 , 23 , where Dido confesses to her confidante that the love she once felt for her now dead husband is about to renew itself for Aeneas . |
| 5 | As well as supplying cricket clubs 3D have supplied pitches for a number of local authorities and many country grounds , while Lilleshall — where England went through their paces before flying off to New Zealand — have had practice pitches installed . |
| 6 | For much of his reign they persistently took advantage of Charles ' absence in Italy or Spain to revolt against his rule . |
| 7 | Jones often visited Lovelace at the castle and later at New Lodge in Windsor Forest , where Lovelace moved after her marriage to Lord Henry Beauclerk in June 1739 . |
| 8 | When they heard John or Jennie coming towards their dressing-rooms they would hastily open any windows and try to wave the smoke out . |
| 9 | At the end of 1851 he left Fox & Henderson to practise on his own account in London as a consulting engineer . |
| 10 | A dream citadel where Billy escapes from his day-mare realities . |
| 11 | It is true that he gave one daughter , Eadburh , in marriage to Beorhtric , king of the West Saxons ( ASC A , s.a. 787 ) , and another , Aelfflaed , to Aethelred , king of Northumbria , in 792 , but the revival of a Northumbrian coinage at this time by Aethelred ( see above , p. 158 ) and the inauguration of a new West Saxon coinage by Beorhtric at Winchester or Southampton testifies to their continuing independence . |
| 12 | Then , gripping it , he passed through the rustle of the reed jalousie hanging in the doorway into the small interior , where Sycorax lay on her side , collapsed on the beaten earth like a child 's poppet made from plaited grass , with Ariel on her haunches beside her , head sunk on her knees , a fan fallen to the ground beside her . |
| 13 | He fails with all his devices to attract Alison : where Nicholas succeeds with his direct and unambiguous seizure of Alison ( 3276 – 8 ) . |
| 14 | CUT AND THRUST Hughes & Kettner Attax/CF-200 Rack Adding to the mind-boggling maze of equipment available in the never-ending search for the best compact rack setup , Hughes & Kettner add in their few pfennigs worth … |
| 15 | Their homecoming , going to earth and returning to sources , reaches , in a sense , its furthest point in ‘ The Dry Salvages ’ , where Eliot returns to his own St Louis and Massachusetts childhood , to ‘ The life of significant soil ’ , and to the savage meanings associated with such beginnings . |
| 16 | It was in the decline of the movement that Healy came into his own . |
| 17 | Subsequently , the owner claimed damages from Veitchi , claiming that Veitchi had through their negligence laid the floor badly . |
| 18 | The bitter lesson that Nizan learned to his cost in 1939 was that moral integrity and political reality rarely coincide . |
| 19 | He was quite happy to be Marcus 's dog , but it was possible that Marcus relied on his assuming some more dignified role . |
| 20 | It is becoming increasingly essential that Carling recovers from his strained thigh muscle in time for Saturday 's first Test against the All Blacks . |
| 21 | And it was in Paris that the Liszt-Thalberg rivalry began ( though it was not a thing of their own making , and there does not seem to have been any genuine animosity between them ) ; when they played in a contest in an aristocratic household Thalberg was declared the first pianist in the world and Liszt was thus deemed to have won on points , and it was said that Thalberg departed with his head hung low . |
| 22 | Once both yards are in the private sector , the danger for Rosyth is that Devonport bolstered by its secure base-load of Trident contracts , will be able to undercut the Scottish yard for surface work too . |
| 23 | ‘ I felt that Ben panicked in our race in Seville , ’ Carl said , ‘ and if someone is with him at sixty metres then I think he is vulnerable . ’ |
| 24 | For much of the broadcast he was answering questions put by two interviewers , but as it was drawing to a close he suddenly began reading from a prepared text , declaring : " I warned in 1987 that Gorbachev has in his character an aspiration for absolute personal power . |
| 25 | In this surmise he proved to be correct , so Lucy hurried to her room , where she changed her clothes and attended to her make-up . |
| 26 | No sooner were they seated than Travis turned to her cousin with a faintly puzzled smile . |
| 27 | He later announced that Woolridge went to his death with great courage . |
| 28 | But access to the sites where arctic-alpines grew often demands considerable rock-climbing expertise , so Evan touches upon our world again . |
| 29 | One Protestant Unionist recalled that Paisley arrived at his house a month before a Belfast Corporation election and asked if he and another person would be willing to stand . |
| 30 | Immediately Travis came to her side . |