Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm well perhaps you , you wou would you er let me perhaps er well not let me but perhaps I could ring a few of erm those people just to have a chat with them and perhaps put , you know , talk about the er planning your future exercise with them as well , could you , would you give me some numbers please ? |
| 2 | But I 'd like to invade Colette 's kitchen myself this time . |
| 3 | In the government 's mind its single-minded agency approach assumes an entrepreneurial ability that contrasts with the alleged inflexibility and bureaucratic ethos of local authorities . |
| 4 | There was no doubt in Abse 's mind who these controls were designed to protect : |
| 5 | Camilla had been Charles 's girlfriend during his bachelor days and in Diana 's mind his continued friendship with Camilla presented a grave threat to her own chance of happiness with the Prince of Wales . |
| 6 | For Eliot Stravinsky 's piece itself united city and savage , seeming to metamorphose ‘ the rhythm of the steppes into the scream of the motor horn , the rattle of machinery , the grind of wheels , the beating of iron and steel , the roar of the underground railway , and the other barbaric cries of modern life ; and to transform these despairing noises into music ’ . |
| 7 | The shop-floor seemed strangely silent in the absence of the usual sounds of machinery , hammering and drilling and to Rachel 's disappointment her own centre was also empty . |
| 8 | For the numberless marks of God 's goodness our fervent gratitude is justly due . ’ |
| 9 | For he was the Queen Mother 's steeplechaser who belly-flopped yards from the Grand National winning post , the horse who grabbed defeat from the very jaws of victory in such a way that even those with no interest whatsoever in the sport of racing still recall the sight of ‘ that horse who jumped the fence that was n't there ’ . |
| 10 | And it is not just the top man 's name which some women find baffling about Europe . |
| 11 | Nominal political authority is held by the unicameral People 's Assembly whose 250 members are elected every four years from a single list of candidates , and which in turn elects the Presidium and the Council of Ministers . |
| 12 | Bishops who themselves were , or had been , royal clerks often commended to the king 's service their own clerks and servants , and equally often found benefices for royal king 's clerks . |
| 13 | Crawford immediately brought in as Cuka 's replacement his Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em screen wife Michele Dotrice . |
| 14 | When summer 's breath their masked buds discloses ; |
| 15 | The class , which was sponsored by Kidsons Impey , was given in aid of the Amici di Verdi , a society for lovers of Verdi 's music whose main aim is to assist young singers and musicians . |
| 16 | It is not only its intrinsic qualities which have guaranteed Umberto Eco 's novel its prominent position in the Italian literary scene . |
| 17 | The Parks Department 's budget might be dwindling all the time , but with the help of local businesses , the Council 's spending what little money it does have adding a splash of colour to otherwise rather ordinary landmarks like shopping centres and roundabouts . |
| 18 | In the November issue of PFK , Dr. David Ford answered a reader 's letter which concerned joining two small tanks to make one larger one . |
| 19 | It does , however , have some significance for the history of Stockport Grammar School , for there is a sketch of the Cromer School by Philip Hardwick , the young architect who was to give Stockport 's School its finest home in four centuries . |
| 20 | Throughout , the old lady sits silent , hands on lap , eyes on agitated thumbs and as she looks up to witness the man 's retreat her tear-streaked face is racked with pain . |
| 21 | All this is extremely bad for your daughter 's reputation my dear friend . |
| 22 | This is one of the areas in which Abracadata 's Design Your Own Home — Interiors may be of help . |
| 23 | Because of Jo 's curfew their first priority at every party was to find somewhere quiet and get the screwing accomplished in comfort . |
| 24 | In the short text the account of the Crucifixion and the meditator 's awareness of his own sin come to a climax in an outpouring of lyrical prose which has been printed as verse though it seems more effective if the surge of the rhymes and the alliterative cadences rise within the very structure of the prose like great waves to break in the bitter realisation that it is the meditator 's sin which both nails Christ to the cross and blocks the free expression of love in himself : All the internal rhyme , play on words ( ) and alliteration , which intensify the sense of the meditator 's awareness of both the creative power of God " king of " and the impotence of all his own functions , are lost in the long version which omits much of the intense self-disgust present in the short : The emphasis on Christ as the source of life and creativity is similarly highlighted in the short version in the skilful use made of rhyme , cadence and monosyllabic , strong-stressed ends of sentences to graphically convey the moment when he dies and the created cosmos fails : These effects are lost in the prosaic longer version : In both versions the meditator contemplates the appalling inversion of the created order with its lord suffering greater deprivation than the foxes and birds as he hangs " in eyre " ( 88. cf.101 ) with nowhere to lay his head — a reference to Matthew 8:20 traditionally used to emphasise the poverty of God embraced at the Incarnation . |
| 25 | Since the baby 's birth and its mother 's death her whole view of life seemed to have changed abruptly , as though someone had shaken a giant kaleidoscope and she saw the whole world and herself in a different light . |
| 26 | After Catherine 's death my poor master , Mr Edgar , was a changed man . |
| 27 | On Tresham 's death she married William Peche of Lullingstone , Kent , who outlived her . |
| 28 | However , before she herself was dismissed so that Dorothy could rest , her sister extracted a promise from her that she would set about finding out the boy 's address and , moreover , that Cynthia would contact her own solicitor and have him draw up a new will making Dorothy 's son her sole beneficiary . |
| 29 | As he told little aphorisms from Rumi or the anecdotes of Ferdowsi 's Shah Nama — the Mughal Emperors ' favourite storybook-his gentle voice soothed away the irritations of modern Delhi . |
| 30 | There was wild thyme growing up here too , and as she lay back for a few blissful moments ' rest its delicate perfume assailed Robbie 's nostrils — another sensory memory to be stored away , she thought wistfully . |