Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those are all reasons for us to have pride in our health service , rather than denigrating the achievements of all our public-spirited NHS staff . |
| 2 | Somehow the salmonella knows it is not E. coli even though it would not require many mutations for it to become E. coli , or the reverse . |
| 3 | For Annabel , it was merely a means of filling in time before she starts rehearsals for her starring role in Cinderella in Norwich this month , when she appears with Gary Webster , of Minder , dancer Lionel Blair , and ‘ a lady from Teabag ’ , whose name she could n't remember . |
| 4 | Oh , no , never say that he did not like them , after all her hard work and the writing of them in the small hours after her demanding duties as a dogsbody had already tired her ! |
| 5 | We had a trysting-place , the cat and I , a strip of tiled pavement behind the villa surrounded by bushes for it to take refuge in should Marie Claire or Nour approach . |
| 6 | Venus will be in the area of love and relationships in January , June , July and November , so there are opportunities for you to find happiness and fulfilment this year . |
| 7 | ‘ She told me he 'd come to take pictures of her throwing knives in the bedroom . |
| 8 | I know all about irregular units like you Flying Corps wallahs . |
| 9 | Doctor Finlay , Miss Marple , All Creatures Great And Small and even sitcoms like You Rang M'Lord give us a flavour of life in the not too distant past . |
| 10 | She helped him , parting her lips from his to draw breath in her eagerness to remove all that separated them . |
| 11 | ‘ Everything 's worked out well for us — thanks to you spotting Amanda fiddling with the mower . ’ |
| 12 | Adventure schools use them as centres , climbing clubs arrange meets at them ; the Army Camps around them with the bothy the designated ‘ mess tent ’ , and people hold 50th birthday parties at them to save marquee costs . |
| 13 | In the nations around it marked admission to adult status in the tribe . |
| 14 | You will see groups of them clustered way out beyond the breaking surf waiting for the best waves . |
| 15 | His particular predilections when he started were for the young artists of his won age who were beginning to reject the immediate traditions of their predecessors and experiment with new formulas of expression and technique in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 16 | Stars who have won Oscars opposite him include Barbara Stanwyck in Sorry , Wrong Number ( 1948 ) , Shirley Booth in Come Back , Little Sheba ( 1952 ) , Frank Sinatra and Donna Reed in From Here to Eternity ( 1953 ) , Anna Magnani in The Rose Tattoo ( 1955 ) and David Niven and Wendy Hiller in Separate Tables ( 1958 ) , which Lancaster also produced . |
| 17 | Under the UN plan proposed by Mostafa Tolba , Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme , $100,000,000 would be distributed to developing countries for them to convert factories which used CFCs in the manufacture of refrigerators , polystyrene products and electronic components . |
| 18 | We could tolerate these sentimental Luddites but then hot-foot comes the final straw on the broken back of a donkey : a ferry sinks , claims the lives of dozens , questions are raised about profits gained at the expense of passenger safety , and a bunch of pop stars gather together , whimper , implore , shed buckets for us to throw money in , unite in the passionate cry ‘ Let IT BE ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ But we could still have chaps like you taking messages back and forth , bringing tea , that sort of thing . |
| 20 | He had a beautiful dream of riding Bones like you saw people on the television , leaping great fences , seen from low down so that they looked about ten feet high . |
| 21 | She threw back the covers , slipped a light shawl around her shoulders above her coarse calico nightgown , thrust her bare feet into her felt slippers , and crossed the room , avoiding the small oak bureau by the door , which she opened cautiously . |
| 22 | ‘ And it was n't funny then , ’ said the Indian Girl , picking her nails with her scalping stiletto . |
| 23 | If we have to agree to others performing tasks in exchange for the tasks we perform , we at the same time grant licences to them to become expert and to use their expertise on our behalf . |
| 24 | I do n't think you get attached to birds like you do animals . |
| 25 | And , of course , he 's so revered for this sleight-of-hand that he 's constructed a two and a half hour show to appeal mainly to his legions of cultish disciples who 've been waiting quite a few years for him to make sense again . |
| 26 | Although Botham 's sponsored Mercedes was the victim of a nocturnal break-in on Newcastle quayside within days of him taking delivery , both superstars were in great heart during the early weeks , Jones 's infectious enthusiasm extending to initiating some dumbfounded team mates in the incomprehensible fielding routines practised by the Australians . |
| 27 | As the result an adult doe , adult at only six months old , produces a litter within four weeks of conception and the reproductive process begins again within three days of her giving birth . |
| 28 | A SUSSEX businessman is threatening to sue National Westminster Bank over a reference it provided about a company that collapsed within four weeks of him supplying games worth more than £7,000 . |
| 29 | One 's abiding memory is of a hand-off with the impact of the proverbial kicking mule and reminiscences of him triggered talk of how much less use is made of that weapon these days . |
| 30 | His father helped form the relatives support group ; 5 years on he claims safety standards on ferries are still not high enough . |