Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [art] [noun] in " in BNC.
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1 | He declared that it provides time for the family to gather or the body to be transported home and it offers an opportunity for them to see the person in a state of peaceful repose . |
2 | Derek was always very supportive of what I was trying to do — helping me build the aviary in his back garden had made him interested in birds too — but I could n't expect him to drop everything and drive me from Tintagel to London . |
3 | ‘ It would appear there is every chance of them maintaining a relationship in the future . ’ |
4 | IT IS normally gratifying enough for me to hit the ball in the air and in the general direction of the green . |
5 | Alec Reid was wonderful — not only physically , carrying pans of hot water to the stove when necessary , but morally , in allowing me to treat a patient in such an unorthodox fashion . |
6 | He wanted me to see a specialist in Harley Street , but I 'd heard so much about your clinic and Doctor Volkov , I said I wanted to consult her . |
7 | Both sides were now preparing for war , but Norfolk and Rent made another attempt at mediation in mid-December when they wrote to all the prelates asking them to attend an assembly in London to discuss the king 's failure to abide by his coronation oath and Magna Carta . |
8 | Then it becomes worthwhile for them to establish a plant in Singapore , to produce goods or services for export . |
9 | But we were told recently by a delegation from the french Senate , studying British methods of scrutiny of Community legislation , that they had great difficulty in obtaining copies of Commission legislative proposals and that it had been necessary for them to establish an office in Brussels to ensure a reliable supply . |
10 | Those convening conferences should facilitate the attendance of parents and children by : ( i ) arranging conferences at a time convenient to parents and children as well as the professionals involved ; ( ii ) ensuring that the family are prepared for the conference by the professional worker best known to them ; ( iii ) arranging for them to meet the chair in advance ; ( iv ) ensuring that the family are briefed in advance on the issues to be raised so that they can seek advice and prepare what they have to say ; ( v ) limiting numbers to those who really need to attend ( para 6.23 ) . |
11 | ‘ You would n't have caught me walking the streets in my dancing shoes . ’ |
12 | The public are becoming aware that they do n't need an Oxford solicitor to help them buy a home in Oxford . |
13 | Those are the Saw Doctors interesting this about the Saw Doctors is one of them won the lottery in Ireland I do n't they have a lottery we 're go when are we going to get a national lottery that 's what I want to know when are we going to get it a national next year we 're going to get a national lottery that 's right and one of the Saw Doctors won the national lottery and he won three quarters of a million pounds er and they have n't made much money the Saw Doctors but he won three quarters of a million pounds so that have n't worked for quite some time but they are back on the scene as I speak and er they really if if they er come to York they 're certainly worth seeing . |
14 | But deteriorating internal conditions forced them to increase the subsidy in 1985 to 20 per cent , and to promise prompt payment ( Kenya , 1986 , p. 96 ) . |
15 | The year before , Maxims services had been tried out when the Ministry of the Court commissioned them to provide a banquet in the desert for a hundred people . |
16 | About four years after completing my work with lead poisoning I became a lecturer in medical genetics , working part-time as by then I had two young children . |
17 | I told them only that , after attending Lowood school , I became a governess in a wealthy family , where an unfortunate event , not in any way my fault , caused me to run away . |
18 | I used to do all sorts of other jobs to keep going — I used to be so confident that work was round the corner that when I became a cellarman in a wine shop , I said to my family , ‘ Of course , I 'll only be here for a week or two , you know , ’ and a year later I was still there . |
19 | Jacqueline Clements writes ‘ In 1989 I became a partner in the Lincoln 's Inn Firm of Hunters — the first woman partner in 275 years ’ . |
20 | ‘ Since I became an officer in the SS , I 've often been in a position to satisfy my craving . ’ |
21 | I became an exile in my own land . ’ |
22 | I faced this onslaught yesterday as I became an assistant in Selfridges on the second day of their sale . |
23 | MacArthur is modestly surprised by all the praise and talk of awards that has greeted her recent performances : ‘ These roles have a lot to do with the reason I became an actress in the first place — I still think of my career as being about to begin ! ’ |
24 | I became the victim in what was a wholly unbalanced relationship . |
25 | And later on I asked a friend in Los Angeles if he actually knew Johnny Bryan and he said ‘ No , maybe … not quite sure . ’ |
26 | I asked the copper in the back if that was where we were heading but he said , ‘ Just follow , ’ so I did , and it was . |
27 | And I asked the man in the engineering . |
28 | To begin with er I could n't find the light switch because my , my gaze was directed er at the people in the bed but then er I asked the man in the bed , where was the light switch and er he helped me back towards the area where the switch was and we eventually succeeded in getting the light on . |
29 | When I asked the woman in Lima in charge of the government 's tourist agency FOPTUR what image of Peru was being promoted to attract a hoped for 780 million dollars worth of tourists within the next couple of years , she told me : ‘ I could say we have everything here — the three regions , mountains , coast and jungle ; beaches and adventure . |
30 | I introduce the letters in the theatre sign but I keep it intentionally vague , I am more concerned with the feeling of light emanating from the theatre sign than with its readability . |