Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also a section ( pages 25–27 ) giving restaurants that are thought excellent , either by me or by trusted friends . |
| 2 | Again the prosecution must rely on what the driver tells them or on written instructions and , in rare cases , on admissions by the employer . |
| 3 | He persuaded her parents to give her in marriage to a friend of his and by constant threats and ill-treatment she was forced to consent . |
| 4 | There was also Mr Maddern , seated comfortably in the lounge-car as though in the drawing-room of his home-and after 45 trips across the Nullarbor to sell shoes in Kalgoorlie , I suppose that is how it felt . |
| 5 | ‘ What else am I for in this place ? |
| 6 | Bogey trying to prevent me except for two H. |
| 7 | Roy Dickens , one of our 400 metre runners , told me that on one occasion he and his brother Brian were shopping with their mother when a white man mugged an old lady and ran off with her handbag . |
| 8 | Sir Reginald also told me that on one occasion when there was suspicion of corruption about a certain appointment , he had called U Saw to him and said , ‘ I hear that you have accepted Rs5,000 for this appointment . |
| 9 | In his next letter Leslie told me that on that day he had been assigned ‘ a rather painful duty … from 4 o'clock this afternoon for 24 hours I am escort to an officer under close arrest , a captain , I believe . |
| 10 | Emil explained to me that on this trip the linen , cutlery and glasses had been provided by the caterers , and without more ado he showed me first , where to find everything and second , how to set a table . |
| 11 | And it has always seemed to me that at that moment Wes walked back into his old life . |
| 12 | It seems to me that at this level of textual analysis , translators generally face three main possibilities : |
| 13 | It never occurred to me that within three years I should hate the Italians with an unrelenting hatred . |
| 14 | ‘ It strikes me that in new clothes you could be highly presentable . |
| 15 | As we were giving our hands he looked up at me intently and told me that in two days there would be a gypsy wedding . |
| 16 | It is only now clear to me that in actual fact it must have been a day later . |
| 17 | However , it seems to me that in most contexts the utterance of [ 25 ] would yield effects not produced by [ 27 ] . |
| 18 | On the F-Plan the calories will be consumed in food which is more filling , and your body will waste more of them than on other slimming diets . |
| 19 | Toll roads were one solution but I was less keen on them than on another idea we developed in the Transport Department . |
| 20 | Observers have commented that he is less tolerant and sympathetic when dealing with them than with other colleagues or outsiders . |
| 21 | there was something about these middle class daughter 's relationships with their ( rather less ) disabled mothers which made sharing a household less tolerable to them than for working class daughters . |
| 22 | Although social workers were trained in dealing with stress , said Mr Gower , the whole subject of removing children from their parents was no less emotive for them than for other members of the community . |
| 23 | I know many people who do worse things , but I 'd rather listen to all of them than to this man Monks . |
| 24 | Not only were there more of them than of other groups living in poverty or on the margins of poverty ; more had no assets or virtually no assets , and fewer possessed substantial amounts of assets … |
| 25 | Firstly there are undertakings to maintain the confidentiality of business secrets and not to use them except for limited purposes . |
| 26 | There were many famous examples , but little is left of any of them except in such cities as Rhodes , where some twentieth century excavations and restoration have been carried out . |
| 27 | It is the happiest of coincidences for them that on this day when the mind of thinking adults in this country is concentrated on whom not to vote for , the Masters opens at Augusta . |
| 28 | Is it not good enough for ‘ Managers ’ to be sent with briefs , memorised in their heads , to have fireside chats with the best and brightest , telling them that in this day and age their promotion is really the ability to retain their jobs . |
| 29 | There are people who know probably more than me and for one reason or another have been afraid to stand up and be counted , ’ he said . |
| 30 | In working on these activities the class had worked systematically and persistently ; they had collaborated in pairs and groups ; they had identified patterns and structures in the sequences ; they had made predictions and tested them ; they had explained and justified their reasoning to me and to each other ; they had worked practically to understand the sequence and how it could model a real life situation . |