Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First to tell me wins a signed photo of Jon Newsome : - ) |
| 2 | One of them frisks a large steel ashtray and hands a roach to another . |
| 3 | When the Tories briefly took control of the council , they implemented current Conservative philosophy — to sell council homes and encourage what for them represents the truest democracy , a property-owning democracy , which is less about one-man-one-vote than every man a home-owner . |
| 4 | With the firm establishment of the Social Democratic and SR parties early in the new century , membership in one or other of them offers an alternative guide . |
| 5 | Leslie was disturbed to hear of this latest small trauma : ‘ It distresses me , ’ he wrote , ‘ to think of you being chivvied about in the way you are ; after all , the army supports me , and when it moves me thinks a wee bit about me . |
| 6 | And behind all of them lies the archetypal opposition between good and evil , light and darkness , creation and destruction , God and the Devil . |
| 7 | This , it seems , was a widely held assumption : ‘ If the yeomanry of England were not , in time of war we should be in shrood case ; for in them standeth the chief defence of England . ’ |
| 8 | Since the lands of the Templars in England were worth nearly £3000 annually , the reluctance of Edward II , no less than of Edward III , to surrender them needs no great explanation . |
| 9 | ‘ Anyone who can beat me has a good chance of knocking out Holyfield , ’ he said . |
| 10 | None of them has a sore throat . |
| 11 | That as it were milkman 's stool with three legs and each of them has a certain amount of power and it is a question of the adjustment of that power and it is not the of the power to my Right Honourable Friend , the Home Secretary and yet when things go wrong , and they do , in police forces and in local auth police authorities , what happens , people turn round to the Home Secretary and say what are you going to do about it . |
| 12 | If two assets have the same risk but one of them has a lower return than the other , then it is sold and the proceeds are invested in the other . |
| 13 | One of them has a fake beard . |
| 14 | That part of a social policy course that is concerned with describing policies and the institutions responsible for them has a clear face value to the social policy ‘ practitioner ’ . |
| 15 | For example , a man with a hundred head of cattle , sheep and goats trains his son to know them by their colour only or by their size and type of horns , while every one of them has a special name . |
| 16 | One of them has a handle-bar moustache ; another wooden deity , dredged not long ago from Lake Geneva , has a formless face , like those that melt and distort in Francis Bacon 's paintings . |
| 17 | Could you introduce er the people , your team , particularly as I think one of them has a different name to the label in front of them . |
| 18 | Each of them has a large leather money bag . |
| 19 | At various points in this book I have referred to such agents — among them nations , dynasties , social classes , elites of diverse kinds , generational , ethnic and cultural groups — and we have now to examine more closely their role in political life and especially the conditions under which one or other of them has a predominant influence . |
| 20 | As an extra incentive to put money on the gas giants as havens of life we can note that each of them has an atmospheric layer where there is plenty of warm but polluted water . |
| 21 | And none of them has the right kind of tights . |
| 22 | ‘ Neither of the pair of them looks a likely case , ’ said the earl consideringly , ‘ to crush another man 's head with a stone , though there 's no saying what any man may do in extremes . |
| 23 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 24 | Or as they descend the Eastern Terrace after climbing Psycho-Killer or MND , which of them notices the flowering profusion at the back of the terrace — the stonecrops , campion , roseroot and saxifrages ? |
| 25 | In addition , the person who sent me wants the young man to be removed from his home and educated as a gentleman who expects to inherit a fortune . ’ |
| 26 | I denotes the fractional-order beam intensities from an ordered overlayer system . |
| 27 | I started two schemes , first I increases the monthly payment on the mortgage , then I starts a separate savings account . |
| 28 | ‘ I starts the last readin' book on Mondee , . |
| 29 | Year I develops a thorough understanding of programming principles , and provides a sound basis on which to build further programming experience . |
| 30 | Title I establishes the European Union as a formal entity . |