Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] [num ord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only after a long period of counselling that she has at last realised that she has to drop her charge against her father , and to forgive him for not being the person that she longed he should be . |
| 2 | I could n't believe he had asked me minutes after first meeting him . |
| 3 | ‘ This is going to take time , ’ he said , adding that he does not yet have plans for IBM — he has to first learn the company by meeting executives , managers and employees . |
| 4 | ‘ This is going to take time , ’ he said , adding that he does not yet have plans for IBM — he has to first learn the company by meeting executives , managers and employees . |
| 5 | A rich and aged relative , who has little use left for his wealth , refuses to give him the money he needs to go to Bali ( he has at last made up his mind ) , but there is an opportunity to steal it from him . |
| 6 | He has at last achieved his ambition to look both indistinguishable and distinctive . |
| 7 | Mr Mitterrand appears so delighted with the ultra-courteous Edouard Balladur , that some Socialists wonder whether he has at last found the prime minister of his dreams . |
| 8 | ‘ Candidate ( thinking he has at last come upon a Village Hampden ) : ‘ I can not conceive that the Election can in any way affect your rights here . ’ |
| 9 | Still hammering away , the Institute has the satisfaction of knowing that it has at last brought home to the Ministry of Health , within whose purview this question comes , that things are not what they ought to be , and Dr Eichholz , who has just retired from the Chief Inspectorate of Special Schools , is at its request making a special enquiry . |