Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thank you , but my maid will do so ; she is drinking tea in the servants ’ quarters , and will come as soon as she is sent for . ’ |
| 2 | This has been brought by Joan Weiss , niece and heir of Armand Hammer 's wife , Frances , and she is laying claim to a large share of the collection . |
| 3 | And as to Spasov and being saved — ‘ Il me semble que tout le monde va à Spassof ’ — there is still some comic devillife in him as he quotes the Saviour against his bible-selling saviour because she is taking thought for the morrow , and as he turns the gospel on its head with ‘ Happiness does n't pay me because I start at once forgiving all my enemies . ’ |
| 4 | She tells him she is taking Sycorax for a piss and the man backs away , scared , and lets them turn behind their dwelling . |
| 5 | She is receiving treatment for the weight-loss disorder anorexia nervosa at Rampton top security hospital . |
| 6 | She is dressed hippie-style in jeans and shirt . |
| 7 | Once again though she is enjoying pre-eminence in the taste or pre-adolescent spring — as evinced by the success of the song ‘ Stay ’ . |
| 8 | She is seeking funding for a range of projects from tailoring and knitting bazaars to poultry raising . |
| 9 | In general , the lower an individual 's class position , the more likely he or she is to leave school at the minimum leaving age and the less likely to aspire and strive for a highly rewarded position . |
| 10 | And there is still another way of understanding time , which is that when a mother gives birth , she is giving birth to time itself , to a ‘ life-time ’ , and she is thus in some sense beyond time itself . |
| 11 | She is beyond time , and yet she is giving birth to time itself At the moment of birth , her baby is the very youngest member of the human race , its star of hope and its future . |
| 12 | She is proposing electrification of the line between Middlesbrough , Eaglescliffe and Northallerton and so to London . |
| 13 | The Queen of the Night must understand these instincts , if she is to have control over them ; she must know her own wildness , and sense within herself the vigilance of the owl and the cunning of the fox before she can bring them into her domain . |
| 14 | in the way she is afforded access to opportunities for promotion , transfer or training or by refusing or deliberately omitting to afford her access to any such opportunities ; or |
| 15 | The mother who lives only through her children will face an empty future , for she is losing touch with the source of her own life , identifying with her creations and expecting them to sustain her . |
| 16 | There has been no aggravation , the blood pressure is normal , the spells are infrequent now , and she is losing weight with improved energy . |
| 17 | He has picked her up , lied to her , manipulated her insecurity and ignorance , and she is asking forgiveness for her lack of appreciation . |
| 18 | Spelling lists , if you want to teach from lists , which draw attention to patterns she is having trouble with , e.g. : |
| 19 | Gossip that Next Computer Inc might abandon its hardware business to focus on its NextStep object-oriented operating environment UX No 419 ) has proved all too valid and last week the company confirmed that it is to abandon manufacture of its workstations . |
| 20 | When a leader in the Independent accuses Freddie Mercury of being a bad example because of homosexual acts committed in strictly guarded privacy before he realised he was at risk , it is using science as a screen for unexamined prejudice . |
| 21 | And , as I hope to demonstrate from time to time in later chapters , it is as legitimate to utilize Lévi-Straussian notions where these seem appropriate and fruitful as it is to derive inspiration from Freud — without necessarily being a dogmatic , doctrinaire Freudian . |
| 22 | The department says that it is seeking advice from the Committee on safety of Medicines on B17 . |
| 23 | How easy it is to allow life to be swallowed up by the daily round and so to miss that pause to reflect and to take one 's bearings . |
| 24 | For southern observers , a good way to find it is to join Canopus to Rigel by an imaginary line ; this will cross Columba and Lepus . |
| 25 | It is condoning promotion of a drug which kills 110,000 people a year … it is , quite simply , unethical . ’ |
| 26 | It is arousing controversy within both LWT and ITV as independent television companies prepare for the fight to hold on to their franchises . |
| 27 | It is based north of Bolton , in the constituency of David Trippier , a DoE minister of state . |
| 28 | ‘ All metals expand when heated ’ will only be a legitimate generalization if the observations of expansion on which it is based range over a wide variety of conditions . |
| 29 | ‘ It is called Queen of my Heart … ’ |
| 30 | The International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation , Intelsat , owned by some 120 nations worldwide , is under such pressure to increase capacity that for the first time , it is to lease capacity on three satellites that it does not own . |