Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking through an interpreter , Mr Usta said : ‘ As far as I can figure it out , one day before the operation the cheque was given by Dr Crockett , it was changed and the money given to me that night . ’ |
| 2 | The Masai were elusive , even when constantly told they had nothing to fear , and consequently the British administration found itself engaged for fifty years in a ceaseless struggle to impose on them some measure of control . |
| 3 | From my discussions with British Rail , I know that it made specific proposals for the diversion of at least four of the crossings and that the Ramblers Association objected to them all . |
| 4 | Lydia thought that the harm done to us all on being born was irreversible but held her tongue . |
| 5 | Bonanza boasted to me that with his organisation he 'd be sure and locate Connie himself within that time . |
| 6 | I just felt my mind rebelling against it all the time . |
| 7 | More than anything , it 's what makes him unique : this ability to combine a hoarse moral anger at the way the world is turning with the basic confusion shared by us all . |
| 8 | The beggar in Ingmar Bergman 's film Virgin Spring speaks for us all . |
| 9 | return spring gone on it that 's all |
| 10 | He was the only father you 've ever known , so it is n't a crime to refer to him that way ! |
| 11 | Rose Hilaire had a waking dream , one which followed her into sleep and came out again the other side to stay with her all day , going with her into Belmodes side by side like a fellow worker . |
| 12 | Many people on the continent agree with us that business must not be overburdened and that it should be allowed to make choices about how best to involve employees in the process of the business . |
| 13 | [ E ] ven in this simplest form , such a rule brings with it many elements distinctive of law . |
| 14 | The introduction of the remedy for each defect might , in itself , be considered a step from the pre-legal into the legal world ; since each remedy brings with it many elements that permeate law : certainly all three remedies together are enough to convert the regime of primary rules into what is indisputably a legal system … |
| 15 | In fact , you know I 'm consciously now not to become a Welsh accent because if I 've got the Welsh accent added to it all it 'll be horrendous ! |
| 16 | Tim Smith converted , the cherry and whites made whoopee but what does the coach think about it all ? |
| 17 | Why did this boy arouse in him that nostalgia , that sensation of something altogether extinct . |
| 18 | Rock Gospel vibrated through us all , the light from behind the altar silhouetting the blackness of the men 's skins . |
| 19 | Lower grade paper is presently in surplus and as yet there is not the mill capacity to deal with it all . |
| 20 | BEA SPECIAL : The laughing Princess rises above it all |
| 21 | Here 's what the coach thought about it all . |
| 22 | — That night , a perfect night for Manjiku , when he goes prowling in his hunger , under a moon that 's big as the sun , Amadé slides her body into the sea and feels chilled with terror , though the water 's not really cold , the sun shines on it all day . |
| 23 | That same floor we 've been crossing reaches right to here , one great caldarium , with that hypocaust deployed underneath it all the way . |
| 24 | And er we used to get the work come to us all jumble up in waggons , and throw it onto a bench and then of course you 'd got to pick the top before you could turn it . |
| 25 | They tell me he near strangled himself with the bowstring when the stave snapped on him this afternoon . ’ |
| 26 | Miss O'Keeffe 's work suggests to me that kind of passionate mysticism that clouds the seeing eye with visions false to it , like some sweet drug . |
| 27 | You sing ‘ The Show Must Go On ’ , get your bass player PHIL KING to write a day-by-day diary of events ( abetted by your drummer CHRIS ACLAND ) and wonder , in all seriousness , if alcohol had any part to play in it all … |
| 28 | She shivered , her right hand moving restlessly towards the gold chain with its rectangular pendant which lay on the exposed skin of her neck above the scooped-out neckline of her dress : Rune 's parting gift given to her that dull morning when , after having insisted on collecting her from her hotel , he had driven her to the airport at Kastrup . |
| 29 | She felt an almost hysterical desire to scream at them all . |
| 30 | Assertion you 're clear about what you want , you ca n't there 's no need to get get up about it there 's no need to worry about it this is what you want and this is the way it is , you do n't have to shout , you just have to stick to your point . |