Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally , I am rather too fond of my sanity to risk it in this way . |
| 2 | You never knew when your luck would turn — another mean Taibach slogan to see him through these dazzling fields of honey and clover . |
| 3 | Give the customers plenty of opportunity to see you from all angles and let them feel the cloth if they want to . |
| 4 | This is Brando 's first film since 1980 and it 's good that his old campaigning fire was still sufficiently there under the millions and the sloth to pull him into this . |
| 5 | But with his defence protecting him from any direct shots , Prudhoe steadily recovered , and he excelled himself after 69 minutes when Noel Blake powered a header goalwards from only six yards , but the indisputable player of the season somehow threw himself along his line to scramble the ball away . |
| 6 | Our second introductory case places you in this situation . |
| 7 | You see , I did n't know her for long and it was a privilege to meet her at all . |
| 8 | Smith 's wife died in 1825 ; this loss made him for some time anxious to resign , and may help to account for the relative lack of distinction of his period of office . |
| 9 | I do n't know why my search drew me to that part of the house , except that Curtis was the only soul in it other than myself and Leon . |
| 10 | He fell about laughing when his agent phoned him with this news . |
| 11 | Out of the corner of my eye I noticed how the prioress kept sending him frowning glances at being ignored , interspersed with coy smiles in an attempt to provoke him into some loving conspiracy about the events of the previous night . |
| 12 | Di wrote to her after the ceremony thanking her for all the work she had done for fellow cancer sufferers and for raising £40,000 towards the centre . |
| 13 | It is highly probable that by early in the next century it will require no more than ten per cent of the labour force to provide us with all our material needs — that is , all the food we eat , all the clothing we wear , all the textiles and furnishings in our houses , the houses themselves , the appliances , the automobiles , and so on . |
| 14 | We were soon to discover that Masha might be in no condition to set us on any track . |
| 15 | Some candidates for overseas study told me in all honesty that the acquisition of consumer durables , the modern-day trappings of success , was the main motivation for their efforts , although they also hoped to help the ‘ motherland ’ in the process . |
| 16 | They had to walk right past the tramp to enter the church and they made absolutely no attempt to help him in any way . |
| 17 | If there is any attempt to bypass me in this matter , you shall all know of it ! ’ |
| 18 | We do swear — ’ He paused , and a murmur followed him with some clearer , harsher voices audible amongst it : ‘ We do swear — ’ He went on : ‘ Never to swerve , ’ and they said it together , ‘ Never to swerve — from our present path — till we have cleansed the country — or this oppressive Act . |
| 19 | Jezrael wondered whose memory was being replayed inside her mind to guide her through this metal rat-run . |
| 20 | Wally Smott 's mediocrity raised him above many of the managers who guided the club over the years , but Athletico reserved a bottom six position from 1951 to 1955 and Ken Mentle 's dream of League football became a nightmare . |
| 21 | I 'd like to wish you well , Hazel , but there 's no good to wish you in this place . |
| 22 | Her hands were in his dark hair , her mouth kissing him with all the love and desire she had suppressed for so long . |
| 23 | Where there is nothing to show that the parties have used language in any other than its strict and ordinary sense , and where the words interpreted in that sense are sensible with reference to extrinsic circumstances , it is an inflexible rule of construction that the words shall be interpreted in that strict and primary sense even though they may be capable of some popular or secondary interpretation and even though the most conclusive evidence of the intention to use them in such popular sense is tendered ( Enlayde Ltd v Roberts [ 1917 ] 1 Ch 109 : obligation to reinstate property destroyed by fire included an obligation to reinstate where the destruction was caused by incendiary bombs ) . |
| 24 | Ron does n't remember this tall , slightly gawky figure approaching him at all . |
| 25 | There 's no reasson to keep it at all . |
| 26 | The finding of a greater degree of alkaline exposure in the lower oesophagus of patients with complications of their Barrett 's oesophagus distinguishes them from those without complications and poses the question as to the origin of this distinction . |
| 27 | We wrote to the AAIB asking them about this , but they never answered . |
| 28 | One such benefactor called me on that recent morning when the old fellow with the hooked nose drifted into his final coma . |
| 29 | Brazil 's pro-privatisation rhetoric needs to be supported by much further change in policy and practice to turn it into more than a minor curiosity in its history . |
| 30 | The lead boat briefs you on several places to visit , and arranges a couple of rendezvous for social events . |