Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We go two lads there with hardly any work on me and Jan are alright now we got a third person Graham has n't got much on and er Ri Richard 's scraping round for work , so of course my ears pricked up like so I thought , Mike sensed that I 'd looked up and he looked at me and er so I just looked back he said God , God had never invented a woman with small ears ! |
| 2 | Another epidemic of fear which McCarthy triggered off was book-burning . |
| 3 | Thus the first part of the prediction which Barro set out to test appears to be confirmed by these results — unpredictable monetary growth does affect a real variable in the way suggested . |
| 4 | I 'd been meaning to do it for days and I keep asking myself whether it was my fault her killer got in . ’ |
| 5 | Yet movement is the very essence of being human and of the human condition which policing sets out to nullify . |
| 6 | Fig 10 is from the pre-solo section of the track Cry No More and is the melody which Yngwie played along with his ‘ chamber orchestra ’ . |
| 7 | See , cos he had this lead horse you horses jumped off . |
| 8 | These developments also reveal a basic change in the conception of the travelling agent whose existence went back in some form to the beginning of organised antislavery in the 1780s . |
| 9 | Being Mario , that brought to mind his mother crying back in the camps because there was n't enough food to put on the table , and that led to considerations of the importance of the family in his life , of the value of tradition , thoughts of how Italian he was as well as American , of the kind of clean life America had offered , of his gratitude , of his feeling for his father who 'd made this giant move at such cost to himself , who had suffered so long and who now saw some chance for his kids of bettering themselves . |
| 10 | His breathing became ragged , and as her arms wound about his neck his hands slid down to grip her buttocks . |
| 11 | Alain moved until his body was half over her and as his lips explored her mouth his hand moved over her face and neck , searching her skin with increasing ardour until with a low groan he moved right over her , pressing her into the straw as his hands cupped her breasts . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's hardly my fault your car broke down , ’ he replied calmly . |
| 13 | Does it throw a light your story needs on to her character ? |
| 14 | We did not have an echo chamber at CBR , so when Lance Sieveking required an echo effect our engineers set up a microphone in the gentlemen 's washroom where the reverberation off tiled walls and floor gave the desired effect . |
| 15 | When she walked into the kitchen her mother looked up and said , ‘ Where on earth have you been at this hour . |
| 16 | Framed by the silver fur her face took on a glow that emphasized her high cheekbones . |
| 17 | The Garden 's main objective , set out in the Natural Heritage ( Scotland ) Act of 1985 , is to carry out research in plant sciences , and the particular branch which Edinburgh specialises in is plant taxonomy — the classification of plants . |
| 18 | I 'll keep the one that was in it safe in case its owner turns up . ’ |
| 19 | Best not to think of it , in case her temper slipped out of gear and , as once she had done , she threw a bowl of apples at Peter . |
| 20 | Richard had promised Mr Hobbs we would drive in convoy in case their car broke down again . |
| 21 | Slorne became still and took stance on the branch quite near to Creggan , her head tilting to one site , ant her eyes staring out at the sunset sky that rose massively now over the Cages . |
| 22 | Now I think it 's a bit rich t to slam the Liberals for walking out on the last debate because the Tories did n't attend the Health Trust Select Committee which Council set up . |
| 23 | The Secret Committee which Alexander set up to consider the matter also played for time . |
| 24 | As she walked down the aisle her heart brimmed over with love and adoration for Charles . |
| 25 | The fifth is a work ethnography of Rochdale , focussing on an ethnographic explication of themes such as fragmentation and externalisation of elements of the labour process , casualisation of labour , and the complex ways in which households manage the different forms of work its members engage in . |
| 26 | Plunder proved a useful temporary boost to revenues ; the annexation of new lands , with the opportunities for tougher exploitation which conquest brought in its train , could restore to princes their dominant position as by far the richest men within their principalities . |
| 27 | Reich 's use of ethnographic evidence is suspect , but in general terms it could be admitted that there could in Freudian theory be differences of the type which Reich pointed out , even if his evidence may not have been carefully formulated . |
| 28 | In the event he did n't , but as Merrill hung up her wetsuit in the garage upon her return her apprehension came back . |
| 29 | It was this romantic dimension which Britten set out to portray . |
| 30 | At another party , in the South of France , a reefer is placed between his lips by a girl whose trousers fall down . |