Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked her out almost as soon as she arrived , the only woman present whom I did not know or , in the case of George 's sisters , could not identify . |
| 2 | ‘ But then , ’ he excused , ‘ I 've had but a short while to suspect — when you were prepared to leave without fulfilling your agreement to your sister whom you love so much — that you might , dare I believe it , be running from me because you loved me and had been badly hurt by my ‘ clinging ’ accusation . ’ |
| 3 | He left with a young , red-haired whore whom he had never seen before . ’ |
| 4 | The new Eve momentarily wants to be a tragedy queen ; for a few flickering instants , she wants to be like almost ali the characters in literature whom we find most beguiling — Cleopatra , Anna Karenin , Madame Bovary , Eve herself in Paradise Lost — a figure who has risked everything for the sake of une grande passion . |
| 5 | And then he had a job , they had a job for him you know , and of course I he did n't want to leave me , Well I said , You can go , I said , it 's alright if I 'm going to sell , I said , that would be alright . |
| 6 | In one of the supporting in-depth interviews , one respondent said : ‘ We have one lawyer whom we contact once a month on average for disputes or land deals and so on and another one who specialises in debt collecting who may be chasing about 20 customers at any one time . |
| 7 | An enigmatic amalgam of cold ruthlessness and surprising kindness and sensitivity , he was capable of striking terror equally into the enemy and any of his own side whom he considered too timidly orthodox . |
| 8 | Anyone at the assembly can nominate a person or persona whom they consider most appropriate to take on certain responsibilities . |
| 9 | Apparently he was under the impression that she had arranged to see Richard again tonight ; he was also under the delusion that Richard was a Belgian whom she had just happened to pick up . |
| 10 | She was alone , at night , in a deserted unfamiliar area , with a stranger whom she had only met 5 minutes before . |
| 11 | Clothes were irrelevant … only flesh mattered to her where Damian was concerned , because she did not just want the hard , ambitious chairman of the board , but the man of flesh and blood whom she loved more powerfully than she could put into words , and only the silent communication of their bodies allowed her to express that love … |
| 12 | ‘ I 've also got an old ‘ 57 brown sunburst which I do n't take out on the road , as last time it got knocked over twice , and I do n't want it to get battered any more . |
| 13 | He 's twelve , and he 's got a horse which he rides sometimes . ’ |
| 14 | Increasingly underwriters took blocks of stock which they moved on to clients . |
| 15 | A difference of one thousand one hundred in the base dwellings stock which I 've not discussed and do n't propose to go into . |
| 16 | As appears from the chronology which I have already recited the purpose of the December charge being executed in favour of the mortgagees was simply to replace the defective charge that had been given in September . |
| 17 | Zen sat down on the large sofa which occupied most of one wall , thinking about that last card which he 'd fondly thought he had up his sleeve . |
| 18 | Moreover , Truman was ready to act decisively , following the advice of the card which he displayed prominently on his desk : " The buck stops here " . |
| 19 | Can you tell Mummy which one to put on ? |
| 20 | The criticism of the argument from analogy which I gave above is due to Wittgenstein . |
| 21 | Opponents of the Government have criticised the policy because it makes unions responsible for disruption which they have not organised and in some cases may oppose . |
| 22 | When she had aimed the bottle at Gazzer 's head , years of pent-up hurt and frustration had spilled over into violence : violence which she had previously directed against herself or had lived through only in her mind . |
| 23 | There was not a poet 's emotion which we did not heartily believe ourselves to share , evoked by the poem but not imitated from it . |
| 24 | Struggling with a painful emotion which she preferred not to analyse , but which felt uncomfortably like jealousy , Luce watched his tall figure disappear into the café . |
| 25 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
| 26 | She mentioned a concoction which I had never encountered before . |
| 27 | Pausanias goes on to talk of stories of Theseus 's end ; irrelevantly , it seems , but it has often been thought that the subject must have been suggested by a fourth mural which he does not specify . |
| 28 | There he flung himself into the local setting with characteristic abandon and commitment , participating in the daily round of village life with an eagerness and zest which he attributed partly to his Polish temperament ; there he established standards of meticulous and painstaking observation and inquiry which have been an inspiration to social anthropologists ever since . |
| 29 | Thompson v. Robinson was distinguished also in Lazenby Garages v. Wright ( 1976 C.A. ) where Mr. Wright refused to accept a second-hand car which he had previously agreed to buy for £1,670 from a car dealer . |
| 30 | And he had a status-symbol mega car which he drove very slowly in the middle lane , his knuckles white with the strength of his grip on the steering wheel . |