Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor should it be assumed that the division of the language items into lexis , structure and discourse function presents students with problems of equal difficulty or me with identical roles in each case . |
| 2 | I was taken down to Holloway by car , with me on the back seat and her on one side and a male officer on the other side . |
| 3 | He flung his head to one side and muttered something , his face was twisted up ; he pushed himself away and fell out through the entrance and on to his knees , and she sat down on the floor for her legs felt weak and the wounded one was throbbing painfully , and she crawled over to Sycorax and lay down beside her and sobbed hot , dry grief until she at last fell asleep . |
| 4 | Burden plodded through the rain from estate agent to estate agent and he at last found Moat Hall , listed in the books of a small firm on the outskirts of the town . |
| 5 | But men have had such experiences and done nothing further about them , either because they have decided that there was less to the experience than they at first supposed , or because they could not endure the ethical and spiritual demands which were implied in the unspoken , ineffable moment of divine knowledge . |
| 6 | We have recently had the good fortune to spend an afternoon with the present writer in residence , Joy Hendry , as our visiting speaker , and have savoured but a taste of the feast of enviable experience that she in particular , and others of similar calibre , must have afforded to those lucky enough to live in the Stirling area . |
| 7 | The message should be that schools are about education and learning and that worthwhile learning is hard work and we in good schools try to make this work as pleasurable as possible . |
| 8 | After all , it 's now only afternoon tea , instead of lunch as we at first thought it would be . ’ |
| 9 | It 's erm an area where two elements of the law do n't quite meet tidily and For instance if you worth four hundred thousand pounds big figure , and you had a hundred thousand of it in your own name and three hundred thousand jointly with your wife , wife die er you die , your estate for probate purposes is a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 10 | And when we seen them , we just bust ourselves laughing , cos they looked so funny with Marie 's hair all over the place and me with this real surprised look on my face . |
| 11 | If we were to put you on a slimming diet providing you with 1,500 calories a day , you would be 500 calories short of your requirement and these would have to be taken from your body fat . |
| 12 | Well daddy 's one day and he up this big flagstone and it was er topping off a grave and did n't ken what to do so he just put the flagstone back and kept on and the next time he went to he and he it up again and he took up the skull and . |
| 13 | Hadley acknowledges there is a possibility that opportunities may arise to represent Japan at international level but stresses that he would not consider selection if it in any way jeopardized his standing with the Canadian Rugby Union . |
| 14 | If I am working on pupil autonomy , then I have to find some way to remind pupils that it often helps to talk out loud to someone , and to establish an atmosphere in which they readily approach each other and me for this purpose . |
| 15 | and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ? |
| 16 | The polish chief negotiator has demanded to know why the Community has such problems adjusting to the Višegrad states when it accounts for 56 per cent of their trade and they for 1 per cent of its trade . |
| 17 | In effect , my absence provided you with extra time . |
| 18 | Dropping litter might also be linked with the kind of ceremonial spitting and pee-ing that is a demonstration of claim of territory ( old men sitting on bench at village square or park etc. seem to spit a lot/ the marvellous wide-astride attitude of the countryside pee-er claiming that bit of ground as his for that glorious moment — I am aware it 's different for ladies , but maybe the same mentally , given that fright of discovering be removed ! ) . |
| 19 | It was in the stale stink of the sports hall at Pont Llanfraith leisure centre that he at last looked like a loser : hands thrust deep in the pockets of his best suit , face set solid with emotion , like a football manager who has just lost the Cup Final . |
| 20 | After lunch we retired to the drawing-room where the camera crew had already set up , and I sat on one sofa and he on another . |
| 21 | On the other hand , Irish recruiting to the British army provided it with some of its finest soldiers . |
| 22 | ‘ In my view the only candidate before you for such an act is Harper in lighting a tuft of hay . |
| 23 | Flat brush strokes and dragged ones were compared and there was a realization that ‘ … if you isolate any area of paint … you 're looking at a much more complex thing than you at first thought you were ’ . |
| 24 | And the one thing that I over all these years I have found and I 've come more and more into is aromatherapy , because it 's not |
| 25 | Wrote my other essays is an answer that I For those of you that believe that statistics and research matters is about hard sums , you can endorse that view okay . |
| 26 | Thirty minutes later , Edith clad in mauve foulard and he in grey flannels and blazer , they descended for breakfast . |
| 27 | ‘ From the east and we with all . ’ |
| 28 | And it is n't without its pathetic aspects anyway , this evening scene with the two mature parties , their spectacles , their hair , their heavy old shoes , and the extra trust that she in particular will be needing to feel , and may not feel . |
| 29 | I 'd have a better tan than her at this rate , all the outdoor living I was doing . |
| 30 | Even though the Prime Minister has not incorporated the provision into the agreement at Maastricht , does he not agree that it is high time that we in this country also took those steps for ourselves ? |