Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 'd planned to set his mind like glue on wedding you to this Islesman , you could n't have done better . |
| 2 | It seemed , at that moment , to distress her above all others . |
| 3 | I would say : if you want to talk of my thinking it in such circumstances then the least misleading thing to say is that I think it in saying it . |
| 4 | There was no prof it in these thoughts . |
| 5 | Emma Cons lived on for another twelve years , continuing to work at her housing projects : but a new chapter had opened in the history of what was to become the Old Vic , as Lilian Baylis began to programme it for early films and then light opera and later Shakespeare . |
| 6 | And then er er but it was this was fixed right above , then you could , reach if you did feel you hand getting caught , you could slide it off and stop the p switch it onto loose pulley immediately . |
| 7 | Harry led our team by example — although perhaps what some of his colleagues needed was a skipper who could also drive or cajole them to better things — but it was a mark of the respect in which he was held by Palace supporters that his well-deserved Benefit in 1953–54 was so well attended . |
| 8 | He was seeking advice with regard to the Council 's refusal to rehouse him in suitable ground floor accommodation . |
| 9 | One idea is to encapsulate the haemoglobin in spherical structures of fatty material called liposomes , or to cross-link it with chemical agents . |
| 10 | Mark Dion , at the American Fine Arts Co , puts his conceptual installations to the service of our threatened ecology ( 11 April-4 May ) as does Yoko Ono hers in new sculptures entitled ‘ Endangered Species ’ at Vrej Baghoomian ( 18 April-15 May ) . |
| 11 | ‘ So show me , ’ she murmured , her gaze meeting his with glittering anticipation . |
| 12 | Those who truly love you will want to know the true you in any event . |
| 13 | Although Charlie was still thin — now a flyweight — and not all that tall , once his seventeenth birthday had come and gone he noticed that the ladies on the corner of the Whitechapel Road , who were still placing white feathers on anyone wearing civilian clothes who looked as if they might be between the ages of eighteen and forty , were beginning to eye him like impatient vultures . |
| 14 | Complete the questionnaire and post it to NEW IMAGES |
| 15 | The conventional treatment for large tumours , deep within the body , is to bombard them with powerful doses of gamma radiation . |
| 16 | If anyone the snake 's head rears , Water them with deadly tears ! |
| 17 | But , as Alison Lurie observed in the Language of Clothes ( Bloomsbury , £11.99 ) , ‘ The entire history of female fashion in this century can be viewed as a series of more or less successful campaigns to force , flatter or bribe women back into uncomfortable or awkward styles in order to handicap them in professional competition with men . ’ |
| 18 | Will you maintain a more reasonable pace if I bombard you with inane questions ? ’ |
| 19 | As he did so , he was all too aware of the ache and stiffness in his injured arm and leg , threatening to handicap him in any confrontation with an enemy . |
| 20 | Once they are in place , you can have the shingle delivered — it can be dumped directly on to a drive site from the road , but you 'll need to barrow it to remote garden paths , so set planks on the lawn if you have to run across it . |
| 21 | The imagination of danger keeps us immersed in a story ; the adventurous court it in actual life ; the unadventurous relate with gusto how they were carried off to hospital with an undiagnosed and probably fatal illness , as a vivid patch in an otherwise uneventful life . |
| 22 | It was about er the press and unemployment and it was about the way the effects of unemployment were written about in well broadsheet and popular newspapers , it also involved a bit of a study where I gave people some articles to show which had been typed up in a fairly anonymous format and , and got them to rate them in various ways and that was in , let me see , nineteen eighty three long long time ago |
| 23 | ‘ I would 'ave agreed wiv yer at one time , ’ Sadie replied . |
| 24 | ‘ So I 've been turning to simpler guitars , guitars that limit you , but that limit you in interesting ways . |
| 25 | Your solicitor will be able to advice you on financial matters , and the local Social Work Centre or Hospital Social Worker can also help . |
| 26 | What he had just done was sentence her to another day of hell . |
| 27 | It was n't fair , not a bit , the way he could side-step and outmanoeuvre her with such ease . |
| 28 | This is not the time to subject me to some kind of general knowledge quiz … or to make love to me , although heaven knows I 'd like you to . |
| 29 | Can I can I just raise a question er to r to clarify the point before I answer your question that I are am I are we to assume that in response to Mr , erm it 's on the record that there 's a er a request to add , clear expression of local preference I by local planning authorities ? |
| 30 | Mr Deputy Speaker we on this side of the house believed then , as the bill went through committee and still believe today , that there was time had the government been more efficient in the organisation of its parliamentary business , for proper public inquiries to have been held . |