Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb -s] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With amazement and with pleasure she hears her own voice saying No . |
| 2 | Pent in their Fold she leaves her wanton Care , |
| 3 | In spring he dons his curious plumage : long ear tufts , and dramatic barred , streaked , blobbed or plain ruff-collar . |
| 4 | Leaving the Chelsea Arts Club he unlocks his fluorescent green mountain bike , which has a child 's seat on the crossbar . |
| 5 | Now the braking , bearing in mind It takes you half a second to react anyway , but hi his actual thinking distance is about thirty feet . |
| 6 | ‘ It is — ah — splendid and — ah — heartwarming to see you all here enjoying yourselves , and I want to say — ah — how much pleasure it gives my good wife and — ah — myself ’ ( he could never work out whether it should be ‘ I ’ or ‘ me ’ ) ‘ to be able to entertain you in our modest home . |
| 7 | In a fairy-tale scene he kisses her and she becomes beautiful , but after their betrothal she confesses her past sins and the weakness of her nature , imploring Leo to love her only in a spiritual sense . |
| 8 | There , consoled for the severity of the regime by the kindness of the superintendent Miss Temple , and a fellow orphan , Helen Burns she dies in Jane 's arms of , who dies in Jane 's arms of consumption she spends her miserable years , eventually becoming a teacher . |
| 9 | I still have nightmares and if there is something on the television about rape it brings it all back to me . |
| 10 | He falls asleep with his head on her grave mound , to be taken away in spirit to a strange land where all his grief suddenly fades — and where to his utter delight he sees his lost child facing him , on the other side of a river . |
| 11 | In de Valois ' The Rake 's Progress she confirms her eighteenth-century origin as an innocent serving wench whom the Rake has dallied with and then discarded . |
| 12 | When he returns for his payment she shows him another body , claiming the porter has not done the job asked of him . |
| 13 | Diane and her husband Geoff have now completed the trip and in this article she recounts their hazardous journey . |
| 14 | At the moment it seems our American friends had the right of it , but we are still working with the wild-caught fish and quite often these do not behave in the same way as tank-raised fish do . |
| 15 | At one point he describes his two colleagues as cheerfully admitting that they could not write very well . |
| 16 | The jokes and the conversations end abruptly with ‘ But this is worshipful society ’ and at that point he shows his real toughness and ambition . |
| 17 | After a while she pulls it free . |
| 18 | But it was the idea of ‘ the garden in the wood ’ which really fired Lady Amory 's imagination ; to this day it remains her favourite part of the garden . |
| 19 | If you marinade the meat it makes it full of flavour and very tender . |
| 20 | Far from calling himself a god he admits his own inadequacies — he can not rebuild the dome , he can not claim to have fed on honey-dew and drunk the Milk of paradise . |
| 21 | Marie helps me with my money , and every week she gives me some so I can buy plants and stuff for my room . |
| 22 | No captain she has her six months leave . |
| 23 | This encounter is n't Tyson 's only connection with Satriani ; as a one time pupil he remembers his unorthodox teaching style . |
| 24 | In two days we get everything we want and for the rest of the week he has his Christian customers . |
| 25 | If he is afforded the slightest respect it makes him worse , larger . ’ |
| 26 | As an adult he protects their future interests . |
| 27 | Of Merovech he records nothing other than his supposed descent from Chlodio and that he was the father of Childeric . |
| 28 | Mike , born in 1938 , did his national service in the RAF ; after early retirement from a teaching career he devotes himself full-time to his lifelong interest in the organisational and OOB aspects of almost all periods of military and naval history , and offers a paid service to researchers in his field of interest . |
| 29 | As a manager he remains his own greatest fan and although his playing days are over , he was probably the most creative player on Rangers ' books : a genius in search of a mirror . |
| 30 | The new hero , like Don Quixote , gets it wrong by study , but unlike Quixote he gets it right ( more or less ) by living , and he characteristically needs to educate himself by life after having partly de-educated himself through books . |