Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty years later he could still recall the event : ‘ I can think about my loyal dog buried in the snow , ’ ( Death Of A Lady 's Man ) . |
| 2 | I was too excited about my new job to stop and think . |
| 3 | Following Ollie ( more formally , Olivier Blanc , 16 ) into the brand new kitchen of the 16th-century cottage , Raymond 's fleeting concern about my early arrival became very clear . |
| 4 | What with that and a few crazy reports to him about my off-duty life-style flying about he decided United and me were going nowhere together . |
| 5 | Yet I felt too strung up about my botched performance to listen properly . |
| 6 | ‘ Because if you force me to leave , what would I do about my wretched EC forms on milk yield with which I 've been wrestling ? |
| 7 | If there were ever a Government who had a different view of industrial relations and a different relationship with the trade unions , who knows whether events such as my hon. Friend mentioned might not occur again ? |
| 8 | I can certainly confirm that it is our intention to ensure that the legislation contains proposals such as my hon. Friend suggested , just as there are in the legislation that applies to the rest of the country . |
| 9 | A January wind forced an entry through the legs of the law — eagerly sniffed the corner of the hall , wafted aside Malc 's dressing gown and pressed itself through my home-made dress to conduct an icy-handed body search . |
| 10 | It is through my perceptive ability to spot talent where others fail , that in signing Clive Smott , son of former manager Wally , I have found the perfect replacement for Royston Marley . |
| 11 | Therefore it was not possible for my Working Group to prescribe a single policy which would suit all circumstances . |
| 12 | I was pleased that the supplementary guidance for the terms of reference for my Working Group mentioned both information technology ( IT ) and media studies : ‘ English teaching will provide one appropriate context … for developing information handling skills , … and for media studies … |
| 13 | PAMELA : " Do n't wonder to see the paper so blotted for my good lady died of the illness I mentioned to you , and left us all much grieved for the loss of her . |
| 14 | For my sensible eyes to close in sedative calm |
| 15 | No matter how much I hate — them — I will never root for my beloved Leeds to lose , even if it was to indirectly win the scum a treble . |
| 16 | First to give an undertaking that he will consider this matter very fully and in consultation with the Home Secretary between now and the report stage and secondly , that his consultation will extend across Your Lordships House , because I do think that in the light of the discussion which we have already h had there is a consensus emerging among Your Lordships which had will be worth my Noble friend following up . |
| 17 | Even if it is only for one moment that a spasm in your face draws my attention to the intensity of your pain , a glimpse from which I flinch back into insensibility , it is during that moment that a choice between my conflicting pulls to help and to ignore will be made in fullest awareness . |
| 18 | ‘ It began after my dear Tom had passed away and when Silas and this woman spoke of becoming engaged . |
| 19 | OLDHAM are mystified after their free-scoring style deserted them once more at The Dell . |
| 20 | The success restored some badly-needed pride to British tennis two weeks after their male counterparts slumped to Davis Cup defeat in Hungary . |
| 21 | He got taken off just after their left back got in semi-decent cross . |
| 22 | After their little November surge Derby are slipping again . |
| 23 | As there was no other business the Conference concluded quickly after its momentous decision to set up a national organisation of the deaf and dumb . |
| 24 | The first round of the presidential elections was notable for the fact that both main candidates attracted substantially more votes than their parties had received in the parliamentary elections , even though in the case of Constantinescu , the rector of Bucharest University , he had only been named as a compromise choice at the July 27 DCR Congress ( the NLP having left the alliance after its unsuccessful bid to persuade ex-King Mihai ( Michael ) to stand as a presidential candidate ) . |
| 25 | In 1987 he took over Ronald Reagan 's bickering AIDS commission after its previous chairman resigned in a huff . |
| 26 | She straightened her shoulders , perhaps she had done enough for today , mam would be getting restless wanting a bit of attention after her long day spent mostly alone . |
| 27 | After her abortive attempt to break into journalism , she had gone down to the beach , flung off her dress , and plunged into the water at Backyards . |
| 28 | She saw herself wheeled along white corridors , wired up to huge machines that clicked , whirred , and flashed lights : this was her greatest fear , that she might be kept alive artificially by machinery , a mumbling vegetable , after her natural time to die had arrived . |
| 29 | In 1837 George Stephenson , who had reason to detest the wetlands after his heroic battle to build a railway across Chat Moss , put forward an ambitious plan to reclaim the whole eastern side of Morecambe Bay by building a railway from Lancaster to Furness . |
| 30 | After only five days in the south coast town , he was charged with drunk driving after his mini-clubman car collided with a motor-scooter . |