Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carole , who had fallen to the floor and was attempting to massage her husband 's knee , looked up to see Kenneth Baker himself in a camel-hair dressing gown , flanked by two men with guns . |
| 2 | His removal , reportedly suggested by Gen. Pinochet himself after an internal army inquiry , was accompanied by the arrest of three people connected with the case and the placing of a restriction order on another six . |
| 3 | With this gadget a skilled man could make eight hundred chair legs a week , which he delivered to factories in London and other centres where the complete chairs were assembled , until the rise of High Wycombe itself as the centre of furniture making , early in the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | The itinerary included parts of Czechoslovakia and Austria and a day trip into Hungary , with Martin Randall himself as the lecturer . |
| 5 | He was marrying one of America 's richest heiresses , who was , Stair had drunkenly informed him , ‘ As ugly as a pug dog , ’ solely for her money , and was proposing to bed Madame Rachel herself as a preliminary to his marriage at St Margaret 's , Westminster , the following morning , the biggest society wedding of the year . |
| 6 | I remember the first production of The corn is Green with Sybil Thorndyke playing the hopeful headmistress and Emlyn Williams himself as the talented Welsh miner . |
| 7 | In addition , the war years had turned de Gaulle himself into a national leader and given him a unique symbolic identity , and yet had left him an inexperienced politician without an organized or cohesive following . |
| 8 | Each vehicle was crewed by two men , with Fire Chief Bob Wallace himself in the cab of the lead one . |
| 9 | They walk together now , Philip listening , in horror and disbelief , as Iain unburdens himself of the story . |
| 10 | Lamarck , and many of his contemporaries ( including Charles Darwin himself in the later stages of his life ) , supposed that repeated use of a trait could itself change the genetic material that was responsible for the transmission of that trait so that characters acquired or improved by repeated use could be inherited directly by the offspring . |
| 11 | ‘ Clownfish cover themselves with a sugar coating to avoid being stung by their anemone ’ What is true is that Clowns do have a polysaccharide mucus coating to mask the protein taste of their mucus — and thus avoid the anemone trigger mechanism which stings on sensing protein . |
| 12 | A Kate was lost into Pearl Harbor itself with a fuel problem although the pilot was quickly rescued . |
| 13 | We forgot to mention that as an added bonus the winner will be presented with the 555 by Paul Chandler himself at the London Music Show ‘ 92 , so get dialling and it could be you . |
| 14 | South of Barrowgate Road there existed a few houses fronting Sutton Court Road ; some Almshouses on the southern side of Sutton Lane , with the fish pond behind them ; Sutton Court itself at the bottom end of Sutton Court Road , where Sutton Lane turned south — that part of Sutton Lane later became Fauconberg Road — with the Lawn Tennis Grounds on the southern side and Chiswick Park Farm occupying the whole area of land to the east of Sutton Court Road , and the continuing Sutton Lane — which later formed the southern part of Sutton Court Road — curving round to meet the bottom end of Burlington Lane , on the southern boundary of Chiswick House Gardens . |
| 15 | With his black garb , Italianate features and fearsome reputation , Sir Edmund must appear as Master Lucifer himself to the peasants of Templecombe Manor . |
| 16 | Barry Cryer and Willie Rushton disgrace themselves with the kind of behaviour that gets other people put into homes . |
| 17 | Paul and John strap themselves into the back seats of the small plane . |