Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What would Dixie Dean and Tommy Lawton make of it all ? |
| 2 | His forecast for 1985 in the NME led to nothing more than a throwaway : ‘ Disability chic will reign rampantly in 1985 . |
| 3 | Davidson emphasises above his own role in Provincial 's response a team effort , not only in the sense that he had to delegate a great deal in such a multi-faceted role — although ‘ logically planning goes together with finance and not only did we have the capacity to take on overseas but control of subsidiaries fits too ’ — to his deputies , and , but that the whole company was involved . |
| 4 | Harthacnut chose to remain there , presumably because he was exercised by the threat which Magnus posed to his own position , and this left Harold Harefoot , Cnut 's other son by Ælfgifu of Northampton , to dispute the English throne with his half-brother 's supporters , headed by Queen Emma and Earl Godwin . |
| 5 | When items are faulty , not delivered on time , or more rarely where Ian has by his own fault succeeded in botching an order , then he goes on the defensive . |
| 6 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 7 | Scott presided over his own elegant display of stamps and postcards ; while Christine probably had the most vital role of any that morning , for she had been asked to look after Vanity Fair , the visitors from London , and the sealed bids . |
| 8 | For Anglesey , newcomer Mohsin Chohan appearing against his former team mates pocketed 3–39 and Huw Redvers-Jones 3–61 . |
| 9 | Eadberht abdicated of his own accord in 758 , handing the kingdom over to his son , Oswulf , and becoming a cleric at York ( where he died in 768 ) , but Oswulf was killed within the year by his own household in 759 near the unidentified settlement of Methel Wongtun and replaced by Aethelwald Moll , who is likely to have been associated with those who were responsible for Oswulf 's murder ; nor did Eadberht 's descendants recover royal power for twenty years . |
| 10 | ( Abberley looks at his own cardiograph for a time . |
| 11 | Had Gaveston acted on his own ? |
| 12 | In a conversation in July with Cloyce K. Huston of the American mission in Japan , MacArthur reverted to his former view that a peace treaty should be arrived at as soon as possible . |
| 13 | Manipulating his zimmer with dexterity , Chatterton nodded at them both and left . |
| 14 | However , in the years following 1924 , some universities , among them Cambridge , extended their activities into Chapter III course provision and encroached on territory which the WEA perceived as its own . |
| 15 | Freud replies to his own argument , that there is no need for man always to be ruled by emotions . |
| 16 | Corbett returned to his own chamber . |
| 17 | In the earlier Possessed notebooks Granovsky appears under his own name , and Peter Verkhovensky ( it must be recorded ) is often Nechaev . |
| 18 | On the Tuesday Ramsey called on his former best man Eric Abbott in London , who had urged him never to be a bishop in England . |
| 19 | The secretary of the treasury himself ( 28 June ) also noted that Britain 's problems were now too large for the United States to solve with its own resources . |
| 20 | Skaller looked into his own face . |
| 21 | Lucy looked at her own face in the mirror . |
| 22 | Adeane counselled against it all , and was backed by the Duke of Edinburgh . |
| 23 | Whatever Jean saw in you that first occasion was still there and she accepted your explanation about letting her down that evening . |
| 24 | We 've got ta buy players Deane 's having a mare and Hodge is n't premier league material — he 's had a fairly long run in the side and has n't produced as much as Rocky did in his few opportunities . |
| 25 | We 've got ta buy players Deane 's having a mare and Hodge is n't premier league material — he 's had a fairly long run in the side and has n't produced as much as Rocky did in his few opportunities . |
| 26 | Once on the move , the Turbo DX comes into its own . |
| 27 | For the rest of the war Youth Allyah depended on its own brave attempts at self-sufficiency and , when these failed , on charitable appeals and grants from the RCM . |
| 28 | One may go on saying that newer nations will develop and strengthen in the way that , say , Pakistan have in their own time in Test cricket , and Zimbabwe obviously need much development before they become capable of competing over a Test series against a major nation . |
| 29 | It was in the decline of the movement that Healy came into his own . |
| 30 | It would only be a matter of time before the strong-willed de Gaulle would seek to reshape the EEC according to his own conceptions . |