Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the Enlightenment as Kant or Voltaire saw it ( see pp. 411ff below ) , as the human mind liberating itself from the self-imposed tutelage of centuries , a new birth of intellectual adventure , they had no inkling . |
| 2 | Bob Carpenter at Kitcat & Aitken believes they are undervalued and should be purchased for the 7 per cent dividend yield and the group 's medium term potential . |
| 3 | She thought that the photograph neither flattered , nor was very like her , but suppose Rose , or , worse still , Dr Neil or Matey saw it ? |
| 4 | Well he was just a slaughterman then he always used to try and have Frank , another one of our butcher boys , or David or Frank to help him . |
| 5 | But the match needed an attacking spark from Romario or Careca to bring it fully to life and the goal saved the evening a damp , dismal denouement . |
| 6 | It was a staple of the revenge tragedy as Kyd , Tourneur or Shakespeare conceived it , and plays by Dekker , Lyly , Webster , Ford and Middleton all made use of madness on stage , and of actors specially trained for the parts of madmen . |
| 7 | Clift was told by director Elia Kazan that Dean idolized him and that although he liked Brando as well , he was more affected by Clift . |
| 8 | Mr and Mrs go to play bridge with the Fountains-Abbotts and Seb takes me to a film . |
| 9 | And then two goals from Stein and Simpson brought them level with Wolves , the final score ; three three . |
| 10 | After Maltote was rested Corbett and Ranulf met him in the hall . |
| 11 | Like Stuart pretending he has n't heard of Picasso and Oliver pretending he does n't understand any machinery invented after the spinning-jenny . |
| 12 | In their libretto for Offenbach 's opéra bouffe , Gaieté Parisienne , which was first given on the Paris stage in 1867 , Halévy and Meilhac summed it up : |
| 13 | Bob quelled her with a look , but I noticed slightly later and indeed all evening that she stuck very closely to his side , which could have been interpreted as her own insecurity if I had n't remembered Mackie saying that meek little Ingrid never gave Bob much chance to stray with the likes of Angela Brickell and God help him if he did . |
| 14 | Only Greece , Portugal and Ireland support them . |
| 15 | Richard and Maggie love them dearly , but sometimes discipline is necessary otherwise nothing would be learned . |
| 16 | like , we 'd never go and sort of erm disturb Richard and Chad do we ? |
| 17 | you want your coat on , how about you having a try and see if you can put yours on , like Richard and James do you think you can ? |
| 18 | Orton and Vera said they had been abducted by Malawian agents during a visit to a Zambian town close to the Malawian border . |
| 19 | Bernice and Defries followed him . |
| 20 | A measure of the difference between Mr Major 's personal standing and Mrs Thatcher 's is that , whereas a mere 19 per cent of voters on Friday and Saturday said they thought Mr Major would make the worst Prime Minister , nearly double that proportion , 34 per cent , thought the same of Mrs Thatcher five years ago . |
| 21 | A girl selling newspapers in the street until 10pm on a Friday and Saturday buys them for 17.5p and sells them for 22p ( 1990 figures ) . |
| 22 | To bring about greater stylistic variation and interest , the extract could be rewritten , by combining sentences ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) , and sentences ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) : As a way of reflecting the development of their heroines , both Brontë and Hardy present them within an organic structure . |
| 23 | I mean Ann and Rita reckon they 're not married or anything but why the hell does she stay with him then ? |
| 24 | As Hitchcock and Mitchell put it : ‘ The principle that pedestrian paths should be straight , level , smooth and free from obstruction is easily stated , as is the one that mechanical vehicles can more easily travel further or change level to achieve vehicle/pedestrian segregation . |
| 25 | France also persuaded the United States and Britain to join it in a joint declaration that a threat to the EDC would be treated as a challenge to their own security , and that this would be symbolised by the two Anglo-Saxon countries agreeing to station troops on the continent . |
| 26 | Downton and Emburey kept him company for a while , and when number eleven Dilley joined him he had 69 ; when Dilley was out for 2 next morning Willey had completed his century , a splendid 102 not out that took England to 271 , Croft finishing with 6 for 74 . |
| 27 | You 've still got the lot from last year that David and Wendy got you and you 've |
| 28 | Jo contemplates the great cross on its summit , ‘ the crowning confusion of the great , confused city ; — so golden , so high up , so far out of reach ’ , BH 19 ; its picture , ‘ with a pink dome ’ , on the lid of Peggotty 's work-box , DC 2 ; David and Peggotty visit it , DC 33 ; its ‘ deep bell ’ , DC 47 ; Master Humphrey inspects the cathedral clock , ‘ the great Heart of London ’ , MHC 6 ; John Browdie marvels at the building 's size , NN 39 ; statues of the apostles on its exterior , NN 45 ; Oliver in Fagin 's den as lonely as if he were in the ball on top of the cathedral , OT 18 . |
| 29 | ‘ I feel as if we failed that man somewhere , ’ she said a little later as together with David and Martin Foulds she watched the ambulance leave the factory . |
| 30 | Examples from our corpus confirm these observations but show that the line between mediate and immediate assistance is not always as easy to draw as Erades and Wood make it out to be . |