Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Karajan ( DG ) has often been taken to task from making an adagio meal of Shostakovich 's andante here , but Flor turns it into a snail 's banquet ( beautiful Concertgebouw wind playing notwithstanding ) .
2 Henley prides itself on the accessibility of its Faculty whose services extend well beyond the formal classroom environment .
3 Aswan has none of the melancholy transience of most end-of the-line towns .
4 As you drive , this NVH manifests itself in the form of tiny vibrations fed back through the steering wheel and the gruff , uninspiring sounds from the SE-FHE engine .
5 Stewart joins us on the line now good morning Mr .
6 Nine months on Mr Boulton is still waiting for the two and a half thousand pounds he claims Brit-Pol owes him for the coach .
7 We must put all our energies into the preparation for Belle Ile while Schellenberg busies himself with the Steiner affair . ’
8 The gopher tortoise that lives in the southwestern deserts of the United States needs one as a shelter in which to escape the worst of the mid-day heat and it digs into the sun-baked ground with slow ponderous sweeps of its armoured fore-legs .
9 Lungfish joins me under the blanket .
10 Japanese director Nagisa Oshima wants him for the lead in Valentino , a movie which will explore the destructive effect of fame on silent screen stars .
11 Hungary owes something in the order of twenty billion dollars in international debt .
12 Gregory sees her as the prime mover in this , while allowing for the importance of divine intervention in Clovis 's victory against the Alamans .
13 The care pulls up at the studio and Kylie greets everyone with a breezy ‘ G'Day ’ and gets ready for the last few moments as Lola teenage runaway .
14 Not many people know that Nick Faldo fancies himself as a comedian and a practical joker .
15 TONI Halliday sees herself as a hard NorthEast woman .
16 But if you , too , see life through such dark spectacles , perhaps a book with a murderer her , with whom your readers are going to sympathise if you can possibly make them ( notice how in the later Ripley book Patricia Highsmith shows him as a loving gardener ) or with any other sort of anti-law hero , this is the sort of work you should be addressing yourself to .
17 But the women 's fight immediately loses control and Spenser depicts them as a tiger and a lioness , beasts confronting one another with animal fury unnaturally seeking to attack their legitimate feminine identity :
18 At the hearing , your own Counsel takes you through the report and shows what a splendid , reliable fellow you are , and gives you questions that bring out the excellence of everything you did .
19 Gibson Keddie finds himself on the wrong end of a tongue lashing …
20 Claire springs into bathroom with cry of rage ( the train goes at 8.21 ) Steven nicks himself with a safety razor that ca n't nick you .
21 In another case it will mean that the writer creates his own special kind of language : and it is in this sense that Halliday applies it to the Neanderthal language of The Inheritors .
22 If McAlpine finds itself in a position to proceed to Stage II of the IDO registration procedure , i.e. the drawing up and presentation of a Plan of Operations , the Consortium will have to consider the following :
23 Here Alice Walker finds herself in a typical double bind : the cultural and political conditions of her novel are deracinated ; it becomes immensely popular among white middle-class readers who , unsurprisingly , have read few other black writers ; it is accused of assuaging white guilt , of being charmingly apolitical …
24 MIKHAIL Gorbachev presents himself as the saviour of socialism .
25 In The Groove , who runs at Phoenix Park on Saturday , has not achieved nearly as much as Dead Certain , but Elsworth rates them on a par .
26 Scotland international coach Roxburgh admitted : ‘ The loss of Richard presents us with a real problem .
27 A particularly welcome aspect of the present disc is that Sarah Cunningham presents us with a survey spanning the entire period of the repertoire — as such it will perhaps be more welcome to the non-specialist than the Savall discs .
28 From beautiful , sun-drenched beaches to relics of an ancient civilisation , your dream vacation in Mexico welcomes you to a timeless world of colourful sights and sounds .
29 Tony Vaux follows him through the comic-horror jungle of Third World bureaucracy — and corruption .
30 Eldorado 's Trish Valentine does what for a living in bars ?
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