Example sentences of "[noun prp] in [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm sure I will have the support of Mr McWhirter in any representations I may feel called upon to make to the Board , ’ said the headmaster . |
| 2 | If we were supplying Marks and Spencer in this country it might be the answer but er |
| 3 | In the first century A.D. Pliny wrote that it was discovered in Spain in the previous century , where it was used to spice drinks , and in England in mediaeval times it was known as " sops-in-wine " , being mixed with wine and ale as a substitute for the costly cloves from the Far East . |
| 4 | Even though her motive may have been a desire to manipulate the situation , her wish was supported by Dr. M. and , initially at least , by Dr. D. In those circumstances I entertain grave doubts that if Thorpe J. had directed himself in the way I have suggested , that W. 's wishes should be respected unless there were very strong reasons for rejecting them , he would have reached the decision which he did . |
| 5 | Very often we are only interested in θ satisfying θ ≤ U. In this case we would stop as soon as a tableau is reached in which θ ≥ U. |
| 6 | ‘ Not the piano music , nor the hackneyed old Bolero , but Ravel in this mood I find irresistible . ’ |
| 7 | Chief executive Ross Shimmon said : ‘ When we met Peter Brooke in late November he assured us that there was no prospect of VAT being imposed on books , but stories in the national press continually suggest that opposite . |
| 8 | During late visits to Stinsford in old age he would often visit the unmarked grave of Louisa Harding |
| 9 | Well I had Mrs in this morning she had a tooth out this morning and he broke it and he tried to get the rest out you know using a special instrument and he twisted it and a fragment of the tooth come off and hit me straight in the eye . |
| 10 | Some years ago now , my husband came to choose a painting from you and you made an offer to help CPRW in any way you could . |
| 11 | He said he should have said that morning that if you looked at Dynmouth in one way you saw it prettily , with its tea-shops and lace ; and that if you looked at it in another way there was Timothy Gedge . |
| 12 | At Abydos in Upper Egypt he absorbed the characteristics of the deity Khentamentiu , Lord of the Westerners , an ancient god of cemeteries , and became the ruler and god of the dead , and Abydos developed into another great centre for Osiris worship . |
| 13 | Kathmandu : THE PRINCESS of Wales strained her ankle yesterday on a pebbly path in Nepal 's Himalayan foothills — but went on to tease puffing press photographers who still could not match her pace.The Princess walked briskly through the rough , rocky terrain on a walkabout during the second day of her solo visit to Nepal.After straining her ankle on a pebbled road in Dharan in eastern Nepal she began to limp slightly , but her pace still left Overseas Development Minister Baroness Chalker and several photographers gasping for breath.The Princess could not resist the temptation to chide them . |
| 14 | Little wonder that Ellie learned from an early age to defend Patsy in any way she could . |
| 15 | Returning to El Salvador in that year he merged the Nationalis Revolutionary Movement ( MNR , founded by Ungo in the mid-1960s ) into the Democratic Convergence coalition , standing as its presidential candidate in March 1989 [ see p. 36520 ] . |
| 16 | Was it Michael Cain in that movie he was in over the weekend , er |
| 17 | It 's the same as the one worn by Parsons in that painting you showed me . |
| 18 | To assess the relation between tuberculosis and HIV in this area we screened 150 HIV positive patients at the Royal London Hospital over the period July 1991 to May 1992 with skin tuberculin tests and chest radiography . |
| 19 | Dr P J Connelly , Consultant Geriatrician Murray Royal Hospital , Perth In this talk I hope to cover the questions of what Day Hospital Care is , and to whom it should be given . |
| 20 | When he thought of India in later years he would always see these two men and two bullocks and the leather bag flooding out its water as it settled on the ground . |
| 21 | He lost a leg at Ypres in 1915 whereafter he earned his living with a miscellany of jobs from being a book illustrator , carpenter , poultry farmer and then caddie-master , and was by his own admission , very dependent on tips . |
| 22 | In Cilicap in southern Java we have watched old men being most convincingly possessed by what they call the spirits of horses , monkeys and pigs . |
| 23 | And in her final words to Wilekin in this exchange she manages to give an ambiguous hint that she may be prepared to entertain Wilekin — along with her husband : ( " You could go home , dear brother . |