Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I never needed the alarm clock or Mum or Bri to hammer on my door . |
| 2 | He snatched my ticket , demanded to know if I was Miss or Mrs. glanced at my ringless left hand when I refused to answer , crossed out ‘ Ms ’ and wrote ‘ Miss ’ . |
| 3 | For much of his reign they persistently took advantage of Charles ' absence in Italy or Spain to revolt against his rule . |
| 4 | When they heard John or Jennie coming towards their dressing-rooms they would hastily open any windows and try to wave the smoke out . |
| 5 | At the end of 1851 he left Fox & Henderson to practise on his own account in London as a consulting engineer . |
| 6 | It is true that he gave one daughter , Eadburh , in marriage to Beorhtric , king of the West Saxons ( ASC A , s.a. 787 ) , and another , Aelfflaed , to Aethelred , king of Northumbria , in 792 , but the revival of a Northumbrian coinage at this time by Aethelred ( see above , p. 158 ) and the inauguration of a new West Saxon coinage by Beorhtric at Winchester or Southampton testifies to their continuing independence . |
| 7 | CUT AND THRUST Hughes & Kettner Attax/CF-200 Rack Adding to the mind-boggling maze of equipment available in the never-ending search for the best compact rack setup , Hughes & Kettner add in their few pfennigs worth … |
| 8 | Neither Salinger nor Ross knew of my role in Cyprus as a DIA agent , and I certainly did n't tell them . |
| 9 | One of the problems Brown and Iles discovered in their study of community constables ( what , in the RUC , would be called neighbourhood constables ) , which was based on 300 officers in five police forces in England , was the relatively small proportion of working time devoted to activities the primary purpose of which was improvement in relations between the police and the public through direct involvement of constables in the community ( Brown and Iles 1985 : 29 ) . |
| 10 | Bristol piled on fierce pressure and Middlesbrough paid for their lack of enterprise when Bristol equalised after 67 minutes . |
| 11 | Bristol piled on fierce pressure and Middlesbrough paid for their lack of enterprise when City equalised after 67 minutes . |
| 12 | Randle and Pottle stated in their book that they were aware of the severe sentences that they might face , but ‘ could , however , offset the disaster to some degree by writing up the story ; this would help to defray the legal costs and provide some minimal support ’ for one of their families . |
| 13 | Guglielmo and Ferrando reappear without their disguises , and the girls become aware that they have been tricked . |
| 14 | Later , when it was time for the evening meal , she entered the dining-room to find Silas and Matt seated at their corner table . |
| 15 | The car purred away and Kelly relaxed in his seat . |
| 16 | The rough elder laden hedgerows rushing past , six feet each side of his face , and Sheila clinging to his back like a koala bear clinging to its Mother . |
| 17 | Art , Wimsatt and Brooks wrote in their joint history of literary criticism ( 1957 : 743 ) , ‘ ought to have the concreteness which comes from recognizing reality and including it ’ . |
| 18 | First Floss and Tibbs retired to their tent to dispel this foretaste of the middle-aged grossness that awaited them in the exercise of their healthy young bodies . |
| 19 | BELVILLE enters and PAMELA flies into his arms . ] |
| 20 | We also enclosed details of the particular System and Finder installed on our Macintosh together with a LaserWriter Plus sample and an approximate timing for the page to print on that device . |
| 21 | Herzberg , Mausner and Snyderman observe in their study of The Motivation to Work that the provision of better working conditions has the effect of reducing dissatisfaction but not the effect of producing satisfaction . |
| 22 | Then both the woman and Edouard fell to their knees . |
| 23 | Louise gave an exclamation of displeasure , and Edouard rose to his feet , Grégoire remained absolutely still , looking down at the smashed cup . |
| 24 | And familiar Edward Bear lay on her pillow and Victoria slept on her stomach in her cot six feet away , behind white painted bars . |
| 25 | Even though caring meant postponing many of the plans Mary and Jim had for their retirement , when her father died , Mary expressed satisfaction about the time spent caring for him . |
| 26 | He suddenly darted out from behind a metal ladder and Whitlock aimed at his legs . |
| 27 | And Nicholls returned to his family home in Ireland . |
| 28 | Onward travel is via Belgium and Germany to arrive at our centre around lunch time the following day . |
| 29 | The Neue Sachlichkeit ( ‘ New Objectivity ’ ) movement in Switzerland and Germany included among its dogmas the belief that ‘ the world is beautiful . ’ |
| 30 | This caused an angry confrontation and Minton apologised for his deceit . |