Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the usual imaginative , expensive production , in this case whisking us from London to New York to New Orleans . |
| 2 | At least this time she had some help loading them into the van . |
| 3 | ‘ I heard another teacher calling you by it just before we came in , ’ Matilda said . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , all this business putting me on the carpet … implying that I might leave you short . ’ |
| 5 | When I ran back to the girl , there were a couple of railwaymen on their way to work and another policeman carrying her to the Out-patients . |
| 6 | In 1985 , however , the Government specifically rejected calls for another inquiry like Lord Scarman 's , arguing that since the riots were a ‘ criminal enterprise ’ it was useless to search for social explanations or to have yet another report advising it about what to do . |
| 7 | He held the office until Safar 924/February 1518 when he was succeeded by two Damascene scholars in turn , who between them held the post until 927/1521 ; then by two Ottomans , in turn , until 930/1524 ; and then again by one of the Damascenes who had earlier held the post , this time holding it from 930/1524 to 936/1530 when he was removed , apparently for misconduct . |
| 8 | When the Miller has finished telling his tale , Chaucer characterizes its contents once more , this time describing it as a " " nyce cas " " , " a foolish state of affairs " ( 3855 ) : an apparently neutral moral description which nonetheless contrasts significantly with the more clearly marked " " harlotrye " " that has formerly been used to label the contents of the pair of fabliaux we are now halfway through . |
| 9 | At the end of the nomination latency period the LIFESPAN manager and module managers will again receive mail messages , this time informing them of which modules have actually been deleted . |
| 10 | If only I had as much spare time as you evidently do , then I would happily reciprocate by wandering about this house reminding you of tasks you have perfectly well in hand . ’ |
| 11 | People born since the 1890s have been unnaturally large because they have eaten too much protein believing it to be essential for growth , says survey author Geoffrey Cannon in New Woman magazine . |
| 12 | if it 's here it 's not much point leaving it for once a year . |
| 13 | Nor did Hincmar say more about a king 's daughters : in Charlemagne 's later years , the political influence of his womenfolk ( mistresses as well as daughters ) at court had been notorious , but his successors had either used their daughters in marriage-alliances , or , more often , placed them in convents , either way removing them from the political centre . |
| 14 | ‘ Good thing it 's Curtius , ’ Magda said , ‘ if'n he blows his brains out , at least we wo n't be all day scraping them off the floor . |
| 15 | Detectives have spent all day questioning him about Tania Probyn 's disappearance and subsequent death . |
| 16 | The stables get through tons of yellow pages each month turning it into billions of bits ; surely the ultimate nightmare for anyone called JR Hartley . |
| 17 | She had always been suspicious of Taczek , and here was yet more evidence implicating him with people she no longer trusted . |
| 18 | I never wore the roll-neck out there again and as the years passed I was gradually given a large wardrobe of beautiful traditional dresses , which I wore with comfort and delight , each dress reminding me of the giver . |
| 19 | It effectively charges it because if you 've got six thousand allowances and you withdraw that amount putting it against the total income it means that you 're actually paying tax on those by deduction . |
| 20 | And are we to think that this loving God really wants us to linger on in pain and without dignity when , according to the same dogma , He is in any case calling us to a better life ? |
| 21 | I ca n't see any horse beating him in the Kentucky Derby . |
| 22 | Is there any point taking it to a local Sainsburys ? |
| 23 | If a method of collecting evidence is reliable , it means that anybody else using this method , or the same person using it at another time , would come up with the same results . |
| 24 | They do n't have any evidence linking him to the murder but you can be sure they 'll be watching his every move . |
| 25 | And you 're also summoned that on that same occasion you not having given your name and address to any person requiring it at the time , you failed to report the accident at a police station , or to a constable as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case within twenty four hours of it happening again , that 's an offence under section twenty five of the road traffic act to that effect do you plead guilty or not guilty ? |
| 26 | Next time you rush into my arms you wo n't have any trouble distinguishing me from my partner . ’ |
| 27 | An independent State is presumed to have all the territorial competencies of a sovereign State from the time of its emergence as a State , irrespective of the terms of any treaty bringing it into existence . |
| 28 | They also enabled women to challenge male professional power while at the same time implicating them in coercive class regulation . |
| 29 | According to the Liberal-Irish alliance , the Irish party was supposed to abstain from the 1901 Conservative bill , aimed at bringing denominational schools in England and Wales into the national education system while at the same time absenting them from local government control : that is , giving finance while maintaining the system of denominational clerical control . |
| 30 | The officer , obviously unnerved by the continued shooting , was trying to persuade the Phalangists to leave the area while at the same time asking them for directions . |