Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When items are faulty , not delivered on time , or more rarely where Ian has by his own fault succeeded in botching an order , then he goes on the defensive . |
| 2 | The epigraph is Veteris vestigia flammae from Aeneid 4 , 23 , where Dido confesses to her confidante that the love she once felt for her now dead husband is about to renew itself for Aeneas . |
| 3 | As well as supplying cricket clubs 3D have supplied pitches for a number of local authorities and many country grounds , while Lilleshall — where England went through their paces before flying off to New Zealand — have had practice pitches installed . |
| 4 | Jones often visited Lovelace at the castle and later at New Lodge in Windsor Forest , where Lovelace moved after her marriage to Lord Henry Beauclerk in June 1739 . |
| 5 | She followed him from the room , along the gallery and down the stairs to the library , where Nicolo turned to her abruptly . |
| 6 | A dream citadel where Billy escapes from his day-mare realities . |
| 7 | Seeing Mungo looking at them , Emily whispered : ‘ Animal traps . |
| 8 | Then , gripping it , he passed through the rustle of the reed jalousie hanging in the doorway into the small interior , where Sycorax lay on her side , collapsed on the beaten earth like a child 's poppet made from plaited grass , with Ariel on her haunches beside her , head sunk on her knees , a fan fallen to the ground beside her . |
| 9 | He fails with all his devices to attract Alison : where Nicholas succeeds with his direct and unambiguous seizure of Alison ( 3276 – 8 ) . |
| 10 | Their homecoming , going to earth and returning to sources , reaches , in a sense , its furthest point in ‘ The Dry Salvages ’ , where Eliot returns to his own St Louis and Massachusetts childhood , to ‘ The life of significant soil ’ , and to the savage meanings associated with such beginnings . |
| 11 | But so many people all her life had told her how wrong it was to hurt others , so Jezrael penned inside her the rage that crushed its poison outwards through the walls of her veins , not knowing the harm she would do herself , knowing only that if she killed Zulei she would be as bad as Zulei was . |
| 12 | The soldiers grew uneasy and grumbled amongst themselves so Mandeville shouted at them to begin the search . |
| 13 | At the peak of the agitation more than 12,000 troops were stationed in the disturbed regions of the Midlands and the North — more soldiers than Wellington took with him on his first expedition to Portugal in 1808 in the Peninsular War . |
| 14 | In this surmise he proved to be correct , so Lucy hurried to her room , where she changed her clothes and attended to her make-up . |
| 15 | No sooner were they seated than Travis turned to her cousin with a faintly puzzled smile . |
| 16 | But access to the sites where arctic-alpines grew often demands considerable rock-climbing expertise , so Evan touches upon our world again . |
| 17 | Immediately Travis came to her side . |
| 18 | Although Gregory states in his Histories that Quintianus of Rodez was suspected of treason by the Visigoths , in his Life of the bishop he reveals that the local catholics were opposed to him , because he had moved the bones of a favourite saint . |
| 19 | Although Gilgamesh failed in his attempt to be a true god , the other gods took pity on his situation and appeared to comfort him with the news that he would live honoured forever as a shadow in the Underworld . |
| 20 | Immediately Bigwig fell upon him , scratching and kicking . |
| 21 | The effect of the order of Waite J. , had it not been immediately stayed by this court , might have been to require the health authority to put J. on a ventilator in an intensive care unit , and thereby possibly to deny the benefit of those limited resources to a child who was much more likely than J. to benefit from them . |
| 22 | Shelley and Rosie were lying by the pool one afternoon , Rosie did n't feel like swimming , complaining of indigestion , so Shelley stayed with her under the trees , totally idle and satisfied in the all-pervading heat . |
| 23 | She thought that McAllister would be an added attraction for any nobs they might meet — she was so much prettier than Lottie had been , and knew how to wear her clothes , looking better in her drab outfit than Lottie did in her furs and feathers . |
| 24 | While the tannery try to sort out the best hides before they 're sent , these flaws can not be helped , so Klondyke cut round them , since otherwise the scar might eventually open up and spoil or even split the strap . |
| 25 | And then she started on a list of all my illnesses , accidents and crimes , while everybody except Joe looked at me with disgust . |
| 26 | This development particularly concerned Soviet leaders , although Egypt reserved for itself the right to exercise sovereign control over these facilities . |
| 27 | He leaves his father 's presence , and almost immediately Esau appears with his meal prepared . |
| 28 | [ blank to tail properly so Allen writes in yours sincerely and his name ] |
| 29 | Hinting perhaps of bringing subtle pressures to bear , Watkins reminds us that SunSoft has at least 1,000 engineers working full-time on its Unix implementation , many more than USL has in its entire organisation . |
| 30 | Worse was to come when no less a person than Khomeini called for their execution should the deed prove to be deliberate . |