Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are distinct from the longer stories not only in terms of content , but in graphology also : most are italicised , which separates them visually from the other material . |
| 2 | Should n't be surprised if it drives me straight into the arms of the recruiting officer . |
| 3 | He hated them before the war and he hates them now with a depth you gentlemen here would find hard to understand . ’ |
| 4 | It receives them automatically as a member of the European Broadcasting Union , a privilege granted to it because 15 member stations of that cosy cartel own the half of Eurosport which Murdoch does not . |
| 5 | An Elf war fleet led by Tyrion defeats the Norse in a huge sea battle and drives them away from the coast of Ulthuan . |
| 6 | In the hit movie Withnall and I , the two visit Riggindale and it drives them almost to the brink of distraction . |
| 7 | The pluralizing nature of texts as varied as Robbe-Grillet 's Le Miroir qui revient and La Maison de Rendez-vous , Claude Simon 's Triptyque and Les Géorgiques , Pinget 's L'Apocryphe and Sarraute 's Enfance places them firmly within the postmodernist camp . |
| 8 | The child finds the same letters on the eight cubes and places them correctly in the tray underneath the card . |
| 9 | I turn away so I ca n't look at her , but she leans over and looks me straight in the face . |
| 10 | He looks me straight in the eyes as he takes his hand from my glass . |
| 11 | Kellard looks me briefly in the eye . |
| 12 | THE HONEST old hired hand who has seen it all looks you unwaveringly in the eye . |
| 13 | Naomi looks her straight in the eye , and demands , in a stage-whisper , ‘ Is it anything … to do with … sex ? ’ |
| 14 | He left a Will which places him firmly in the central Anglican tradition : |
| 15 | He unfolds it there as the antithesis between sin and grace . |
| 16 | It can not , except in a thoroughly perverted form , be a satisfactory instrument for party political indoctrination and it can not live happily in a situation which subjects it continually to the harsher pressures of party political confrontation . ’ |
| 17 | The little girl holds the caterpillar , plies it carefully from the twig to which it had moulded itself . |
| 18 | We are standing in that kitchen where I 've shared her meals and laughter , and she finishes drying the glass and places it carefully on the table . |
| 19 | The victim-to-be purchases , or is given , the W.N.B. and places it unsuspectingly in the top pocket of his or her jacket , with the humorous head protruding . |
| 20 | For example , Mr X gives property to Mr Z who holds it absolutely for the infant unmarried son of Mr X. That is a transfer of an asset and a settlement for the purposes of ss663 and 664 ( although the Revenue may not apply ss663 where the income is not paid to the infant ) . |
| 21 | He sticks one between his teeth but does n't light it — just holds it there like a storeman 's pencil . |
| 22 | Eliot 's ‘ word , / Swaddled ’ , with its suggestion of Christ 's ‘ swaddling clothes ’ ( Luke 2 : 12 ) places us firmly within the area of fertility and birth , but Christ in ‘ Gerontion ’ comes not as baby but as frightening beast , associated , like totemic animals , with fertility . |
| 23 | Love is a strange force like gravity that holds us together in the transcendent and will suffer no parting . |
| 24 | The larger Diocesan pilgrimage joins us later in the week . |
| 25 | She comes back across the room , punches me playfully in the chest , then flops on to the sofa . |
| 26 | He grabs me amicably by the shoulder , pinches me firmly , and explains that since the Chinese left no new equipment has been purchased . |
| 27 | Eyuphuro , from the Macua word meaning whirlwind , is an apt name for a band which whirls you away from the all-too-prevalent perception of Mozambique as a place of war , famine and refugees , to the image of a young and dynamic society . |
| 28 | Eyuphuro , from the Macua word meaning whirlwind , is an apt name for a band which whirls you away from the all-too-prevalent perception of Mozambique as a place of war , famine and refugees , to the image of a young and dynamic society . |
| 29 | Nicky Henderson 's Wont Be Gone Long ( 2.20 ) has top weight but is not badly treated considering he beat Lockwood Prince by 15 lengths at Chepstow last May and meets him here on the same terms . |
| 30 | Nicky Henderson 's Wont Be Gone Long ( 2.20 ) has top weight but is not badly treated considering he beat Lockwood Prince by 15 lengths at Chepstow last May and meets him here on the same terms . |