Example sentences of "[vb -s] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anderson has Kelly on the ropes with the telephone chat-up technique he started on radio . |
| 2 | In similarly insincere terms he thanks Duncan for the honours he has received from him : These speeches are subtly calculated by Shakespeare , for their insincerity is obvious to us ( the affected metaphors , the flabby repetitions ) but not to the recipients . |
| 3 | Has Britain against the odds re-entered a period of small government ? |
| 4 | After so many hours , lives , speeches spent , Thus once again says Nestor from the Greeks : ‘ Deliver Helen , and all damage else — As honour , loss of time , travail expense , Wounds , friends , and what else dear that is consumed In hot digestion of this comorant war — Shall be struck off . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It is all of God that you are in Christ Jesus , ’ says Paul to the Corinthians ( 1 Cor . |
| 6 | ‘ You received the Spirit , ’ says Paul to the Galatians . |
| 7 | ‘ By the time I 'd got to Surrey , ’ says Shaun of the trials and tribulations of recording ‘ Yes Please ’ , ‘ I 'd had a great time in Barbados letting off steam and everything . |
| 8 | FLASHBACK : Louis greets Ray after the Olympics |
| 9 | The international at Lansdowne Road in 10 days could be traumatic for Ireland , whose only successes since January 1988 have been achieved against weak opposition which , oddly enough , includes Wales at the Arms Park last February . |
| 10 | The only all-First Division tie of the round takes Maesteg to the Arms Park to take on top of the table Cardiff . |
| 11 | What excites Lévi-Strauss about the possibilities of structuralist analysis is its potential for a formalized analysis of meaning . |
| 12 | Bede specifically excludes Kent from the kingdoms south of the Humber which he regarded as subject to Eadwine ( HE 11 , 5 ) ( see above , p. 43 ) . |
| 13 | The new company was named CFS Aeroengines from the surnames of its directors , . |
| 14 | ‘ Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law , or by hearing with faith ? ’ asks Paul of the Galatians who were being tempted to go back to legalism ( Gal. 3:2 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ On the pendulum of self-exposure that oscillates between aggressively exhibitionistic Mailerism and sequestered Salingerism , I 'd say that I occupy a midway position ’ , explains Roth in The Facts — in a prefatory letter to his alter ego of earlier books , the novelist Nathan Zuckerman , who is granted a letter of reply at the end of this one and a perusal of the intervening narrative . |
| 16 | ‘ The questions that are asked of me by Asian people sometimes are the questions that are asked of Karim when he portrays Changez as a characters in his own play , ’ he explains . |
| 17 | Brandreth sells EC to the Tories |
| 18 | A scene in the book singled out by many of its critical admirers — in which Robyn instructs Vic in the theories of metaphor and metonymy with reference to a Silk Cut commercial on a hoarding — is absent from the serial . |
| 19 | ( This hits ROS between the eyes but only his eyes show it . |