Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's against my rules to use a calculator ! |
| 2 | I felt that I might be able to apply what I learned — if indeed I learned anything — to my attempts to reconstruct the life of Elsie . |
| 3 | I hope that I may have encouraged some of my readers to use the garter carriage and next month I will be exploring stitch patterns and ways of combining these into interesting garments . |
| 4 | If my past work has any value at all , it lies in my having exhorted my readers to love the forest depths ; to feel the enchantment of their vast silences , their cunning hidden flowers ; their murky scents ; the sighing of their leaves ; the teasing hints of sunlight or moonlight through the treetops. forests by coupling with his bride in full view . |
| 5 | The hotel is a large , rambling building and I strain my ears to hear the laughter and running feet of the young Thomson , the boy version of the man with the thick glasses and the white cantilever-domed head . |
| 6 | I hovered over the sideboard pretending to be looking for cutlery and strained my ears to catch the conversation . |
| 7 | The hon. Gentleman does not need to rely on my words to rebut every word that he has just said ; he need only read the latest edition of the in-house magazine of the Confederation of Health Service Employees , where it is written : ’ The Mid-Glamorgan District Linen Service is efficient because it has no choice . |
| 8 | Mother would not permit my brothers to impart a slap on my face or bottom , as she abhorred any display of violence . |
| 9 | ‘ I have held my hand time and again , and even when they drove me to act I have abated my askings to keep the balance true and save Wales from worse enmity . |
| 10 | But then I return to the knifeblade , flexing gently under my weight as I try to shift my centre of gravity as far as possible over my feet to protect the belay . |
| 11 | However , it is one of my duties to supply the guard dog with water and to clear up his doings each morning before school . |
| 12 | There were twenty five thousand , I , I would n't like to see twenty five thousand on that ground again , because I , I used to smoke at the time and we were packed that tight in the ground I could n't even get my hands down to my pockets to get a cigarette out , so the erm after the first few games they started to draw at home and then they seemed to lose the impetus and that they still held a good position in the league , but the following season Liverpool were in the second division at the time , and I , I went to that match and Walsall scored first through Colin and er , they went on to beat us six-one in the end . |
| 13 | Despite my appeals to postpone the match , things kept bashing away in front of me . |
| 14 | I sought a mandate from my constituents to oppose the poll tax and made it plain exactly what I would do . |
| 15 | ‘ I am asking my accountants to have a look at it . |
| 16 | Even a fox would bolt from her on occasions , but all the times I have ferreted I have never known my ferrets to bolt a fox . |
| 17 | I prefer my ferrets to have the benefit of a flat base where they can lie down in comfort . |
| 18 | He says when I go home tonight I want to be able to have water from my taps — and I want my children and my grand-children to have the water they need to live . |
| 19 | ( Of course , for my friends to stand a chance of receiving any correspondence from me means that I either have to wait for the guilt level to rise sufficiently ( which is a slow process ) , or to unearth other things to put on my list like ‘ Install central heating ’ and ‘ Decorate bathroom ’ . ) |
| 20 | Daphne : " I would be scared out of my wits to have a giraffe — it 's a wild animal and far too big for our garden ! " |
| 21 | I want to live and I want my children to get an education . |
| 22 | Recently , I returned to Walton junction with my children to get the train to Ormskirk . |
| 23 | I passed this on to the assembled crowd — Lisabeth in her dressing-gown constituted a crowd by herself — and held up my hands to silence the chorus of ‘ what'll-we-do-now ? ’ |
| 24 | Mr Dromgoole said this would flatten , if not drop in the new year , as the group reins back its activities to minimise the amount of levy paid to the Government . |
| 25 | Based in a back alley recording studio in an unfashionable part of the city , they had married their talents to perfect a pop formula that was selling millions . |
| 26 | Now rival company Wirral Peninsular Care Limited says its proposals to create a training and conference centre at Hillbark would meet the council 's planning brief for the site , and satisfy local conservation groups . |
| 27 | For the last three months , the Government has been collecting responses to its proposals to overhaul the law on leasehold flats . |
| 28 | They went through , moving slowly , cautiously , side by side , using their lamps to light the way ahead of them . |
| 29 | As will become clearer , each State may have its own mechanisms enabling its courts to authorise the service of process or the taking of evidence outside its territorial jurisdiction ; there may also be measures of compulsion available against persons within the jurisdiction which enable the court effectively to secure evidence or information even though the primary sources of information are abroad . |
| 30 | Pearl advised its shareholders to take no action . |