Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ON Saturday 4th January 1992 I took three of my sons to watch the Harlequins v Bath match at the Stoop Memorial Ground . |
| 2 | It 's against my rules to use a calculator ! |
| 3 | Perhaps my attempts to undermine the managers credibility are coming to fruition at last : - ) ) ) |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( Balvinder Singh , in a fit of unusual prudishness , had long since refused to come on my trips to see the eunuchs in Old Delhi : ‘ Mr William . |
| 6 | I closed my eyes to inspect the patterns , but only the burning after-image remained , fading like the glow on the metal plate . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I hovered over the sideboard pretending to be looking for cutlery and strained my ears to catch the conversation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mother would not permit my brothers to impart a slap on my face or bottom , as she abhorred any display of violence . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | However , it is one of my duties to supply the guard dog with water and to clear up his doings each morning before school . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Despite my appeals to postpone the match , things kept bashing away in front of me . |
| 18 | I sought a mandate from my constituents to oppose the poll tax and made it plain exactly what I would do . |
| 19 | ‘ I am asking my accountants to have a look at it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I prefer my ferrets to have the benefit of a flat base where they can lie down in comfort . |
| 22 | I went on a tour with my sisters to see the frescoes in Florence . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ( 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 ’ . ) |
| 25 | 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 ! " |
| 26 | I want to live and I want my children to get an education . |
| 27 | Recently , I returned to Walton junction with my children to get the train to Ormskirk . |
| 28 | 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 ? ’ |
| 29 | It 's one of my jobs to meet the boats and this involves assembling the visitors and talking to them for a short while about the wildlife and rules of the island . |
| 30 | John was an old friend who in the early 1960s had helped me greatly with my struggles to persuade the powers-that-be of the necessity of making the carriage of flight recorders in major public transport aircraft mandatory . |