Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [adv] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I looked from his face to O's ( my eyes often followed Madame 's ) I saw an older face , one I thought had been weathered by sex and by that indefinable sorrow of O's into a quiet , strong silence . |
| 2 | Though my brothers too enjoyed shooting , they preferred hunting , and my mother , who had hunted in Ireland before she went to Abyssinia , now took it up again . |
| 3 | Her teeth badly needed treatment . |
| 4 | Eight women said their husbands never passed opinions about how the housework had been done : |
| 5 | But when at last they halted in front of me , their eyes also held disappointment . |
| 6 | A tall man with an exoskeleton frightened her by demanding a retina-scan but the contacts in her eyes apparently passed muster because he let her through . |
| 7 | The coincidence between the ordinary predicative and clausal positions is all the more striking in that the inherently restrictive adjectives can not be so used in predicate qualifying position ( where restriction for identification is not appropriate ) ; this is why there is a further contrast between ( 57 ) and ( 59 ) , even though the adjective is one of this inherently restrictive group in both cases , and despite the fact that the property THIRD is certainly compatible in itself with the noun ox : ( 57 ) she considers the Admiral ( to be ) the worst ( e.g. of the village 's gardeners ) ( 58 ) she declared the squire ( to be ) the lazy ( 59 ) the revellers had eaten the ox the third ( 60 ) they ate their steaks well done Example ( 60 ) shows that eat can support predicate qualifiers , so that incompatibility between the verb and the construction can not be given as a reason for the ungrammaticality of ( 59 ) . |
| 8 | At their most severe , Purism and its allies virtually eliminated modulation and transition curves from their works . |
| 9 | Her administrations were headed first by the " duumvirs " , Godolphin and Marlborough , and from 1710 by Robert Harley ( soon to be Earl of Oxford ) , none of whom were conventional party men ( although Harley , a former Whig , can essentially be regarded as a Tory by Anne 's reign ) , and her governments often contained men from both sides of the party divide . |
| 10 | Their responsibilities often included areas which had little or nothing to do with foreign policy . |
| 11 | Sometimes , where occupation is particularly dense , there is little or no evidence for any associated property to the rear , suggesting that their occupants either worked land elsewhere or derived their livelihood from other specializations . |
| 12 | Having it in their hands never made money their own . |
| 13 | The knife gripped between his teeth slightly distorted Rev. Levitt 's articulation but did not inhibit his chatter , which rose above the shrieks of the fowls beating their wings in panic against the coop and the even more frenzied squawking of the hen imprisoned in his hands . |
| 14 | His parents quietly hoped Angel would marry Mercy one day . |
| 15 | Laurent died at the height of his powers in 1853 , but his ideas slowly gained ground over the next ten years . |
| 16 | His words as well as his paintings however evoked atmosphere . |
| 17 | His studies inevitably included competition between microbes living free in the soil . |
| 18 | His relations also included men of every stratum of the knightly classes ; one of them was a domestic knight of a great baron , with no property save his armour . |
| 19 | The usual jibe was that Crowninshield was a politician without a cause , or rather that he would support any cause so long as it was fashionable , but his critics also attacked Crowninshield for being wealthy , claiming that his eminence was solely due to the vast amounts of money that he spent on his campaigns . |
| 20 | The dog had received a massive electric shock , his children also received shocks and his wife , in trying to comfort the dog , received a nasty bite to her hand . |
| 21 | Since our ancestors presumably sought safety in exactly such spots , his theory would seem to be plausible — assuming that acquired information can be transmitted genetically from adult to offspring , which is unlikely . |
| 22 | ‘ You see , ’ said The Fat Controller once Crispin had disappeared , ‘ your shorts already had shape and form — in his mind . |