Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much interest was shown in Medau at a recent ‘ Come and Try It ’ day at Nede House , East Grinstead where we held our own alongside aerobic sessions , soroptomists demonstrations , ballet . |
| 2 | Leavis 's reputation as a crabbed stylist and boldly innovative thinker who had been rejected by a university where he spent his entire life was largely a figment of his own mind , and so much of his post-war life was devoted to mythologising his own career that it is difficult , by now , to recognise what a conventional figure in his place and day he always was . |
| 3 | Then there is the 39-member-strong Royal Society of Portrait Paints which operates from the Mall Galleries where it holds its annual exhibition . |
| 4 | Among them , the suggestion that during surgery her head was n't properly supported , or that a surgical hammer used in the operation was applied with so much force that it damaged her spinal cord . |
| 5 | The only dish she made that we could tolerate was syrup tart , which we praised extravagantly , with the result that it became our unhealthy staple diet . |
| 6 | I understand the reply that you gave my Hon. Friend the Member for Walsall , North ( Mr. Winnick ) , but is it not possible to ask the Leader of the House , who is present , when we will have a statement about Mr. Rushdie and the ayatollah 's decision ? |
| 7 | A passing labourer directed her , and it was in this anxious , preoccupied state of mind that she made her first appearance in Overclyst . |
| 8 | They think that they are far too rare to travel with the ordinary animals on Noah 's ark so they build their own ’ . |
| 9 | They think that they are far too rare to travel with the ordinary animals on Noah 's ark so they build their own ’ . |
| 10 | It is as a stranger that I greet my own self , and see it as an unknown fellow traveller through time . |
| 11 | It was on one of these weekend trips to Regina that I wrote my first outside interview for the paper — an interview with John Philip Sousa . |
| 12 | Turning now to those carers who said in their first interview that they wanted their relative to remain at home , one would expect that those in the action sample would be more likely to have retained that preference than those in the control sample ( assuming that the project has provided extra home care when needed and therefore indirectly or directly assisted or relieved the principal carers ) . |
| 13 | ( 4 ) Where a lessor is proceeding by action or otherwise to enforce a right of re-entry or forfeiture under any covenant , proviso , or stipulation in a lease , or for non-payment of rent , the court may , on application by any person claiming as an under-lessee any estate or interest in the property comprised in the lease or any part thereof , either in the lessor 's action ( if any ) or in any action brought by such person for that purpose , make an order vesting , for the whole term of the lease or any less term , the property comprised in the lease , or any part thereof in any person entitled as under-lessee to any estate or interest in such property upon such conditions as to execution of any deed or other document , payment of rent , costs , expenses , damages , compensation , giving security , or otherwise , as the court in the circumstances of each case may think fit , but in no case shall any such under-lessee be entitled to require a lease to be granted to him for any longer term than he had his original sub-lease . |
| 14 | But it was in the opera house not the organ loft that he found his true métier . |
| 15 | The Japanese will be offered greater access to Europe , on condition that they open their domestic markets — not only for cars but for a whole range of industrial and service sectors — to European businessmen . |
| 16 | Although Gascoigne found it difficult to escape the attentions of Walter Bonacina until he produced his headed goal four minutes from the end , he did not lose his temper . |
| 17 | I think of Claudia and Victoria and Candice and I compare their facial motions in an impertinent fashion . |
| 18 | She was mesmerised by the intense , dark eyes and he stroked her flushed face , before tangling his fingers in her shining hair . |
| 19 | Oh and I happened to be standing in the back kitchen you know and I got hold of this saucepan and I picked my little brother up and put him under my arm in case he got hurt and I oh I belted my father from his head to his feet with the saucepan . |
| 20 | Ya see , I just flew in from the States and I took your British Airways — my all-time favourite airline — and you know what they did ? |
| 21 | We can not too strongly condemn such a practice and we recommend its total abolition … |
| 22 | He had little in common with other boys and girls in his neighbourhood and he remembers his secondary school simply as ‘ horrid ’ . |
| 23 | Once there , they had changed , as generation succeeded generation , to suit their new homes until they became their present species . |
| 24 | At this stage Dr Mumby gave him drops of dilutions of the substance into his mouth until he became his normal self again . |
| 25 | Her voice was as steady as a rock and she met his silvery-green eyes without flinching . |
| 26 | They probably reminded her too closely of sounds of feline distress and she did her best to silence them . |
| 27 | The withdrawal of earlier death has been so marked that today most English people will have no direct experience of the grief of bereavement until they lose their own parents , when they are themselves well into middle age . |
| 28 | As a teenager he had been attracted to hear Paisley because he shared his evangelical religion . |
| 29 | Equally , Sigibert and Guntram may have been opposed to Gundovald because he threatened their own positions . |
| 30 | The attacker then turns his body in a half-circle while he raises his right leg , using the left leg for support . |