Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [pos pn] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day-to-day management is in the hands of the managing director , and if the number of members or the importance of the functions of the association or its character justifies it , a supervisory board may be created . |
| 2 | The tightly packed schiltrons might have been in some danger if the enemy 's Welsh archers had been used at once ; but Edward or his advisers thought they could settle things swiftly by an all-out cavalry charge . |
| 3 | As Primrose and her brother rejoined them at the table , Madeleine continued to pursue her own thoughts . |
| 4 | David handed the statuette to his father telling him he 'd won the contest and his father told him he knew he would succeed in the end . |
| 5 | After all the expected taunts from me that he would not have the nerve and my mum telling him he was crazy , we decided to go along and watch . |
| 6 | I was very pleased with the result and my friend thought it looked like fashion lace . |
| 7 | All she was capable of doing was gazing at him , hardly aware of her own nakedness , while her eyes and her mind told her that , far from having to pay for women 's favours , if Rune Christensen had been so inclined he could have made a fortune as a gigolo . |
| 8 | Twice his eyes and his feet caused him to be rejected . |
| 9 | " Real work , " he emphasised , with a proud but discreet smile , inviting Alice with his eyes and his manner to understand him . |
| 10 | Your eyes and your mouth show me that feelings are important to you , but your forehead shows me that common sense is your main guide in life . |
| 11 | ‘ Your eyes and your lips tell me one thing ; your mind , your voice , your hands protest … |
| 12 | Kenny Milne is far and away the Scots ' best hooker and his injury robbed them of a great deal in both tests . |
| 13 | It enables you to attach a text message in any cell and its menu allows you to edit , copy and move notes and to find a string within your existing notes . |
| 14 | He runs a one-man practice and his patients think he 's half-way between a saint and a witch doctor . ’ |
| 15 | Father and I were going to go in there whether or not Balbindor and his son accompanied us . |
| 16 | I feel that it shows itself in the contrast between the child 's — we 're talking about children for the moment , although obviously there are dyslexic adults — it shows itself in the contrast between the person 's ability to express him or herself in words and their ability to put it down on paper and to read it off paper , and it 's this contrast which often arouses one 's suspicions that there might be some problem and , having gone into it a little , we find that it stems from a failure of the sensory motor system — the brain is n't processing the information it 's receiving through the ear and eye . |
| 17 | McIllvanney must have been Billingsley 's source for the policeman 's information about my boat and my plans to repair her . |
| 18 | ‘ We can leave Edinburgh quickly and quietly , before Ruthven and his men stop us . |
| 19 | On Friday nights , I 'd stay out till Saturday and my friends envied me and would say , ‘ I wish my mother was more like yours , ’ and I 'd think , ‘ I wish mine was more like yours . ’ |
| 20 | We had time to look round the shop before leaving for our BR train , whither Graham , his daughter Sue and her daughters escorted us . |
| 21 | Well the servants three servants are given one talent and their master tells them to erm do with it what they could in a certain space of time and he would reward them . |
| 22 | ‘ Matthew 's different ; there 's a weakness there from his father 's side and his uncle knew it . |
| 23 | However this interpretation is ruled out by the following co-text and his wife overhears him . |
| 24 | ‘ Nichols and his writers wanted it both ways . |
| 25 | ‘ Bearing in mind that it will be Ian McGeechan 's last game as Scotland coach , it 's a perfect setting for Gavin and his side to give him a fitting send-off , ’ said Best , who will be taking a video of the Murrayfield game back with him and will spend this week poring over it , looking at both the performances of Scotland and potential Lions . |
| 26 | Yet he was hardly a budding saint and his success made him unpopular with both masters and boys . |
| 27 | As Timberlake and his colleagues put it in this brief but incisive review , greens ‘ suggest that this thing called the environment is a sacred garden set aside from human activities . ’ |
| 28 | But the fowl were irritated by this invasion of their hut and their clucking gave her away . |
| 29 | But none was forthcoming from Xanthe , and the silence , like so many in Miranda 's experience , quickened her panic and her urge to make her mark . |
| 30 | AIAS [ Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies ] tried to get in touch with Gould and his publishers to ask them to withdraw the book from sale , or at least remove this photo . |