Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] [noun prp] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long as warm blood flows in my body and I am fit to remember , my experience of Fiona will never be lost . |
| 2 | Certainly my use of PageMaker will now increase , although at the expense of products such as Ready , Set , Go ! rather than Ventura . |
| 3 | Ellen , together with thousands of her comrades from SWAPO will soon be inside the country campaigning for the elections , and come independence will be leading the long hard struggle of reconstructing their country after decades of one of the most brutal colonial occupations . |
| 4 | She also went regularly to exhibitions and on her visits to London would sometimes meet Minton , either for lunch in his studio or at a private view . |
| 5 | A £150 million rights issue in October 1991 enabled MB-Caradon to pay off the bulk of its borrowings and selling its stake in Carnaud-Metalbox would almost certainly be followed by an acquisition in the building materials sector . |
| 6 | For instance , when poor forms part of an identifying phrase with liar it is natural that its notion of DEFICIENT should most readily be understood to mean a deficiency in the matter of lying ; when a speaker chooses not to use poor attributively but in the predicative construction then a natural inference is that he or she intends the notion DEFICIENT to be taken in the way more typical of human beings in general , that is referring to their material resources . |
| 7 | Those four years left a black cloud over everything with the ever-recurring casualties among our friends and relatives and the suffocating misery I remember when our parents could no longer hide their anxiety at the big German push in the spring of 1918 when it seemed their advance towards Paris would never stop . |
| 8 | Its policy on Europe could best be described as jerking from one extreme to another within a few years , at one moment leaving the European Community altogether and in the next being willing to sign up to anything for which the EC asks ; at one moment supporting the closed shop and in the next denigrating it . |
| 9 | For six weeks , Charlotte had sustained the pretence that her suspicions about Maurice could somehow be stifled . |
| 10 | But her remarks in America would subsequently be picked up by the papers here — so she would have two platforms . |
| 11 | With a little guile her visit to Chertsey might even be achieved quite soon . |
| 12 | Now , the elderly man who endured a waiter 's dirty fingers in his lemonade at Montrose could hardly have been more famous or respected , and there he sits in a dirty inn , happy to enjoy a little quiet , and quite at ease to do so , even in the company of one of the most garrulous men in the realm whose nature abhorred a conversational vacuum ; Johnson even expressed a simple delight in being thought as silent as a ghost . |
| 13 | Jerry Rawlings , Chairman of the PNDC and Head of State , from contesting the forthcoming presidential elections , on the grounds that his father was Scottish and that his allegiance to Ghana could therefore not be taken for granted , and because charges were still outstanding against him arising from the coups in May 1979 , June 1981 and December 1981 [ see pp. 30437-51 ; 31477-86 ] . |
| 14 | He said that if the Tories had policies that were not working for the Scottish economy then the silence of the SNP since last year 's general election told the real story of what independence for Scotland would really mean . |
| 15 | ‘ But our experience in Cleveland can also show the Czechs that there is a future to be built by replacing obsolete industry with new skills , new industries and new products . ’ |
| 16 | Your ride to Lincoln will probably illustrate how awful long-distance cycling in Britain can be , and how few facilities are provided . |
| 17 | We 're in Europe , our role in Europe can only increase . |