Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the more disappointing therefore to learn later that some Seniors members who had blackballed me for Muirfield had now put in an objection to my joining this club too . |
| 2 | Abandoning ourselves to God does not mean that we become quiet and passive . |
| 3 | You wo n't get them on , cos he 's got his on Ricky do n't eat that ! |
| 4 | Someone at Templecombe knew where to get gunpowder , oil and a slow fuse . |
| 5 | Someone at Templecombe knew where to hide both herself and a scaling ladder in the church , as well as how to use that poor hag ; first to deliver messages and then , as a warning to the rest of us , as a victim . ’ |
| 6 | The trouble about that is that nobody in England has ever sounded terribly enthusiastic about the dismemberment of England . |
| 7 | Nobody in Kufra had ever owned a factory , but many were able to imagine what it would be like to find that the workers had become partners . |
| 8 | The most obvious suppliers were the Republic 's fellow democracies , Britain and France , especially the latter which in May had also elected a Popular Front government . |
| 9 | Opposition parties , which in August had unsuccessfully tabled a motion of no confidence against the government 's handling of the law and order situation [ see p. 39053 ] , criticized the emergency measures as undemocratic . |
| 10 | But we 've just had somebody from Glasgow go down to do my own course in Humberside . |
| 11 | Snodgrass , who had studied more sketches and impressions of the lost castles and palaces of Earth than he could remember , said he thought that nothing like Tara had ever existed anywhere in any world . |
| 12 | Although two other Murrays , the unrelated Deryck of Trinidad and David of Barbados , have kept wicket for the West Indies no one from Grenada has yet earned a Test place . |
| 13 | Quite by chance in collecting material for I have come across a cousin who is the communications and Public relations person at so I am to put them in touch with each other as the one in London has just had a letter from another in Vancouver trying to do family research . |
| 14 | THE horrible story of Clare Bastow , the Angel of Death who killed helpless Cathy O'Neill , is the final proof that we in Britain do n't care about our old people . |
| 15 | Although two thirds of the children born out of wedlock are registered by both parents , and illegitimacy is on the increase , we in Britain have not reached the position arrived at in Sweden where , since I January 1988 , partners who live together outside marriage are afforded the same legal rights as those who are married . |
| 16 | I told them how some years ago we in Scotland had not co-operated with the media . |
| 17 | We in Canada have always lived with the imperialism of both the British and the Americans . |
| 18 | But we at Bizzerk have finally unmasked the mastermind behind Various — Mr — Mr Reg ‘ K-Telestar ’ Nobb , 37 , a man we met in a Soho pub . |
| 19 | But we at Bizzerk have finally unmasked the mastermind behind Various — Mr — Mr Reg ‘ K-Telestar ’ Nobb , 37 , a man we met in a Soho pub . |
| 20 | The two men had gone out at dawn each morning , and for five consecutive days their huers had run up and down the cliff paths , whistling and signalling with flags and gorse bushes to guide the two fleets to the shoals ; and while everyone in Polruan had confidently expected Sam Gristy to win hands down , it now looked as though Harry had the edge . |
| 21 | The respect afforded him in England had partly to do with the manner in which he had taken on the mantle of English culture ; in the absence of any figure with equivalent influence , he was eventually to be invested with an almost shamanistic authority . |
| 22 | Monica 's section is , I do n't know how fair it is , but a lot of the pressure that was previously on Steve and before him on Margaret has actually gone to Gail 's post . |
| 23 | Taskopruzade quotes from his father these words of Hocazade 's : " At the time when I was at the Sultan medrese in Bursa I was thirty-three years old and loved nothing save Taskopruzade goes on to say that Hocazade used to take more pride in having taught at the Sultan medrese than in having been kazasker or Mehmed II's Hoca . |
| 24 | The Iranians might welcome a secession in Iraq 's south , especially if the Shias who detached themselves from Baghdad chose later to attach themselves to their co-religionists in Tehran . |