Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [modal v] [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHILE the people of Hong Kong , stripped of any useful British nationality by successive immigration laws , fear for their future after the massacre at Peking in June , many Macao citizens , just 40 miles away across the Pearl River delta , rest secure in the knowledge that Portugal will offer them a guaranteed home of last resort after it returns their territory to China in 1999 . |
| 2 | Harry was already convinced that Ann would give him a son . |
| 3 | She worried that Chris might fall and break his leg , that Annie might swallow a stone and have to go to hospital , that Alan might give himself an ulcer through working too hard . |
| 4 | The result did our boys a certain amount of good , but now — following our own bizarre 3–3 draw in Poznam — we will have to venture abroad in the fervent hope that Poland can do us a Big Favour . |
| 5 | Fleury had been expecting that Louise would pay him a visit before she retired to bed . |
| 6 | It was clear that he did this every day , and Meredith could imagine what a shock her letter would have been when he 'd thought that Antonio 's son was on his way to claim his inheritance . |
| 7 | But I wondered if Alexei could do us a favour : a friend of ours has a problem with his car ; do you think … |
| 8 | If Yggdrasil can give itself a human-seeming external form , then surely Daine could mimic an AI 's physical body . |
| 9 | If he treats his son truly as God 's , more God 's son than his own , and is prepared to hand him back , then God 's new era will surely dawn , and Abraham can give it a fitting name : 'The Lord provides ! ’ |
| 10 | If then we have uneasy feelings about modern art , it looks as if Joyce must confirm them a thousandfold . |
| 11 | I hope Aziz and Mohammed can make it a ‘ treat of a trek ’ to many visitors in the sunny years ahead . |
| 12 | But Charles could prove himself a good lord : when his fidelis ( faithful man ) Adalgar was captured by Charles 's half-sister ( she supported her full brother Lothar in the fraternal conflict of 841 ) and taken to her stronghold of Laon , Charles rode through the night with a small retinue to achieve Adalgar 's release . |
| 13 | The agreement gives London Electricity responsibility for the operation and maintenance of the systems while BAA will pay it an annual fee , set at £13.5 million for the first year , linked to the retail price index . |
| 14 | On Christmas morning , Murphy brought the carriage round to the front door long before Alexandra could send him a message to say she would drive herself to church . |
| 15 | But before Creggan could say it a look in her eyes stopped him and he waited . |
| 16 | For the Christian the source of human values is neither the result of genetics nor the product of human reason nor even as Hayek would have it a process of cultural selection by which certain rules of conduct become accepted and others rejected , but the revelation by God through his Word in history . |