Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun] [adv] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most arduous of these was in my junior days when I picked up a seaman in the docks attempting to sell cigarettes to a factory worker . |
| 2 | First , I believe that I speak for a number of my hon. Friends when I say that we want the Bill to reach the statute book , come what may , in view of the approaching general election , and I hope that it will be given a fair wind . |
| 3 | The British nurse interrupted my sad ponderings when she returned to my room in great agitation . |
| 4 | I was just packing up my medical papers when I got a call to Ward 16 , now also a reception ward . |
| 5 | my other cousin though she 's got the biggest bats I 've ever seen , massive titlets |
| 6 | And I came across it in my young day when I had no business , but I begged it out them . |
| 7 | This , as we have seen , explains the impossibility of the infinitive in * To snow would be pleasant as against its possible use in I want it to snow : if the generalized person of the infinitive of weather verbs is not specified as referring to the only support with which the notion denoted by these verbs is conceivable , namely it , then one feels a possible reference to any of the ordinal persons which can be referred to by the infinitive 's generalized person ( " you " , " me " , etc. ) , and so the sentence does not make sense . |
| 8 | They appear to survive simply because they are businesses , and it is their commercial structure alone which keeps them alive . |
| 9 | Nellie promised me one of her old dresses when she had a new one . |
| 10 | Ten-year-old Opal ( Gaby Hoffmann ) and 15-year-old Erica ( Samantha Mathis ) simmer with resentment at their mother 's abandonment and completely flip their tiny lids when she takes up with talent spotter Arnold Moss ( Dan Aykroyd ) . |
| 11 | In the rear of their hut his wife was bending over a bowl of water , naked to the waist , washing herself , and she snatched up a towel to cover her bare breasts when she heard Loc hiss a sudden warning . |
| 12 | She wished she could think of something to say that would make him trust her , only after her stupid behaviour earlier she thought it might be a long time before he fully believed her . |
| 13 | Her knickers are hobbling her skinny legs where I abandoned them . |
| 14 | Her grey eyes when she looked at me made me tremble . |
| 15 | The Americans have learned to bring in their big guns whenever they need them . |
| 16 | When it is wrong for their particular purposes then we get the blame for it . |
| 17 | He 'd heard their shrill voices when he made a routine call and seen Eileen Ryan sitting up in her big bed looking strained and miserable . |
| 18 | ‘ If they come back and show anything like their true capabilities then they have to be in consideration . |
| 19 | Then she thought of Miss Clinton , and of her daddy and his white face as he ran to the car to chase Miss Clinton — and of poor Aunt Nellie and her scared eyes when she realised what she 'd done . |
| 20 | SCOTLAND set out to salvage their under-21 season when they round off a disappointing campaign against the Welsh at Myreside , Edinburgh , today ( 3pm ) . |
| 21 | Several victims were so afraid they would n't see their loved ones again they set fire to their pubic hair . |
| 22 | He was layering a hedge in one of his top fields when he saw the party riding along the road towards the forest . |
| 23 | Oh they have this silly man who picks up the telephone in a he 's er got a chef 's hat on and he says Giovanni 's and then it was , it turns out to be one of his old friends so he lapses into sort of Glaswegian . |
| 24 | Brucie should have asked his old mucker why he had apparently given up his comedy career to become a fulltime golfer , but he seemed more interested in sticking to what appeared to be a well-prepared script . |
| 25 | Brucie should have asked his old mucker why he had apparently given up his comedy career to become a full-time golfer , but he seemed more interested in sticking to what appeared to be a well-prepared script . |
| 26 | Brucie should have asked his old mucker why he had apparently given up his comedy career to become a full-time golfer , but he seemed more interested in sticking to what appeared to be a well-prepared script . |
| 27 | Mr McGregor says he 'll be sorry to leave his old job where he 's presided over the education reforms . |
| 28 | I enjoyed reading the review by James Hall of Piero Manzoni , Catalogue Raisonné ( The Art Newspaper , No. 20 , July-September , p.16 ) , not just as publisher of the catalogue and of the first monograph on the artist ( Milan , 1967 ) , but also as a friend of Piero Manzoni , in his private and his public life together we did Tavole di accertamento ( 1958–60 ) , published in 1962 . |
| 29 | During his remaining years here he continued to be active as a Justice of the Peace . |
| 30 | Church wedding , marriage settlement , your mother 's godson or not , he can have his marching orders whenever you say the word . " |