Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly underwriters took blocks of stock which they moved on to clients . |
| 2 | The first is a transcript taken from some ethnographic research which I carried out into the culture of racism amongst young white men living on a large council estate in South London . |
| 3 | And he looked pointedly at his watch , a fine gold hunter which he pulled out of his pocket and cocked an eye at . |
| 4 | We share a vast depth of vulnerability which we cover up in different ways . |
| 5 | ‘ As you see , I 've got this white board which we fill up with all the various activities . |
| 6 | Devlin rammed the muzzle of the Walther into his neck and reached inside Berger 's coat , removing the Mauser which he tossed on to the bar . |
| 7 | Then a bridle which is on the horse 's head and a bit , in the horse 's mouth and reins attached to the bit which we hold on to . |
| 8 | The flood of diverse human experience which it brings down to our own life and time is in no sense or degree foreign to us , but has become the native experience of men of our own race and culture . |
| 9 | As he thrust his hands into the fire and pulled out a burning branch which he waved around without the slightest sign of discomfort , the goat-headed figure thrust his arms out for silence . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm also trying to shake off a cold which I picked up in Belgium . ’ |
| 11 | But then you come to the problem , erm , because for ninety four five , erm , the formula suggests that we would need less staff , that might seem a bit odd but the , the reason is that if you do indeed bring your target times down , then the amount of work which your passing over into the next year is er considerably less , erm than the amount of work which you passed over into this year , |
| 12 | For Gertrude Jekyll the arts and crafts creed of unity of the arts was not just an artistic concept but fundamental to her special art and skills in home-making which she passed on to Lutyens , inspiring him to build not just houses but homes . |
| 13 | At the same time Fastolf s attitude to the practicalities of war reflect a hardheadedness which was essentially of this world : the plan which he drew up in 1435 favouring a ‘ tough ’ approach to the war made little concession to romantic ideas of chivalry which would influence a knight 's conduct in war . |
| 14 | I shared it with a coloured girl who I got on with and we had a good laugh . |
| 15 | She wrapped them in a piece of pale yellow silk which she tied up with a purple ribbon , and enclosed them in a square biscuit tin which she pushed to the very back of the buffet , behind the piles of tablecloths and napkins . |
| 16 | I could still read the name of the English toffee manufacturer on the lid which she prised off with a knife . |
| 17 | As a great admirer of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ dresses , she often wore the long , British-made cotton dresses to Embassy functions — once she found she was clothed in the same fabric as a sofa — an embarrassment which she carried off with great panache . |
| 18 | In Berkeley 's view , the mistaken doctrine of abstraction is also involved in the distinction between primary and secondary qualities , a distinction which he rejects along with the materialism it involves . |
| 19 | He was aware of one thing about Ken on these trips : his concern about a lack of education which he made up for with his voracious reading . |
| 20 | At this stage the fish were all a dull brown which I put down to the new environment — the photograph I has seen showed a tan coloured upper body smothered with black patches . |
| 21 | He hopped in and unzipped the rucksack , taking out only the scope which he pointed back towards the lakeside . |
| 22 | Prince Adam promptly donated the entire museum to a foundation which he set up for the purpose , to which he also ceded all his rights to his pre-war estates and property . |
| 23 | Say if we do n't get it right at the beginning what we get out at the end can be very successful . |
| 24 | This is a penalty that Yugoslavia pays for the large share of its foreign trade which it carries on with countries having inconvertible currencies . |
| 25 | Nkrumah managed to keep up a correspondence by writing on lavatory paper which he wheedled out of his cellmates . |
| 26 | After the coffee and cognac were served she delved into her handbag and withdrew a folded sheet of paper which she held out to him . |
| 27 | These voices were all inside him , waiting to be freed , and the significant point is the formal pattern which he creates out of these disparate personalities . |
| 28 | My parents , children of the Depression , had a credit account at the city 's major department store which they kept up to date every month . |
| 29 | North American house wrens favour sloughed snake skins and the eider duck grows special downy feathers on its own breast which it plucks off with its beak to produce a soft and warming blanket that none of man 's synthetic materials can equal . |
| 30 | Keith Sheridan took four for 34 , a fine performance by the Poloc spinner , and he had the honour of taking top scorer Kenny Jackson 's wicket , thanks to an excellent catch by David Cowan , only two balls after the Freuchie bowler had dislocated a finger which he put back in himself . |