Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] [vb -s] [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Royal Yachting Association ( RYA ) trainer Hart sets out to familiarise his reader with the equipment , rigging and de-rigging techniques and how to recognise a good sailing location . |
| 2 | Because our neighbour country of South-West Africa has already got its freedom . |
| 3 | Then he discovers the bar owner doubles up as the town sheriff and that gunman Lyle has just given him a lift . |
| 4 | The mixture of an SD1 engine , Range Rover flywheel and exhaust in a Range Rover does not give you the power that you might expect , so be careful when mixing engine components such as flywheels , camshafts , distributor and carbs from different engine applications . |
| 5 | Whether Socrates himself was ever helped towards a clearer understanding of matters by this process Plato does not tell us , but I must say I have always found that a tutorial strongly stimulated my own thinking . |
| 6 | Thank goodness France does not start its Five Nations campaign until February 1st , giving them another two weeks to put their house in order . |
| 7 | Her husband James has also lost his greatness . |
| 8 | I 'm going to make my first million — mainly because my wife Jane has already spent it ! |
| 9 | Look at this lovely stuff Dave does n't like it |
| 10 | the chasm is too great though the gulf between God and man is , is far too wide and we try our various planks , our planks of being good , of doing nice things , planks of being religious , of being confirmed , of being baptized , of going to church of perhaps attending church , perhaps even becoming a member of a church , the plank of saying prayers I think you know and God does n't even hear us , the bible tells us , if I regarded iniquity in my heart God does n't hear me , he says I will not hear you , the only prayer that God hears from the sinner is God be merciful to me a sinner and we 've tried that plank and it does n't work , of course it does n't because that 's not what it means to be a Christian , the plank of bible reading , we can read the bible , we can memorise it , it does n't make us a Christian , Jesus said to some of the religious leaders of his days , you search the scriptures for you think that in them you have life , but you will not come to me , and so it 's not being in religious , er being religious or any thing else as we well know , it 's something far , far more fundamental than that , those words that Jesus said to Nicodemus you must be born again , that new birth , that new start , starting all over again , and so what happens , what 's it all about , what is it to , what is it to be a Christian . |
| 11 | I do n't think it 's right , my niece Sue does n't think it 's right , they 're doing it in school , it 's part of the national curriculum , as soon as they can form the letters now , they join them , I said I go to King university and I do n't join up my letters |
| 12 | Show me a woman who says Dane Jacobsen does n't make her go weak at the knees and I 'll show you a liar ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Show me a woman who says Dane Jacobsen does n't make her go weak at the knees , and I 'll show you a liar ! ’ |
| 14 | So if group captain White has already given you an example of the reduction we 've made in in some of our er scalings of those equipment , er it was also suggested by the contractors that economies could be achieved by reducing the number of bases , the extent to which all squadrons should be fully multi role equipped and by contractualising more of the second and third line support , erm , we and the other partners are still considering these proposals in detail er and have n't actually taken decisions yet but there are certainly some possibilities in that area for er economies against the original cost estimate . |
| 15 | My mate John has n't heard anything from them yet . |
| 16 | There 's little Bill Ward has n't turned his hand to in the first sixty years … from Tragic opera … to Singing puppets |
| 17 | Old man Scully has not put his prices up since 1947 and he probably bought his printing set from John Bull himself . |
| 18 | Seeing that my daughter Anna has not availed herself of my advice touching the objectionable practice of going about with her arms bare to the elbows , my will is that , should she continue after my death this violation of the modesty of her sex , all goods , chattels , moneys , land , and other that I have devised to her for the maintenance of her future life shall pass to the oldest of the sons of my sister Caroline . |
| 19 | In the book Tracy does n't tell us anything about them except their names merely that she could n't work with them . |
| 20 | All the same , there is something irritating about the way Phil sits there taking everything so much for granted — his presence in the house , Howard 's discretion in the report , even the coffee . |
| 21 | In the morass of detail Mills brings forward to describe his ‘ power elite ’ , it is easy to ignore this fundamental assumption which precedes his empirical work : ‘ In so far as the power elite is composed of men of similar origin and education , in so far as their careers and their styles of life are similar , there are psychological and social bases for their unity , resting upon the fact that they are of similar social type and leading to the fact of their easy intermingling ’ . |
| 22 | She has her own home in Mossley Hill and her 20-year-old son Neil calls around to visit her regularly . |
| 23 | Lion cub SON Liam has already shown his prowess with a five-wicket international haul |