Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [noun] [verb] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his return to duty , and the award of a DSO , he was ordered to Bomber Command where Harris confirmed that he was to command the Pathfinder Force . |
| 2 | Fraud appears to have increased rather than decreased , and it can not be argued that this is merely a matter of greater success in detection , as many of the frauds only come to light when investors find that they are unable to obtain their funds ( or the directors of the institution are found to be in sunny climes abroad , with little intention of returning to the UK ) . |
| 3 | They encountered no opposition though Ranulf maintained that he had seen a rider watching them as they crossed the bridge at Dalmeny . |
| 4 | At first , the afternoon was as much a pleasure as McAllister thought that it might be . |
| 5 | During the trial , Lord Maclean heard a taped confession where MacIver admitted that he suggested which lorry to hijack and drove to Inverness a week before the robbery to check the vehicle 's routine . |
| 6 | He and Ollie and Mac made a good team , playing at various Underground stations all that autumn and winter until Mac left because he had found a place to live up north and they took Peter on . |
| 7 | In his forties it grew worse and he decided to see a specialist When Alan mentioned that he had taken a lot of antibiotics just before the urticaria began , the specialist suggested that he try a diet with no sugar and very little starch . |
| 8 | She felt entirely responsible for the accident although Berg croaked that it was all his own fault . |
| 9 | When factory industry began to take over , however , the mills were built at Hebden Bridge below , to take advantage of the water-power provided by the river and the transport facility of the canal , so Hebden Bridge grew fast into a busy mill town whilst Heptonstall remained as it had always been . |
| 10 | Katharine 's face was a picture when Jennie suggested that she ‘ have a bit of fund with some flying changes ’ . |
| 11 | Some companies will allow you to fit the meter while others insist that you use their plumber — in one case , at a cost of up to £300 . |
| 12 | Lorentz spoke of the film 's brilliance whilst Photoplay suggested that it had come ‘ as near to reproducing reality as anything you have ever witnessed ’ . |
| 13 | The announcement of his departure came just one day after Barclays revealed that it is to look outside the bank for a new chief executive to take over some of the powers presently held by chairman and chief executive , Andrew Buxton . |
| 14 | She sat down without a word and shook her head when Whitlock asked if she wanted coffee . |
| 15 | I know you know of it and have even assayed it in a pipe , as they did at court when Astraea ruled and she was inclined to taste it now and then . |
| 16 | The development work is n't thought to be linked to Sun in any formal way , but the news comes just a week after Sun revealed that it is playing with a 64-bit Sparc , and outlined its intent to define the ground rules for such environments through a new release of Sparc International 's interface specification for 64-bit Sparc architectures ( UX No 380 ) . |
| 17 | But even harder to make are decisions about adoption when Marian knows that she is severing families in a permanent way . |
| 18 | In that sense the traditional notion of Picasso as a more conceptual artist than Matisse holds but I think only in that sense . |
| 19 | ‘ My aunt in America sent us a photo of herself in a black dress after Grandad died and it was very plain . |
| 20 | Dada came in ; Hunt evening coat , waistcoat fitting him with the same exact pinch as waistcoats had when he was twenty . |
| 21 | I see myself as one of these animals , and I await with resignation but with confidence the moment when either I live out my life as providence decrees or I die as prescribed , convinced that I shall thus be useful in two ways , first to France and then to humanity . |
| 22 | No need to go to bed when Amabel went because she did not like to keep the servants sitting up and had had nightmares , ever since Gemma 's birth , about accidents with bedtime candles . |
| 23 | Because of the way PPs are structured , they may well give a better pension than SERPS does if you pay in when you are young ; but the older you are , the less value they are . |
| 24 | How does that help us in the outside world if people know that we we give good training ? |
| 25 | No inhumanely produced veal need be eaten in this country if consumers say that they do not want to touch the filthy stuff . |
| 26 | Fabia had no idea if Lubor knew that she had travelled to Prague with his employer last Sunday . |
| 27 | It is not really , I suppose , a bad school as schools go but it is a sorry waste of time & energy … |
| 28 | They were chatting about the tournament and John of Gaunt 's invitation when Cranston stopped as he heard a sound behind them : a slithering across the cobbles . |
| 29 | Instead , the value of Italy 's currency shot to the top of the parameters and there was a mass inflow of money as people realised that it was a more stable currency and there was less of a case for high interest rates , which were brought down still further . |
| 30 | It 's even a lot of money I think compared with the what is it , one point four million pounds that is transferred th through the youth and community budget into the Highfields area and that itself is a lot of money when people recognise that we are actually spending the equivalent of one tenth of the total county youth and community budget in one area of the county . |