Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] of [pos pn] [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | At first he thought I was mad , but when I took the live animals out of my pocket to show him , he believed me . |
| 2 | A few years ago I saw a couple of Eastenders stars come in erm and Ross whatever his name forget his name there were two young girls standing in front of me scraping pennies out of their purse to get in though we loved that character they wanted to come that night we 've got to get girls like that youngsters like that interested to come on other nights and then come again that 's what needs doing . . |
| 3 | AUSTRALIA have taken action after their failure to reach the World Cup semi-finals , by leaving five established players out of their party to tour Sri Lanka in August and September . |
| 4 | David Poole , who came into ballet in Cape Town a few months before John Cranko in 1944 , described his beginnings : how he saw his first ballet performance on a Saturday night at City Hall , spoke to friends there of his desire to dance , and on the Sunday was told by them that they had arranged with Dulcie Howes for him to attend classes at the University Ballet School . |
| 5 | Hoggart , claiming with some justification that ‘ in the WEA today … we are suffering from an uncertainty of purpose and recurrent feelings of guilt ’ advocated the raising of academic standards in courses and a readiness to seek working-class students regardless of their commitment to trade unionism or political emancipation : ‘ as an educational association our business is to educate not to train social reformers ’ , and accordingly courses in literature were as valuable as those in the social sciences . |
| 6 | What , thus , may we infer exactly from Johnson 's remark that he would go two miles out of his way to meet Monboddo ? |