Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 But the other important element is that you have to reflect the style of the original , look at the notes I 've made at the bottom of the page , please .
2 For all these reasons I have come to the conclusion , and I hold , that section 39 does override the injunction .
3 For these reasons I have come to the conclusion and I hold , that the banks have failed to bring their case within article 5(3) .
4 For these reasons I have come to the conclusion , and I hold , that the banks have failed to bring themselves within article 6(1) .
5 Young Trotsky finished his printing and began to pack the copies I had stapled into an old US Army haversack .
6 I have no doubt that dedicated woodturners everywhere would scoff at the idea of engineers ' lathes being used for woodturners , but when I think of the various moulds and patterns I have made over the years with comparative ease but which due to their intricacies could only have been made with extreme difficulty on a wood lathe — if at all .
7 But fascinated as I was by these aquatic birds , I longed to see the falcons and owls I 'd seen at the zoo flying free , and this is a rare occurrence .
8 I did my best to produce an attractive synopsis , embellishing it with some of the sketches I had made on the spot .
9 I was in lane 1 , which I found strange considering the positions and times I had achieved in the semi-final .
10 ‘ He made the ears out of an old pair of mouse ears I 'd used for a previous party , ’ she says .
11 I wondered how comfortable he would be and what he would make of the covers I had borrowed from the farmer 's wife .
12 Far from ‘ letting me down ’ , the methods I had adopted from the Centre may well have been helping me .
13 They could not keep it going in the quarter-final , though they gave Richard and Jonathon Lavelle , of The Berkshire , five shots and beat them 3 & 2 after blue skies gave way to one of the most vicious snow squalls I have seen on a golf course .
14 Of all the opportunities I 'd had for a good chat-up line , simply croaking ‘ Hospital ’ was n't one of my best .
15 During the past three months I have purchased from the Institute two publications .
16 I thought about all the books I had read in the past and remembered one in particular which I had enjoyed immensely .
17 Mountain Lover is one of the most intriguing ( in several senses of the word ) books I 've read about the global climbing village .
18 I mean I 've got some indications in er a couple of books I 've got in the car , er but erm again I 've not been asked that question you know , what 's the bullion return , things like that , it 's , it 's a little bit out of the ordinary , but you can find the figures .
19 Milton Shulman , in the London Evening Standard , described Crawford and Corbett 's acting as ‘ two of the neatest comic performances I have seen in the West End for some time ’ .
20 Twin terrors combine in the instant with nightmare logic : feathers and cobwebs , cobwebs and feathers … and now … words … words burned into the blackness … white words , black words … seen , yet not seen … silent , yet heard … words I had read in the Book and forgotten but now knew again … word for word :
21 I was not earning nearly enough for a piano , however modestly priced , but it would cost less than I could raise from one of the famille rose vases I had brought from the house in Park Terrace .
22 But then also you 've got , you , if you take it over say , twelve months you 've got like a
23 What with these little niggling worries you 've had about the size of the crowd at Ayresome Park , coupled with some very obvious annoyance at Newcastle and Sunderland grabbing all the attention while the Boro do all the winning …
24 At what moment had she surrendered the tactics she 'd planned to the charismatic persuasion of Luke 's personality ?
25 Dreadful destruction and carnage was everywhere , reminding Maggie of pictures she 'd seen of the Great War .
26 Then she thought about those other long low huts she 'd seen in the fenced-off meadow beyond St Michael and All Angels .
27 Of all the roles she had played in the theatre , of all the great works that had come her way , she was fated to be remembered mostly for how she pronounced the rhetorical question , ‘ A hand-bag ? ’
28 For example in one school we asked the head of French to show us on the shelves the books she had ordered under the project .
29 Any different shapes you have noticed in the rapid pattern of flowing speech will vary depending on the speaker , but even so , some shapes will be slightly different from others .
30 Approaching the crags we 've seen for a couple of days .
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