Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each Tuesday he meets his unelected Cabinet , the Executive Council , and they approve — ‘ rubber stamp ’ is how critics describe it — legislation passed on by the Civil Service . |
| 2 | By dissipating this investment she made her first , and her greatest political error . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't care about the baby , ’ Philip said , and with those few words he doomed his unborn son . |
| 4 | Viewed in this light we consider it important that the movement as a whole should adopt a balanced approach to the problems that have arisen . |
| 5 | From this figure they deduct their estimated income from charges and central government grants together with any cash balances available for the purpose . |
| 6 | That was once a week the bread , we used to have to collect the bread from Road , there was a small office at the side of the Infirmary I believe it was Mr or something like that , but we used to have to go to this office in Road and collect this four pound loaf every Wednesday and you did n't get another issue you had it all at once , so we had four four pound loaves , so we did n't know what new bread was after the first day , I 've never ate so much bread pudding in my life as I did then with a and er |
| 7 | At this moment she wanted him more than she had ever wanted anything in her life . |
| 8 | In fact , for some years I had my own dog , first Bess and then Judith , and she was my responsibility to feed , groom and exercise . |
| 9 | So it is a slow pitch , there 's very little pace in it for him , but it never puts him off , he still comes hurling in and er he 'll , he 'll flat out on anything , that it , we were saying some days he gets it right and others he does n't . |
| 10 | Diane and her husband Geoff have now completed the trip and in this article she recounts their hazardous journey . |
| 11 | There was a lovely tree outside old Boots shop there they took all them away and put these little ones down the middle and I also brought it up when they did Weekday Cross they took the trees which had only been there a few years they took them all down and put put some others up some little twiggly things you know . |
| 12 | She wrote to me saying that in this place she found it possible to forgive for the first time and then return home to seek reconciliation . |
| 13 | And some places that erm I know that in some places they have their own local way of speaking and then they speak a different way to other folk . |
| 14 | For the next few weeks I reported my unimportant news to the office . |
| 15 | From this basis you produce your own bright ideas . |
| 16 | So now I 'm trying to tell it to this pad he bought me this morning . |
| 17 | But it was the idea of ‘ the garden in the wood ’ which really fired Lady Amory 's imagination ; to this day it remains her favourite part of the garden . |
| 18 | This morning I ordered our central computer here to hack into the Riyadh computer and do a check . |
| 19 | I said to him this morning I said what sick joke 's this ? |
| 20 | In some ways it represents its worst dehumanising features — the reduction of meaningful human action to a kind of technical fault ( based on the medical analogy ) to be cured by applied technology . |
| 21 | In some ways I feel her peculiar dilemma parallels my own for she described her stance as one which distanced her from the classical anthropological mode , creating a ‘ memorable adventure ’ , which she claims , ‘ has marked me for life ’ ( ibid. 22 ) . |
| 22 | On top of this outfit she wore her cream-coloured quilted cotton jacket and a Russian-style hat made of artificial fur . |
| 23 | And then another week I give you two |
| 24 | In this poem we see their shared Jewishness , and the ‘ irreverence ’ ( as some would see it ) they each had for the Tradition — at least for that view of it which some espoused ; we also see a shared disdain for rabbinic ( and priestly ) logic , to them both a form of mental death . |
| 25 | He was carrying the same carrier-bag and for some reason they found it impossible not to stare at it . |
| 26 | For some reason she found herself obsessed with the idea that she should get up to lay the table . |
| 27 | This weekend they played their first game there against the London Gators . |
| 28 | In this way she developed her instinctive talent as a fashion editor ; she could instantly take a detail from this and an idea from that , while keeping well within her overall style . |
| 29 | Earlier this year they released their awesome debut single ‘ This Accurate Pain ’ through Chocolate Narcotic ( a friend 's label ) and distributed it , largely , themselves . |
| 30 | In March of this year they entered their first dog show at Ardingly and Tammy [ the brown one ] did quite well , and Mike and Anne were hooked . |