Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [noun sg] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were still loose ends in her working week so her sister Sarah took it upon herself to tie them up . |
| 2 | If my gut instincts advise me correctly , Ms Penumbra is by now mightily sick of hearing I am not available . ’ |
| 3 | This necessitated a step up in production in the people-factory which escalated through the whole system until his bath sponge ate him . |
| 4 | I thought he would have no chance of life if his father Heathcliff took him to live at Wuthering Heights . |
| 5 | This is because their world knowledge tells them that the banks found near rivers are not usually of the financial type ( although it must be stressed that this interpretation is not wrong , it is just less likely ) . |
| 6 | ‘ It took us some time to trace Mr Maxwell since his business interests take him all over the States . |
| 7 | Workmen cleaning up one of the less contaminated rooms hastened out in alarm after their air meters showed they were breathing dangerously low levels of oxygen . |
| 8 | Dillons passed the cheque onto Childline after its parent Pentos received it from Legal & General Property as a token of thanks after it moved quickly to open branches of Claude Gill Bargain Bookshop and Athena in the Buttermarket Shopping Centre , Ipswich , in time for the centre 's first day of trading on 1st October . |
| 9 | Earlier in his racing career , the under-funded Hill spent most of his formative years riding motor bikes long before his mother Bette decided she had had enough of the dangers of two-wheel road racing . |
| 10 | Being signed by Hampshire as replacement for Andy Roberts just a few months after his Test debut gave him the chance to impress Clive Lloyd in county matches and in 1982 he really came good with 134 wickets , the best season 's haul since the reduction in championship matches in 1969 . |
| 11 | Wright , who knows better than many what it is like to feel persecuted , watched the 6–0 win on television after his groin injury ruled him out and let Barnes back after 10 months ' absence . |
| 12 | I was struggling to complete my doctoral thesis in an icy northern England when my brother Lorne called me from London with the news that Ringo Starr had agreed to put up £2,000 and the post-production costs of our first adventure film . |
| 13 | Though she had not pressed them , as her friend Lois pressed them in between the pages of her Bible . |
| 14 | As their space requirements changed they sought more open greenfield sites away from the conurbation centres ( Wood 1974 ) . |
| 15 | But it is a citizen of London who has left us the most elaborate rhapsody which survives from the central Middle Ages on any of the European cities of the day , and William FitzStephen 's glowing vision of the London in which his hero , archbishop Thomas Becket , was born , is a startling reminder that Londoners took fully as much pride in their city as did the Italians of their day — just as the fact that the citizens adopted Thomas Becket as their patron saint reminds us that he was martyred for showing excessive resistance to the king . |
| 16 | Yet when her salary cheque arrived she opened the envelope with trembling , hopeful fingers , and wept to find that the only other enclosure was a formal compliments slip from the accounts department . |
| 17 | Jose Ransome of Church Lane , Ormesby , Middlesbrough , became aware of the disease when her sister Valerie developed it . |
| 18 | Mrs Thatcher finally decided to go when her Cabinet colleagues told her that she could not win through . |
| 19 | When his home town made him an ‘ honoured citizen ’ some years ago , he reminded friends that ‘ they used to fling me in jail ’ . |
| 20 | When he was able to make a full number of appearances , or a large proportion of them , Palace did reasonably well — best was 7th in 1949–50 when Graham missed only four games — but when his back injury prevented him from appearing regularly the side suffered badly and we finished bottom of the League twice in three seasons with Graham making only 26 ( 1948–49 ) and 11 ( 1950–51 ) appearances respectively . |
| 21 | No baptism has been traced , though his marriage certificate records him as the son of John Crockford , schoolmaster . |
| 22 | The ‘ doyen of the royal correspondents and chronicler of the lives of the royals for more than 25 years , ’ as his press release puts it , is billed by the Mirror as ‘ the man who really knows the royals . ’ |
| 23 | This seems to have been an important period for Williams , for his lecture programme gave him the opportunity to broaden his contacts . |
| 24 | And the reward , as our film heroes had it , was the beautiful lady . |
| 25 | What this means is as your reaction time increases it 's believed or been shown that your intelligence quotient or I Q measure decreases . |