Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , in relation to the ordination of women , the question to be asked is : ‘ Is this the opportunity God has deliberately created for this new development in the life of Christ 's Church ? ’ |
| 2 | For instance , the verb regret seems to presuppose that its complement is true , and so we could try the following characterization : the sentence John does n't regret cheating can only be used appropriately in contexts where it is known ( or believed ) that John cheated . |
| 3 | Initially the king was unsympathetic to Hopton 's petition , claiming that at the material time he had not been acting as a justice owing to a bureaucratic muddle over his appointment , but by December 1290 he had agreed that the money Hopton had already paid towards his fine should count instead towards a fine he had made to secure the wardship of the lands of his late wife . |
| 4 | The Easter Monday blaze totally destroyed the garage workshop and a portable office in neighbouring Variety Cars . |
| 5 | When she returned to the camp Travis had already packed up . |
| 6 | That 's because the engine of the Vogue LSE has also received some attention . |
| 7 | To a background of chanting and the explosion of fireworks outside the building Mosley got up to speak . |
| 8 | If Harbury had heard the story Pascoe had just related , he might have been confirmed in his belief that it was possible . |
| 9 | All at once she looked and sounded uncertain and very much the sister Claudia had always loved . |
| 10 | The part Mandy did n't know about was n't going to blow over . |
| 11 | With nearly thirty years in the force Wycliffe had rarely felt so shamed by others . |
| 12 | They had broken their meeting temporarily while the fire was dealt with , but when Fischer returned the Ping Tiao had already gone . |
| 13 | With the 3.9iSE Vogue , the Range Rover continues happily to wear the crown . |
| 14 | A flow of records ensued , including a posthumous Sid Vicious album , Sid Sings , and sundry repackagings of those few songs which the group had actually recorded , wringing the cash cow dry , as Richard Branson later pointed out with some irony , ‘ in just the spirit of the Swindle Malcolm had always talked about ’ . |
| 15 | But the South West have never managed such recoveries . |
| 16 | Whether it was the sudden mention of her mother or the whole emotional portentousness with which he had charged the scene Maggie burst out sobbing . |
| 17 | Apparently the ballerina Pavlova came here to learn to dance like a swan for the ballet Swan Lake . |
| 18 | This was the question Richard did not want to answer . |
| 19 | ‘ I was born here , ’ she said , sensing the question Charlotte had not asked . |
| 20 | At the moment Leyland does not see huge off-the-shelf sales for the transmission . |
| 21 | They are also thinking too much about what counts and when you do that you are up the creek , and at the moment Gloucester have not got a paddle |
| 22 | Since the outbreak of the war Harriet had rather prided herself that she and Tom had been able , for the most part , to manage their property by themselves and certainly the employment of any domestic help at this juncture seemed a luxury to which she was almost ashamed to admit . |
| 23 | The picture Gay had just painted was a very attractive one . |
| 24 | When they reached the canal Caro turned right to walk along it . |
| 25 | It had seemed such a marvellous idea at the time , to leave behind her northern home town , the scene of all her unhappy memories , and to apply for the job Caro had just vacated , to take over Caro 's lease . |
| 26 | He grinned , baring rabbit teeth stained brown , his eyes crinkling with laughter as he reached for the drink Nils had just poured him . |
| 27 | It was the night Tony came over to tell me Nero wanted a British warm like his . |
| 28 | However as the oligonucleotide SSB does not contain all the sequence in the stem-loop structure we propose the protein recognising the SSB sequence can bind to the single strand sequence . |
| 29 | Although the name Shaw has not arisen before this date , from here onwards it was never to be far from the Lakeland milling scene . |
| 30 | No , no , the name Nor the name Norman does n't ring a bell |