Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [conj] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood on my anchors and the BMW 's much-vaunted braking system came good . |
| 2 | Sometimes , in hushed voices in the evenings , I heard my mum and the Quigleys talking about money . |
| 3 | As a hungry little lad my stomach occasionally overruled my manners and the Grace would include a parenthetic rebuke such as , ‘ For what we are about to receive ( and for what Stewart has already eaten ) we give You thanks … ’ |
| 4 | Mr Cross does not deny the main charge in my article that a Hiatts-Thompson brochure was given out to two British human rights workers at the Miami exhibition which indicated that the leg-cuffs for sale were manufactured in Birmingham . |
| 5 | May I draw my right hon. Friend 's attention to the delegation that I led to the Lord Chancellor to consider the problem of bail bandits and light sentencing by Crown courts , and to the concern in my constituency that the Hampshire police authority is short changing the Isle of Wight in terms of the number of constables on the beat ? |
| 6 | ‘ You may tell my father , ’ he replied , ‘ my hand on the bible , and I will repeat this oath before the Commons and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal — I swear this : neither my people nor the Lord Gaveston went anywhere near Godstowe Priory on that day . ’ |
| 7 | But Martin Pipe is a realist , and never for a moment did he stand in my way when the Docklands Express ride came up . |
| 8 | Told my tutor and the Dean of my College I would n't be coming up again . ’ |
| 9 | She was rather less convinced about my conversion than the Quigleys . |
| 10 | He spent hours that Christmas in the garage with my son and the BMW and at the end of his stay , he gave him his leather jacket . |
| 11 | It 's clear from my inquiries that the FA originally envisaged Wednesday , September 9 as a triumphant homecoming for Taylor and his assistant Lawrie McMenemy — ‘ Just put your feet up and watch us win . ’ |
| 12 | So go gently in to every week , every Sunday morning with me Simon and a Sunday breakfast show , seven till nine , join me you 'll enjoy it . |
| 13 | He will be one of a number of players in Mike Gatting 's disapproved touring team to South Africa hoping for a reprieve from their ban when the ICC meet this July . |
| 14 | Ltd. [ 1992 ] , Dell advertised their computers with a photograph showing their computer and a Compaq computer with both makers ' names ( including the word " Compaq " , a registered trade mark ) and the price of the machines . |
| 15 | The MRC 's Protection Against Ionising Radiation Committee has reported to a Home Office working party its assessment that the LD 50 for humans is a surface exposure to the body of 600 rads . |
| 16 | The court 's highly controversial decision ( against which the Prosecutor-General was to appeal ) , and its finding that the Vichy regime had " never planned and practised a consistent anti-semitic ideology " and " at no time … had the purpose or the opportunity of imposing any kind of domination or conquering ideology " had important implications for the outstanding Bousquet and Papon cases [ see pp. 37019 ; 37899 ] . |
| 17 | She then went on to appear before a packed lecture theatre at the Physicians Hall to receive her award and the Edinburgh Medal from the Lord Provost and to deliver the traditional Edinburgh Medal Address . |
| 18 | If the people were more independent in their judgments than the BBC and the press chose to represent them , they were probably also less vindictive . |
| 19 | Hermes Trismegistus emerged from Egypt more or less at the time in which Zoroaster and the Magi became respected figures among the Greeks : they will have to be considered together . |
| 20 | And he also pointed out that the three detectives were going to claim in their defence that the Birmingham Six were guilty all along . |
| 21 | IWA Chairman David Stevenson resigned from the WWF in protest at their action but the WWF claim that protest by other members has been limited . |
| 22 | The band trundled back to their hotel — the infamous Chelsea Hotel — to get their best party rags on and were halfway through their quick-change when the NY police burst into their room and hauled them off to the station . |
| 23 | Soon thereafter , Time magazine told its readers that the Milwaukee Project ‘ offers persuasive evidence that mental retardation in the offspring of mentally retarded mothers can be prevented ’ . |
| 24 | Boeing had been kept in the picture at every stage of the investigation and were able to tell their customers what long term action was necessary to preserve the structural integrity of their aircraft and the US authorities , through the participation of the accredited representative from the NTSB , were also fully informed . |
| 25 | The Board 's reasons for its proposal and the IASC 's proposal are explained in ‘ The Development of the FRED ’ at paragraphs xv-xix . |
| 26 | And they have held their own popular vote , not in an assembly , as that would have been too dangerous , but going round the community asking their opinion , so now they have " elected " a very courageous woman whom they want to be their Mayoress when the FDR-FMLN take power . |
| 27 | Bob 's brought along Samantha , a pretty blonde wearing a straw boater , a white shirt that is open to her waist and a Crumpsall High School tie . |
| 28 | I was excitedly interested in her attempt to get back to the original Gautama , instead of the stereotyped figure of the Scriptures and Buddhist tradition , and still more thrilled by her insistence that the Buddha had a gospel , good news to the people of his contemporary India and to later generations . |
| 29 | In the summer of 1954 he drove Minton around northern Italy , stopping at Toulon on their return where the Moynihans were staying in a house that belonged to Pissarro 's granddaughter . |
| 30 | I asked her what hope she might have had for her tennis if the Dewhurst opportunity had n't come along . |