Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pos pn] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We know that Eworth can be associated with a long series of signed pictures bearing his monogram HE . |
| 32 | Or : ‘ When Cupid shot his dart He shot it at your heart . ’ |
| 33 | I knew Penny Lane and it was , alas , enough Crilly , and when my father came one day and asked what I was looking at , I said Penny Lane and he stood for awhile and looked for awhile , while the roof held its breath it seemed and then he said , after all that standing and all that looking , he said , ‘ You 're right ’ , and hoisted me up upon his shoulders . |
| 34 | Brian opened his mouth to tell his wife she was a liar and then realized that that would be too strong . |
| 35 | The latter gave rise to the custom of ‘ baiting Black Annis ’ , with a dead cat soaked in aniseed , every Easter in an attempt to make her show herself so the priest could exorcise this malevolent spirit . |
| 36 | The way that horse carries his leg he 's hurt his shoulder . " |
| 37 | You can also use HGW to prepare your handouts which give your audience a printed , condensed copy of your presentation with up to six slides per page and can add text , drawings or symbols to appear on each page . |
| 38 | It will be a fine thing if the Conservative chairman loses his seat whatever the outcome of the election . |
| 39 | Tramways belonged to eleven local authorities and three companies , but not all the local authorities operated their tramways themselves . |
| 40 | Then : ‘ Georges said Edouard told his colleagues he 'd been attacked in the street the night before by some youths he did n't know . |
| 41 | With the roar of the jungle storm filling their ears they abandoned their bodies to the hunger of many lonely years , driving in blind , frantic rhythms towards one furious ecstasy after another . |
| 42 | A silence fell on the room , and its increasing heaviness made her heave herself up from the couch and take the three steps to throw herself on to the seat beside him ; and to put an arm around his shoulder and say , ‘ Come on , lad , come on . |
| 43 | Before they parted May told her friend she was going to the cinema but she never left her house again . |
| 44 | YES , but with the right professional help to smooth your path it need not present you with any problems . |
| 45 | Some of the visitors told their children they were made out of mud rather than say they were made from ‘ cow muck ’ . |
| 46 | As each cock jacana establishes his territory he starts to build a simple platform of floating vegetation . |
| 47 | However the village received its name it is almost certain that the present name was being used by the 8th century as we find the Charter for Halling dated A.D. 765–785 when Ecgberht II of Kent granted to St. Andrews of Rochester , ten Sulings at Halling with rights . |
| 48 | The young lady in question told her parents who confronted the vicar . |
| 49 | As Superintending Constable Giles Aplin mounted his horse he looked down at Tom and Seb . |
| 50 | He was tall and pale and when Nicholson shook his hand he found it was icy cold . |
| 51 | Once the agreement had been reached the National Front-Left Front grouping withdrew its nomination which had been in support of the outgoing Speaker , Rabi Ray . |
| 52 | Soon after England began their reply there was a bad-light hold-up — probably unnecessary if they had all been wearing Bolle ‘ lifter ’ lenses — and upon resumption , Gooch and Stewart had to brace themselves against a torrid onslaught from Waqar , menace in every step of his run-up , and Akram , who bounded in and flung down something resembling Ivanisevic 's curving left-handed tennis serve , if only 30mph or so less swift . |
| 53 | The 12-inch tall toy was lost somewhere on the hill between Mynydd Isa and Mold and though Karen retraced her steps she could not find it . |
| 54 | All the cost-cutting tricks which the Reichmanns had learnt on warehouses served them well , as did their single-minded determination to give their customers what they wanted . |
| 55 | ‘ Yer can bet yer life 'e did , ’ Freddie said positively . |
| 56 | But every time Marky opens his mouth he blows it . |
| 57 | Tepilit throws his spear which strikes the lion just behind its shoulder . |
| 58 | How Alan kept his temper I will never know , but he quietly sorted out the mess , mounted a huge Loch Ordie , rowed out from the shore again and handed me the fly rod : ‘ Here , Bruce , you fish , I 'll work the dap and mind the oars . ’ |
| 59 | Just repeating the question tells your examiner nothing about what you know , and takes up time and space . |
| 60 | Josef Mauer had been with the Austrian police for eighteen years , the last eleven as a sergeant stationed in Linz , but despite numerous attempts by his superior to change his mind he had never been interested in promotion , preferring the everyday excitement that came with riding the streets in a police car to struggling with a mound of paperwork in some closeted office . |