Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb -s] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little or nothing escapes his eye and that makes any book he writes doubly valuable to the serious students of railway history . |
| 2 | If the foreign gene codes for a protein that is toxic to insects or which affects their metabolism , then the resultant recombinant virus may well be more pathogenic than the wild-type virus . |
| 3 | ‘ You know , where she keeps him prisoner . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The boot of Dora 's car , where she keeps her bag of clubs , has a defective catch . |
| 5 | Birkett is at her best where she describes her subject 's exploitation of her gender . |
| 6 | I mean she might suddenly find that she ca n't get the time off the hotel , or she changes her mind , I do n't know . |
| 7 | David Marshall lives in central London , where he devotes his time to writing short stories for magazines and drama for radio . |
| 8 | A representative and influential attempt was made by Plekhanov in his essay , The Role of the Individual in History , where he considers what effect the characters of prominent people such as kings and statesmen have on the course of events . |
| 9 | Two versions of the tune appear in the collections of Captain Francis O'Neill of the Chicago Police , a contemporary of Honeyman , and Alastair Hardie includes it in his Caledonian Companion , where he acknowledges its publication in Kohler 's Violin Repository of 1885 . |
| 10 | Having divined the source of his miseries , the bewitched victim reports to the chief 's court , where he submits his accusation for verification by the chief 's own oracle . |
| 11 | I did n't ring him to ask his advice on how to pick up women — and if I did , it would only be to find out where he buys his chloroform . |
| 12 | At election time we have a talk and he watches TV and then it 's up to him where he puts his cross . |
| 13 | When the hopped wort has been cooled it is run to fermenting vessels where it meets its destiny with yeast . |
| 14 | To understand why damage to Broca 's area impairs speech we need to know both where it gets its input from and what it does to that input . |
| 15 | Once it was home , the stalwart Alan helped me up to the loft with it , where it awaits my occupation in due course . |
| 16 | She may have killed a rabbit in a spot — a dead-end , for example — where it prevents her escape by blocking the burrow . |
| 17 | It is the responsibility of the clinical teacher to ensure that everyone understands her role and the important part she plays in nurse education . |
| 18 | Anyway , please could you thank GEORGE most sincerely for his endeavours — the fact that everyone pulls their weight up there ensures the place runs at minimal cost to all users . |
| 19 | It wants to make sure that everyone knows what harassment is , that harassment will not be tolerated and that there is a procedure for dealing with the problem . |
| 20 | Among adults , the ideal is that everyone treats each other as an autonomous equal , and that everyone performs their material and ritual obligations to the community . |
| 21 | The thieves also went through my clothes and , although it sounds stupid , I hate the feeling that someone knows what underwear I 've got on . |
| 22 | knowing that someone knows your secret |
| 23 | The smooth-phrased B.B.C. announcer , the amusing don , the self-confident politician , the jargon-perfect critic , the editor of the literary magazine — all are reducible within a few months to a bewildered defensive creature with hollow cheeks and desperate eyes whose only cares will be to see that he gets his fair share of the potato ration , that nobody steals his bed boards , and that he exchanges his cigarette ends for food or vice versa at the best possible price . |
| 24 | As Annie said later to Martha , ‘ Although 'e scrapes 'is tongue , there 's nowt toffee-nosed about 'im . ’ |
| 25 | Although she dislikes her father 's will — not to let her choose her own husband — she has no intention of rebelling against it . |
| 26 | And she said that she keeps her dog indoors now because she wo n't You know their big alsatian ? |
| 27 | We shall assume that the syntactic positions for adjectives in English are as below ; we give first the intensional pattern of which each is the surface exponent , as well as an example for each , and also an instance which is ungrammatical and where we shall later be able to suggest reasons for the ungrammaticality ; in each case we shall underline in the intensional pattern the property which is instantiated by the adjective , merely for clarification and not as an integral part of the notation : [ P E ] prenominal attributive position surface syntactic sequence : adjective + noun as in hungry passengers ; but note that *asleep kittens is ungrammatical { [ E ] ( P ) } ordinary predicative position surface syntactic sequence : noun phrase + be + adjective as in the critics were upset ; but note that her husband was mere is ungrammatical [ E P ] postnominal attributive position surface syntactic sequence : noun phrase + adjective as in the crimes alleged ; but note that the road wide is ungrammatical ( ( P E ) P ) predicate qualifying position surface syntactic sequence : verb phrase + noun phrase + adjective as in he brought his gun loaded ; but note that she uses her mixer lightweight is ungrammatical [ E ( P P ) ] postverbal position surface syntactic sequence : verb phrase + adjective as in the crowd remained angry ; but note that his brother resisted obstinate is ungrammatical ( ( P P ) E ) adverbal position surface syntactic sequence ( usually ) : verb + noun phrase + adjective as in Ali rubbed the lamp clean ; but note that Mark resembles the officer sinister is ungrammatical ( P { E P } ) clausal position = surface syntactic sequence : verb + noun phrase ( + be ) + adjective as in he considers the prosecution case hopeless but note that Sue reported the prizes aplenty is ungrammatical { E P } P extraclausal position surface syntactic sequence ( usually ) : adjective + clause as in furious , the king ordered many arrests but note that furious , the king had three wives is ungrammatical As we have said , these are the adjectival positions of English ( and possibly of any natural human language ) . |
| 28 | Ten Hours in Twelve that she abhors her Spouse |
| 29 | Many children need to spend much of their time with the group in physical activity out-of-doors , and a teacher supervising them can help to develop their experiences and language , so that she feels her time is being used just as profitably out-of-doors as within the confines of the classroom . |
| 30 | All in all , you will find that your chances of happiness together under the same roof will depend very largely upon your ability to respect and accept her individuality , to see that she gets her share of family affection , to make it possible for her to keep usefully occupied ( within her limitations ) in the home , and to engage as far as she can in all the outside interests she has always enjoyed . |