Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [coord] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sound waves bounce off them and are registered on a screen . |
| 2 | Her park knew she was up there watching and waiting over it , and it tossed off a loving welcoming wave ; it — the tractor , the boys and the bulbs in the earth — knew she had chosen for them and was coming back to them . |
| 3 | Barry Stewart , prosecuting , said Coulson and Davison were concerned with arranging the ringing while the others stole cars for them and were paid £200 for each vehicle . |
| 4 | The common language here is ‘ ASCII , comma-delimited ’ which simply means that the data fields in each record have commas stuck between them and are sent out as a long line of text with a carriage return indicating the end of the record . |
| 5 | She opened a conference centre named after her and was given a glimpse into the future with a demonstration of the latest keyhole surgery . |
| 6 | Anyway , there I was , going up this endless corridor , thinking what to do about the mother , who blamed herself — wi' reason mind you , she was one of those soft suckering witch-women , but that made it worse , not better — and there was th' trolley wi' the dead girl on it , sliding by me — sheet right over , porters in those soft theatre boots and floppy plastic bathcaps — and when they 'd got past me and were turning i n't door , the first one looked at me from under his plastic frills like , with my own face . |
| 7 | He felt for the first time in his life what it must be like to be one of them and was overwhelmed with a feeling of sadness and futility . |
| 8 | A batch of children accompanied by a young woman and the billeting officer who had brought Willie had walked past them and were heading towards the Town Hall . |
| 9 | The waiter had retreated now , leaving them alone , and Vass had seated himself once more opposite her and was proceeding to take charge of the pouring of the coffee . |
| 10 | She no longer felt any animosity towards him and was moved to tenderness by his obvious misery . |
| 11 | Without a word , Lorrimer , deathly pale , turned on his heels , walked past her and was gone . |
| 12 | Then , before she could answer , he had reached down to take hold of her and was drawing her firmly to her feet . |
| 13 | He had risen ahead of her and was standing by the door now , pulling it open , inviting her to leave . |
| 14 | The reason may be that all who knew the deceased are thus reminded of him and are invited to pray for his repose ( through St Theresa or otherwise ) . |
| 15 | He had three pieces of paper in front of him and was writing a line at a time on each — a different line on different aspects of his recent battle with lung cancer , which , however , he stated was now completely cured . |
| 16 | He landed on the person 's head who had given the ring to Tim in front of him and was sent to court at Newgate . |
| 17 | For a second or two she felt the protection of a man 's arms holding her securely and then she had crashed on top of him and was lying spread-eagled on a rock-hard body , deceptively concealed beneath soft fabric . |
| 18 | He could sense that his parents despaired of him and were beginning to put their efforts into his stronger rival and that soon … |
| 19 | His little castle is not part of a larger world , but exists in spite of it and is defined against it . |
| 20 | operates as part of the law of each ratifying State , so that the courts of each such State take judicial notice of it and is established by legal argument , not by the expensive and time-consuming process of adducing expert evidence , often from a different jurisdiction ; |
| 21 | er that would be erm structured in a way that y the people who are er training are making sure you 've got the best out of it and are making |
| 22 | The house had a large garden with a small river running at the foot of it and was situated in the small quiet village of . |
| 23 | So I think the school is in the position of wanting to think more about the problem of the brighter child , but they certainly were not unaware of it and were attempting to deal with it . |
| 24 | So I think the school is in a position of wanting to think more about the problems of the brighter child , but they were not unaware of it and were attempting to deal with it . |
| 25 | The person in question was a relative of hers and was killed or died I 'm sure not whether he was killed or died but certainly served in the forces in the four fourteen eighteen war in he was buried in . |
| 26 | Then , thanking God , she began to tuck in hungrily with the rest of us and was plied with questions . |
| 27 | He 's got some flowers for you and was asking the porters , and I told him you worked here and I 'd get you . |
| 28 | Pointy-Beard was somewhere underneath me and was trying to roll me out from under Armstrong . |
| 29 | It seemed to be calling to them and Carrie thought of fairy tales she had read — you looked back at something behind you and were caught in its spell ! |
| 30 | 5.1 If at any time before completion of the Lease the Tenant ( being an individual ) dies or has a receiving order made against him or is adjudicated bankrupt or ( being a company ) has a petition presented for its winding up or goes into liquidation or ( in either case ) enters into a composition with his or its creditors then the provisions of clause 5.4 shall have effect immediately |