Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [noun prp] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is tempting to believe that in this story Poe may have had in mind a case of premature burial , in which the principal figure was the mother of his patron , John L. O'Sullivan . |
| 2 | IN the first few minutes Armagh could have opened the scoring when Eugene Mullan was forced to pull off a string of good saves . |
| 3 | In another few months Nahum could see he would have to resign his Governorship , if only to save the expense of his weekly journeys by train . |
| 4 | In some respects Kerrier may have constituted an exception , yet although the mean of £4.4 per head may need scaling down to take account of the multitude of labourers discovered and roped in for the subsidy , upwards of seven-tenths of the assessments made in 1522 were at £2 — £4 . |
| 5 | But anyway , this boy Peter would stand there and play that sucker note for note . ’ |
| 6 | It is unthinkable that in this passage Mozart would have written dots inst . |
| 7 | If a child did not know what to make of this question Piaget would prompt him : ‘ When you walk , you walk with feet ; well then , when you think , what do you think with ? ’ |
| 8 | Otherwise , within a few decades Genestealers would have begun to infiltrate your own family , polluting and hypnotizing . ’ |
| 9 | Another point Chris would like to stress is that he has only tested his herbal remedies on tropical community fish ( which are mainly acid-loving ) and pondfish — he does n't know how more specialised hard water fish , such as Mbuna , which come from areas with virtually no plants , would react . |
| 10 | At this Mr Mitchell may have regretted his generosity for he coloured , but nothing could stop Granny when she wanted to create a drama . |
| 11 | Since , in 1850 , the one bastion of that order which had escaped major trouble in 1848 was the Russian Empire , it was likely that at some point France would throw down the gauntlet to the tsar . |
| 12 | At this point Francis must have had about 20 seconds to live , a few more steps and he would have reached the other end which , for him , was the threshold of death . |
| 13 | Another night Moran would have questioned her but not tonight . |
| 14 | I think this Adam Carver will try to charm you into signing . |
| 15 | It was something that Harriet had particularly noticed and which made her both angry yet hopeful : angry that her daughter could not or would not always behave in such a way and hopeful that perhaps some day Liza would come to her senses and throw off the mask of invalidism behind which Harriet felt sure she was hiding . |
| 16 | It came to the fore most strongly when she faced the fact that some day Dimity might marry . |
| 17 | This Pinot Bianco can rival top-flight St Véran |
| 18 | In another age Preston would have been out there with the self-flagellants , scourging away for all he was worth . |
| 19 | This week LSI will announce a 40MHz Mbus SparKit it says will let a cloner bring a colour Sparcstation 2 compatible to market for under $5,000 . |
| 20 | This week Unisys will preview a far-flung range of ‘ Pentium-ready ’ machines , currently running 80486s but designed to be seamlessly upgraded to 60MHz Pentiums in the third quarter . |
| 21 | But this Anne Mowbray would stop at nothing — she would chance all to be alone with him she loved best in the world ; on one throw of the dice … |
| 22 | Then as soon as they loose a few games Cantona will bugger off , Sharpe will go back to old habits and Giggs will go to Italy ( : - ) ) . |
| 23 | In some sense Angela may have been paying for the assets — they had assets valued at £600,000 then , most of it in the lease on the building . |
| 24 | This view was qualified by other officers of the company who said in some instances Informix could provide backing for startup firms , such as those which may have developed important technology but were unable to productise it due to lack of funds . |
| 25 | On this performance Leeds should record a few more away victories e.g. Swindon . |
| 26 | And of course er w wondered if this Land Rover would go up there with the four wheel drive . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's another thing Newley will want back . |
| 28 | In terms of this position Moore could say that the object or universal horse is made up of parts to which the parts of an individual horse correspond , while the object or universal good is not made up of parts to which the parts of an individual good thing correspond . |
| 29 | In this way France can recover the moral leadership of Europe . ’ |
| 30 | In this way Burma can win an honoured place in the United Nations and live up to her recognised standards of charity and hospitality . |