Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | He entered her fiercely , her body and all her senses filled with him until , as before , the slumbering embers of the fire he had lit last night now blazed again , the raging flames consuming them both . |
| 32 | Small time burglars with the social skills of a potted shrimp telling me how they 're saving all their readies to invest in a club one day — ‘ Maybe Puerto Banus , maybe Chesterfield , I 'm not sure yet . ’ |
| 33 | However , a degree of sensitivity is required as the purchaser may need their assistance in any due diligence exercise it is undertaking , and to effect a smooth handover of the business . |
| 34 | It could be simply a difference of opinion where conflicting views bring us to an impasse . |
| 35 | Her calm , lazy response made him laugh . |
| 36 | This sudden use of low notes gives them prominence and unusual power . |
| 37 | UNESCO : What specific proposals have you discussed ? |
| 38 | His advanced views made him unpopular with many of the clergy . |
| 39 | They produce beef that no one will buy at the price at which they want to sell it , so they are subsidised by the European taxpayer to dump it in West Africa , where it destroys the livelihoods of poor farmers . |
| 40 | That 's what they 're they 're employed to do at any particular site , but they do n't hold total responsibility do they ? |
| 41 | any new constitutional arrangement must provide what the 1920 Government of Ireland Act tragically failed to achieve : tough guarantees of basic rights for the minority as well as for the majority community , together with accessible and representative institutions to enforce them . |
| 42 | And , when the cast of The Hooded Owl met him , they could understand why . |
| 43 | If there was any post-coital tristesse about Mighty Mo Magill his lifetime in covert operations hit it well . |
| 44 | Our debate on this intended insult by the French was summarily ended : a wand-bearing chamberlain told us to assemble in the great hall below for the rare privilege of an audience with His Most Christian Majesty . |
| 45 | Now can I have my jacket , you just dropped my bag across the bloody park give me a cigarette now Liam . |
| 46 | His tousled hair gave him an appealingly boyish appearance , and Robbie found herself aching to smooth it for him , to run her fingers over the dark stubble on his cheeks . |
| 47 | Having you family portrait done by a professional photographer gives you more than just a reminder of what your children looked like as they grew up , because a professional has all the best equipment necessary for a top-quality portrait . |
| 48 | In Chile , in an address to the Congress , Bush stated that the country 's economic policies put it in the " forefront of the free-market movement now taking hold across Latin America " and that this made it a " prime candidate " for debt relief proposed under the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative . |
| 49 | Then the pungent smell hit us , rotting fish and seaweed . |
| 50 | We suggest children bring plimmies , towels , waterproof suncream , sunhat , clothes to get wet in and dry change to cover them up . |
| 51 | NEXT month 's Budget should provide tax concessions for owners of historic houses to help them meet crippling maintenance costs , according to Earl Haig . |
| 52 | The exhibition is not simply a display of painted nudes ( and there are only four examples of the male nude ) ; rather , as the introductory text tells us : ‘ All were painted with the nude model directly in front of the artist ’ . |
| 53 | For a moment he thought there was a double meaning in her words , but he dismissed the thought when he recognised it was one of her usual openings to draw him into conversation . |
| 54 | A concentrated assessment helped us focus on teaching procedures and materials more effectively and the problems we uncovered could be tackled immediately as we had direct access to the Subject Assessor ’ . |
| 55 | When what I 'd like to say is , ‘ I 'm going to pay a lot of hard-earned money to have you killed . ’ ’ |
| 56 | got the bloody money to do it . |
| 57 | The powerful running of the big front man had been a constant threat to Andover all afternoon and they just had no answer as he finally surged through shrugging off vain attempts to check him before delivering the perfect finish . |
| 58 | After all , just look round any bar and you 'll see that everybody there , myself included ( you too if it 's your kind of bar ) , has in their time been both The Boy and The Older Man , both Banker and Domestic , Ingenue and Other Woman , booted Prince and stirrup-holding Groom — but I do n't mean either that you should have complete license to make him look just how you wish ; I do n't want to think of anyone hearing this story and grinning and thinking of Boy as some permanently , conveniently smiling blue-eyed blonde , because he was not that in any way and that is not what he meant to us . |
| 59 | This might mean that a firm was ‘ released ’ from ties to traditional , skilled ( and often well-unionized ) labour ; the technical change freed it to seek out cheaper and less well-organized labour elsewhere . |
| 60 | The church was n't particularly old , built on a high tide of Victorian prosperity like the tall houses surrounding it . |