Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He , too , is a high-flying Socialist who declaims his no doubt sincerely-held beliefs from atop a mountain of privilege . |
| 32 | At the German border we were helped by a German trucker who got us the required stamps . |
| 33 | As for his former wife , Aahmes , she had become a shadowy figure who sent him a letter from the Delta every new year , at the midsummer opet festival , with news of his favourite son , Heby . |
| 34 | Their demands , which were repeated by students demonstrating in Gaborone on March 10 , were rejected by the President who called them a " gross over-reaction " . |
| 35 | During the three year programme we set ourselves a total of 33 remits , of which only 5 remain to be completed . |
| 36 | She says : ‘ When I went to arrange the AA insurance for the car they offered me a policy for us as well and , thank goodness , I decided to take it . ’ |
| 37 | It takes a load off their mind they know who the new owners are going to be . |
| 38 | In today 's programme he gives us an exclusive interview , the first since his heart attack four months ago . |
| 39 | No , , it 's just a but he was , you know , I was fairly slow , and then I went on , I followed erm , I ended up slightly , as well , erm , then I went to college up to the age of eighteen , erm , and as soon as I finished college he made me a department manager . |
| 40 | In one condition he showed them a series of objects which had been bought from a joke shop : a piece of rubber cheese , a chicken 's egg made of stone , and so forth . |
| 41 | cylinders of butter wrapped in butter-muslin which gives them a ‘ cloudy ’ appearance . |
| 42 | With great trepidation and much backsliding the tsar eventually granted the serfs a sort of freedom , but if their interests had been dear to his heart he could have committed himself earlier and pressed harder for a settlement which gave them an economically viable future . |
| 43 | One day Tom came to see me and poured out a story which told me the other side of his ambitious , over-achieving self . |
| 44 | It was the oldest Boeing remaining in existence which made it an historical treasure , and it was an interesting aircraft beyond that because it flew in so many of the old Hollywood movies . |
| 45 | But Murphy did n't start and Nolan hit early trouble with his Sapphire Cosworth 4x4 suffering suspension damage which cost him a two-minute delay while repairs were carried out between stages . |
| 46 | It insists , however , that that will be done in a constitutional framework which allows everyone an equal chance to endorse any conception of the good and to realize it . |
| 47 | They do not uplift or inspire by style or ‘ credo ’ as do , say , C S Lewis , Primo Levi or Bonhoeffer 's LETTERS FROM PRISON , but James and Spark certainly have a richness of language and a liveliness which makes them a good read . |
| 48 | The Rules of the Supreme Court make no specific provision for a contemnor being served with a copy of the committal order , but as I have mentioned an instruction has been issued by the Clerk of the Rules with the approval of the President of the Family Division which makes it the duty of the applicant 's solicitor to serve the committal order , but does not require personal service . |
| 49 | They preferred their little aerosols of teargas which gave them a false sense of security . |
| 50 | ‘ He put me on an iron tonic which bucked me a little . |
| 51 | Actually it 's a bit of a unorganised chaos nobody knows what the heck they 're doing ! |
| 52 | The second feature of George Stephen 's narrative which gave it a markedly ideological cast was its distancing of the movement from the kind of radicalism and militant nonconformity of the 1830s and 1840s many of his readers associated with antislavery . |
| 53 | Perhaps he had hit a patch of false going which caused him to lose his action , or had a fleeting muscular spasm which lost him the use of his hind legs — something like Bryan Marshall had reported after a couple of his races earlier in the season . |
| 54 | It is currently 35 degrees Fahrenheit out and the wind is blowing up the canyon at 87 mph hour which gives us a wind chill factor of — just a moment while I look at the chart — says ‘ Should not be skiing ’ which is good because we are n't . |
| 55 | Alec Stewart 's charge has a stiffer task here , but is getting 6lbs from the favourite which gives her a sporting chance of stopping Daru 's unbeaten run of four victories . |
| 56 | Moreover attempts to relate language classes to other strands systematically have not always been popular , many students preferring a language course which gives them an insight into cultural trends , with texts drawn from recent magazines , broadcasts , etc . |
| 57 | And you went on to these chairs and you went through a , a scenic part which showed you the roads of the future . |
| 58 | But the thing he most lacked in Salzburg was the scope to exercise his powers as composer of opera , the genre which interested him the most . |
| 59 | He also headed a number of Courtaulds ' textile businesses at different times but it was mainly his knowledge of viscose which earned him a reputation as a leading world authority on the fibre . |
| 60 | Marley had a revolutionary 's zeal and a charismatic presence which made him an intensely romantic figure not only to the young blacks whose predicament he articulated , but also to the white rock audience . |