Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [conj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bodies ’ and swimsuits do terrible things to my groin and tights have their gussets around my lower thighs . |
| 2 | He was one of the search party drummed up by Diggs after my father and relations missed us and could n't find us and called the police . |
| 3 | The thought riled her , causing a rising anger which interfered with her work until voices made her aware that Silas and Doreen were standing beside the reception desk . |
| 4 | One girl told me she had even thought family planning clinics were where a woman went with her husband and children to plan their future together . |
| 5 | Her husband and children respected her privacy at this time and did not interrupt it with trivial enquiries like : ‘ Where 's my shirt ? ’ or ‘ What 's for dinner ? ’ |
| 6 | The numerous spidery capillaries scrawling their florid graffiti across her nose and cheeks gave their own silent clue as to her habits . |
| 7 | After a four-year battle , American museums have forced the US Financial Accounting Standards Board ( FASB ) to abandon its request that museums record their collections on their balance sheets as monetary assets ( known as capitalising ) . |
| 8 | Some critics question its sustainability and others view it as a sop to pacify the poor . |
| 9 | How often as a girl had she and her father and brothers deserted their looms and raced out to watch the hunt ! |
| 10 | They were : ( a ) murders in the course or furtherance of theft , ( b ) murders by shooting or causing an explosion , ( c ) murders in the course or for the purpose of resisting lawful arrest or of escaping from legal custody , ( d ) murders of police officers in the execution of their duty and persons assisting them , and ( e ) murders by prisoners of prison officers in the execution of their duty and persons assisting them . |
| 11 | They were : ( a ) murders in the course or furtherance of theft , ( b ) murders by shooting or causing an explosion , ( c ) murders in the course or for the purpose of resisting lawful arrest or of escaping from legal custody , ( d ) murders of police officers in the execution of their duty and persons assisting them , and ( e ) murders by prisoners of prison officers in the execution of their duty and persons assisting them . |
| 12 | However R.15 requires a declaration when a company applies for recognition that its memorandum and articles enable it ( i ) to remain in compliance with certain key rules and ( ii ) so far as possible to ensure continued compliance by its shareholders with certain key Rules . |
| 13 | It should be noted that the rules require a declaration when a company applies for recognition that its memorandum and articles enable it to remain in compliance with certain key Rules . |
| 14 | It should be noted that the rules require a declaration when a company applies for recognition that its memorandum and articles enable it to remain in compliance with certain key Rules . |
| 15 | Six Arabs — their headdress and robes suggest they are Bedouin — rest beside an ancient well of translucent blue water . |
| 16 | For a long time his death was concealed from her ; her mother and others told her had gone to Europe to be cured . |
| 17 | Her face and hands say she is older ’ ) and she had been ‘ out ’ and that was the final blow . |
| 18 | McCowen 's middle class Brit worries about his mum and attempts to keep his stiff upper lip from trembling by reliving tennis star Virginia Wade 's Wimbledon triumph . |
| 19 | He came back to her in a barely controlled rush , gently parting her legs , his mouth and hands caressing her body in a way that made her move sinuously against him , and which wrenched a low moan of need from his throat . |
| 20 | Some said he slept in his study while others believed he wandered about the corridors waiting to catch escaping pupils or those who had gone missing . |
| 21 | He explored her shamelessly , and his squeezing and probings froze something inside her , so that their effect was the exact opposite of what he intended . |
| 22 | Rosentiel 's fourth wife Susan spent ten years trying to divorce him , a decade of singular bitterness , involving his perjury and attempts to jail her . |
| 23 | When he broke his neck and doctors said he might not race again , he discharged himself and was on the circuit again within seven weeks . |
| 24 | The war curtailed his career and helps explain his somewhat modest career record of 5595 runs and 22 wickets with his occasional medium-pacers . |
| 25 | As a cross-bencher in the House of Lords he had steered clear of party politics , but his writing and speeches put him firmly on the side of the underdog . |
| 26 | He was able to hold his breath while friends dragged him out . |
| 27 | One thing my father instinctively knew : I would never join his firm unless events forced me to . |
| 28 | Champ had pined for his master since police took him from his old home . |
| 29 | He simply said something about it 's being his land and Piers told him we had made a mistake and we all rode off as hard as we could because we were bursting with laughter — ’ |
| 30 | Only the fact that Henry had so many other calls on his energy and resources enabled them to survive . |