Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh Mum I told you about that . |
| 2 | And I says , it 's an old lake dwelling , and er of course I mentioned it to this chap , just switch it off the now . |
| 3 | Firms are assumed to have unbounded capacity for working out strategies and payoffs , and for working through the abstract chains of reasoning which lead them to non-co-operative equilibrium strategies . |
| 4 | ‘ We set out to pay the last mournful duties through a road almost impassable with snow which continued to fall with a boisterous wind which blew it into immense drifts . |
| 5 | One of the ways she visualized life was as a swirling , unpredictable tide of confusion which swept you along helpless , bumping against rocks , trying to snatch at branches , bits of wreckage , anything that might help to keep you afloat for , if you did n't watch out , the waters would suck you down and close over your head . |
| 6 | Thus if the first purpose of a particular religion is to help people to a sense of the presence of God and express a response to God , then the study of the ritual which helps them towards this goal must constantly draw attention to this significance . |
| 7 | The winner on the day was Francois Lombard — a result which took him to third place overall in the championships . |
| 8 | To the right of the steps was the gas cooker , a black monster which provided lots of hard work to keep it clean and at the side of this stood my father 's wooden tool chest . |
| 9 | Sections on Calligraphy , Illustration , Typography and Book Design make way for a commercial break which introduces us to 28 first editions of Penguin paperbacks . |
| 10 | Ward was due to take over the driving and at the end of it I slumped into the seat beside him in a happy daze which insulated me from all sense of reality . |
| 11 | That kind of approach is , however , very much second best in comparison to a negotiated deal which provides you with genuine job security . |
| 12 | That kind of approach is , however , very much second best in comparison to a negotiated deal which provides you with genuine job security . |
| 13 | The problem , in other words , for the British in arguing their case for free trade is that they are up against a deep cultural divide which separates them from most of the other Member States . |
| 14 | The left-angled Swastika symbolizes the centripetal force related to the pull of gravity — the force which ties us to mental stagnation — decay and dissolution . |
| 15 | It had a depth and penetration which separated it from most other consultants ' reports of the time . |
| 16 | As she did one of the English players danced across the screen and up the sideline , outwitting several of the Moroccan side who tackled him from all directions . |
| 17 | The difference being , that if it 's a saucepan then obviously a saucepan you lift it with one hand and if it 's full of hot water or something then you 'd have to be careful . |
| 18 | By the time he had pressed her into a seat she had herself under more control , and was suffering acute embarrassment at her outburst . |
| 19 | And he smiles as he talks of the best friend and rival who accompanied him on those weekend trips . |
| 20 | Oh yes you had er the the stooks you had I think ten in a stook You had five five sheaves at each side you put them like that , five you |
| 21 | Cries , Eliot knew , were vital to the most basic corroboree when ‘ on every side one sees nothing but violent gestures , cries , veritable howls , and deafening noises or every sort . |
| 22 | and the Warner Brothers Bugs Bunny and the popcorn , you go and get your popcorn dish out of thing , show Alex how much popcorn we bought , I mean you go up there and it 's not like it used to be years ago a little bale of popcorn they sell them in huge great big cartons up there |
| 23 | ‘ Type L ’ isoleucine in the living organism and ‘ type D ’ isoleucine in the dead organism have almost the same chemical characters , but when they are hit by light they deflect it in different ways . |
| 24 | Although , strictly speaking , the bearers were not assigned to individuals and worked as a pool , carrying messages for anybody in the building , in practice they identified themselves with particular people . |
| 25 | Starting from an implicit acceptance of Roman rule they interpreted it as responsible contemporaries , having regard to the needs and interests of the Greek upper class . |
| 26 | By pre-adjunct he means adjectives in prenominal attributive position ; by characterisation he means something like inherent or permanent ( to which one should perhaps add some cautious and flexible condition such as " in the circumstances " ) . |
| 27 | Moore 's account of what he means by a natural property is none too clear , but in effect it means something like detectable by the senses or by scientific instruments . |
| 28 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 29 | Any or all of these factors may encourage you to seek to negotiate a settlement which entitles you to speedy payment of a lump sum and perhaps other benefits , even if the value of the total package is less than the amount that you might theoretically win if you sued and all went well . |
| 30 | Those who were not hard pressed and in no immediate danger of running at a considerable loss might have no strong incentive to vote in favour of a course which threatened them with heavy losses in the immediate future . |