Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With my best caricature British accent I reduce him to a fit of stifled giggles . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course I know nothing about the process of childbirth , ’ she said , with an austere expression about her lips … . |
| 3 | when she came up yesterday I said , we 've had our dinner , I said do you want , want some dinner ? of course I put it in the oven for her |
| 4 | So this afternoon I had him on the settee |
| 5 | ‘ An' where 's the money I gave yer fer the pictures ? ’ he demanded . |
| 6 | Finding myself in the coal bunker at the back of the bungalow I did nothing till the morning of dawning when maximum light was to be utilised for a rather essential cold water wash under an outside tap , and I was soon back on the solid road remarking that the hedgerows ' newborn leaves utter great things . |
| 7 | When I have found my tension I write it on a adhesive label and stick this on the inside of the cone , catching the tail end of yarn to the label at the same time . |
| 8 | Yes it 's great , I mean in the first year lecture on Tuesday erm in the break I gave them in the middle of it the the corridor was like thick with tobacco smoke y'know you could hardly |
| 9 | I packed my things , and as I was manoeuvring the car I reversed it into a ditch from which it would not shift . |
| 10 | I did n't approve of what he was doing , but if I refused his money I would be more and more visible , so I took it , and when he had gone off in relief back towards the dining car I gave it to the barman . |
| 11 | rush and Summer slack I sell it by the yard . |
| 12 | He had reached six when he played at a ball down the leg side which hit him on the thigh , with the bat some inches away , and was taken by Dujon . |
| 13 | Our patrol area during that time was mainly on the south coast and the west country , with a longer patrol northward on the west coast which took us into the Bristol Channel , then to the Isle of Man , Workington and Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | I propose that we reject the central image of ourselves as victims and install instead an alternative conception which sees us as an active force working in many different ways for our freedom from racial subordination . |
| 15 | Her mind was full of the future which presented itself as a bright empty space crossed by tracks of her own shining , clear-cut flights , her passage swift and sunlit . |
| 16 | I know , but we should n't have to borrow mother when I had to get back , to borrow my wages off Jes to get her tax for her car which left us with no money ! |
| 17 | The car which took us to the station drove as sedately as a Daimler in a royal procession although the people of Amsterdam were on their way to work and provided admirable subjects for baiting . |
| 18 | However , he soon found a car which took us up the hill to Maymyo , and Madriya and his wife and daughter came with us . |
| 19 | Much later in the books of Samuel we find another story concerning the ark which reminds us of the battle with the Philistines . |
| 20 | A vast impenetrable openness which froze him to the spot where he was as if he was caught in ice . |
| 21 | The relatively high completion rates for the ‘ Other NSEs ’ reflects the fact that this includes students with ‘ professional , nursing , technical or secretarial qualifications ’ The pattern which emerges is that students who have been selected on the basis of success in some form of study which prepares them for the demands which will be placed on them in higher education respond as least as well if not better than the traditionally qualified A-level entrants , while those with less evidence of success of this kind find the transition to higher education difficult and are more likely to drop-out . |
| 22 | Traditional examinations rely on a single mark or a grade to indicate the level of performance relative to other pupils , although it is an indication which says nothing about the nature of the achievement . |
| 23 | From the point of view of teacher activity as pragmatic mediation , operational techniques are the enactment of ideas previously subjected to appraisal which provides them with a rationale . |
| 24 | ( Left The Lycett & Conaty radial gear , with which S.M.E.T. Nos. 1–16 were originally fitted and ( right ) the Warner gear which replaced it in the 1920s . |
| 25 | Again after the middle ten lines there is another break which takes us into the last section of the poem with the words ‘ at last ’ . |
| 26 | Laurie , known to the boxing boys as Lol , believes boxing can give ‘ lads with fire in their belly ’ an ambition which keeps them on the straight and narrow . |
| 27 | By its very nature the trial is a passive form of review which confines itself to an examination of the finished product of the police investigation . |
| 28 | They then wheeled in unison into a shaft of light which held them for a second or so before they soared over the car and away . |
| 29 | She and her husband were met at the station by a small open carriage which took them to the palace . |
| 30 | The release of his second album , ‘ Hands Free ’ , follows the success of Mona , a hit from his first album which established him as a singer/songwriter but did very little to convince a cynical world that under the suntan there lurked a talented guitarist . |