Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [adv] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't turn up , so of course I then telephoned her office and found she had n't been there that week . |
| 2 | I found that I gained a lot of strength from all this regular correspondence with people and , four years on , I now feel much more myself again , although of course I still miss my husband tremendously . |
| 3 | So rather than have er two cars plus a company car I just sold my car . |
| 4 | CASE STUDY 5.1 — MRS Y. For example , Mrs Y. was a nervous anxious woman , whose husband had a cerebral haemorrhage , resulting in a stroke which particularly affected his arm and his speech . |
| 5 | At best it was a snobbery which wholly overlooked his timing , eye and exactitude of judgment and imagery . |
| 6 | Fortunately , during the last few years , there has been a blossoming of research which considerably increases our understanding of how this part of the machinery of planning works . |
| 7 | According to some stock market sources , Ferranti was in talks with Daimler about the possibility of a partnership before the fraud which now threatens its future came to light . |
| 8 | Pierry derives its name from a stratum of flint in the subsoil which reputedly gives its wine a marked flinty taste . |
| 9 | There are other conceptions of consciousness which also owe their existence to the pursuit of certain virtues . |
| 10 | Close your eyes and imagine that you are centred within a sphere of white light which also permeates your body . |
| 11 | ( Please note I have a colour VGA monitor which definitely colours my opinion here ! ) |
| 12 | James Harris , writing in 1751 , saw that ‘ all Conversation passes between Particulars or Individuals ’ , and argued that when , at the formative stages of human language , a speaker met another whose name he did not know he addressed him by using ‘ , that is , Pointing , or Indication by the Finger or Hand , some traces of which are still to be observed as a part of that Action which naturally attends our speaking ’ . |
| 13 | What matters is the record of action which actually followed his visit to Klagenfurt . |
| 14 | Baron von Munchausen was an eighteenth-century Hanoverian soldier who greatly exaggerated his prowess in war — and his battle-scars . |
| 15 | When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain , turning it into a vehicle for the meme 's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell . |
| 16 | Like some naughty child who 's been caught playing a prank she just kept her head low , staring at the floor . |
| 17 | ‘ It could be very useful to be able to negotiate a discount for cash if you are buying luxury items like a fur coat or an expensive piece of jewellery , ’ was the reaction from Patrick Hastings , a City employee who clearly has his mind on women . |
| 18 | After a few years in atomic energy research he then discovered his vocation as teacher and enthusiast as a lecturer in chemistry at Birkenhead Technical College , where he also voluntarily taught about theatre , literature and music in a humanities section . |
| 19 | At this stage he had been in contention behind McCallen and Dunlop and even after his restart he still clawed his way back into the leading group . |
| 20 | These were the copper sheathing which greatly reduced the fouling of their bottoms by weeds and the loss of speed this entailed ; and the carronade which greatly increased their fighting power . |
| 21 | The woman was well built too , and the man had a very large stomach and was wearing a baggy shirt which just covered his belly . |
| 22 | It is a journey in time , which we begin with an experience which completely absorbs our attention but which , at a certain psychological point , demands change . |
| 23 | I wondered if they had simply forgotten to turn off the bulb which annoyingly cast its brightness through a porthole and on to the swirl and rush of white water , and I was half tempted to pull the fuse out of the circuit and thus surround Wavebreaker with darkness , but resisted the impulse . |
| 24 | Troyna and Carrington 's dissatisfaction with simplistic assumptions about the antiracist effects of ‘ culture contact ’ and white students ' ‘ direct experience ’ of black realities , as well as their growing awareness of the limits of rationalist pedagogies , points to a need on their part to break with realist assumptions about the curriculum which still underpin their antiracist projects ( Troyna and Carrington , 1990 ) . |
| 25 | Eight years later , the group still has neither a title to the 32 hectares , nor a formal guarantee of its right to occupy : its tenure rests on a letter from the National Agrarian Institute which simply acknowledges its presence . |
| 26 | It was his ability to achieve that power and well-being which alone justified his despotism . |
| 27 | Maybe the parties foolishly signed a pact which then found its way into the hands of the DTI . |
| 28 | It would be inappropriate , however , to avoid the general subject of birth control , since it was this very question which ostensibly destroyed his ambition to lead the Conservative Party , and indeed , to be prime minister . |
| 29 | AN UNKNOWN BOY WHO BRAVELY GAVE HIS LIFE FOR ANOTHER . |
| 30 | Similarly another teacher felt that she should give firm scolding to an extremely active young boy who continually left his place during story time . |