Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WITH the forthcoming visit by the South Africans looming large , the RFU have taken the opportunity given them by the All Black and Wallaby tours to South Africa to get in some early homework on the Boks . |
| 2 | Sorrel watched him for a few seconds , then snatched it out of his hands and stuck it in her mouth . |
| 3 | Still , Will had driven from his Stockport home for the twin purposes of getting some exercise and talking about his book , and neither he nor I fancied a day in sad cafe ambience doing nothing but the latter . |
| 4 | It would be a disservice to Denis Law to mention him in the same breath as some of Scotland 's more notorious hell-raisers . |
| 5 | MIPS claims all RISC chips offer roughly the same performance and that its R4400 96 SPECint89 score puts it in the same league as HP , distinguished by its significantly lower price and wide availability . |
| 6 | The war boar is a dangerous beast whose charge puts him in the same category as a fully armoured , lance-armed knight . |
| 7 | Tiny children , barefoot and dirty , tried to generate enough courage to touch us for a few fils ’ . |
| 8 | All things considered , however , the film does n't exactly fly so much as hope from one gag to the next , relying on the awe of Brando and affection for the Kellog character to carry it over the many black spots . |
| 9 | All things considered , however , the film does n't exactly fly so much as hope from one gag to the next , relying on the awe of Brando and affection for the Kellog character to carry it over the many black spots . |
| 10 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
| 11 | Its position beside Musgrave Street police station puts it in the same difficult position as many old buildings beside security installations . |
| 12 | On the west side , Ingleborough is a shadowy giant revealing none of the many wonders that attract its legions of pilgrims ; and to the east , green slopes rise with little incident to dark moors forming a distant skyline . |
| 13 | the sneeze of movement returns it to the same position , |
| 14 | For the present it would be advisable not to report such allegations without giving the person defamed an opportunity to refute them in the same report . |
| 15 | Evidence is all around us , and the first step in any research is for the scientist to decide which of the many facts are of concern to him . |
| 16 | Apart from the shock that her GP saw her in the same light as his aged mother , Marie has never looked back . |
| 17 | She had enough tins in the larder to see them through a few days at least . |
| 18 | Dada came in ; Hunt evening coat , waistcoat fitting him with the same exact pinch as waistcoats had when he was twenty . |
| 19 | V. GENT enlightens us on a few of the problems he 's had to deal with over the counter . |
| 20 | The Israelite army greets it with the same great shout as bounced off the walls of Jericho and heralded their demolition . |
| 21 | Shedding their skin puts them in the same position as Jane Austen 's heroes , prematurely aged by the treacherous sun of the West Indies . ’ |
| 22 | Unsettled at having come halfway around the world to find herself in the same town at the same time as Vitor d'Arcos , she had skipped over any articles which mentioned him , but , on turning a page , had found an article which she could not ignore . |
| 23 | Thus the author of A Remonstrance of Many Thousand Citizens , probably Richard Overton , reminded the House of Commons in 1646 that " wee are your Principalls , and you our Agents- … wee possessed you with the same Power that was in our selves … |
| 24 | Most of our group were sent to pick grapes under the supervision of an ex-legionnaire whose age and Germanic inflexion marked him as a former member of the Wehrmacht . |
| 25 | Fritzy , bleerk with Ministry , breaks his hand hitting someone in the same brawl . |
| 26 | Happily in those days there was no air navel to take us in a few hours to Addis Ababa and bring us back a few days later . |
| 27 | This makes them rather like Health Maintenance Organisations ( HMOs ) in the United States , which receive a fixed annual sum of money to provide health care for enrolled patients ; the system subjects them to the same financial incentives and may lead to the same adverse effects . |
| 28 | Admittedly , ethnography presents us with a few ( but very few ) examples of value systems in which inequality of status is viewed as a moral evil ; but these cases are so exceptional that they probably always represent transient states of society . |
| 29 | Of course , the fact that you have written a computer program that will do what an animal does is no proof that the animal does it in the same way . |
| 30 | The romance of the French Foreign Legion struck me in the same way , and especially the exhibits from Kolwezi and Chad , where there were photographs of camouflaged paras with shaved heads and sunglasses helping starving babies . |