Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It must hiv been when they took yer watch . ’ |
| 2 | The same may be true of the Prinias horsemen , but the relief there is rather low , and an alternative is that they turn their eyes on us as guardians of the house : the ‘ terror-mask ’ , a concept we shall meet again . |
| 3 | Another bonus is that it leaves your hair smelling of mint rather than yukky ammonia ! |
| 4 | The result was that he left my flat in a fuming temper , very gruff but very sober , and the broadcast was , I was given to understand , of consummate skill and effectiveness . |
| 5 | Well what really set my mind was when I lost my sister and my brother . |
| 6 | ‘ The only pity is that you concentrate your attention on men who are already spoken for . |
| 7 | The inevitable consequence of his marriage was that he forfeited his fellowship , and the security it had given him . |
| 8 | Part of the Medau Society 's submission to the Sports Council was that we increase our membership numbers , and therefore our income — if we do not achieve this it will have repercussions on our grant . |
| 9 | Perhaps a telling comment on this is that a major reason for the recruitment of top , superannuated civil servants into business is that they know their way round the political labyrinth of Whitehall . |
| 10 | I mean I think that my principle desire is that they pay their er they contribute to our income and pay their rent regularly and are able to do so . |
| 11 | Either Mr. Woodford had a twinkle in his eye or was just a good salesman , but the upshot was that he supplied my grandmother over many years , in his turn his son carried on and continued serving my mother , right up to 1949 when the Salisbury round had only two customers left . |
| 12 | The difference was that he accepted her attempt at consolation , taking her palm between both of his own hands , holding it gently and meeting her compassionate gaze with the glimmer of a smile . |
| 13 | The desire of biblical literalists to show that the story could have been history acted as a spur to the study of zoogeography , even though the eventual , and ironic , outcome was that they sank their own ship . |
| 14 | The trouble with the hon. Gentleman is that he believes his own propaganda . |
| 15 | The main reason Clare did not allow credit was because it complicated her bookkeeping . |
| 16 | ‘ I always tried to make Mojo more organised , ’ she says , ‘ but all that ended up happening was that I kept his diary and sent letters off for him . |
| 17 | The trouble is if you get her boxfuls she wo n't stop until you eat the lot ! |
| 18 | Also , pragmatists draw the very different moral that the test of a theory is whether it organizes our beliefs into an elegant and suggestive web of belief . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm a businessman first and a boxer second , and the reason I 'm so successful as a pugilist is that I know my limitations better than anyone else . ’ |
| 20 | The clue to the GL 's satisfying performance is that it develops its maximum torque at a modest 2,500 rpm , pulling strongly from low revs , making it an easy-going cruiser without the need for constant recourse to the five-speed gearbox . |
| 21 | A felicitous footnote to that incident is that he got his cake after all . |
| 22 | What determines their long-term success is whether they suit your metabolism or not . |
| 23 | My first thought was that he meant his feeling for me . |
| 24 | She had never known what love and tenderness were until she met her Aunty Lizzie , and she knew that no one in the world would ever love her like that woman did ; nor would she love anyone else . |
| 25 | The most crucial aspect is whether we want our currency to be locked into a stable currency in Europe or whether we want to be able to devalue our currency in the hope of averting unemployment . |
| 26 | That was Convergence was when you shift your speech style to become more like somebody else . |
| 27 | Er last time I went to the doctor was when I hurt my back . |
| 28 | Nobody must have been his bombardier , mine was and my navigator was and I see his would have been . |
| 29 | erm strike out , interim payment , order fourteen er itself , there 's always still available to them , erm that the other side of the coin is if they get their money and of course they 're going to be threatening bankruptcy for some four thousand odd Names , I mean that 's , that 's equally devastating to individuals , erm my Lord , one would be into a type of argument on balance of convenience if we were at this stage , one would be considering the bankruptcy of the names , whether they have the funds to pay , even if judgment is given against them because vast majority do n't and what would be the point of giving judgment , this order fourteen cases saying one should n't do it in those circumstances , what if the names are right , will they get the money back , will they get a cross undertaking damages and pre er , er and to what extent do now have the funds , to what extent will it actually effect their business in the light of of |
| 30 | That 's where my dad was and they made my mother |