Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or one might look to the content of specific rules and judicial pro-nouncements to see whether they conform to certain moral standards for family behaviour laid down by community or authority . |
| 2 | Trees were bursting into leaf and birds singing as they wandered along the banks of the river , their arms entwined round each other . |
| 3 | What will the Germans think when they arrive in Glasgow with players still fresh from a ten-week break in the Bundesliga and a legislative system which means that if any of their players has called off from this game they must not play for their club sides next weekend ? ’ |
| 4 | Between the bouts of keen pain a curious life took possession of his brain , a life in which kings and queens floated on the water and white-clad saracens rode up and down before a cage in which was a crowned lion , and then , suddenly , the cage was empty and the saracens were knights in armour and the water on which they rode was a mountain like a tree in which birds nested and which burst into flames and was the phoenix ; and somewhere was the Holy Grail for which he reached out in vain , and a jewelled sword , and a unicorn that spoke but said nothing . |
| 5 | During much of that time she had been moving constantly , school friends , teachers and happy times discarded until she felt like a fugitive . |
| 6 | This is absolutely one of the greatest pop singles of all time : Earl Young 's cymbals fly as he experiments with patterns that would later become instant indicators of disco , the arrangement is equivalent to a condensed blaxploitation movie , the song is terrific and Rochelle Fleming 's lead vocal soars . |
| 7 | Brown eyes twinkled as he came towards Lindsey . |
| 8 | Her eyes crinkled when she talked about the residents , and Juliet decided she liked her . |
| 9 | Several speakers agreed that there seemed to be a great waste of resources in the whole training area . |
| 10 | Her lips parted and she sucked on his forefinger , and then he trailed it down her throat , to the shadowed cleft between her breasts . |
| 11 | The contractions stopped and I wondered for the hundredth time what my son would look like . |
| 12 | Her eyes gleamed when she talked about fighting humans . |
| 13 | Ian barnes intervened when she appeared to be pulled . |
| 14 | Mrs Files let her shoulders answer while she stacked at the sideboard . |
| 15 | " I know I 'll be all right because there 's a few steps to go before it gets to that , " she said , " but some of the lasses would n't know that . " |
| 16 | He might also have said ‘ My hormones insist that I fall in love regularly . |
| 17 | Right so , you know , there are those who would teach that Jesus he would die for our sins and he 's forgiven us sins , but only those who come to him , Jesus died for the sin of the whole world , for every man , woman , boy and girl that has ever lived or ever will live , he died for the sin of the whole world , not just for those even who lived after his death , that 's why it talks about in the Old Testament people like Abraham looking for that day , and so Jesus who in , when he died , because he 's eternal , so we 've got the problems with time , God has n't got problems with time , he 's eternal and so his sacrifice , the sacrifice of him on the cross was effective for Abraham as it is for you , it was as effective for David as it was for Paul otherwise Abraham would never of had his sins forgiven because what happened with all the sacrifice with all the little lambs that were killed and all the goats and all the rest they only acted as a covering for sin , did n't take them away , it covered them , what for , until the moment when Jesus would come and would take those sins away and so when you think of David 's sin , his adultery and his murder , how does he get forgiven for that because Jesus died from the cross and he takes upon himself David 's sin and he takes upon him Abraham 's sin and Noah 's sin and Adam 's sin , just as much as your sin and the person who will be born in ten years time their sin also , all our sins er as Gloria just read there from , from one John to two they were all of him he has died for every one , well that 's his humiliation , hurry along quickly now his exhortation , the period from Jesus 's resurrection onward is referred to as to the , as the state of exhortation , now what does that term mean , well as Jesus according to his divine nature has always been , he was always every where , now in his human nature , before , be , sorry it 's not , it 's not on that one , but before he , he came to earth , he was every where , he was God , he was , he was omnia present that means he was every where at the same time , but he takes upon himself he 's su , he 's , he 's human nature and he takes upon himself the limitations and when Jesus is walking down second avenue in , in Jerusalem he 's not in Nazareth that 's why there were times when people came to er , to , to , came rushing out because they heard that Jesus was passing by , see he was n't there resident with them , he passed by , now he 's gone back to heaven and where is he , he 's in heaven , he , er whereabouts , where do you think Jesus is now , that resurrected body that was glorified that has gone back to heaven , where do you think it is |
| 18 | does n't it come back to the issue of wh who they trustees are and who 's interest , given that trustees are expected to be independent , in the end , who 's interests do the trustees represent , because I 've had experience of working with a pension fund that was in massive surplus and the actualar actuaries refused to agree their final report until that surplus was dealt with , so that the trade unions and the employer through the trustees had to negotiate a way of spending that surplus and er given the pressures of the actuaries to say we were not allowed th the funds to continue unless you deal with this surplus , then it comes back to the issue of how the Board of Trustees is made up and if we accept that there is a degree of representation on that Board , then just exactly how that representation is divided . |
| 19 | Garty 's legs collapsed and he fell to the ground , a twitching moaning heap . |
| 20 | Most readers report that they infer from ( 9 ) that John is a schoolboy , among other things . |
| 21 | His eyes flickered as he looked at her , and she knew he was searching his mind for a joke . |
| 22 | The idea that knowledge could be firmly established and disputes resolved if we began from clear beginnings always remained with Hobbes . |
| 23 | But even those who discard books forget that they exist in a real world and that the booksellers sell to real customers . |
| 24 | ‘ Of course , I nearly forgot — ’ his lips twisted when he came to a standstill ‘ — you 're newly betrothed … ’ |
| 25 | His lips twisted and she waited for the inevitable cynical response , but surprisingly it did n't come . |
| 26 | But her legs shook and she clutched at the bed , which seemed to recede and there was a strange , fizzing sensation in her head . |
| 27 | It was only as his eyes closed and he drifted into sleep that Corbett realised the wine must have been lightly laced with a sleeping potion . |
| 28 | They made love a third time before falling into an exhaustion that was beyond pleasure , their naked bodies sprawled together , arms and legs tangled , and when they woke up late the next day Damian made love to her again until her eyes closed and she shuddered in hot delirium against him . |
| 29 | But her husband was grinning , eyes closed as he collapsed into his chair , with the blonde mane moving between his legs . |
| 30 | His eyes shone as he spoke of his great purpose in life , and I was listening , fascinated , so neither of us heard the light footsteps approaching the cottage along the grassy path . |