Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel told Eleanor that he despised her for making a pass at him . |
| 2 | After lunch , Bernice and I armed ourselves with black plastic dustbin liners and we made a concerted attack on Billy 's room . |
| 3 | Mm , well Ann and she got it for thirty two and a half ! |
| 4 | The ball bounced near Scott and he trapped it with his left foot , then swivelled and hooked it to one of the young boys with his right , smiling to himself . |
| 5 | I did not usurp power but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power , in other words this is the modesty part I acted for the public welfare , I acted for the common wellbeing of all our people whenever and in whatever manner was necessary unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition Roosevelt suggested that the president subject only to the people of the United States and he identified himself with Andrew Jackson and with Abraham Lincoln . |
| 6 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |
| 7 | I remember a lingering preference for Ruth Etting because she reminded me of Marion Brown . |
| 8 | THE Roux brothers ' former restaurant in Old Bailey , renamed Le Sous Sol after they sold it in 1989 , is in administrative receivership . |
| 9 | I took my friendly Spanish grammar to the library every day and tried to be polite to Jefferson when he maddened me at meals . |
| 10 | By way of illustration , let us take an example from the development of Newton 's theory that we have considered several times before , and consider the situation that confronted Leverrier and Adams when they addressed themselves to the troublesome orbit of the planet Uranus . |
| 11 | Environmental issues are also important to Alison although she believes none of the major parties have a good green record . |
| 12 | My capital is Washington and I have lots of skyscrapers . |
| 13 | I asked Ivy if she owed anything to Greek tragedy . |
| 14 | She warned me against noticing only the differences between life in the Indian sub-continent and in England and she warned me about being seduced by the apparent ‘ exoticness ’ of it all . |
| 15 | or it could be this week , er you know how they have the January and they have it in Haymarket |
| 16 | At about that time , Ken asked Codron if he had anything for him . |
| 17 | I shall tell you , instead , of the time Gerda and I saw you on the stage in Vienna . ’ |
| 18 | A paramedic crew from Mersey Regional Ambulance was waiting on the beach for Mr Ross and they took him to Southport and Formby District and General Hospital but he died shortly afterwards . |
| 19 | You know , Pete and I encouraged him like anything in his writing . |
| 20 | This idea inspired knights from France to flock to the assistance of the struggling Christian kingdoms in northern Spain ; but there was clearly a nice distinction between the attitude of men north of the Pyrenees , who regarded the Muslim as the wicked infidel , as cattle for the slaughter , and the Christians who had lived among them in Spain and who regarded them as misguided fellow-humans . |
| 21 | ‘ We talked to Elizabeth , to Monty 's doctor and to Monty , and we all decided that it would kill Monty if we took him off the picture . |
| 22 | ‘ They were made in Florence but I bought them in Bonn . ’ |
| 23 | Not only was it their first victory since early December but it moved them above their vanquished opponents at the foot of the table . |
| 24 | She got up , gazing at him ; for this seemed not the crazy figure of recent days , but Jake as she remembered him from years ago , her own father . |
| 25 | We may get more from Dr. Bonnard when we question him in depth . |
| 26 | His eyes flared over Maggie as he nodded her to a seat . |
| 27 | Bronson fell in love with Kim when she comforted him after the death of his actress wife Jill Ireland from cancer two years ago . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll go in front as the standard bearer , ’ said Nigel as he placed himself at the head of his patrol . |
| 29 | I was half asleep when he showed us up to our rooms , Ward and I sharing one at the rear of the building , which , in place of beds , had a double-tier bunk in the corner . |
| 30 | He tells us that he ‘ spent months researching ’ ( citations from his letter , The Art Newspaper No. 22 , October 1992 , p.3 ) the texts which he uses in his work at the Neue Galerie at Kassel and he criticises me for ‘ forgetting ’ these texts which took him so long to research , even though they are clearly mentioned in the second , fourth and fifth paragraphs of my article which comprises only seven paragraphs . |