Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | M· Alu I also contains the largest known variable |
| 2 | Without family guidance she sometimes finds it hard to manage , especially money . |
| 3 | After a recent stroke she now needs help with shopping and heavy housework . |
| 4 | And even the woman in the examination the pianist she actually tells Tracey if some of them are bad or whatever . |
| 5 | The route , via Donkey Lane , is lovely countryside and the experience should become the exact opposite of the stress and distress she obviously gets from driving . |
| 6 | Now when my mother flies in from Vancouver she barely recognizes the city that was her home for nearly 40 years . |
| 7 | Margaret 's partner Richard is serving an eight-year sentence for rape — a crime she firmly believes he did not commit . |
| 8 | Grandmother of 5 , Pamela Fitchew was preparing this morning for her day of reckoning , sentencing by a judge and possible time in prison for a crime she still claims she did n't commit . |
| 9 | Yet the figure she eventually pulls out of the hat is not one likely to be recognised by many who came into contact with Freya Stark . |
| 10 | Before the cuckoo abandons its offspring to the care of the foster parents , there is one other action she usually carries out . |
| 11 | It is thought to be exploring how insurance risks compare and fit in with the other financial risks it already manages routinely for customers . |
| 12 | Watch the buoy drifting westwards just north of the equator , as it approaches one of the moorings it suddenly changes direction with the current . |
| 13 | I ca n't stand to see people being cruel to animals it absolutely appals me , it does really , I feel like to take an axe to them |
| 14 | Charlton 0 , Plymouth 0 PETER SHILTON made his playing debut for the Plymouth side he now manages against the team he first played against over 20 years ago . |
| 15 | This winter Koffmann has been reinterpreting Cabessal de lievre : instead of stuffing and braising the hare he lightly roasts the fillet and laps it in a deep spicy sauce grand veneur set off by a heap of nutty pates . |
| 16 | In his balletts he often breaks away from the Mantuan composer 's genuinely dancelike and predominantly note-against-note style , keeping only the ‘ fa-la ’ refrain which is the hallmark of the balletto — but extending even that with great contrapuntal and rhythmic ingenuity . |
| 17 | His blackness he now regards as a personal stabilizer rather than a means for rejecting society . |
| 18 | But 15 months after his last appearance in the ring he still takes pride in being called a boxer . |
| 19 | After the dog loses consciousness it rapidly stops breathing and its heart stops beating . |
| 20 | The importance of affirmation With regard to football it perhaps does not matter very much — people who like playing it or watching it are not likely to be seriously affected by our negative comments ; they will just think that we are stupid and go on playing and watching as before . |
| 21 | As a special bonus it also has to be able to merchandise our Fluffy Puffins . |
| 22 | He does not see the different plants like an agriculturalist , nor the medicinal roots like a physician , but everything that he sees with his material eyes he secretly contemplates in his mind through spiritual vision . |
| 23 | Bevin and the Foreign Office were on occasion more sensitive to this issue — but in Bevin 's case this produced the bizarre proposal to hang on in the Middle East from a base in inhospitable ( but British ) territory 2,000 miles from the Suez Canal , Even Bullock is forced to concede that Bevin was ‘ obsessed ’ with the Middle East , an obsession he never seems to have lost . |
| 24 | These days he trains every morning with Torquay , the club he now captains , does weights in the afternoon at the town 's Imperial Hotel , then does another lot of weights for his upper body three nights a week at the local gym . |
| 25 | And er I have in there one of the great cyclist , he cycles all over the country , he 's gone from John O' Groats down the other way and across the opposite way , he cycles everywhere , he never goes in car he always cycles everywhere he goes . |
| 26 | ‘ She only bought it in October and she had me wash it every Saturday since , ’ says Tim fingering the glossy body of the car he now drives . |
| 27 | I know it 's not his car 's number plate , or not the car he usually travels in , but ask if it fits his birthday in any way , or his phone number , or anything at all they can think of . |
| 28 | Other than in the early stages of a completely new programme it also requires evaluation of existing training , so that evaluation may be as important as identification of needs . |
| 29 | When the party is in opposition it also elects the Parliamentary Committee or Shadow Cabinet . |
| 30 | When these are delivered , it will sell most of the 43 aircraft it now owns to keep its fleet the youngest — and hence cheapest to maintain — in the world . |