Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At formal dinners at Sandringham or Windsor Castle she frequently had to leave the table to be ill . |
| 2 | His Paisley pattern shirt did n't go too well with the greying Marks & Spencer pullover he wore instead of a jacket , and he knew his fingernails were dirty . |
| 3 | From Australia or South Africa it is glorious , as it may pass overhead . |
| 4 | ‘ Does George — or Sir Bruce-want me back in London now ? ’ |
| 5 | chartered surveyors Dear Mr & Mrs Smith I refer to my telephone conversation with Mrs. Smith of 23rd May and write to confirm the terms on which we would be prepared to licence you to occupy the area of garden land adjacent to your property . |
| 6 | He had a gift of mimicry , and when he made a speech as though he were Asquith or Lloyd George it would raise shouts of laughter . |
| 7 | We have a speaker er Patricia Routledge in her guise as Mrs Bucket or Mrs Bouquet she would not be very pleased if you were late . |
| 8 | Via G & J Weir he made the transition into rotorcraft and , when he teamed-up with Raoul Hafner , created some of the most imaginative applications of rotary-winged flight . |
| 9 | First commissions could be obtained through political interest , and this would appear to have been the situation of Philip Hay , whom Admiral Lord Keith managed to place in the 11th Foot as an ensign on the strength of imaginary past service , though his patron remarked that ‘ if his father can not get at old General Grant or Lady Sutherland he may not be confirmed . |
| 10 | If the Snotlings are not within 12″ of a friendly Orc or Goblin unit they are affected by psychology as normal . |
| 11 | Whenever you find an A.sessilis or A. reineckii you are looking at the same plant : A. rosaefolia . |
| 12 | ‘ If it had taken place in London or New York I would have simply bawled at him to get lost . |
| 13 | ‘ If someone had rung myself or Walter Jones I could have accepted that , but they did n't . ’ |
| 14 | Every time BBCBASIC(Z80) encountered a FOR , REPEAT , GOSUB , FN or PROC statement it " pushes " the return address on to a " stack " and every time it encountered a NEXT , UNTIL , RETURN statement or the end of a function or procedure it " pops " the latest return address of the stack and goes back there . |
| 15 | As explained in the " Program Flow Control " sub-section , every time BBCBASIC(Z80) encounters a FOR , REPEAT , GOSUB , FN or PROC statement it " pushes " the return address on to a " stack " and every time it encounters a NEXT , UNTIL , RETURN statement or the end of a function or procedure it " pops " the latest return address of the stack and goes back there . |
| 16 | The Palmer & Pearson file she had brought up with her was forgotten as she swung round and headed for the door . |
| 17 | See that Kelly Ann you would n't mind would you please , turning it off , thank you love . |
| 18 | Known , but somehow often overlooked , is the fact that Ellsworth Kelly he of the precise abstract geometries and the monochromatic fields has always kept a pencil within easy reach , taking it up regularly over the years to make line drawings , uninflected by modelling , chiefly of plants and flowers . |
| 19 | When I spoke to him that Saturday evening he said he had me in mind but the paper could pay only $15 per week . |
| 20 | When he came down to Hillmarden that Friday night he did not , mercifully , refer to her mid-week sortie . |
| 21 | The height of the mound will be lower than Brayton Bath it will be lower than Hambleton . |
| 22 | We know that Saint Mark we know that the Gospel writer recorded all this information about thirty years after the death of Jesus . |
| 23 | Now yer know what a cowson that Frank is. 'E told 'er ter piss orf out of it in no uncertain terms an' Maudie told 'im she was gon na send 'er ole man round ter sort 'im out . |
| 24 | ‘ Why , sir , one 's the great Lord Byron , probably the most famous poet in the world , after Johann Schlitzberger — and a smarter dresser than Johann Schlitzberger he is , as well . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ So Mr Flowerdew he did pay him double ; and my grandfather said : |
| 26 | And it 's going back to the point that Mr Curtis I think misunderstood me , that 's basically that if you concentrate new growth in one location you have the ability to plan to serve that development by public transport , whereas if you spread it out to all the points of the compass , you know , two hundred houses in one direction of York , two hundred in the opposite direction would become very mor more difficult to serve than would a concentrated er chunk of development , and that 's as simple as that . |
| 27 | It 's sufficient to say that Clyde thanks you for saving his family , but then finds out there 's one Demon left . |
| 28 | And in response , irritably , ‘ That Kevin Kenner you like so much is like a classical version of Liberace . ’ |
| 29 | If it had been any priest other than Father Devlin he would have told him to go to hell and mind his own business . |
| 30 | ‘ Darling , ’ Arabella had said , ‘ You know that PR firm I did some work for ? I was talking with their boss the other day , and he said they were looking for new blood … ’ |