Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her study My Mother My Self ( Fontana , £5.99 ) , psychologist Nancy Friday puts her finger on how I felt when she says that , at such a time , ‘ The new mother finds the need for her own mother increasing . |
| 2 | There were occasions yesterday when she did n't look a bad player , certainly trimmer and more mobile than when she played the game for real , and showing some nimble footwork which Lionel himself would have envied . |
| 3 | A bishop who can not make up his mind which side he is supporting is inconvenient . |
| 4 | This is a time to make up your mind which side you are on : America or the people ? |
| 5 | Later , confronted with the ambiguously dominating Attwater who kings it over the natives on his atoll , one of them ‘ broke into a piece of the chorus of a comic song which he must have heard twenty years before in London : meaningless gibberish that , in that hour and place ’ , seemed hateful as a blasphemy : ‘ Hikey , pikey , crikey , fikey , chillinga — wallaba dory . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Halifax is a figure who intrigues me , too . |
| 7 | In particular I recall how the fellow-student , in that breathless voice of teenage girls , strangled in this case with awe , asked him whether he knew some Italian poet whose name I could not catch . |
| 8 | The more he reads , the more certain he is that it 's garbage — and how can you diplomatically conduct a love affair with a poet whose work you view in that light ? |
| 9 | At the PEN office were Imre Szász of PEN , Ottó Orbán , a poet whose work I had admired in translation , László Kunos , translator and an editor with Corvina , the national publishing house , and Maria Körösy , translator and secretary of Hungarian PEN . |
| 10 | The Chair of the Education committee was often a key figure whose ear it might be useful to have . |
| 11 | I had most of the morning to myself and made a few calls to clients , to a financial journalist whose opinion I valued and finally to Andrew Buccleuth . |
| 12 | In other words a person may be deceived even though it did not cross his mind whose wine he was buying . |
| 13 | And grief and deep despair were a cold wind whose power he could no longer fight against … |
| 14 | The Fund was launched on March 26 , 1968 as a lasting and practical memorial to the much-loved British musician whose name it bears . |
| 15 | The Fund was launched on March 26 , 1968 as a lasting and practical memorial to the much-loved British musician whose name it bears . |
| 16 | She wanted both of these to some extent but only in a police force whose integrity she could believe in . |
| 17 | Normally I 'd be reaching for ‘ annihilate ’ button when faced with such an ‘ aware ’ and ‘ right-on ’ selection of topics but Leatherface succeed where so many others have failed by virtue of the tuneful tempestuousness of their music , an assault with melody , muscle and sheer conviction which is irresistible , and the fact that Frankie Stubbs never sounds like a po-faced preacher — unlike a certain other native of the North-East whose name I can hardly type without sending my blood-pressure into the red . |
| 18 | But now the water flowed , water as from a spring whose source he had forgotten , the lost energy of young and wasted years ran into his limbs and mind and spirit so that he looked everywhere with honesty , with a sensation of being right in the world . |
| 19 | A serjeant-at-arms , wearing the royal arms of France on his tabard , gestured to the archers to hoist me into the saddle of a horse whose reins he held . |
| 20 | Finally I went to the Principal of the college , a sympathetic dame whose ear I have for any amount of services rendered , and told her I had decided that term must end slightly earlier for me than the others . |
| 21 | Presented with so ready a means of escape from a course of action whose wisdom he already doubted , Coleridge 's decision was predictable and eager . |
| 22 | It is a tribute to how far we have come already in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform an experiment whose results we can not predict . |
| 23 | Complaint may be made to the local authority environmental health department whose responsibility it is under s.91 of the Public Health Act 1936 to inspect their areas for the detection of nuisance and institute formal proceedings either summarily or in the High Court , where , in their opinion , the odour complained of amounts to a statutory nuisance within s.92 of that Act . |
| 24 | Women with paper qualifications were more successful at re-entering their original occupation than employees of banks and public administration whose skills we surmise were more specific to the employer . |
| 25 | One of the Signals assistants was male , a Leading Aircraftsman whose name I can not now recall , but I will call him Fred . |
| 26 | After Tom Luker 's death in 1977 his family gave the Club his putter which is now mounted as a trophy on display in the Club . |
| 27 | At any available space in the interview he name-checks himself and his show . |
| 28 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what discussions he has held recently with Ministers in European Community countries about immigration and nationality questions . |
| 29 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received from Cumbria county council on the question of policing in the county . |
| 30 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received concerning the access to advice of asylum seekers . |