Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dora had told him that Miss Alexandra was but a month short of her twenty-second birthday and he had gone out of the kitchen , scratching his head in disbelief . |
| 2 | ‘ The only difference between Lee and Roy Keane and David Hirst is that they are doing it in the Premier League . |
| 3 | Mr Richard Benson , defending , said Bourgois had had no idea who Miss Lamplugh was and had not intended to harm her . |
| 4 | Third Avenue was as thronged as the store , but there he was , heading across the street . |
| 5 | A brief analysis of Primal Scream 's pop career has also taken place , rounded off by a sure-footed declaration from Craig that ‘ the only respect I have for Bobby Gillespie is that he 's been closer to Kylie Minogue 's fanny than I have . ’ |
| 6 | Poor old Beatrice began by wanting to show how self-denying and supportive Ellen Ash was and she messed around looking up every recipe for gooseberry jam and every jaunt to Broadstairs for twenty-five years , can you believe it , and woke up to find that no one wanted self-denial and dedication any more , they wanted proof that Ellen was raging with rebellion and pain and untapped talent . |
| 7 | I lost that job at Miss Havisham 's because of you . |
| 8 | I 'm continuing , this month and next , with the 16-bar guitar solo from Linda Ronstadt 's That 'll Be The Day . |
| 9 | After attempting last month 's first 8-bars of the 16-bar solo from Linda Ronstadt 's That 'll Be The Day , we 'll crack on with the second half this month . |
| 10 | Lucy Haynes was as tied to her bad-tempered spouse as a satellite moon to its planet . |
| 11 | Although David Cecil was and always had been a devout Christian , he became the favourite candidate of those who resented the ‘ clerical candidate ’ , the man who had been put up by Lewis , just because he was a Christian . |
| 12 | ‘ Look here , Miss O'Brien , if you 're really serious , why do n't you write a few handbills , saying what ’ Factota Limited' is and explaining its aims , and send one to everyone in the village ? |
| 13 | Suspicion had been his watchword and perhaps Miss Labrooy 's as well . |
| 14 | The effect of the decision in Aveling Barford is that where a company has no retained earnings , a transfer by it to a sister company which is known to be at an under value may be treated as an unauthorised return of capital . |
| 15 | My Noble Friend Lord was if I may say so his usual wonderful combination of modesty and vehemence has erm drawn our attention to the very confused situation which arose . |
| 16 | Muriel Box 's complaint , of course , was that the script was ‘ inaccurate , ’ critic Richard Winnington 's that the film ‘ contrives with something like genius neither to inform , excite , entertain , titillate or engage the eye . ’ |
| 17 | One of the theories about the abandoned ship Marie Celeste is that the crew were plucked off by a hungry kraken . |
| 18 | I believe one of the reasons you left Fleetwood Mac was because you did n't want to tour . |
| 19 | You see , the trouble with Admiral Meredith-Lee was that he was a newcomer . |
| 20 | Lee Marvin , who had a good supporting role in the film , told me , ‘ The big problem I had with Monty Clift was that he would n't look me in the eye . |
| 21 | What 's funny about Frank Spencer is that he 's a fella . |
| 22 | Earl Robert was and is in residence in his manor of Huncote , ’ said the reeve , ‘ a few miles nearer Leicester . |
| 23 | Erm perhaps I can turn the the question on its head and and I think the way the County Council 's looked at it , what would be the implications of not providing for the needs of North Yorkshire , and that 's I think the approach that we have taken in the first instance , is to try and determine what the needs of North Yorkshire are and to borrow a phrase from Professor Lock , in strategic terms to look at er try to achieve full employment in North Yorkshire . |
| 24 | There are a variety of excellent schools in the area , and the playing fields and tennis course of North Oxford are but a short walk away . |
| 25 | So the surprising feature of Ibstock Johnsen is that it continues to make any money at all . |
| 26 | Marc Alexander Vila was as turned on by her as she was by him . |
| 27 | The trouble with people like Dr Wyn was that there was really no answer to the jaw-dropping remarks they made . |
| 28 | Indeed , the assumption among Labour ‘ intellectuals ’ such as Harold Wilson , Richard Crossman , Anthony Crosland , and Hugh Dalton was that the best possible education was at a public school even if the public schools , on political grounds , had to go . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , one thing I know about Mr Coffin is that he was born in the early nineteen-twenties . |
| 30 | My fear Mr Chairman was that the very we 've been talking about can be weeks or months |