Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It fails for the following paradoxical reason : our judges actually pay more attention to so-called conventional sources of law like statutes and precedents than conventionalism allows them to do . |
| 2 | More non-enrollers than migrants said they intended to do a course in the future ( 63% compared with 40% ) and the non-enrollers were also much more likely to say they wanted to start the course very soon and had made enquiries about it . |
| 3 | yeah , but when come , come on Saturday she looked in her ears cos Sharon said she had to go back with her , she says I wait do n't go ears are cleared |
| 4 | They decided Up Holland should be two words because people called it ‘ Uffoland ’ . |
| 5 | It 's always difficult to come to a conclusion about portable computers because people buy them for different reasons . |
| 6 | She inquired at the trading standards department about the legality of catapults but was told they were sold at fishing tackle shops because anglers use them to hurl their bait into the water . |
| 7 | Isuzu has already announced it intends to cease production of passenger cars while NEC says it will no longer make VCRs at its own factories . |
| 8 | He 's always had animals since beforeI married him . |
| 9 | I ca n't believe that it is only seven months since Lynn told me she had a four-year-old who was ‘ a really nice sort . ’ |
| 10 | She had not taken more than two steps before fitzAlan caught her . |
| 11 | They make long and elegant speeches before Pandarus leads them to a chamber where they can be alone for a night ; but their words seem superficial : it is as if Rosaline had agreed to love Romeo , and he only ever experienced the satisfaction of his sexual appetite . |
| 12 | He tested his first successful model on 27 October , 1815 in Killingworth colliery , two months before Davy tested his at Hebburn colliery on the first day of 1816 . |
| 13 | One each in one of the decade 's continuing stories , the rivalry between Lyle and Faldo , but it was only a matter of months before Lyle made it 2-1 . |
| 14 | It had been a few months before Roy realised he had married what his mother would have called ‘ a lazy bitch ’ . |
| 15 | Robins has so far scored seven goals after Ferguson sold him to Norwich for a cut-price £800,000 on the eve of the season . |
| 16 | Flopping inelegantly into a comfortable big armchair , Rory nodded her thanks as Adam handed her a mug of coffee , and took a sip of the hot reviving brew . |
| 17 | So will the book , rushed into the shops as events overtook it , be a best-seller ? |
| 18 | But this low-born de Burgh , this double man despite himself , even while he leaned back greedily , hankering after lands with the ambition of the landless , even while he envied the de Blundevilles and the Marshalls and composed about himself a synthetic replica of their hereditary splendour , yet saw England by glimpses as Isambard saw it , an empire not decomposing and falling to insecure tatters like the Emperor 's sprawling hold , but compact as a clenched fist , solvent as a Jew 's treasury and self-sufficient as a well-run manor , a power not hemmed in but completed and transmitted by the sea . |
| 19 | In 1987 he exhibited a sequence of paintings and drawings with structural elements in common ( heads and shoulders as Packer defines them ) but with considerable internal variations . |
| 20 | Certainly Dotty was less effusive in her thanks when Stella brought her up a tray of tea in the interval . |
| 21 | The rest of her sentence died on her lips as Penry took her in his arms with a sound somewhere between a sigh and a groan as their lips met and their bodies flowed together in a deep , primeval need which united them almost at once in a storm of love and need as fierce as the one which raged , unheard , outside . |
| 22 | With only 29 calories a dessertspoon for mayonnaise and a mere 15 calories for salad dressing they 're well worth dipping into . |
| 23 | A consistent sceptic would doubt even his senses until reason approves them . |
| 24 | She 'd have to take off her thick blue jersey soon , and she could n't remember how many buttons had come off the shirt underneath , and it was sleeveless , and she had n't shaved her armpits since Philippa asked her to supper last week . |
| 25 | Then the weather got cold and I must 've realized it was nice havin' warm feet 'cos Mam said she never had no trouble with me after that . |
| 26 | Carrie dropped to her knees to examine the ankle making sympathetic noises as Seb told her how the accident had occurred . |
| 27 | The young Greindl 's few phrases as Daland show him devoid of the unsteadiness that would later mar his singing . |
| 28 | You will get some interesting gambles as people think you have missed the selected card . |
| 29 | Coupled with the financial implications if carers decided they could no longer shoulder this burden the case for supporting respite care becomes overwhelming . |
| 30 | BuNo 133722 became a familiar sight at most West Cost USA airshows over the years until Lindsey purchased it and had it flown to the UK . |