Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And on my faith me think it good reason |
| 2 | In case I get it wrong ? |
| 3 | It is of course a great advantage if the organization starts , so to speak , with this in place and in our case I believe our scientific heritage and background lead naturally to a wish to hear , dissect and learn from others ' views . |
| 4 | For a loathsome instant I felt her awkward quivering weight on my back as she found her feet , and her voice saying … |
| 5 | On my way through Kelvingrove Park I flipped my once-precious packet into a wastebasket and walked on . |
| 6 | M. I gave you that book to read because I thought you would feel identified with him . |
| 7 | There is such volubility I find it hard to follow what some people are saying , and they make no compromises for non-native speakers . |
| 8 | Though I know that the struggle is taking place somewhere , as a housewife I find it harder to believe that there is a part in it for me . |
| 9 | Of course I saw her naked . |
| 10 | Of course I remember them eighties and nineties here . |
| 11 | So a lawyer came , and of course I had my own office , confidential stuff , so he wanted to give it to me . |
| 12 | It took me all day to convince my mother that there had been a change , but by the next afternoon I found myself flat on my back in the hospital again with injunctions not to move . |
| 13 | The day I went up to university I left you all , country gentry all … country where my father was stifling . |
| 14 | As chairman of the recently established development committee of this respected national association I enclose its first appeal brochure , in the hope that your Trustees will support our important apolitical and expanding remit . |
| 15 | I made a lot of mistakes as any young person does , but I never made the mistake of thinking I knew it all as far as the Africans were concerned . " |
| 16 | When the Maggot became too boring about football I told him cricketing stories until he shut up . |
| 17 | Soon after starting my search I found my first good hammered — the Edward half-groat illustrated . |
| 18 | It can seem to offer a completely adequate explanation of religion which bypasses what religious believers have always insisted upon as the truth . |
| 19 | They presented a plaque to Rob Poynter on behalf of the British association which holds its annual swimming championships at the centre . |
| 20 | The indescribable sting wrenched a high-pitched squeal from her throat , as she clutched the leather skirt which covered her burning seat . |
| 21 | Rusty Conway becomes one of Serena 's patients because he has had a spell of extreme absent-mindedness which made him incapable of carrying out his work . |
| 22 | Her mother Mary Butler , seen here before a serious stroke which left her unable to swallow , now needs a tube and pump system to get food directly into her stomach . |
| 23 | Mm well she 's having another bedroom which make it four bedrooms . |
| 24 | She continues : ‘ Ageism … is a prejudice which enables us all , young and old to consider old people as useless , incontinent , senile , asexual and immobile . ’ |
| 25 | Cale became famous for violent demonstrations on stage ; there were plenty of screams , stage props , a green surgeon 's outfit , the odd tooth-spitting , the beheaded ( but long dead ) chicken episode which lost him half his band , the time he wore the Cambridge Rapist 's mask … |
| 26 | The silky attacking class and defensive composure of the newly-crowned Russian champions proved all too much for Liverpool as they slumped to a defeat which equalled their heaviest on aggregate in Europe . |
| 27 | To give Perdita a break , Luke took her away the following Saturday to see a high goal match at the famous Hurlingham Club which left her speechless with wonder , then on to Buenos Aires to an English production of The Merchant of Venice throughout most of which she slept . |
| 28 | CRYSTAL PALACE , the club which ordered its non-playing staff to take a 10 per cent drop in salary , are shortly to announce profits of £1 million . |
| 29 | These modules provide students with the opportunity to plan and undertake a leisure and recreation programme which extends their current appreciation of what constitutes leisure and recreation activities . |
| 30 | In ( 135 ) , although make would have been possible , the writer has chosen cause , and has thus felt it to be more appropriate to represent the subject of the verb ( " raising the temperature of a compound " ) as an external condition which sets off a reaction of decomposition in compounds rather than as an agent which exerts its causative action at the same time as the reaction occurs . |