Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon , however , we were into long stretches of powder and spring snow where Andrew videoed us in action . |
| 2 | It was n't Dana 's fault if Roman preferred her to her twin ; he had wanted Claudia , but once had been enough . |
| 3 | Ubiquitous , hare-brained , tumbleweed skitters across the road , sticking underneath the car until friction dissolves it away to nothing . |
| 4 | I had no conception of what it was like to play for an honest-to-god institution until Walter put me straight . |
| 5 | He had half-expected that the response would be a thrust of the long spurs and a head-down gallop for the open , and those ahead had orders to bring down the horse if Isambard tried it ; but instead he stirred gently in the saddle and brought his mount edging forward in obedience to the order , dancing restively past the quivering arrow , and almost abreast of Owen 's hiding-place . |
| 6 | Men are also able to gain the lion 's share of the floor in cross-sex talk because women provide them with ‘ hearer support ’ in the form of minimal responses ( like mhm , yes ) and questions — when you ask someone a question you cede the floor to them . |
| 7 | The Emperor Napoleon got a good deal because France would have had to give it up sooner or later anyway , and I got a good deal because Louisiana gave me a lovely companion for life with all the legendary charms of your people . " |
| 8 | The most obvious manifestation of this came when he remained almost immobile in the centre of the ring while Biggs picked him off with jabs from long range . |
| 9 | She told her many tales of the days during the Great War when John was a baby and he and his mother had lived with her and Lawrie , as they sat together , Sally holding a skein of white wool while Anne wound it into a ball . |
| 10 | ‘ Darling , ’ said Elinor , ‘ shall Maisie stay with Mummy and do her cello practice while Mummy helps her ? ’ |
| 11 | An Arab Perry Mason interrogated a woman in a yashmak while Flora told us , indignantly , that the blood money for homicide among some Berber tribes depended on the sex of the person killed . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've turned into some sort of monster since Suzanna left you , ’ he said shortly . |
| 13 | Some said he slept in his study while others believed he wandered about the corridors waiting to catch escaping pupils or those who had gone missing . |
| 14 | But at the same time I realise it means they 're basically trying to control my music which I did n't expect ’ As for taking him seriously , American composer Philip Glass offered to do a 12-inch remix of Hey Music Lover after Moore took him out for a night in the clubs . |
| 15 | The Foreign Secretary has warned of further military action after Iraq said it would not be bullied by the West into adhereing to the Gulf War ceasefire plan . |
| 16 | the heaving under gravel before self-preservation hauls me back |
| 17 | His rich client had barely left the salon before Rain lobbed him her questions and waited for his painful answers . |
| 18 | Speakers/discussion on opposing plans to force absent fathers to pay child maintenance whether women want them to or not , and deduct that maintenance from mother on income support . |
| 19 | Griffin , 27 , whose sister Tatum is married to John McEnroe , spent three days in a cell before Ryan bailed him . |
| 20 | She had a nice car before Chris made her have that more or less . |
| 21 | My mission , should I decide to accept it , was to find Jack Scamp for Malpass before Nevil found me for Jack Scamp . |
| 22 | He stepped to one side as Nicholson approached him but made sure that he left a sheet soaked with urine dangling from the trolley , hoping that Nicholson would brush against it . |
| 23 | I think if I were a fledgling esoteric , with a nose for history , it would n't be difficult to turn up details of what was attempted — the experiment as Bloxham called it — and maybe get it into my head that the time was right to try again . ’ |
| 24 | The web tangled and clung mawkishly around her reasoning as Fernando lowered her to the bed . |
| 25 | The dazed expression had almost left her face and I wondered if she might not have had a slight stroke when Celia abandoned her , and was now recovering . |
| 26 | Fagan was standing at the door of the feedhouse when Nicandra approached him , as saucily as she was able , to demand handfuls of grain for her birds . |
| 27 | She could feel his flat , muscular strength : she could also feel his arousal as Adam kissed her firmly on the mouth . |
| 28 | ‘ I got my chance in the national side when injuries put me into the match against Romania in Bucharest three years ago . |
| 29 | With slip stitch ( or skip stitch as Brother call it ) the needle selected to slip does n't move at all during knitting , but the yarn just passes in front of it . |
| 30 | This must be the end of civilisation as Americans know it . |