Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To show the world how many princes felt it worth their while to dance attendance on him , Henry invited them and also the King of Navarre to a court he planned to hold in Limoges at the end of the month . |
| 2 | You know when his boss came in then things went downhill but yeah certainly Tom helped me and just the fact that there was someone there who knew exactly what was going on , be it not a lot but , he was trying to help us , and give us advice and what have you . |
| 3 | He dealt with it either by going off on long trips or by challenging it and then an argument might erupt , ’ Jane explained . |
| 4 | If food to be eaten raw or without further cooking has thawed , it 's acceptable to refreeze it if just the surface has softened but you can still feel some ice . |
| 5 | You may not consider yourself as either a salesperson or a negotiator but you are a persuader nonetheless . |
| 6 | Sid patiently tutored me on star gradings and assured me that technically the climb was only a V. Diff , so I would cope ! |
| 7 | Some fella told me that only a couple of weeks ago , but the greatest rip off of them all , have you heard the greatest rip off about Betty and the , and the roof ? |
| 8 | He remembered the admiring glances of the other boys , and the expression of ineffable contempt on the face of the young Hilary Frome , an expression that told him that even an eleven-year-old could see through him , could tell he was no good . |
| 9 | She had waited at the beech tree until the sky began to darken and the sudden , distant roar of aircraft engines told her that soon the bombers would be flying again . |
| 10 | Some instinct told her that only the truth could save them now ; that the time for evasions was over . |
| 11 | Only someone like her would be able to receive it and only a figure like that could understand the pain of it and yet also discern , beneath the scum of the surface , the beauties and longings which eddied in a clearer or cleaner current within him . |
| 12 | I 'd just like to I do n't think this is a strategic matter in the in in the terms which you are now defining it and indeed the issue of self containment , my understanding is only the universe is self contained . |
| 13 | and he said crikey look at this , what am I gon na do here and he sort of had to fill quite a big gap in , but he sort of pushed it and filled it and then the wallpaper goes up so you can just see it , a little bit , what 's a name now , just in the hall there 's a bit |
| 14 | Up until that moment I had seen myself as simply a person ; colour of skin had n't registered with me . |
| 15 | I had always seen myself as potentially a sort of protector of her ; and for the first time , that evening at Bourani , I saw that perhaps she had been , or could have been , a protector of me . |
| 16 | At once CAMRA declared itself as both a consumer and a conservationist watchdog , speaking up for citizens as well as consumers against the abuses inflicted on one of our best national traditions . |
| 17 | Well , they jogged along for some time but , as you might care to imagine , there had to come a moment when the legs had reached the top of the tree , everyone could see everything and therefore the game had finished . |
| 18 | But at 17 stone , the health authority 's told her that only a 20-inch chair will do . |
| 19 | to fit it and so the dimensions of the board were finalised at 110mm x 68mm . |
| 20 | How could you refute it when just the memory of his scathing comments made your eyes fill with tears ? |
| 21 | That 's something Friends of the Earth agrees with : ‘ It concerns us that recently a lot of proposals for courses have luxury houses or hotels with them , getting permission to put buildings where they might not otherwise have been . ’ |
| 22 | Most of us , however , live in modern houses ( or flats — even more of a problem ) where the ‘ clickety clack ’ of Gertrude ( that 's what I call mine ) would keep us and perhaps the neighbours awake . |
| 23 | There was not enough action and they were just too predictable , that they simply did not scare me but surely the point of a horror book is to scare you ? |
| 24 | The distributors , Harman Audio , tell me that virtually every type of speaker is available , with either open or sealed back options . |
| 25 | In this characteristically elusive passage it is not clear whether Marx means that the social relations of a smallholding peasantry make it easy to tax them ( ‘ Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy ’ ) or control them and therefore the bulk of society — uniform and routine administration being more effective than administration requiring flexibility , discretion , decentralization , and so on . |
| 26 | I thought I heard something but then the oaf of a guide urged his horse back , shouting out questions which would have roused the dead . |
| 27 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 28 | I know that girl , know her as only a mother can , and I know she 's not well . |
| 29 | you can probably be , be facing it and just the articulation 's more . |
| 30 | The majority of present-day carers are married , although many in this bracket are living alone and supporting themselves and possibly a family too . |