Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 So far I 've really enjoyed my life well no major complaints anyway , and so I 'd like to bring my children up here enjoying their life as well .
2 He took Mould to the room without any floorboards , and helped him piece together a bizarre contraption containing metal beams , weights and cogs .
3 She had planned , she thought as she warily made her way downstairs the following morning , on solitude .
4 Her voice trailed away as she realised , from the other woman 's beaming smile of relief , that she 'd inadvertently given her hostess quite the wrong impression .
5 If you have done your part correctly the subordinate should by now have all the information necessary to make up his own mind .
6 If you can soften your water then it will be easy enough to acidify it using peat filtration ; if you do n't soften your water then the dissolved salts will buffer it back to neutral/alkaline as fast as you try to acidify it .
7 If you can soften your water then it will be easy enough to acidify it using peat filtration ; if you do n't soften your water then the dissolved salts will buffer it back to neutral/alkaline as fast as you try to acidify it .
8 The awful thing is that the movies that I 've been involved with in the last erm few years have entailed my being abroad a great deal , and I was made in New York entirely and I was there for six or seven months , and the difficulty is that when you then make the movie and you take it round the world , you 're away for another three or four months and so you end up being out of the country for quite a long time , so I 've been nothing like as active with the university .
9 He has taken his obsession just a little bit too far . ’
10 What I think my colleague is saying is that when the actuary is assessing the commitments of the funds , he is looking at the anticipated increased earnings until the person retires and I think when the calculation is made for somebody who is er a deferred pensioner of leaving er a pension fund to take his money elsewhere a similar calculation or the same calculation should be used , the one that the actuary last used in , in looking forward and saying what the commitments are .
11 Each disc has a soft jelly-like centre , and if the outer layer is weakened for any reason , such as wear and tear or straining your back then the soft centre bulges backwards and is likely to press on one or more of the sciatic nerve roots .
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