Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , ’ she interrupted , ‘ but you seem to be accusing me of exactly the same things I accused you of — or at least had to ask about . |
| 2 | Their kills tend to be rich in protein , providing enough energy to sustain them for quite a long time . |
| 3 | Scott said that , having just completed writing his Remarks on Secular and Domestic Architecture , Present and Future , the ‘ great competition , then , found me in rather a prepared state of mind ’ . |
| 4 | The King had settled himself into such a groove of petulant determination that there was no question of the rejection of the bargain deflecting him for even a few days . |
| 5 | Well I seen her at even the other day . |
| 6 | The public invisibility and the self-policing that are so central to lesbian and gay oppression place us in quite a different position , socially and economically , from each of these other groups . |
| 7 | The department making the greatest use of external libraries uses them on quite a regular basis , ‘ at least once a month ’ ; , and uses them to obtain any general type of information . |
| 8 | Now let me for just a few minutes , look forward if that 's not too presumptuous for a chair who is moving out . |
| 9 | The young receptionist gave no hint of recognition , even though she had seen him at least a dozen times before . |
| 10 | And he , he possibly had done it at least a half a dozen times |
| 11 | Because of their beauty such villages are also more subject to draconian planning policies which may prevent any new development at all or restrict it to only the limited in-filling of low-density private housing . |
| 12 | And yet Victoria has accused me of exactly the same sin as I am so lightly attributing elsewhere ( incidentally , to people who are more fiction than fact ) . |
| 13 | Relaxations in the legislation governing them in both the 1989 and 1991 Budgets have made PEPs a far more attractive option — especially as a tax-saver — and investors have been moving into them in a big way . |
| 14 | So try and remember that I E one when it makes an E sound I before E except after C now that 's going to help you with quite a few words . |
| 15 | Nevertheless the influence of Parliament in this respect could be considerable and the need to give it at least a certain amount of information about foreign affairs could hardly be avoided . |
| 16 | Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them . |
| 17 | This just gives time for production and dispatch to members giving them at least a clear month before the next event . |
| 18 | Once the Tunnel opens — or maybe just before it does and before the French realize what 's going on and think up a way to stop it — he 'll sell them for maybe a thousand times what he 's paying for them now . ’ |
| 19 | Literally hours before the Shah was about to be bundled off to South Africa , the Rockefeller-Kissinger connection had finally found him at least a temporary haven — the Bahamas . |
| 20 | And these visits managed to reduce her to exactly the same stage of trembling , silent , frustrated anxiety that she had endured throughout her childhood ; she felt , each time , that she had gone back , right back to the start , and that every step forward must be painfully retraced . |
| 21 | You 've known him for only a few days , so that 's impossible . |
| 22 | Such programs take a comprehensive analysis ( more than twenty elements ) on each sample in turn , and compare it with perhaps a hundred to two hundred other samples to try to find a close ‘ match ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ Ca n't you trust me enough to keep it between just the two of us ? ’ |
| 24 | I can remember seeing him on quite a poor peg on the River Trent at Winthorpe , giving a super display of distance stickfloat fishing , still one of the hardest techniques to master . |
| 25 | It kept her going , especially when she was angling for the notice of the one man who , after giving her dinner on the way back from Bovington , had treated her with only a lighthearted pleasant banter whenever they met . |
| 26 | That said , your fish will appreciate a good feed of , day , Daphnia , and enjoy chasing them for quite a long time , so the quantity is a little less critical than with prepared food . |
| 27 | Try it for both the clockwise and anti-clockwise circle . |
| 28 | Their advice was ignored and the tough decisions taken in 1981 were to lead to the much praised Budget of the next year and , even more , to the economic recovery which took us through both the 1983 and 1987 general elections . |
| 29 | Although medieval students were often noisy and riotous , the aims of their travels were peaceful , and this sets them at least a certain distance apart from the crusaders . |
| 30 | She thought they had started from different points , although she had wanted to marry him after only a few meetings because he ‘ felt good to be with ’ . |