Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incorporation of the French intellectual tradition and the artistic underground made it all the easier to hide the ideological background of the Socialist regime . |
| 2 | Mr Atkinson says he met President Bush just last September , and the President promised him then the full facts would come out . |
| 3 | It 's a great way for producing long banners or waste paper but And if you wan na actually reverse this process alt M takes it back the other way . |
| 4 | A girlfriend rang me up the other day . |
| 5 | Do n't let the ultra-sophisticates put you off the guided city tour . |
| 6 | For a moment there was nothing to do but let the shabby old SE haul him up the last stretch , so Lambert actually relaxed and momentarily enjoyed his peace . |
| 7 | Can I just say that er Ray phoned me up the other day and he said er , would you be prepared to take part in probationers ' , er regional probationary sort of training day er which is at coming up er in a few months time , to give erm presentation skills er I part of what we were doing , erm but just those O H Ps that we did on that part . |
| 8 | Perry leads us up the unlit stairwell , the smell of urine sharp in our nostrils . |
| 9 | Exports are one way for America to soften the impact of sluggish demand at home ; the undervalued dollar makes it all the easier , in effect , to import some vitality from Germany and Japan . |
| 10 | The moonlight glinted on the razor edged blade , boosting his morale , even though he knew the weapon gave him only the slightest of chances against the lethal human killing machine facing him . |
| 11 | Wilcox led her down the broad central aisle , with occasional detours to left and right to point out some particular operation . |
| 12 | Philip followed them up the open staircase and into the woman 's bedroom . |
| 13 | So it 's normally thought that within the utilitarian tradition , voters are required to vote their interests and then the democratic procedure tells us where the general happiness lies roughly speaking . |
| 14 | Up until this point we have assumed that a referential locus is quite generally available for property words , not only adjectives in fact but also adverbs : ( 8 ) Philippa comforted her lovingly the referential locus of the adverb is that of the verb ; and the referential locus of the verb in turn is the entity of the subject phrase ; that is why a sentence like : ( 9 ) the drink comforted her lovingly is unacceptable , despite the fact that lovingly can co-occur with comfort , while comfort is compatible with drink . |
| 15 | I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true . |
| 16 | His absolute conviction at that time , reinforced by an extraordinary personal charm and magnetism gave me just the right insight and guidance that I needed . |
| 17 | This pulsar is a compact neutron star , which rotates 642 times every second , and the detection makes it only the third pulsar known to emit light . |
| 18 | With this in mind , we 've got a new rating system for PCs on review — Jo Lawton checks out Watford Electronics ' Aries Mini-Tower to show you how the new system works . |
| 19 | According to Greta Balfour from the Royal College of Midwives , ‘ Longer hospital stays gave women the chance to make new friends , and contact with other mothers showed them how the early problems did get better . ’ |
| 20 | A little contempt for military life makes it all the easier … |
| 21 | He motioned Karlinsky forward and with a generous flourish directed him up the three steps on to the small platform in front of the Ark of the Law where a lectern had been placed . |
| 22 | Bimbo , his last novel , was a cleverly sustained pastiche of tabloid culture , and the author 's veiled compassion for the eponymous narrator made it all the sharper . |
| 23 | When her alarm woke her up the next morning , she felt heavy-eyed and lacking in energy , but that was probably because her sleep had been long in coming and had been plagued with dreams when she had eventually managed to drop off . |
| 24 | Your PP tells you where the first five are , always starting with the object This might be as follows : |
| 25 | The Palmers have been promised a back door ramp to get Mrs Palmer into the garden in case of fire , but no ramp to get her down the 5 garden steps into the street . |
| 26 | You 'll find the little diagram showing you where the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery are on page eleven , page eleven if you want to refer to it right , if you want to look at it in a closer detail tonight that 's fine and if you want to see what I 'm saying now in a diagrammatic form look on page thirteen now if you look at that you 'll see some , the blue vein blood vessels it 's coming out of the right hand side of the heart and if you look at the direction of the arrows , okay , they 're going away from the heart , do you agree with me ? |
| 27 | I hope that this will clarify the situation for your readers while in no way putting them off the certified training scheme . |
| 28 | There were plenty of other boys to follow him down the good physician 's route to Fitzwilliam Square . |
| 29 | Harsh words led to action , and Haston despatched him down the public lavatory stairs . |
| 30 | In the eyes of Louis , his near-drowning had been an act of self-emasculation , a loss of face tumbling him down the social scale to a level little higher than a peon 's . |