Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I certainly learnt next to nothing at St Aubyn 's and when I took the Common Entrance examination for Eton I failed so ignominiously that the authorities wrote to my mother that it would be futile for me to try again . |
| 2 | That 's a new component I put on there and that would be updated , yeah . |
| 3 | I could no longer contain my emotion , but going down on my knees I wept as quietly as I could for quite a long while . |
| 4 | After the interview I mentioned as casually as I could that as a result of blocked sinuses I had lost my sense of smell ( with the exceptions of petrol , laundry and excrement ) for years , and could he think of any way of restoring it ? |
| 5 | Without even troubling to slam the door of the car she called out happily and ran smiling towards the horror of her death . |
| 6 | At Buitoni we go even further and blend a full five eggs — quality controlled and fully pasteurised — into each kilo . |
| 7 | At their trial , in which Mathews was the principal prosecution witness , they were all sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommendation they serve not less than twenty years . |
| 8 | ‘ The decision was to give them a lot of freedom , letting them take the pictures they liked so long as their interpretations were true to the general concept . |
| 9 | Immediately after half-time they went further ahead when captain Nigel Johnston drove a short penalty for Jonathan Tate to take play to the front of the Limavady posts and from the resultant maul Johnston himself drove over to score with Crothers converting . |
| 10 | Although attempts to inject a more strategic element into economic management were made in the aftermath of the fuel crisis of 1947 , in practice they went little further than attempts at greater co-ordination . |
| 11 | They quite fail to conceal the troubled human shallowness of all the raunch they profess so coolly and brightly to place and displace with a laugh . ’ |
| 12 | Still in their independent reveries they walk closely together as they near the end of the park . |
| 13 | Gore was seen to have the advantages of youth , good looks , and increasing political stature — as a candidate in the 1988 contest he did unexpectedly well and had increased his reputation since . |
| 14 | At his own expense he established no less than twenty-two charity schools in Pembrokeshire alone . |
| 15 | However , this is but the reverse side of the Janus face of justice , for in their eyes it happens more often that criminals are released or are not put in prison for long enough . |
| 16 | Yet in The Four Temperaments he revealed very clearly and subtly how four very different types of person react to the mood suggested by Hindemith 's music , whilst using his particular style of classical dance ( see page 54 ) . |
| 17 | It seemed quite a tall order at the time but in practice it worked out well and proved to be a most enjoyable experience as well as one of our more memorable tours of duty . |
| 18 | In theory , it takes a few seconds for the machine to recognize a new card , but in practice it worked so fast that when I inserted the Flash RAM card and typed ‘ dir A ’ , the machine responded instantly with a list of the card 's contents . |
| 19 | That , she thought , was as good an idea as any , and on silent feet she went as swiftly as she had come back to her kitchen . |
| 20 | At the sound of Melissa 's strident tones she pulled up sharply and saw that her second least favourite person was standing squarely in front of her , thin arms folded determinedly across a rather too revealing cleavage . |
| 21 | Christopher you come up here and you know talk to me |
| 22 | You can usually carry on with a sport you enjoy so long as you feel comfortable . |
| 23 | Those who have been living near to parents or who have remained in very close touch with them , are going to feel the immediate absence of the parent they loved more keenly than those who have broken away from close family ties and kept up only a dutiful contact with father or mother . |
| 24 | It has shown its commitment to ensure that all children with special needs , including dyslexics , receive the help they need as early as possible . ’ |
| 25 | Well they did n't mind catching them that these here gamekeepers they come on more or less at the finish of the harvest over the field with the guns what was left . |
| 26 | Visits to Exeter he made as rarely as possible . |
| 27 | After it is painted onto the wood it sets very quickly as it cools and the joint is soon firm . |
| 28 | Without any coherent sense of direction she turned right again and they found themselves in an almost deserted Portobello Road . |
| 29 | She now had a collapsible white metal stick she used quite defensively when out walking . |
| 30 | After a bit she got up again and crept down to her mother 's room . |