Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Aintree he beat The Thinker just over seven lengths and is due to meet him on the same terms , although Jimmy Frost , his rider , may put up a pound or two more than the minimum 10st . |
| 2 | As I cleaned the little beauty and mounted it in my new display case , I promised myself that I would do everything possible to provide it with a few companions in the months that followed . |
| 3 | This involves them in the same difficulties as those faced , or evaded , by psychologists . |
| 4 | The footwells need cutting and rewelding for a V8 , so it would be easier to repair yours at the same time as , if you buy a new bulkhead , it will need chopping and welding just the same . |
| 5 | This puts them on the same footing as European growers after earlier anger and allegations that Ministry of Agriculture officials had agreed terms that disadvantaged UK grain growers . |
| 6 | He should understand that ‘ the story of Christ is simply a true myth : a myth working on us in the same way as the others , but with this tremendous difference that it really happened : and one must be content to accept it in the same way . ’ |
| 7 | An expensive all-concrete , all-dredge , work-from-both-sides approach may in certain cases have much to recommend it to a few of the more old-fashioned river managers , especially since the cutting of straight ditches involves minimum initial design and subsequent supervision , combined with maximum actual earth-moving and construction works on the ground . |
| 8 | This year , by some freak of fate , the Mendozas had drawn the O'Briens in the first round , and were due to play them at the latter 's new polo club forty miles away on the first Saturday in December . |
| 9 | The realization that I had an incurable disease that was likely to kill me in a few years was a bit of a shock . |
| 10 | Are you supposed to press them at the same time ? |
| 11 | I would be glad to exchange them for the same face value as the increasingly worthless and derisory folding stuff . |
| 12 | Right they all make the salt , they all make it in the same way Hydrochloric acid would make ? |
| 13 | All languages have systems but they do not all use them for the same purposes ; what is an essential distinction in one language may be quite disregarded in another . |
| 14 | In other words while the public may have all watched the same news they did n't all see it in the same way . |
| 15 | The expression I is not of course the only such troublesome feature of English ; the following examples all present us with the same sort of problems ( with the relevant deictic expression italicized , a convention followed throughout this Chapter ) : ( 6 ) You are the mother of Napoleon ( 7 ) This is an eighteenth-century man-trap ( 8 ) Mary is in love with that fellow over there ( 9 ) It is now 12.15 The sentences are true , respectively , just in case the addressee is indeed the mother of Napoleon , the object currently being indicated by the speaker is indeed an eighteenth-century man-trap , Mary is indeed in love with the fellow in the location indicated by the speaker , and at the time of speaking it is indeed 12.15 . |
| 16 | The link between his emerging depression and his violent behaviour , the latter defending him from the former , made sense to him . |
| 17 | Also their directors wont really be able to sack him for a few years . |
| 18 | Now anyone with a spreadsheet should be able to do them in a few hours . |
| 19 | If the imagination-free hacks at Today need any more decent ideas , I 'd be happy to supply them with a few more of our back numbers at a very reasonable rate . |
| 20 | However , it seemed a shame to be able to design the forms using the computer and not be able to complete them on the same machine at a later point . |
| 21 | However , it seemed a shame to be able to design the forms using the computer and not be able to complete them on the same machine at a later point . |
| 22 | How many of us would n't be happy to make it through a half century in half as good shape . |
| 23 | That stumped her for a few seconds , then she opened the door to the hallway for me . |
| 24 | I continued donating until late 1987 when the pressures of my early twenties swept me into a few years of self neglect by alcohol and all those unhealthy things that young people do . |
| 25 | If the charge of hypocrisy can be raised against the latter , is it not also possible to raise it against the former ? |
| 26 | The conclusion that there was not going to be any hit him at the same time as Rincewind , whirring wildly down the passage , kicked him sharply in the groin . |
| 27 | Gradually it became possible to stop her for a few seconds , and then to ask her to start walking again before her anxiety rose and she reared . |
| 28 | No what I 'm say what I 'm saying is that that leaving it for a few months probably is n't going to do you any harm . |
| 29 | I wanted us both to read it at the same time . ’ |
| 30 | Most pay them on the same rates of pay , but because they lack seniority and are usually filling low-skilled , entry-level positions , seasonal workers ' actual earnings are usually lower than those of comparable regular workers . |