Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This made her late with the lunch , and at the table she found the young men impossible to talk to because she was trying to retain the lines of what she had prepared to say . |
| 2 | No no careful bring it away from the baby . |
| 3 | For nearly 70 minutes , Ireland were in contention , but their inability to convert pressure into points when playing with the wind behind their backs in the first half cost them dearly in the end . |
| 4 | This leads us directly to the topic of symbols and their meanings . |
| 5 | This leads us directly onto the argument based on the manifesto . |
| 6 | Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist . |
| 7 | Her mind was free to appreciate it properly for the first time . |
| 8 | This tells us only about the feasibility of screening , not about effectiveness . |
| 9 | This sets him apart from the ordinary and gives him a reason for living . |
| 10 | This differentiates it both from a descriptive grammar and from a primer . |
| 11 | More than half did it just for the thrill of sex with someone new . |
| 12 | But she terrified him , because he wanted her and he liked having that grave face near him , and she was willing to have him even with the ghosts crowding at his shoulder . |
| 13 | This reminds us again of the anti-Semitism prevalent in Belorussia . |
| 14 | But er with the the the er the original the the first one , you had to heat it up with a blowlamp and you had to be very very careful to get it just to the right heat , before if you tried to start it too cold , it would kick back and if was too hot again , it just would n't start . |
| 15 | I know that we 're all in a state of shock and wondering where to place ourselves on the spectrum between quietism at one end and terrorism on the other , but , as a response to an altered environment , this reminded me appallingly of the turtles who , so the legend goes , were hatched on a Pacific atoll where a nuclear blast had been carried out . |
| 16 | Although the Greens increased their share of the vote from 2.9 to 4.9 per cent , this left them just below the 5 per cent threshold required for representation . |
| 17 | Some regard it purely as a means of conveying information , while others regard it as a means of building and maintaining relationships . |
| 18 | And this brings me finally to the link between circumcision and menstrual taboo . |
| 19 | This brings us again to the vital question of where sediments actually accumulate at the present day . |
| 20 | This brings us finally to the vexed sentence which sounds so anthropocentric : ‘ That end is man . ’ |
| 21 | This brings us closer to the meaning of a genuine collegiality — management is here seen as a holistic process — touching everything and being carried forward by all teachers as of right and duty , not because of a limited hierarchical view of ‘ delegation ’ . |
| 22 | This brings us closer to the heart of the problem . |
| 23 | If it 's to be helpful if if Mr is saying on behalf of the Parish Council that by showing it in this way on the key diagram , he feels is prejudicing or the Parish Council 's position is prejudiced at some future date , then it 's to be helpful to that that the County Council is saying it is prepared to show it simply as a an arrow and similarly for consistency it would seem to make sense to show the western in the same fashion . |
| 24 | He hoped the Frenchmen would be content to drive him away from the high road rather than pursue and capture him , but as he quickened the mare 's pace , so the Frenchman spurred their own horses . |
| 25 | Today he would have liked to remain at Hillmarden for another night , but he had promised Celia he would call in at the clinic on his way back to London , knowing he had a very busy week coming which might make it impossible to see her again until the following weekend . |
| 26 | Wife number six fanned him gently with a feather |
| 27 | At 19 these young people — and hundreds like them all over the country — are likely to be going home and staying there . |
| 28 | It 's a powerful , emotional song and looks set to put them firmly on the chart map indeed , it entered The Northern ‘ s North-East chart at No 1 this week . |
| 29 | ‘ D' you know , Jessica , it 's impossible to do it badly on the coast of Ireland . |
| 30 | The columnist Peter Simple tells us most about the British , each Sunday in this newspaper . |