Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In conversation with the boys they learnt of Minton 's homosexuality and though this ruled him out as a potential husband it did not diminish their desire to be in his company . |
| 2 | But I have a feeling it might be easier to mull it over at the next meeting . |
| 3 | That evening , after supper , I was too tired to write up notes , so I lay thinking over the day in order to make it easier to write them up in the morning . |
| 4 | If the query is of a complicated or technical nature it is quite acceptable to pass it on to the expert , but is this really necessary for a bar of soap or a DIY fitting ? |
| 5 | Some put it down to the sheer popularity of the winner Nigel Jones — others to the alleged racism of would-be Tory voters , unwilling to endorse the party 's official candidate , the barrister John Taylor . |
| 6 | The ‘ Jowters ’ , too , would purchase some to sell them around in the country districts . |
| 7 | And , at this stage , it would be quite wrong to rule her out as a suspect . |
| 8 | This leads us on to a third important point about the relation of the Holy Spirit to Jesus . |
| 9 | But say the figure had been erm fo he 's travelling at forty eight point three miles an hour , and you want to know how far he 's gone after twenty seven minutes or something , it 's a bit more awkward then so it 'd be easier to look it up on a graph . |
| 10 | This calls us back to the ideas of alternate universes which we were discussing earlier . |
| 11 | The tepidity of most British cinema during the 1950s made Anderson resistant to the values of commercial filmmaking , and this cut him off from the possibility of developing his critical argument through filmmaking . |
| 12 | This takes us out of the realm of male-female sexual relationships into another sphere , where such bonds can be used for better communication between individuals , and to foster the link between teacher and pupil . |
| 13 | You are more likely to have a rug accepted by an auctioneer if you are prepared to put it up without a reserve ( a figure agreed between you and the auctioneer below which they will not sell the rug ) , but this is extremely risky as it could then be sold for far less than it is worth . |
| 14 | It 's too high get it back on the chair ! |
| 15 | I 'm sorry it took all this to get them out into the open — as far as they 've come . |
| 16 | Doctors were hurrying to him now , lifting him with careful , expert hands , speaking soothingly as they helped support him and half carry him back towards the wards . |
| 17 | A left-hook hurt Ekubia in the sixth round , and then another put him down for a count of nine . |
| 18 | George half carried , half dragged her back to the car . |
| 19 | From there , if and when it became possible , he would be taken to the castle at Soragna where the Principessa Meli Lupi was prepared to take him on in the guise of a gardener — a refugee who had been rendered deaf and dumb in the bombing of Milan . |
| 20 | ‘ None of them was prepared to take you on in the middle of the semester . |
| 21 | It is acceptable to ask them over for a meal they are not expected to be able to manage without a caring woman . |
| 22 | Now Amsterdam seem to be willing to take him on despite the scandal , and are presenting him as an exciting and controversial figure , while many of his former colleagues in The Hague admire him , as do the public ; he is seen as decisive , inspiring and provocative . |
| 23 | He found another vessel whose captain ( a Scot ) was prepared to sign him on for the voyage to New York . |
| 24 | Press response If there does not seem to be any response to your press release , do not be afraid to follow it up with a telephone call . |
| 25 | This brings us on to the second of Dworkin 's grounds for excluding such background policy issues from the jurisdiction of the courts , for if no one has a right to any particular form of decision-making process — whether a right to a hearing itself , a right to cross-examine witnesses or to be given reasons for a decision -this can only be because such a right can not be derived from the master principle of equal concern and respect . |
| 26 | This brings us on to the question of how do organizations assess the effectiveness of their advertising ? |
| 27 | This brings us on to the conditions in which the animals are kept . |
| 28 | This brings us back to a central theme of Sport and the British : the extraordinary degree to which it has been promoted privately without politicians , employers , or trade unionists taking a significant part except as enthusiastic individual sportsmen . |
| 29 | This brings us back to a relativist position . |
| 30 | But this brings us back to the initial problem , which was precisely to explain how materialism could accommodate such a ‘ feel ’ . |