Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It 's that or hacking it with the hammers .
2 I think either that or have it on a separate sheet .
3 And as Joe was saying , he said , all we do is just go back to them and just try and say well look you know when you come to see us again do you want to accept this or regret it on the basis that you 're going to strike , but all the other section in the company 's accepted that .
4 The local people caught them in vast numbers for food , eating them fresh or drying them in the sun , and until recently they made up 80 per cent or more of the total catch .
5 Networks operating on this principle perform an operation that is likely to be extremely important for the neocortex , and it was actually the search for a mechanism that would do this that led us to the suggested modification rule : the modifiable interconnections tend to make the representative elements become uncorrelated , and thus to signal independently of each other .
6 Is n't that funny that reminds me of an old girl I had at Dennis House the one I used to be on i I used to have to get her in bed get her all propped up and then
7 If your goal is a college scholarship , the odds are very high that attending one for a few years will lead to a number of scholarship offers from top-notch college tennis programmes in the United States .
8 Surely it is better for them to strive to be literate than to engage themselves in the fruitless task of emulating the speech of the hearing .
9 Quigley ( 1979 ) confirms this and uses it as a basis for examining alternative language environments .
10 In the back of one of my homemade guitars I used a bit of thin foam , rolled up tight , to hold a battery in place ; then I had a brainwave to use a piece of this and lay it across the springs , between them and the rear plate .
11 ( It would be advisable to make a copy of this and keep it in the ‘ Record of Achievement ’ as insurance against loss of the original . )
12 I told him this and asked him for a prescription for a warm , dry home .
13 If you wish , you can copy this and use it as an ongoing walking record after the 30 days .
14 She blames her mother for this and sees it as a sign of inferiority , thus experiencing penis envy and transfers her affections to her father as he has the penis she wants .
15 Hopefully the next England manager will realise this and consign him to the scrap-heap as Taylor should have done years ago .
16 Mike dragged me clear and carried me into the house .
17 He 'd always been so clean before , so we knew there was something wrong and took him to the vet immediately . ’
18 She folded the silver square of wrapping paper in half and made it into a little boat .
19 He gathered six double sheets from the drenched berths , folded them in half and left them by the companionway .
20 tearing tin cans in half and lobbing them into the
21 I remembered the time Andy and I had let down all the wheels of his dad 's car , folding matches in half and sticking them into the tyre valves .
22 Cut this waste in half and cramp it to the opposite corner of the block , and drill a 1–1/4in diameter hole where the pieces meet .
23 All you need to do is drill a hole into the back of the engine to take a piece of thin wire , then fold the banner in half and glue it to the wire with PVA glue .
24 Maxim scouted the cottage to make sure it was empty then helped George over the comer of the dry-stone wall where it seemed strongest and guided him under a face-high clothes-line strung across the little lawn .
25 I had to be told which character was Chaplin ; he was so old and looked nothing like the silent comic I knew so well .
26 His eyes went to her head and he snatched her hat free and flung it into the back of the car .
27 The sentence trailed off as Hitch pulled the Beretta free and aimed it at the crewman .
28 But when researchers cut sections of these rings , ground them down into slices so thin that they were translucent and examined them through the microscope , they found , preserved in the chert , the shapes of simple organisms , each no more than one or two hundredths of a millimetre across .
29 He collected some and showed them to a friend who worked in the Geology Department of the Royal Museum , Chambers Street in Edinburgh .
30 The Rangers will help the area and visitors by advising , guiding and informing them about the Hills and the many interests to be seen and enjoyed .
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