Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Her mind was free to appreciate it properly for the first time . |
| 3 | So , when Councillor Peter Bradley replied to a letter from a resident he was careful to describe himself only as a member of ‘ the minority party ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This did not mean she was prepared to throw herself headlong into a relationship with the first half-decent male who happened by . |
| 7 | I was not prepared to commit myself completely in every situation , as I found myself as the actor and the spectator at the same time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It might be impossible to draw everyone together for a single meeting but all need to be kept in touch with what 's going on and their opinions sought . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ D' you know , Jessica , it 's impossible to do it badly on the coast of Ireland . |
| 14 | It can be dangerous to over-exert yourself greatly at the beginning of your fitness programme . |
| 15 | It was impossible to distance herself physically in the small room — doing so mentally was the next best thing . |
| 16 | ‘ I push you up the hill and then you 're not content to take it steady on the track , oh no . |
| 17 | These styles are still sufficiently popular to survive , although any attempted ‘ re-fit ’ would be likely to sweep them away as a matter of principle . |
| 18 | Knowing that the opening of a cup is round , it is false to depict it simply as an ellipse ; ideally the object is shown as a combination of plan , section and elevation . |
| 19 | She told Julia only that the doctor had been wonderful in finding her son and in promising to let him live in the Campo San Maurizio . |
| 20 | The timing of these parties , and their occasionally unfortunate results have made it very unpopular to hold them immediately before the wedding . |
| 21 | A useful test of how effective your section headings are is that it should be possible to string them together into a paraphrase of what the essay says . |
| 22 | In the days when I used to drink alcohol I 'd have said it was possible to do it only on the basis of several glasses of sherry . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , it hardly seemed right to leave them there in the circumstances . |
| 24 | Soil pipes from downstairs WCs may be connected to the main soil stack of a single-stack system , but it is often better to connect them directly to the underground drains . |
| 25 | Not only had its hold been too strong for that among considerable sections of the population , but the conditions of the immediate post-war era were miserable enough for many to compare them unfavourably with the peacetime era under Nazism . |
| 26 | If this is to be done , despite the number who are brought up in other religions , it is reasonable to do it largely through the medium of Christianity , simply because Christianity exists as an institution in this country , and is by no means dead . |
| 27 | She was unwilling to ally herself entirely with the three truly black girls in her class , who were scholarship students from poor families . |
| 28 | French striptease seems to stem from … a mystifying device which consists in inoculating the public with a touch of evil , the better to plunge it afterwards into a permanently immune Moral Good . |
| 29 | It might be possible to book them just for a day . |
| 30 | It is therefore advisable to mount it closer to the lid of the case so that there is sufficient space for the circuit board to fit beneath it . |