Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My master is anxious to take my mistress south as soon as possible . ’ |
| 2 | I do not care about information being able to reach my home VDU so fast that the Encyclopaedia Britannica can get there in five seconds . |
| 3 | In fact I have gone further and said a " mixed " crew was , in my view , infinitely better than , any " national " crew , one of the reasons , possibly , for the high proportion of Commonwealth crews was my established policy of spreading my selection net as widely as I could in view of the poor cooperation of the Groups ; to this end I literally plagued the various HQs in London — the Aussies at Kodak House etc . |
| 4 | 730 progressive debasement of sceattas reduced their silver content quite dramatically and , if there was a decline in the silver available from c . |
| 5 | Dieting without exercise also forces the body to manage on less oxygen , and it reduces its oxygen intake even further when it has to take energy , not from food , but from the body itself . |
| 6 | The Government would like the bill to complete its Commons passage as soon as possible after Denmark votes in its second referendum on the treaty , set for mid May . |
| 7 | However , his easy charm soon won her over and before long , she looked forward to her riding lesson as eagerly as her mother . |
| 8 | The study also shows that grasslands with a high above-ground biomass lose their standing crop more rapidly than those with a lower biomass . |
| 9 | ‘ We equalised their opening goal very quickly and that gave us a real lift because by then Liverpool could have been two or three up . ’ |
| 10 | Opening the door , pulling it shut behind her , shifting the suitcase and jacket to either hand , and running , running , running , down the hill , the pulse in her forehead pounding as hard as her sneakered feet pounded the sidewalk . |
| 11 | Major grants have been given to churches for their townscape value as well as for their intrinsic architectural importance . |
| 12 | He slipped into her squelching hole as easily as a knife into butter : and she moaned blissfully when she felt herself well and truly corked . |
| 13 | They have no complaints , they complete their training period very accurately and they are really good . |
| 14 | Given the critical impact of assumption on oil prices and quantities , the CEGB will clearly need to explain why , with oil prices rising so rapidly , it can not reduce its oil consumption more quickly than it currently expects . |
| 15 | She generally fills her supermarket trolley more fully when she shops just before a meal than if she shops shortly after one , when her hunger is fully satisfied . |
| 16 | He breathed deeply , and lacking anything better to do opened his bedroom window even further and leaned out into the cold night . |
| 17 | The narrow dog-collar made his neck look even longer than it was . |
| 18 | He slid his rifle through the thick grass , then pushed his tricorne hat back so that its peak would not catch on the weapon 's doghead . |
| 19 | But he wanted to assure them of a more overpowering reason : he needed to re-establish himself on his home ground as firmly and quickly as possible in order to launch himself on Mary . |
| 20 | At one time the two water companies were in active competition and any person paying the rates , whether landlord or tenant , could change his water company as easily as his butcher or baker … although this state of things has long since ceased , and the companies have come to an arrangement so that the people can not now change their supply , all the same , the result of their earlier competition remains . |
| 21 | He took his plastic tumbler up again and sipped at the wine , watching Sara over the lip of the tumbler . |
| 22 | Rumour had it that although he made his home in an unoccupied derelict house near the CPR docks , he was really very wealthy , having buried his family fortune long ago and quite forgotten where he had left it . |
| 23 | You are not training for the next Olympics , just getting a little fitter and making your heart work more efficiently and become stronger . |
| 24 | A full house survey , where you brief your building surveyor individually rather than relying on the shorter though cheaper housebuyer 's report , can be an expensive matter . |
| 25 | SPRED works by giving your son/daughter an experience of our faith life together rather than simply talking about it . |
| 26 | It 's been suggested that you lost your teaching job not just because you wrote ‘ The Dark ’ but because you married a ‘ foreign ’ woman in a registry office . |
| 27 | I mean today , you 've got to be an educated man to know how to even , they 've got er tractors and everything , but in those days you 'd got to set your plough furrow out so as you you could run your plough down your first one , and then as you as you ploughed your first furrow out you 'd got to plough your next one into it . |
| 28 | SIR — With the introduction of independent taxation we thought it best to share our investment income equally so that both of us would be entitled to the full allowances . |
| 29 | Spell out your action plan as precisely as possible so that you are clear what you have to do and that it is realistic . |
| 30 | As you throw the punch , swing your back foot around so that the big-toe edge of the foot strikes the inside of the opponent 's leading ankle in a scooping action which knocks it outwards . |