Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [verb] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even today there 's nothing I like better than to sit in church on Sunday morning and lustily bawl out the hymns . ) |
| 2 | ‘ Duw , there 's nothing I like better than to work on my own ideas . ’ |
| 3 | The test of any methodology or specialized mode of study is the degree to which it illuminates rather than obscures the primary cultural values inherent in literature . |
| 4 | Ben waved to the child , and when she approached them she exclaimed loudly while looking at Aggie , ‘ Oh , you are dressed ! |
| 5 | And although the sex was something I endured rather than enjoyed , it was a learning experience . |
| 6 | Since the adventure of their adolescence , they have had no contact with their mineral friends whom they have all but forgotten . |
| 7 | It was all very pleasant , and Cassie began to remember what she had all but forgotten : Just what good company Ben was , and how much he could make her laugh . |
| 8 | Or I 'm responsible for erm and she did what she did rather than saying I 'm the indoor sales exec or the the account handler or the telesales person who is or |
| 9 | I would suggest that the consonants and the context are what you need rather than worrying about small differences that are flexible , depending on the speaker . |
| 10 | Best stay with what we have rather than try to change for something else . |
| 11 | Patrilocal residence , where women join the households of their husbands rather than vice versa , and the continued strength of the system of domestic production , where families consume most of what they produce rather than buy and sell in the market , have always been seen as obstacles to capitalist development in the Third World and as strong reinforcements for the maintenance of feudal-patriarchal relations . |
| 12 | HSE 's director-general , , said : ‘ Law that is fussy or demands unnecessary detail is ineffective and also gives too many opportunities to consultants and others to exaggerate what it requires so as to get themselves business — quite a problem at present . ’ |
| 13 | But Clara , upon her first visit , could find no other possible point of resemblance , and even this point she missed , so different was the architecture and the attachment from anything she had ever before approached . |