Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Afterwards — she would not look at me or speak for a long time . |
| 2 | Here a question may be raised as to just what we mean when we think of ourselves as plunged by the twentieth century into a chaos of relativism . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose you sent me that gilgul as a friendly gesture , then , to lend a helping hand on the Gittel job . ’ |
| 4 | It 's like we 're sort of living here together — you know , sort of like we 're married or summat and living in a proper house of our own and all that . |
| 5 | But then he restrained himself and said in a quiet voice , ‘ Know anythin' about sailin' ? ’ |
| 6 | In such a case , the State will pay the owner the value he has established himself and presented to the Federal National Heritage Service or Custom Officers . |
| 7 | He wrapped a short raincoat around himself and ran up the front path . |
| 8 | He picked up the wafer of liquid crystal which represented himself and stared at the High Priest 's face , his own , wishing that his own image could confide in him in the same way that the Harlequin had . |
| 9 | When they were told that he was still at lunch , Morton thought that Bragg would explode , but he controlled himself and settled for a middle-aged assistant . |
| 10 | Then Gascoigne , hitherto a pale shadow of himself and stifled by the physical attention of man-marker Walter Bonacina , made his heroic contribution and doused those particular flames . |
| 11 | ‘ B is for Bell , ’ ' Paul said quietly , nodding to himself and staring at the rusting device . |
| 12 | I found it was possible with Paradise to talk about individual and personal responsibility , something which if set in a contemporary context would have had a preachy feel about it . ’ |
| 13 | This provided an example of a well-understood formalism which if interrogated in a particle-like way gave particle behaviour and if interrogated in a wave-like way gave wave behaviour . |
| 14 | In we saw the Health Authority choosing not to purchase services directly from the N H S for their but purchasing from a voluntary stroke private , privately motivated organization . |
| 15 | He seems most himself when snarling like a caged animal , droning and whining like a buzz saw , hacking at his guitar as if he is chopping wood . |
| 16 | In the same way he never recognised himself as eating with a familiar spoon from a familiar plate . |
| 17 | In Belfast , artist Jack Pakenham has always seen himself as fitting into a nebulous category of people in a no-mans-land , watching the activities of the city but unable to find a true affinity on either side of the often physically invisible diving line . |
| 18 | Although Richardson regarded himself as writing with a new realism , his novels gravitate towards the houses of the great as much as did the wealthier middle-class houses of his time . |
| 19 | It is the more remarkable that Pound in his letter to Williams should diagnose himself as suffering from a milder form of Eliot 's disease ; most of the time , alike in his life and his poetry , he seems to be denying it by strenuously over-compensating . |
| 20 | The individual sees himself as contributing to an indefinite process of inquiry by an unlimited community of inquirers , and he may well not believe that he will be around to see inquiry converge on the truth ( 5.589 , 2.652ff . ) . |
| 21 | The population of these three conurbations was over 8 million which when added to a similar population in London meant that approximately one-third of the population of England would have been within areas covered by a two-tier structure of local government . |
| 22 | The final dividend will stay at 7.6 pence per share , which when added to the interim dividend of 3.3 pence , makes an unchanged total of 10.9 pence . |
| 23 | The bridge pickup is mounted on a sort of Tele-style plate , which when combined with the overall shape of the guitar gives the memory a bit of a jog and you find yourself starting to think Thinline or HM Telecaster , which may not be a good thing if Starfield are aiming at total individuality . |
| 24 | He went past me and bent over the dead man . |
| 25 | He rushed past me and went into the nearest building . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought to myself , Martha must be growing up now , it 's time she left the country and came to live with me and go to a good school . ’ |
| 27 | We reached Mandalay and I went straight to the Winchester Mission where dear Willie Garrad looked shocked to see me and said in a scandalised voice , ‘ Oh , but you ca n't possibly stay here ’ — it was a Brotherhood you see ! |
| 28 | My son , Robyn visited me and peered with a concerned , academic interest , and we came closer together than ever before . |
| 29 | There is a simple sense that Coleridge is happy to write them , that although Kubla Khan has its savage side , it is a savage side in which he revels and although Frost at Midnight carries lonely memories ( particularly bitter to someone so desperate for love ) he overcomes them and thinks upon a happy future instead . |
| 30 | Yeah but then he 'll , we should be able to manage then to pay the mortgage and pay them and keep on the level peg . |