Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knill said that he was satisfied with NERC 's allocation from the Science Vote for 1992–3 ( see above ) , which although showing only a small percentage rise will allow the council to set up two new community projects : LOIS ( the Land-Ocean Interaction Study ) and Bridge ( the HEI-led British Mid-Atlantic Ridge project ) . |
| 2 | Of all the detectives she could afford , Maureen had hired this odd little man who looked as though he were play-acting , managed to be obtrusive when he was doing absolutely nothing and carried around a herbal cure for his blocked nose . |
| 3 | I have a nutritionist who travels with me and works out a daily menu . |
| 4 | In the immediate aftermath of the plague , neither combatant was anxious to resume the war , and both were willing to listen to Pope Innocent VI when he attempted to mediate between them and bring about a lasting peace . |
| 5 | The haiku poets aimed to condense many meanings into each phrase , so that the poem should speak of something that has both a particular and a general significance . |
| 6 | Actually we were n't married at the time , so we had to get married straight away and find some money to buy a house and so on , and Daddy had to give up acting and find a real job , one that brought in a regular income . |
| 7 | So she smiled to herself and pulled out a tall book from the bottom shelf , Piero della Francesca by the fellow whom her father always called K. Clark . |
| 8 | The old lady , following Sandison into the tiny bedroom , dropped to her knees , crossed herself and started up a high-pitched wailing , interspersed with fragments of speech which Sandison found completely incomprehensible . |
| 9 | So everybody that reaches out a helping hand . |
| 10 | Penry propped up the pillows behind her , then opened the bag he 'd brought with him and took out a small torch . |
| 11 | She pulled it round her and picked up a heavy torch . |
| 12 | From Iago , too , Othello has caught the habit of repeating a word , dwelling on it to debase it or bring out a sinister double meaning ( compare Iago on ‘ virtue ’ and ‘ blest ’ : I.iii.318ff. ; II.i.245ff . ) . |
| 13 | His mind a careful blank , he reached to the shelf over it and took down a small plastic bag . |
| 14 | Edward turned to the jewel box beside him , opened it and took out a small gold ring with a precious ruby winking in the centre . |
| 15 | How soon do we abandon it and put together a new plan ? |
| 16 | When the gum was melted she opened it and slid out a single sheet of unheaded paper on which a short message was written in Italian . |
| 17 | Of the subversive claims for gay machismo , Bersani is even more sceptical , since he regards it as involving not a parodic repudiation of straight machismo , but a profound respect for it . |
| 18 | Schoolboys reveal themselves as having only a thin veneer of ‘ civilization ’ which , once the constraints of authority are removed , disappears , laying bare their ‘ true nature ’ which is violent , domineering , and competitive , resulting in the survival of the fittest in a most literal sense . |
| 19 | In a paper in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy I defended the view he rejected by saying that the ‘ nature ’ of the ‘ sensations as they are in their own nature ’ is the nature we apprehend them as having when a certain way of describing them comes to us naturally , and that the reason why a certain way of describing them comes to us naturally need not be a reason of which we are conscious . |
| 20 | I went in feeling very poorly and not much good for anything and came out a new woman . |