Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [noun pl] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's funny , I thought about sweeteners the other day , I think it 's just as bad as sugar , I think . |
| 2 | I think at times the national health service has been exploited , you know , oh er I am no going out today , I 'm no feeling well . |
| 3 | Firstly , when one thinks about using computers in schools , one tends to think of technology , and you think of people with white coats and dials and sort of science and technology and so forth , whereas I think in schools the big interest is in using a microcomputer as a teaching aid and as a support to other services and other ways of doing things , so it is just as relevant in a primary school as a secondary school . |
| 4 | In A.D. 313 the Roman Emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan which gave to Christians the legal right to practise their religion openly on an equal basis with other religions and , after A.D. 325 , Christianity became the official religion of the empire . |
| 5 | Such a thing is certainly not to be found on this earth ; yet those who pick to pieces the open texture or verbal infelicities of an international Convention rarely pause to consider how , when legislation prepared in a single legal system is generally so verbose , obscure , and generally badly drafted , one can reasonably expect more of the product of many hands drawn from widely differing legal systems with different cultures , legal structures , and methods of legal reasoning and decision-making , entailing maximum flexibility , co-operation , and compromise . |
| 6 | This prig , a dogmatic fundamentalist cocooned in a wealthy , reactionary , churchy upper-class , was a terrible hypocrite , who preached to others the old Catholic family virtues while being vicious to his wife and selectively hateful to his children . |
| 7 | She put into words the first question of many that instantly sprang into her head . |
| 8 | His undiluted radicalism was illustrated by his admission that ‘ my command of the English Language is not sufficiently wide to allow me to put into words the intense hatred and detestation I have for England . ’ |
| 9 | Meanwhile , the father we spoke to fears the worst … |
| 10 | He hangs in shades the orange bright Like golden lamps in a green night . |
| 11 | " Nowhere has the longing for Greece been revealed in purer tones " , proclaimed Nietzsche , and a feu lines earlier , in equally heartfelt terms , he spoke of Hölderlin 's " bitter truths to his countrymen on the subject of their cultural inadequacies : " In Hyperion he hurls sharp and cutting words at German " barbarism " " and , above all ; " he hated in Germans the mere specialist , the philistine " . |
| 12 | ‘ Unfortunately , it fell to pieces the third time I accessed it as a user ( no seams you see ) . |
| 13 | These were the occasions which enabled them to display for hours the rigid immobility for which they were famous throughout Europe . |
| 14 | I found myself looking at toupees the other day , horrible things , rat skins ! ’ |