Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're well-disposed enough , all the Percy tribe , because their own holdings are in the north , and they have nothing to lose here on the Welsh border . |
| 2 | My conclusion makes it unnecessary for me to proceed further upon the natural justice argument . |
| 3 | Lush 's large audience , most of whom chatter blithely through the sensitive acoustic numbers , seem to agree . |
| 4 | Lush 's large audience , most of whom chatter blithely through the sensitive acoustic numbers , seem to agree . |
| 5 | On the ground floor he walked a few feet ahead , leaving me to trundle behind like a meek Arab wife . |
| 6 | Everyone dined together at a plain wooden table more suited to the kitchen or servants ' quarters than the guests ' dining room , and the fare was similarly lacking in charm . |
| 7 | ‘ In fact , I could swear your image-maker wants me to come across as a free spirit , someone who does n't need the convention of a male escort — and I do n't . |
| 8 | While subjects were actually driving around they were required to give risk ratings , this may have caused them to concentrate unusually on the risky situations and think about them to a much greater degree than they would have normally . |
| 9 | The tide is low and someone points excitedly into the clear water to where a couple of large sea-urchins are making their sedate way along the rock-face . |
| 10 | I gazed across to the rising ground beyond the farm buildings . |
| 11 | Move along ! " bawled the orderly , and as I shuffled away I gazed appealingly at the white-coated figure . |
| 12 | I shied away from the very American-sounding compliment . |
| 13 | I mean apart from a monstrous attack on our own officers who ca n't answer for themselves in this place . |
| 14 | But they take opinion polls all the time , I mean shortly after the recent general election they were taking opinion polls a week later . |
| 15 | But we still need to know how , I mean maybe in a participatory democracy we can defend freedom and equality to the system not in it seems absurd to say that democracy we have now is a way of embodied freedom I mean maybe weak notion of equality , but nothing |
| 16 | I argued passionately for a top higher band . |
| 17 | Here houses looked to me like Monopoly chips : seeing a man cycling over the pathless tundra I scanned hopelessly for a possible point of reference he might have . |
| 18 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 19 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 20 | And the handsomest Celt on earth kneels before me while I sit snugly in the big armchair , the best armchair . |
| 21 | As I got closer to the raised platform at the far end of the church , it was as if the sound was pushing me forward . |
| 22 | I can remember waiting some minutes before walking through the house , knowing that there must be proof of burglary at the back door , and when I got there in an uncomprehending state , lo and behold the kitchen door was broken right down ! |
| 23 | So I got together with the main designer at Ibanez in Japan and we traded ideas , and the new prototype — I 've got one already and I 'm picking another one up in a month — is very unusual , and I think a really exciting development for a jazz guitar . |
| 24 | Finally they helped me upstairs to a bedroom , and I sank gratefully into a warm , dry bed . |
| 25 | I groped for Toby in the dark and found his hands , and they held on to me , and I shouted again to an unknown listener as I had wanted to in the street : " I do n't want this ! |
| 26 | Otley was looking the other way as if he did n't know me when I tried again with a pleasant , motherly woman with a shopping basket full of goodies . |
| 27 | After primary school I moved away to a different High School but I have the photographs and certificates of achievement that I have worked for . |
| 28 | but then on the erm , Saturday , and the , that 's , and then on I say then on the bloody Friday night what happened he fell out the bed I phoned |
| 29 | I disagree fundamentally with the hon. Gentleman . |
| 30 | I wandered alone across the muttering stream and satisfied myself that the spongy land was still lined with alders . |