Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am afraid I could only manage part of the meal and I cut out the second and third courses completely , and only had gravy and vegetables for the third , but most people at my table went right through the menu ! |
| 2 | And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim . |
| 3 | Well I worked out a hundred and twenty here and seventy pound pension . |
| 4 | I took out the 8000 and put them down on the table . |
| 5 | Cray Research Inc has a new disk array based on its DA-60 and DA-62 arrays and a new DCA-3 channel adaptor , providing the first RAID level 3 capability from Cray and a four-fold increase in data transfer rate ; it also cut prices on its DD-60 and DD-62 disk drives , which make up the DA-60 and DA-62 arrays , by 20% and 28% respectively ; DA-60 prices now begin at $190,000 and DA-62 prices begin at $120,000 ; the DCA-3 channel adaptor is based on the chip technology used in the Y-MP C90 supercomputer ; it 's $50,000 . |
| 6 | Thus , the decentralization of industry to the peripheral regions was a classic example of its seeking out a green and vulnerable labour force ( the women of these areas ) , a necessity forced on industry by competition . |
| 7 | To Arnold the term philistine implied the idea of something stiff-necked and perverse in its resistance to light — ‘ and therein it specially suits our middle class , who not only do not pursue sweetness and light , but who even prefer to them that sort of machinery of business , chapels , tea-meetings and addresses from Mr Murphy , which makes up the dismal and illiberal life on which I have so often touched ’ . |
| 8 | She builds up a full and fascinating portrait of a community with an acute sense of history which gives her descriptions a unique dimension . |
| 9 | ‘ Look here , you hold down a difficult and sensitive job . |
| 10 | It was great to have you — and , as always , you put on an attractive and generous display of what is on offer from Traidcraft . |
| 11 | If you put on the pink and rode to hounds like English gentlefolk these days , some wee feller with an Armalite would blow your head off . |
| 12 | Gilligan repeats this problem when she parcels up the unconscious and sexuality in a bundle with carer-infant relations , and deals with it by labelling it ‘ Chodorow ’ . |
| 13 | Kathleen had always rushed for the post , even in the days when their father had laughed at her eagerness and stood above her as she scooped up the white and brown envelopes . |
| 14 | She switched off the data-analysis and scratched her snub nose . |
| 15 | Jenna came back to the present rapidly and painfully as she tripped over a fallen and partially sunken log . |
| 16 | He did not look up as she advanced down the long and beautiful room . |
| 17 | She put on the black and white dress , hesitating a moment as she looked at herself and thought , it 's too smart . |
| 18 | When one cooled she picked up the other and spat to test it . |
| 19 | A day 's golf with the president of this company or that company when the fellow who makes up the four and plays with the president of the corporation just happens to be last year 's Masters Champion . |
| 20 | All we in fact observe is that h is regularly followed by B. This consistent association leads us to connect the two in our own minds , to expect A always to be followed by B , and this we then express by saying that A is the cause of B and B the effect of A. This is all perfectly in order , and indeed it is through such links and associations that we build up an ordered and coherent conception of the world around us and make sense of our experience of it . |
| 21 | As a community do we seek out the poor and oppressed , endeavouring to help them in their struggle for dignity or do we put them in our litanies of prayer but refuse to act ? |
| 22 | Repacking the camera gear , we decided to abandon it to the elements in orange survival bags , and bracing ourselves , we retreated down the steep and slippery slope . |
| 23 | He was swinging a short sword back and forth idly , and stared out across the tree tops with the air of one carrying out a tedious and unglamorous assignment . |
| 24 | In doing these two things , they tear up the third and fourth commandments of the Christian faith ( Exodus 20:7,8 ) . |
| 25 | By describing , for example , the histories of western psychological concepts of the Madonna-like good mother , who is present , sensitive , and , currently , stimulating , and the bad mother , who is the reverse , they map out the political and ideological origins and currencies these concepts have , beyond the biologized significance which traditional psychology gives them ( e.g. Adams 1983 , Hardyment 1983 , Riley 1983 , New and David 1985 , Urwin 1985 ) . |
| 26 | So they fan off the loose and close down the spaces for the fly-half or blind-side winger . |
| 27 | ‘ Why do you think they brought in the Black and Tans ? |
| 28 | The Hygiene supervisors felt as though the planes would land on their heads , but this did not stop them carrying out a thorough and hygienic job . |
| 29 | Throwing it open , he lifted out a sinewy and almost reptilian form , holding it aloft and going down the line of young men , offering it briefly to each in turn . |
| 30 | When he lifted out the first and looked through the handwritten pages he found that he was holding Henryk Liawski 's personal diary covering odd and irregular dates between 1952 and 1958 . |