Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [adv] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I put my headlights on to see if that would help the policemen who were obviously looking for someone . |
| 2 | She would then , on the vague premise that they might meet , have had her words all sorted and ready , and would have told him that Rosemary , in the flat opposite … |
| 3 | All in all , a great day and night was had by all and the hygiene northern area sales teams returned to their branches fully motivated and ready to make 1992/3 their best sales year ever . |
| 4 | Isabel lay looking up at him , her lips softly parted and moist from his kisses , eyes heavy-lidded with love and longing . |
| 5 | Some already had their boats fully rigged and ready to go — but the temptation to leave immediately was easily outweighed by the transparency of their predatory motives , and our allegiance to the Keraing and his wife . |
| 6 | As more people live to ages of 85 plus , the age of their carers also increases and elderly carers will be less able to cope . |
| 7 | But its neighbours still question whether this weight will be thrown behind efforts to build a more secure and more stable Asia . |
| 8 | Their results also show that this effect is independent of syntactic constraints , since there was no interaction between word order and knowledge of the title . |
| 9 | Oliver , observing the scene with the same keen interest as had she , munched his way through a Dickensian gingerbread cake , his emotions harder to determine than those of his companion . |
| 10 | Lieutenant-General Hunter-Weston ( whose pre-battle proclamation to his troops pessimistically stated that heavy losses were to be expected ) commanded British 20th Division , which landed at Cape Helles , and Major-General Sir William Birdwood the Anzac forces . |
| 11 | ‘ A few minutes after I had told him I was n't going on , a gang of his thugs suddenly appeared and pointed machine-guns at us and ordered us to get up on stage . |
| 12 | Isaac Walton , Donne 's biographer , relates the tale : ‘ Several charcoal fires being first madde in his large study , he brought with him into that place a winding sheet in his hand , and having put off all his clothes , had this sheet put on him , and so tied with knots at his head and feet , and his hands so placed as dead bodies are usually fitted , to be shrouded and put into their coffin , or grave … with his eyes shut and with so much of the sheet turned aside as might show his lean , pale and death-like face . ’ |
| 13 | The room itself , however , was perfectly neat , and provided an excellent foil for Gerald Seymour-Strachey , who was no drivelling dotard , but a smart , upright , handsome old man , his clothes admirably cut and suitable for the occasion , his profile cunningly arranged to impress , his mane of white hair , thick and shiny , suggesting intellect and a sense of the aesthetically satisfying . |
| 14 | Whether documenting a war atrocity or capturing the beauty of a Japanese garden , his photographs always retained that special ingredient — sensitivity |
| 15 | I have no doubt that most of our partners now realise that British scepticism about economic and monetary union was right and that Europe must be saved from unthinking , slap-happy federalism . |
| 16 | However , our findings certainly show that interested analysts do not regard Wellcome 's annual report as the most important source of information for making ongoing investment decisions in their day to day work . |