Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Every sunset the apes would return from their day 's foraging to sleep in the branches of this giant tree , and we were driven to distraction by our repeated attempts to film them properly in the few seconds after they arrived and before the sun set . |
2 | Art is not , as the metaphysicians say , the manifestation of some Idea of beauty or God ; it is not , as the aesthetic physiologists say , a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy ; it is not the expression of man 's emotions by external signs ; it is not the production of pleasing objects ; and , above all , it is not pleasure but it is a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings , and indispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing of individuals and humanity . |
3 | Perhaps they had even bought them together in the same store , on the same day . |
4 | In fact he confirmed it so strongly that we had pulled ourselves together for a few days . |
5 | Worst of all , one auxiliary , feeding a number of people , was going up and down the rows of bowls on bed-tables with one spoon which she filled from each person 's bowl and put into each person 's mouth before going onto someone else with the same spoon to repeat the process . |
6 | If you knew someone else with the same attributes , you would feel they must be quite a nice person really , would n't you ? |
7 | Why not try and turn your thoughts outwards and see if there is someone else in the same position as yourself — what can you do to help that person feel more comfortable ? |
8 | If you can not leave your children with anyone , find someone else in the same position as yourself and take the babies with you . |
9 | Because they were overthrown and the others were taken off into captivity into battle life , and what a life they had , the one of slavery , so at that time because they took no note , because they were destiny instructions to Jehovah for his word and again want to see , they had eyes , but they just did n't want to see it they knew , all the whys and wherefores and what the responsibilities were , but they did n't measure up to them and because of that many of them lost their lives , and if they did n't they were taken into captivity , Jeremiah four , in verse twenty two , again another prophecy sent to them exactly over the same message , the same reasons describes to them as being a , er people that is foolish and of me they have taken no notice Jeremiah four and verse twenty two . |
10 | Assuming that the seller can then re-sell them elsewhere for the same price as the buyer had agreed to pay , the seller will suffer no loss . |
11 | Quite suddenly he let go and sort of pushed me away at the same time . |
12 | He interrupted her thoughts and showed he was himself still on the same track , for he observed , ‘ I 've been called many things in my time , but never a bully , or , ’ he frowned again , ‘ a megalomaniac out of a horror movie . ’ |
13 | What did bother her was the realisation that very soon Luke could find himself part of the same mess . |
14 | She seemed to live by an instinct which drew her strongly and on the whole accurately towards such manifestations , such hints and echoes of a grander world , and which yet at the same time could not approve them . |
15 | And then you 'd share it with somebody else on the same row . |
16 | They discovered , or contacted , me early in the same month . |
17 | So basically all I would have to do is take them with me and I 'd bring them home on the same day . |
18 | If we could talk to you inside for a few minutes you wo n't regret it . ’ |
19 | Dogs can take you directly to a few kilos of heroin welded into the chassis , but they 're not too good at sniffing out a Renoir . |
20 | He felt like some programmed thing with a piece of its instructions missing , battering itself repeatedly against the same piece of wall while a door stood open only a few feet away . |
21 | Needless to say the Herald proved itself admirably with a few lessons learned for next time . |
22 | I 'll catch up with you again in a few minutes . |
23 | ‘ I 'll ask you again in a few days ’ time , ’ he said , ‘ and remember , it is n't me you 're refusing , but God ! ’ |
24 | ‘ Tell me how old the stones are , and I 'll ring you again in a few days . ’ |
25 | she obviously took them both for the same thing did n't she ? |
26 | Matters which the partners might wish to settle in advance include their rights to bid for partnership assets ( since the court would probably not grant the necessary authority to one only of the former partners against the objection of the others ) , the transfer of assets to individual partners in specie , the manner in which sales of partnership property should be conducted ( by private treaty or at auction ) , advertisement of the dissolution , and provisions conferring special authority upon individual partners in any respect during the winding-up of the firm . |
27 | ‘ WHY OH WHY DID THEY TRY TO CHANGE THE WORLD BY REPEATEDLY CONTRADICTING THEMSELVES ( AND WERE WE REALLY AT THE SAME GIG ? ) |
28 | Any explanation requires description , and it is difficult , or perhaps impossible , to describe something without at the same time explaining it . |
29 | For example , an adult can dress herself or eat a meal and chat about something else at the same time , because these routines have become automatic habits . |
30 | One person 's hip replacement operation certainly prevents the busy surgeon from doing something else at the same time . |