Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With other feelings we may be burdened by their strength , yet still be free enough to choose whether we express them to others by word or action , indulge them or keep a tight rein on them . |
| 2 | Participants listened to the story read at an even pace of around 120 words per minute and had to write down all the errors they could detect as they heard them or insert the missing word . |
| 3 | A certain firm famous for their ‘ bags ’ trouser suits , used to do an extensive line of grey anoraks , but they obviously had a visit from the style police and were made to put bits of navy blue and red in them or face a lengthy jail sentence . |
| 4 | It is uncertain whether he composed this song himself or adapted an existing poem to the mocking , sentimental tone that was his and was already regarded as typical of Dublin . |
| 5 | She will recognize that the client is repeating himself or demanding a particular reaction from her . |
| 6 | Now here he was in Simanggang with his mosquito nets , journals , chronometers , compasses , barometer , medicine cabinet , guns and one offspring , out to cure himself or discover a New Way of Thought , whichever would cause most trouble in a world already tormented by too much belief . |
| 7 | It used to hurt me that an African who was considered good enough to hand the cement to the man to lay the bricks could n't get the opportunity to lay the bricks himself and become a qualified tradesman . " |
| 8 | ( a ) The sub-contractor is encouraged to measure the work himself and submit a detailed account to the surveyor together with any daywork sheets signed by the general foreman . |
| 9 | Barth himself later said that he had been like a man who , tripping in the darkness of the church tower , had accidentally caught hold of the bell-rope to steady himself and alarmed the whole countryside . |
| 10 | It seems to me that he ca n't be that unhappy because he 's currently managing twelve vacancies deliberately , in order to produce underspend so that he can re-surface his car park , maintain privileged restaurants for his erm , senior officers , chauffeur driven car for himself and build a new hangar for his helicopter . |
| 11 | ‘ Spielberg is a games fanatic himself and has a hands-on involvement to ensure the final result is as faithful as possible to his original idea . |
| 12 | It could only make for bad blood between the Li clan and himself and shatter the age-old ties between their families . |
| 13 | Upon entering , he had braced himself and executed a formal salute . |
| 14 | Apparently Skipper landed , felt extremely pleased with himself and threw an enormous buck with a twist in it . |
| 15 | ‘ Apparently Skipper landed , felt extremely pleased with himself and threw an enormous buck with a twist in it . |
| 16 | Our rambling sketcher did n't , alas , go in himself and record the young phenomenon with his pencil ; but he waited while a French cavalryman paid his penny farthing , entered the caravan , and emerged mouthing ‘ some very choice Norman phraseology ’ . |
| 17 | We see therefore that Boltzmann 's superposition integral is a special case of a more general functional relationship between stress and deformation gradient in which and has the special form in which the kernel function K1 contains t and only in the combination ( t — ) . |
| 18 | Afterwards she repented it bitterly , but she was hopeless at apologizing : instead of retracting her feelings , what she always did was to say that she was sorry for expressing them , a kind of amends that costs nothing and carries the built-in rebuke that the other person is unable to bear the truth . |
| 19 | And do you know , ’ he leaned across the table staring at me and tapping the open file softly with his huge fingers , ‘ if tomorrow I decide to release one of them , there will be over three times as much paper-work . ’ |
| 20 | But you 'd do better to come down with me and make the long trip round . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Come , come and sit dose to me and keep an old man warm . ’ |
| 22 | In his speech , Charles praised my ‘ sterling contribution ’ to the school and shortly after it Paul came up to me and made the touching suggestion that I should give some classes in the summer term — if I was still free . |
| 23 | In any event he did a very professional job with me and took a great weight off Laura 's shoulders . |
| 24 | I stole a quick sidelong glance , and saw him turn his head at the same instant to look at me and give a faint smile . |
| 25 | Come with me and meet the other teachers . |
| 26 | In fact I 'll even be super-optimistic for me and predict a clean sheet with Quinn 's injury . |
| 27 | 12 She shifts her body and flips her wings to keep balance , then looks at me and makes a new sound , like peeEP ; very sharp . |
| 28 | Now she stood beside me and watched the white Lincoln drive out of the boatyard . |
| 29 | I remember dad running after me and having a long conversation trying to make me understand . ’ |
| 30 | I flew out to Chino , California , where the aircraft was based , Merril met me and flew an impressive display in the aircraft . |