Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [be] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did so , and seeing I was of no more use , I rushed inside to awaken my older brother and sister to show them what had happened . |
| 2 | Too late in the day because all the hotels are full and I end up tramping round in the dark , lugging my pack and money ( cash , a great wad of hard currency ) , nervous of the hatchet-faced youths who watch me meandering round , concentrating so intently on making it look as though I know exactly where I 'm heading that I soon have no idea where I am on the mapless streets of Algiers . |
| 3 | I 'd been having a bit of a go about putting your hand up but every time he put his hand up I 'm bending over somebody or I 'm in a different part of the room . |
| 4 | And this has been interpreted as meaning measures which are excessively costly , burdensome , unusual , or which are of no real benefit to the patient . |
| 5 | Those countries that could not ‘ keep up ’ with Germany or which were on a different economic cycle from her would suffer badly in terms of their standards of living . |
| 6 | To provide an illustration , a child who gets into trouble is much more likely to come before a court if he or she is from a poor home and has parents who do not get on with the welfare authorities or the police , than if his or her family is prosperous , respectable and willing to co-operate with the police and social services . |
| 7 | Anyone who has been alongside a ship when he or she is in a small boat knows the way she towers over you at a dockside . |
| 8 | Our final visit is to Miserden Park , where everything is on a grand scale ; from the borders , which are 100 yards long and 22 yards wide , to the Yew hedges , which take 8 weeks to cut . |
| 9 | Where there 's like a little comma . |
| 10 | And on the landward side of all the trenches ( except those between the Solomons and the New Hebrides , where they are on the seaward side ) are the island chains — Japan to New Zealand — whose birth is in whole or in part a consequence of all that colliding and jostling beneath the blue horizons . |
| 11 | This is a recipe for disaster , because you have placed both Mobs where they are in an ideal position to charge each other . |
| 12 | Do not put fluffy rugs in front of open fires , where they are in the direct line of sparks . |
| 13 | told him that er seeing he 's on the sick he was n't allowed to go . |
| 14 | Hoeness has recently made discreet enquiries about Robins , in action against Tottenham today , and believes he could prise him away from Carrow Road , where he is on a four-year contract , providing the terms were right . |
| 15 | They remained in Ottawa after his military service , where he was on the advisory board of a trust company and was close to the excellent fishing of the Gatineau hills . |
| 16 | CHILDREN IN SEX CASES Save in exceptional circumstances where it is in the public interest to do so , newspapers should not , even where the law permits it , identify children as victims , witnesses or defendants involved in cases concerning sexual offences . |
| 17 | It wants to be among the top three software-systems integration houses in France by the end of 1994 , where it is among the top five today , Tordjman said . |
| 18 | Or it 's like the radioactive cloud has drifted down , days after the holocaust , and dusted their skin softly to start the decay . |
| 19 | Or it is like the light pictures that enter the eyes lenses and escape into the vastness of the tundra and like ice crystals on the windows , they freeze and become the light flowers that bloom on the endless snow fields . |
| 20 | No bedtime , so everyone was in a foul mood , and thieving and violence and fights seem to take up everyone 's time . |
| 21 | I suppose I could have joined in except I was on the second tier of the other stand . |
| 22 | The reason I am writing to Mamma is to show her that I know my duty and that I am with the deepest respect her devoted son . ’ |
| 23 | Consider the statement that I am in a jolly mood , which clearly is not one of the chosen kinds . |
| 24 | Whenever I am assailed by unhappiness , I know that I am in the mundane , for in the transcendent there is no unhappiness . |
| 25 | Now I 'm not for a mom , I 'm not for a moment suggesting that it 's something that would be picked up on a regular basis , but I think it does mean , as you rightly say , that er , if , if , if such a procedure does arise then I 'm conscious that I 'm in a one off situation , I know there 's at least one of our colleagues on our benches who has this on , with children on a more regular basis . |
| 26 | ‘ However , I can see that I 'm in a no-win situation . |
| 27 | They ca n't say that I 'm in a druggy haze or that I 'll get out of it . |
| 28 | ‘ I also have to accept that maybe I 'm not that versatile , so I have to make sure that I 'm in the right situation to show myself off to my best advantage . |
| 29 | Somehow I find a little peace of mind knowing that I 'm in the one place in the world where I once knew true happiness . ’ |
| 30 | A little later , I stood nervously beside my bag , hoping that I was at the right bus stop for Sligo . |