Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 2 | Seeing I played two rounds of golf yesterday … ’ |
| 3 | They invited me to punk parties as noisy as tractor factories , where I swigged flat cans of beer , already shaken with a twist of cigarette butt . |
| 4 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 5 | But from my point of view what mattered most was that it bordered Abyssinia , where I hoped one day to be posted . |
| 6 | ‘ Or I have supreme confidence in myself that she will return to me , ’ he told her smoothly . |
| 7 | Or I have some vodka in the fridge . |
| 8 | Simulation of geographical systems is not necessarily motivated by considerations of cost or avoidance of hazard , but more by the desire to experiment on systems that are either too slow-acting relative to the human life-span or which present ethical problems to the would-be experimenter . |
| 9 | Once , it was a pop cliche that the records which mattered most to you were the ones which marked your earliest sexual encounters or which signposted key events in your adolescence . |
| 10 | More difficult to assess is the toxic reaction of an odour , that is an effect ‘ which may influence survival or which produces unfavourable changes in the gross and microscopic appearance of organs or tissues or in the entire organism ’ . |
| 11 | Certain medical conditions , such as being HIV positive , or which need particular kinds of medication , may make breastfeeding inadvisable . |
| 12 | Trollope evidently shares Jane Austen 's preference for past community to present isolation ; but where she felt those sites to be alternatives , he knows that the first is a part of history . |
| 13 | Belvoir was not her only house , for her late husband the 9th Duke restored Haddon Hall where she took particular pleasure in the rose terraces . |
| 14 | She was educated at Handsworth Ladies College and at Newnham College , Cambridge , where she took both parts of the natural sciences tripos ( 1887 , 1888 ) , obtaining first-class honours . |
| 15 | Uma Thurman stars as a hitch-hiker who ends up working at a pansexual beauty ranch , where she joins fellow workers in rebelling against the owners and their male-servicing feminine hygiene products . |
| 16 | The Marr technique of painting is to go and visit the subject , where she makes copious notes on eye colour and other little idiosyncrasies that will help catch the soul of the dog . |
| 17 | Lesley , who is single , was taken straight to the operating theatre where she underwent immediate surgery on severe injuries to her stomach . |
| 18 | She was rushed to Northampton General Hospital where she underwent several hours of surgery , including a tracheotomy operation . |
| 19 | In 1876 she went to Girton College where she gained third-class honours in the mathematical tripos in 1880 , and showed her flair for experimentation and designing scientific instruments . |
| 20 | Not the old fashioned type where you throw rotten cabbages at people , but a new system . |
| 21 | I do n't know of any other event where you get that kind of pressure and you just ca n't simulate that . |
| 22 | You could write something similar to the following example anywhere in your program where you wished this calculation to be carried out . |
| 23 | One is the ‘ clean sheet approach ’ , where you make copious notes on everything to do with a person 's behaviour . |
| 24 | But oh , the glory and the convenience of skiing in resorts where you step into your bindings and ski down to the lift without setting foot to snow , where you cruise all day on networks so meticulously designed that you have but to descend to find another fan of lifts at your disposal . |
| 25 | where you have insufficient service to quality for unfair dismissal rights ; |
| 26 | Walk along the road until you come to Overton Hall Farm where you bear sharp right down bend in track . |
| 27 | It 's not because I had Christian parents , it 's not because I 'd some advantage over you , or you had some advantage over me , it is all of God 's graciousness , it is all of God 's giving ! |
| 28 | In a place like mine anybody who knows my patch you , you know old or you know certain parts of or you know certain parts of . |
| 29 | In a place like mine anybody who knows my patch you , you know old or you know certain parts of or you know certain parts of . |
| 30 | Or you know sludgy sort of colour like this |