Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that 'd go down bett or I mean even like when we did the pantomimes , you remember Cinderella we did ? |
| 2 | A fairly rushed programme but involved in going to Stranraer Women 's Guild where she communicated extremely well and was delighted to see Christian Aid work at local level . |
| 3 | Loki was caught and punished by ODIN several times , once being imprisoned beneath the earth 's surface where he shook so violently that the world trembled . |
| 4 | Yet he had a way of manipulating our conversations on to ground of his choosing where he spoke so admirably that only afterwards did one realize how other issues , other questions , had been delicately side-stepped . |
| 5 | They were about 10 yards from the western side of the reef , where it fell away sharply and waves were pounding on its shore . |
| 6 | Lima , where it rains so seldom that the city 's roofs are not designed to withstand more than a mild shower , the inhabitants are anxiously awaiting the worst . |
| 7 | See that no-one gets any further than the hall . |
| 8 | We 've got to set up a proper complaints procedure , so that people know how to complain about Social Services , although I doubt very much whether anybody would ever want to complain about Oxfordshire 's Social Services , and so on . |
| 9 | I finished equal fifth and , although I got as far as the final qualifying round for the Open and won through two rounds of the Amateur Championship , that was to be my best result for the year . |
| 10 | I 'm taking steps to make sure that I last as long as possible . |
| 11 | His way of praising me was to say that I wrote as naturally as a hen laying eggs , or to remark , after he had destroyed a work with his criticisms , ‘ Everything I have not marked seems to me either good or excellent . |
| 12 | not that I perceived any longer if the had n't gone . |
| 13 | I wanted to tell him calmly that I knew perfectly well that it was absurd and quite understood the point of his questions . |
| 14 | He remarked that I looked neither well nor happy . |
| 15 | I suspect , then , that I paused rather abruptly and looked a little awkward . |
| 16 | I was so physically tired that I slept as soundly as the corpses outside the window but , unlike them , awoke refreshed and went downstairs to a good breakfast . |
| 17 | Ted might decide he does n't like me any more , that I laugh too loudly or drink too much of his beer , and then we 'd have to get a tent . |
| 18 | It turns out that fragments of each of my three files are dotted around , interleaved with each other and with fragments of old , dead files that I erased long ago and had forgotten . |
| 19 | I was wanted so I ran away again and came down to London . |
| 20 | Typically , teen magazines like Smash Hits , were soon on the case and presented them as a ‘ new ’ band , although none went as far as dubbing them the customary , overnight success . |
| 21 | One of my former patients , whose ex-husband had spent their entire marriage telling her that she was ‘ stupid ’ or ‘ brainless ’ , told me that , although she knew perfectly well that this was not true , by the time she had heard it said every day for the twelve years they had been together she had begun to believe that there must be something in it . |
| 22 | She did n't want to see him although she knew perfectly well that he would have to be faced . |
| 23 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 24 | And we 're insisting that you stay here just as long as you like , ’ she told them . |
| 25 | If people can see that you know your job , that you work probably harder than they do , that you communicate with them and tell them what you 're doing , they will respect you . |
| 26 | You will probably find that you perform very badly and feel dreadful for the first few minutes . |
| 27 | At some point the size of the enterprise may dictate that you think commercially rather than in terms of self-reliance . |
| 28 | Jane knew from bitter experience that love is a rare thing , so she felt very strongly that nothing should be allowed to come in its way , that nobody should be condemned to endure the rest of life with those two small , sad words : ‘ if only … . ’ |
| 29 | yeah , you get a subsidized grant for going to London , yeah , so you get like more than normal |
| 30 | And this is what distinguishes the reading of literature from the reading of philosophy which requires that one understands as fully as possible what is meant , and where it is assumed that the writing will illustrate the meaning in a direct and immediate way . |