Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , bright children usually expect to succeed , hence success and praise do not surprise them or necessarily raise them to new levels of performance . |
| 2 | ‘ Because I 've spent the last day or so watching you with other people , and frankly , Fran , it 's obvious to anyone that when you 're with me you act far differently . ’ |
| 3 | Hemmed in by bicks and shoulders , besieged by people wanting to shake his hand , put questions , or merely to remind him of past meetings , Cameron was struggling to respond and make each person feel attended to . |
| 4 | This can result in buyers waiting for months for the goods to arrive or not getting them at all and being fobbed off with a different machine . |
| 5 | Or not getting it at all . ’ |
| 6 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 7 | Or perchance ending it with that old adage , ‘ Keep up the good work ’ ? |
| 8 | Firms which reduce emissions by amounts exceeding the reductions required by the authorities under the bubble or offset policies can ‘ bank ’ emission reduction credits and either use them to expand their own plant later or openly trade them with other companies . |
| 9 | We do not tie the horse , blindfold it , or forcefully restrain it in any way . |
| 10 | Poor , insecure little Caroline , clinging rigidly to what she knows , terrified of the unknown , terrified to trust people in case they let her down , hurt her feelings , or even endanger her in some way … ? ’ |
| 11 | We can not neglect these things , but neither can we control or even forecast them with any certainty . |
| 12 | Towards the trespasser the occupier has no duty to take reasonable care for his protection or even to protect him from concealed danger . |
| 13 | Yet he would have spent far less money if he had bought the first house and completely refurnished the kitchen or even changed it to another room . |
| 14 | So we will need to manage the whole of that block to the right of the dotted line , and therefore I think , members will appreciate that we are not going to do that effect , or indeed do it at all , if we simply continue spending at the four hundred and fifty thousand pounds which is the costs that we 're incurring in the current year . |
| 15 | What was it about him that constantly stirred her into such a state of agitation ? |
| 16 | I think that just puts it into bloody perspective |
| 17 | Peer pressure is a factor , but not necessarily in a coercive way ; a teenager who is n't sure how to smoke a joint will be more worried about losing face from doing it wrong than not doing it at all . |
| 18 | It goes without saying that in order to use a device for improvising ( such as scales , arpeggios , licks etc. ) one has to develop the particular device to such a level of fluency that physically playing it in any key or position has become almost instinctive , or second nature . |
| 19 | But the thing that always concerns me about these kind of decisions under those kind of circumstances is that it might be a temporary depression : in other words a suicide wish , and this is a terrifically difficult issue that is bantered about a lot under these kind of circumstances , and normally , if someone says ‘ Kill me , ’ you figure they 're crazy . |
| 20 | Mm that 's what that girl 's just said to me you get a lot of erm , she said he 'll know it 's hard and I was saying that you know I , I put all me eggs in one basket with that , I mean that really knocked me for six |
| 21 | Because certainly the thing that particularly struck me about these design and technology A levels which so often seem to be sort of er erm a contrived project , not not a real one . |
| 22 | They tell us that they only do dope occasionally , a factor that potentially puts them at greater risk . |
| 23 | Another thing that seriously disappoints me about this life I 'm living through : the reading . |
| 24 | Into the uneasy silence , while brother looked most earnestly at brother , and wondered , and sought or evaded the eyes of his neighbours , Brother Cadfael said : ‘ Brother Abbot , I have thoughts to share that never visited me until this morning , but are become very relevant now . |
| 25 | When his solicitor had phoned to make the appointment , refusing to say why his client wished to see her , she had secretly prayed that fate might intervene and mercifully save her from this meeting . |
| 26 | Model B , on the other hand would effectively ‘ nationalize ’ the 90 or so major institutions and thereby remove them from local control . |
| 27 | If you are ever attacked by a man with an erect penis , simply grasp it as firmly as you can , and forcibly rearrange it from 12 o'clock to six o'clock — and then run like hell . |
| 28 | These agents are toxic when given systemically , and so producing them at high concentration within the tumour is an attractive goal . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , but perhaps he thought I might meet some wealthy man who would instantly fall in love with me and so relieve him of some of the responsibility , ’ she retorted , too angry to even think what she was saying , and then gave a derisive smile when she saw that he was half tempted to believe it . |
| 30 | There is a possibility that transient UOS relaxations may be unusually easy to trigger in some subjects and so predispose them to oesophagopharyngeal reflux . |