Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One 's called the Austin Special , and it 's really cool-looking with three hotted-up Danelectro-style lipstick tube pickups that you can either run as single-coils for that crinkly kind of clarity , or put them together for a humbucking sound . |
| 2 | It is saying , and I think everyone agrees , do n't abolish this until you 've thought it through and either provided an alternative or done it again in a different way . ’ |
| 3 | Those radicals ( among whom Gaitskell was , oddly , not numbered ) who wanted to abolish the public schools , or amalgamate them somehow into the maintained system , persuaded themselves for a time that if this were done , and if everyone had a chance to take the 11 + and compete for a place at a grammar school , then justice would have been done and educational standards would be secure . |
| 4 | Ought I to restrict supplies to certain retailers only , or release them only on the certificate of a doctor or justice of the peace , or simply rely on those who can afford to pay getting them on the black market ? ’ |
| 5 | Simply to dismiss their work as ‘ pessimistic ’ , however , or to use it emblematically as a naive position which we now know better than to take seriously , seems to me hopelessly to devalue the currency of critique . |
| 6 | By diffusing gas in or out of the bladder or expelling it directly through the connecting tube , a fish could accurately control its level in the water . |
| 7 | It was a sensation to me , a novice , but the experienced experimentalist learns the tricks of the trade , knows what mistakes to avoid and when weird things happen tries to investigate or to file them away in the memory — just in case . |
| 8 | This rarely happens but if the same ferret continues to do this it is advisable to discard it or use it only as a muzzled ferret . |
| 9 | Please send your CV , listing telephone number for contact , or call us now for an application form . |
| 10 | Similarly you could try shortening the meeting , holding it on a different day or suspending it altogether for a few weeks . |
| 11 | The ruling effectively voided the British legal notion of the " discretionary " life sentence , under which the Home Office had the power to extend prisoners ' actual terms in gaol , or detain them again after an initial release ( known as " release under licence " ) if they were deemed to be a danger to society . |
| 12 | Do it alone on a sheet of paper before the negotiation , or do it together on a flip chart or white board during the negotiation . |
| 13 | If I buy some carpets fitting or do I extra for the fitting ? |
| 14 | It is a problem which seems curiously common to left-arm spinners , and manifests itself with the bowler either failing to release the ball , or propelling it vertically into the air . |
| 15 | It is time , it is thought , for English to organize itself in ways that make it more like a proper academic discipline , with clear procedures and goals . |
| 16 | Government has a responsibility , as well , to ensure that it promotes the common moral values that bind us together as a Nation . |
| 17 | They , you , are our inspiration , the reason we 've come as far and done as well as we have , the energy that drives us forward into the future . |
| 18 | She was the spoon that impatiently opened your lips and put artichoke purée between them , the arm that lowered you backwards into the tin bath , the water in which you lay and splashed and did not drown . |
| 19 | The air intake scoops took their final shape ; the chrome trim that divided it longitudinally in the first two cars was finally eliminated . |
| 20 | But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction . |
| 21 | What better way to test the mettle of the new Calibra 16v than to pitch it directly against the class best , VW 's Corrado G60 ? |
| 22 | Among the most important pieces raised over the summer were two heads , one bearded and probably dating to the fourth century BC , the other with hellenistic features that place it either in the second century BC as a Greek original or several centuries later as a Roman copy . |
| 23 | Love is a strange force like gravity that holds us together in the transcendent and will suffer no parting . |
| 24 | Think back to all the stories that affected you strongly as a child . |
| 25 | He caught a glimpse of the fair hair and saw that she was talking to someone he recognised as the drummer from the band ; the whole group was there , giving an impromptu concert on tin whistles to the tired hikers sleeping on their rucksacks undaunted by the howl and shriek of the space-invader machines on the other side , a cacophony of mechanical rage that deafened him together with the thin notes of a rebel song . |
| 26 | The greatest danger to a windsurfer is a wind that blows you away from a beach . |
| 27 | These medical investigations hardly ever revealed any physical or mental abnormality and if the bed-wetter continued thereafter to deplete the quartermaster 's stock of blankets then the British Army had no answer to this situation other than to discharge him honourably from the service without a stain on his character , whatever there might be on his bedclothes . |
| 28 | We must then continue with a rolling programme of reform that takes us away from the narrow concept of notional rents . |
| 29 | Compare this with the diagonal , twisting advance that takes you directly into the opponent or , if you prefer , the diagonal withdrawal that times your response to coincide with a lull in the attack . |
| 30 | Buckley 's Grimsby Town have won five and drawn one of their last six to ease within sight of the famous names at the top — and nothing would give him greater satisfaction than to leave them behind at the end of the season . |