Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the sake of his usefulness he might , or for his own honour he might , but if I were de Guichet I 'd never feel sure of it . |
| 2 | If you or any of those named in your booking have the misadventure to suffer illness , personal injury or death during your holiday arising out of an activity which does not form part of our foreign inclusive holiday arrangement with you or any excursion offered through us we will offer where appropriate and within our reasonable discretion : ( i ) our general assistance ; ( ii ) the payment of initial legal costs where with our prior agreement you or any of those named in your booking take legal action provided such assistance is requested within 90 days from the date of the misadventure : provided that the total aggregate spending under ( i ) and ( ii ) above shall not exceed £5,000 per booking form . |
| 3 | Odd that he had n't noticed how long the fingers were or with what apparent gentleness they had taped the plastic bags over the girl 's hand to preserve , as he had tonelessly explained , conscientious in his role of instructor , any evidence under the fingernails . |
| 4 | What the patients need is to have emotional fear and pain acknowledged and expressed through words , tears or in whatever other way they find helpful . |
| 5 | He falls asleep with his head on her grave mound , to be taken away in spirit to a strange land where all his grief suddenly fades — and where to his utter delight he sees his lost child facing him , on the other side of a river . |
| 6 | For if I should wish to love you and no other except for my wedded husband I shall not fail to tell you . " ) |
| 7 | So that when the British Medical Association decided in the late 1950s to inaugurate a programme of discussions among its membership on an appointed ‘ Subject of the Year ’ , it was entirely fitting that for its first discussion-point it should home in on The Adolescent : |
| 8 | Beyond these specific issues , there was an acute sense within the Essex Federation of the general threat posed by professionalism to the WEA 's essential character : and several leading voluntary members came to feel that through their own initiative they could advance the movement more effectively than any tutor-organiser . |
| 9 | And although for my own part it would be my ruin , yet so great is my veneration for you , so entire my reliance on providence upon so just an occasion that I should think myself but too happy if I might be accepted . |
| 10 | ‘ Bad luck , ’ I said although for my own sake I was glad that he had failed . |
| 11 | However it began to be clear that despite our good possession we were short on attacks . |
| 12 | ’ It 's already being said of her that unlike her famous namesake she is one in whom the quality of Mercy is very finely strained . ’ |
| 13 | Luce was well aware that beneath his bland expression he was highly entertained , and for a moment she felt aggrieved . |
| 14 | She said that throughout their married life they had always talked things through and come to decisions between them about what to do . |
| 15 | His slow smile lit up his eyes , and again she realised with a jolt that behind his severe exterior he could be quite attractive . |
| 16 | He held my gaze for just a fraction longer than you 'd expect , and I was certain then that underneath his professional front he was interested in me . |
| 17 | Not only that but the Board predicted that with its second station it could improve substantially on the Sizewell performance , setting British construction times and operating records among the best in the world . |
| 18 | One can also say that with his third championship he had thrown in the towel . |
| 19 | ‘ And I suppose that with your superior knowledge you 've worked out that this — scene of devastation — ’ she flung a careless hand in the general direction of the office ‘ — is all down to me . |
| 20 | I am concerned that with you one minute it is this , the next it is that . |
| 21 | A poor Provençal family might find their great son 's version of a familiar dish lacking in savour , although in its original form it would have made , with a saucerful of olives and perhaps a dish of fresh figs , an entire meal . |
| 22 | As an adult she was able to see how wrong it was and she knew that they were indulging in something they should not have been doing — although in her childish innocence she had not been aware that it was anything more than an extension of the love and affection she felt for other members of her family . |
| 23 | Although in her 94th year it was always a pleasure to visit . |
| 24 | I had never lived there , although in my early childhood I had stayed for short periods ( but then my mind was occupied in forming pictures ; the time had not yet come for looking at those pictures , for interpreting them ) . |
| 25 | There is little point in getting worked up about the way different people use words ( although in my nonprofessional life I am quite prepared to get worked up about people who boil lobsters alive ) . |
| 26 | His outburst , following McKendrick 's denial of the existence of absolute moral principles ( p. 78 ) , impolitely reverses the agreement maxim to emphasise his disagreement and although in his next turn he apologises for his outburst , the impression made by his interruption remains strong because it is accompanied by a violent gesture : The importance of physical gestures as a part of the dramatist 's characterisation is indicated by this episode , for , as Stoppard 's stage directions emphasise , Anderson 's anger is strongly conveyed through the one physical action . |
| 27 | Hillary was acclaimed not only as a born writer but also as a representative of the doomed youth of his generation , although in his constant self-analysis he was in fact a most untypical British fighter pilot of 1940 . |
| 28 | Static electricity — that was the only explanation — although from his bland expression he had felt no similar spark on contact . |
| 29 | The accepted theory said that within their closed society they probably practised some exclusivist cult religion . |
| 30 | For , to conceal the fact that in her utter astonishment she was looking ready to drop , Naylor moved his chair closer to her and drew her attention by planting a light and loving kiss on her cheek . |