Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He always had to spend ages reassuring Lennie he did want to travel with him and George had to keep on reminding Lennie of their dream , of alfalfa and rabbits , to comfort him . |
| 2 | Engineers should contribute effectively to risk management within their organisation by doing everything reasonably practicable to ensure that good practice is being followed . |
| 3 | They gave Jack the chance to practise some of the underhand humour that eventually became part of his mystique . |
| 4 | She instinctively shielded Ari with her arm , drawing her close to her body . |
| 5 | She ran from the canteen , furiously knocking chairs from her path . |
| 6 | The most widely reported feature of his speech was the proposal to repeal a 35-year-old law outlawing the Communist Party of the Philippines — Marxist Leninist ( CPP-ML ) and similar organizations , and to institute a sweeping amnesty . |
| 7 | Indeed , just before his interview with Meese , he had dropped in to see McFarlane in his office precisely , McFarlane thought , to agonize over the fact that the diversion was a matter of record : ‘ I put it in a memo to the Admiral . ’ |
| 8 | She tried to make her voice heard above the general clamour and hurried forward , only to lose sight of her quarry in the crowd . |
| 9 | Under ‘ Thursday ’ , he read of only two engagements : his treat , that is , the lunch he was giving at English 's Oyster House at one o'clock for six of his local party , much travelled Salopians upon whose goodwill , patience and forbearance he had long relied ; and ( here his heart fell ) the National Society of Agents ' dinner at the Metropole Hotel . |
| 10 | Elaine drained hers thirstily and made a loud sucking noise with her straw . |
| 11 | His parents hoped that this might prove a stepping-stone to a painter 's career , but Rosenberg hated the work , only deriving consolation from his reading of such poets as Byron , Keats , Shelley , and , most importantly , William Blake [ qq.v. ] ; from his own writing ; and from evening painting classes at the art school of Birkbeck College . |
| 12 | Oh , better make space for my money , what ! |
| 13 | The Zurich Festival in June has taken its place among the mos highly regarded events of its kind in Europe . |
| 14 | He suddenly has trouble with his breathing . |
| 15 | At times , its organisations , in particular the unions and cooperative societies , were persuaded by socialists acting out of self interest to take unpropitious courses of action ; against such leaders , genuine , common-sensical ( English ) workers must assert their authority , restore equilibrium and so provide conditions under which production would increase to the benefit of all . |
| 16 | He said my father can have it , he can do , have it , I only want money for my charity , |
| 17 | He figures Sun only has price in its corner and claimed Apollo users , the last of the die-hard zealots opposed to Sun on religious grounds , wo n't be budged simply on price . |
| 18 | He not only has room in his science for God ; he tries to create God using only some laws of physics , some simplifying assumptions , some outrageous extrapolations , and truly cosmic gall . |
| 19 | A front-line supervisor only has authority over his part of the work of the organisation and can not issue instructions to another part . |
| 20 | The committee already had prematurely exalted views of its importance , for it deferred to the next meeting the question of how to apply to the King for royal patronage — patronage of an institution which had no actual existence . |
| 21 | Only once was I innocent enough to voice my fears , bringing down wounding charges on my head . |
| 22 | ‘ But surely no one would be mad enough to hide gelignite in his room ? ’ said Amiss . |
| 23 | It was Molly , of course , who introduced Medau work in the Special Needs sector and she has been followed by a number of our teachers who all deserve recognition for their work in this field . |
| 24 | And though she cherished the times when Friend soared in companionship beside her through forever , always — reluctantly , it seemed sometimes , but always — he would pluck new motes of light and weave them into new shapes for her to read , but the shapes only made sense in their beauty , not in the real world where the coarseness of eating and cleaning and going to the toilet squashed the meanings out of the corners of her eyes . |
| 25 | Poulantzas appeals to Althusser 's theory to resolve the long-standing problem of how to characterise the capitalist state — and in doing so casts light on its power and its limitations . |
| 26 | For the chief defect of parliamentary democracy is that it is representative : when a person elects a representative he necessarily surrenders part of his sovereignty to him . |
| 27 | Following the much trumpeted loss of her maidenhood , she is said to have undergone a test to determine whether or not she has AIDS , an ailment prevalent in that part of the world . |
| 28 | But it remained uncertain whether they were strong enough to create conditions in which peace could be negotiated even on the most minimal of their terms . |
| 29 | In a similar study , Lawani & Bayer found that 14% of the highly rated papers in their study of cancer research were not highly rated by peers , and that only 2.3% of their highly rated papers were never cited . |
| 30 | Boz made the announcement as though expecting Dolly to argue with him , but she merely nodded acknowledgement of his statement . |