Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If our constitution does not altogether submerge us in wishful thinking , that is because pain and misfortune force themselves on attention from outside . |
| 2 | But having put him in , he rarely consulted him on general policy issues and gave hint little role even in industrial disputes , which were still the traditional concern of the Board of Trade . |
| 3 | Claims to have found new mechanisms of evolution are common in the press , but they rarely make it into respectable science journals . |
| 4 | Exporters can raise prices in sterling terms ( so maintaining them in foreign currency terms ) without losing competitiveness . |
| 5 | Despite their common backgrounds , shared interests , and childhood ties , Gould 's pre-eminence had swiftly distinguished him beyond social association with his former colleague . |
| 6 | • Any burns may be deeper than they appear , so cool them with cold water and cover with an antiseptic dressing or clean cloth . |
| 7 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 8 | These agents are toxic when given systemically , and so producing them at high concentration within the tumour is an attractive goal . |
| 9 | Captaining Jamaica for the second successive season , he not only led them to Red Stripe Cup triumph ( their third in five years ) , but , with the ball , he broke the tournament record with 36 wickets at 11.30 . |
| 10 | I can only describe it as naked lust . |
| 11 | We felt we could only do it through local pressure , using the media and direct action ’ , a member of the group recalled . |
| 12 | And that implies that our learning together engages us in dynamic encounter dynamic dialogue which also releases some of those energies in various areas of life that would otherwise be sealed or indeed , locked ! |
| 13 | We can only stop it by international agreement and enforcement . |
| 14 | The trouble is we never stop long enough to put them to good use . |
| 15 | It is generally best to leave maintenance and repairs of central heating boilers to an expert service engineer , and to have your system serviced at least annually to keep it in good condition . |
| 16 | Marshall 's hands had once made music — now they could n't — so he was perhaps punishing them with hard labour in a sort of brutal compensation . |
| 17 | In a few moments she had finished it all while Tom All Alone watched her with obvious delight . |
| 18 | The ongoing commitment can only hold us in good stead in the eyes of our established and potential clients as a company of recognised capability . |
| 19 | There is a possibility that transient UOS relaxations may be unusually easy to trigger in some subjects and so predispose them to oesophagopharyngeal reflux . |
| 20 | If we want to keep the best scientists and the best engineers in this country , we 'd better do two things : we 'd better attract them with good pay and we 'd better train them right and give them the proper facilities . |
| 21 | She did not merely like him , did not merely hold him in high regard ; she was in love with him ! |
| 22 | The fact that the subject believes himself to be been falsely suspected will not necessarily protect him from criminal liability if he should over-react . |
| 23 | The morning 's adventure had apparently left him in hot water with the lady of the moment . |
| 24 | At a very early stage the apostle Paul was confronted by opposed parties , the one contending that the freedom of the Spirit so emancipated them from social convention that they could act as they pleased , especially in sexual indulgence , the other with more plausibility holding that the life of the Spirit required renunciation of marriage . |
| 25 | Again from Australia had come Sister May Kenny with her method of nursing the child incessantly in the arms , massaging the withering limbs and gently lowering them into warm water . |
| 26 | Several people have been er kind enough to remind me as General Secretary , and other people , that we 're all expendable . |
| 27 | The very largest like the Prudential and Standard Life are able to offer these as a genuinely independent extension of their huge pension businesses but many of the smaller firms obviously see them as commercial marketing opportunities . |
| 28 | Later , she could hardly remember what the issues were that had so roused them to mutual abuse . |
| 29 | By contrast Frances Spalding 's final chapter , ‘ The Modern Face ’ , is surprisingly tentative for such an experienced writer : she obviously contemplates deserting the more endangered of Bloomsbury species the rank amateur as opposed to the merely amateurish but in the end mounts a token defence , and so damns them with faint art history . |
| 30 | The isolation or bunching together of such pupils only provides them with poor role models and intensive interaction with other disturbed children . |