Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes I think it 's perhaps worth making the point erm to Rosemary that although , as you say , i it 's six feet high , that it does n't spread all that wide and it 's , it 's a mistake in a small garden to think that you ca n't have things that are on the tall side . |
| 2 | Just such a device was available in the shape of AM Varityper 's VT600 , a PostScript 600dpi plain paper page printer , although it was only through reading a year 's worth of back copies of the Desktop Publisher newsletter that Tony Gamble ever found out about it . |
| 3 | ‘ They think only about saving the guy 's life , so they chop the leg off by guillotine , even if he 's only lost a few toes . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We figured that if this was all about focusing the mind 's energy , he 'd have it at the ceremony , ’ Benny added . |
| 5 | Yeah , you should of said yes , I said , I 'm all for doing a survey wi , I 'm , your being recorded . |
| 6 | Once into the shelter of the mangrove-bound estuary , he had taken the men off the Zodiac , ordering them below after stacking the dinghy 's cargo along Golden Girl 's side decks . |
| 7 | Whilst , then , as the committee 's report states , ‘ it would not be the duty of counsel to cross-examine the defence witnesses or address the jury if he was of the view that it would not be proper to convict , ’ he would be free to do so if the prosecution view changed , perhaps after hearing the defendant 's evidence . |
| 8 | As a seller , deducing title will consist in almost all cases merely of supplying the buyer 's conveyancer with office copy entries on the Register and filed plan ( preferably already delivered with the draft contract ) . |
| 9 | When Lizzie tried to make Cinderella curtsey she succeeded only in crossing the puppet 's feet , and she started to laugh ; then , laying the puppet down , she said , ‘ But of the three , you know , I think I like Buttons ; he 's so appealing . ’ |
| 10 | For rather than building sleek , new production models , they are interested only in giving the cars ' components a useful role for the future . |
| 11 | It was n't any use going back to the shop now ; she would phone Myra , then she would get down to designing the bridesmaids ' dresses that would match the bride 's gown she was commissioned to make for a big wedding in the autumn . |
| 12 | He weakened his credibility somewhat by characterizing the policeman 's evidence as ‘ crap ’ . |
| 13 | This shows that only by allowing the authority 's judgment to pre-empt mine altogether will I succeed in improving my performance and bringing it to the level of the authority . |
| 14 | It is not just that we clearly do understand something ; rather we know in advance that it is only by understanding the sceptic 's argument as we are clearly expected to , that we could be led to believe that we understand nothing . |
| 15 | The second will tend rather towards structuring the students ' thinking towards the creation of language activities in different modes . |
| 16 | COUNCIL worker Derek Bastard earns £37,000 a year … just for keeping a city 's street lights going . |
| 17 | … . Kate drifts into a deep gloom shortly after leaving the doctor 's surgery . |
| 18 | Mr Wolski had already read the accounts of him being seen over the Chiltern Hills north-west of London soon after leaving the Regent 's Park area and later a certain sighting by a member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in East Anglia who saw him feeding off sheep carrion on chalk downland . |
| 19 | It is just like having a child 's kite on the end of your line in a strong wind . |
| 20 | Very few schools get away with teaching the Lord 's prayer in anything other than something like the traditional way . |
| 21 | GEOFF THOMAS was just 19 minutes away from joining the millionaires ' club — now he is left to reflect on a season bankrupt of good memories . |
| 22 | If the story has gone through to printing the PRO 's stock will be even lower and he should not expect very good coverage in the future . |
| 23 | it is rather like highlighting the lion 's view of captivity , it implies that this is demonstrably different from the tiger 's view , and this draws attention away from the significant fact of captivity . |
| 24 | Make rough notes on separate sheets ( key ideas , page references , names of other books to consult ) as you go along ( usually after skimming the text p.29 ) . |
| 25 | I put the resolution to the meeting those in favour any against declare the resolution er , carried as a special resolution . |
| 26 | Aside from addressing the genre 's habitual racism by showing an Indian fighter who kills red men because of his own savagery and self-hatred , this is one of cinema 's great stories of incomplete redemption and shows Wayne eaten up inside by emotional turmoil , in his best-ever role . |
| 27 | McEnroe was a tortured soul throughout , never once smiling , and at the end stalking off without shaking the umpire 's hand . |
| 28 | He said he believed discontinuing to induce labour and then allowing Mrs Busuttil home without monitoring the baby 's heartbeat was not an adequate provision of care . |
| 29 | In the view of the Minister , ‘ There is obviously more to preserving the nation 's security than safeguarding against subversion , terrorism and espionage . ’ |
| 30 | STEELWORKERS staging a sit-in gave their strike fund a boost yesterday by selling the bosses ' wine stock . |