Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had an arrow right through my body from back to front somewhere in the region of my lower ribs . |
| 2 | If you are not interested in CPU time etc. for your use of LIFESPAN , then you will probably only have one LIFESPAN Process UIC , if indeed you have any . |
| 3 | He goes on about his experience of life and how he knows more about it . |
| 4 | Hazily through his sense of nightmare and unreality Harry knew the long shape of the rack with its ropes and pulleys , and the blackened irons laid by the brazier , and the whips dropped into sconces on the wall . |
| 5 | He began to appreciate his wife a little for her lack of romance and her low cost . |
| 6 | Nor do they even care very much about their state of liquidity , so long as they think that they can force the banks to bail them out . |
| 7 | Then she asked ‘ Why are we doing this ? ’ , revealing much about her understanding of measurement . |
| 8 | It was only through my presence of mind that we were saved from a frightful scandal . ’ |
| 9 | Denholm said , tentatively : ‘ I do n't care much for his line of approach , sir . ’ |
| 10 | Creed 's hand reached carelessly for his glass of water . |
| 11 | But what they produced were at best permanent monuments of erudition on which we still draw , and at worst giant-sized pamphlets which are now read , if at all , only for their interest as literature . |
| 12 | SIR HUGH Leggatt corrects me gently for my placing of Home 's copy of Zoffany 's Cockfight in Cannes . |
| 13 | In his Stormont career , and especially during his period as Minister of Finance , O'Neill gradually developed a liberal reforming unionism in which the pettier aspects of conflict between the two populations would be removed and Protestants and Catholics would work together to modernize the Northern Ireland economy . |
| 14 | He omitted , as he was wont to do , his middle name , Norman ; he put the present year down for his date of birth , not 1934 ; and instead of entering ‘ Canadian ’ for his parents ' and his own nationality , he entered ‘ Jewish ’ . |
| 15 | The retention of these two was widely interpreted as a move by the future government to counterbalance the influence of President Augusto Pinochet Ugarte , who had resisted requests from Aylwin that he step down for his post of Commander in Chief of the Army [ see p. 37117 ] . |
| 16 | You know , so personally for my area of work I just wanted them to think they were getting someone respectable . |
| 17 | But not all coins have been overvalued in this way ; for example , late Roman gold coins of the fourth century AD and British sovereigns of the nineteenth century were literally worth their weight in gold . |
| 18 | Jackie had had that all done and then I would have been in for my cup of tea . |
| 19 | ‘ I take it then that you have also come in for your share of press flights of fancy ? ’ |
| 20 | The night before his death I spent more than an hour with him and we spoke quietly of the future ; he wanted to be sure that Ray and I would look after Margaret , our step-mother , whom we had come to admire greatly for her devotion to Father . |
| 21 | They say when are you going to stop it , and I say , when am I going to stop it , when am I — it was the second night they were in the bar together after their week of absence I remember . |
| 22 | What say we get together after your trip down river if you can manage it ? ’ |
| 23 | More will be said below of their history in fiction ( chapter 4 ) ; for the present it is enough to notice that in this case , too , Sketches by Boz appears to mark a divide . |
| 24 | Osborne ( 1977 ) observed that young dog-whelks less than 12mm in shell length grew at the same speed , regardless of their habitat of origin , or where they were reared . |
| 25 | It does n't take a doctorate in high finance to notice when a group of companies regularly gobbles up other companies , regardless of their line of business , efficiently dismantles them , and sells off any bits worth selling off , at a healthy profit ! ’ |
| 26 | The seminars are intended to offer ‘ help and guidance on the application of the Data Protection Act to all those who are in any way involved with the use of computerised personal information , regardless of their area of business ’ . |
| 27 | 43.4p-a-mile petrol money regardless of their model of car or whether it is chauffeur driven . |
| 28 | For the referendum , the Supreme Council had decided on June 18 that all Estonian citizens over 18 were eligible , regardless of their place of residence . |
| 29 | Clause 21 gives strengthened dismissal rights to pregnant women by substituting a new s 60 in the EP(C)A 1978 under which , regardless of their length of service , all women employees have a right not to be dismissed on grounds of pregnancy or childbirth . |
| 30 | A number of engineering firms had redundancy pay schemes granting compensation considerably in excess of that required by law and available to all those dismissed for economic reasons regardless of their length of service . |