Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm that might , might interest you to know that during the past ten years I have personally entertained something like a hundred visitors from the States who are with their families er , of course , er returned here for a look , look round . |
| 2 | And she had rarely met anyone with a sharper eye , or a truer judgement on people . |
| 3 | Iran-contra , however , had always had another star , a more retiring one ; and he had not given anything like a full performance yet . |
| 4 | He made a birdie at the next , but just missed one at the last and lost by a shot . |
| 5 | As I say I 've not had anything like the bad experience of it that a lot of people have had . |
| 6 | ‘ I think I 'm demanding and chauvinistic , but I 've finally got someone with a good enough sense of humour to be able to cope with that very well , ’ he said . |
| 7 | But I have not found anything in the careful judgment of Mustill L.J . |
| 8 | Only last week , I spoke to a garage owner who told me that almost every other customer was either losing a job or had just lost one in the past month or so . |
| 9 | That is what is wrong with narcissistic chat shows which create , then devour , media personalities who have not achieved anything in the real world ; or politics coverage which concentrates on the intra-party power struggles rather than the world to which the party hopes to appeal . |
| 10 | But even then , though it demonstrates the learning flexibility present in a chimpanzee 's mind structure , no chimpanzee has ever communicated anything outside the natural instinctive content of its own mind . |
| 11 | NUMBER ones from around the world : Bruce Springsteen , who with that manly stubble and grubby string vest has always had something of the macho Mediterranean stud about him , is currently top of the pops in Spain and Italy with Human Touch . |
| 12 | It has also developed something of an international character ; not only does it attract a proportion of its students from overseas , but it also has strong links with overseas institutions . |
| 13 | Johannsen also claimed one in the latter area at 1150 . |
| 14 | But the city has also revealed something about the American voter , something that belies the conventional wisdom that all that counts is the big-buck campaigns with their television adverts and ‘ issues ’ tailored to every fractured constituency . |
| 15 | Much as he mistrusted almost every Irishman with whom he came in contact on the Continent ( Bishop Clement for his disrespect of patristic authority , the priest Sampson for his cavalier attitude to the baptismal rite , Virgil of Salzburg for sowing dissension between himself and the duke of Bavaria as well as for believing that the world was round ) , Boniface 's establishing of monasteries as the learned back-up to missionary work and his devotion to the papacy and to Rome both owed something to the Irish background in England . |
| 16 | Overdoing a successful method of defence , Charity nearly ruined everything by a palpable display of innocent formality . |
| 17 | The researchers have therefore not only separated out the effects of gluons from those due to quarks , but have also learned something about the still little understood way in which these building blocks turn into conventional particles . |
| 18 | The deadline for lodging the appeal is midnight tonight but UEFA have so far heard nothing from the Georgian club . |
| 19 | He 'd left the local school as early as his birthday would allow and had n't really done anything for the following year except watch his father die . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd unwittingly bought one by a rival historian and you should have seen the way she turned her nose up at it . |
| 21 | he has n't missed one since the second world war |
| 22 | ‘ Women say to me they have n't done anything for the last ten years and it turns out they have had four children , run the PTA , served as parent governor , done charity work , organised a community activity and cared for aged parents . ’ |
| 23 | Unlike the skin-heads and punks of a later generation , or the teddy boys who preceded this era , many ‘ flower children ’ were non-violent and in their communitas even exhibited something of a constructive element . |
| 24 | ‘ Though I 'm surprised you have n't got something on a grander scale . ’ |
| 25 | But I have n't had anything on the other piece and I want something on . |
| 26 | Erm then you know that would be something whereas if they say well the recession 's so bad we have n't taken anybody for the last five years and your researches ca n't unearth anybody who seems to be prepared to er give you even half a chance then I mean |
| 27 | ‘ We have made a bid and are confident of winning but we have n't yet heard anything from the Premier League , ’ said Dyke , who last year retained ITV 's franchise with a bid that was £28m less than their rivals . |
| 28 | He recommends the phrase ‘ care of the body ’ to be used in discussion with clients and continues to surprise us by telling us that in his experience of funeral-arranging he has never yet had anything but a positive response to , ‘ Would you like us to look after mother in our usual way , so that you will be assured of having an everlasting memory of her sleeping peacefully and at rest ? ’ |
| 29 | Up until now most advanced snowboarders have firmly resisted anything except a non-release binding . |
| 30 | But he had certainly seen something of the Greek civilization , with its philosophic schools , theatres and gymnasia . |